GARDNER — Badge was pitted against badge in a Central Massachusetts courtroom today as two troopers who were guests at a booze-infused weekend birthday bash testified to witnessing fellow statie Corey D. Benoit push his girlfriend into a wall and then wreck his own home.

“Would you say he was intoxicated?” Gardner District Court Judge Arthur F. Haley asked Trooper Jason Gallup at a dangerousness hearing for Benoit.

“I would say we all were,” Gallup answered.

Benoit, 36, has been locked up since his birthday party Sunday, but was ordered released today by Haley with the conditions he be placed on GPS and Breathalyzer monitoring and seek counseling from the Department of Veterans Services.

Benoit, who served a tour in Iraq as an Army reservist, is also under court order to have no contact with live-in girlfriend Nicole Poirier, 30, even though Poirier stated in a handwritten affidavit submitted to the court today, “I do not fear Mr. Corey Benoit” and, “I want to have contact with him.”

Benoit, who is on suspension, faces a duty status hearing tomorrow at state police headquarters.

“He’s in shock,” Benoit’s attorney Leonard Kesten said after the proceeding. “He realized after he shoved her, (expletive), what has he done? He’s distraught, but as a lawyer, I worry about the ones who aren’t.”

Poirier originally told police who responded to the couple’s home in Royalston Sunday morning that Benoit “threw me up against the wall” after she bit his mouth following an argument over the volume of the stereo, according to state police reports.

Benoit, recently divorced, had his 10-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter sleeping over and asked Poirier to dial it down.

But in her affidavit today, Poirier made no mention of the bite and claimed instead Benoit “body checked” her into a living room wall in a race for a remote control. She said that encounter left her “uninjured.” It was a subsequent confrontation with Benoit’s twin brother Christopher that broke her collar bone, she said.

Assistant Worcester District Attorney Edward Karcasinas charges Benoit caused the injury to Poirier.

Karcasinas told Haley there are clearly some “credibility issues” in play.

“Regardless of whether there was a bite or not, his reaction was to push this diminutive woman into a wall,” the prosecutor insisted.

In another turn in the case, state police Lt. John Collura testified today for the defense that Amanda Pomero, the girlfriend of Benoit’s twin, came to the Athol barracks Sunday and said Poirier attacked and bit her in a hair-pulling, eye-gouging ambush as Pomero was trying to get the children buckled into a car so she could get them away from the house.

A new state police report notes Pomero had visible “cuts, scratches, bruises” and a “bite wound,” and that there is probable cause to suspect Poirier inflicted them. Poirier has not been charged.

Prosecution witnesses Troopers Gallup and Ryan Fogarty — friends of Benoit who were also guests at his birthday party — both testified today they saw him shove Poirier into a living room wall with both hands as they were standing in the kitchen.

“She fell to the ground,” said Fogarty. “We went to restrain Corey. He was upset. He started to punch walls at his house.”

Gallup testified the party “was a typical, casual get-together” where the drinking began around 8:30 p.m. Saturday and was still going on at 2 a.m. Sunday until he found himself in a knock-down, drag-out struggle to subdue Benoit, breaking mirrors, staircase railings and knocking pictures off walls.

“All I saw was Corey get angry about something and push his girlfriend into a wall,” Gallup told Haley. “I asked her, ‘Are you OK?’ She nodded yes. I got her back into the kitchen and told her to wait until I knew what was going on.

“ As I rounded the corner, he was punching the walls,” Gallup said of Benoit. “At some point, he pulled down his bottom lip and said, ‘She bit my lip.’”

Benoit was ordered to return to court Aug. 18 for a pretrial hearing, at which Kesten told reporters he will ask that his client be liberated from GPS.