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The tangentially related crime of "Menacing By Stalking" was introduced as a new charge in some states following the popularization of laws specifically targeting stalking behavior, in which a perpetrator adopts a long-term pattern of actions designed to frighten and harass a victim while still adhering to the letter of existing harassment laws.
On the menacing-by-stalking conviction, Stark County Common Pleas Judge Kristin G. Farmer reserved a prison term of 18 months, which she could order Nicholas F. Marich to serve if he violates ...
Civil stalking protection order issued in September 2023 The civil stalking protection order was issued Sept. 20, 2023, by Butler County Common Pleas Court Magistrate Matthew Reed and remains in ...
WESTLAKE, Ohio (WJW) — Westlake police said what started as a burglary in progress eventually led to the discovery of evidence in a bizarre case of electronic stalking.. The story began to ...
A few states have both stalking and harassment statutes that criminalize threatening and unwanted electronic communications. [46] The first anti-stalking law was enacted in California in 1990, and while all fifty states soon passed anti-stalking laws, by 2009 only 14 of them had laws specifically addressing "high-tech stalking."
California was the first state to criminalize stalking in the United States in 1990 [89] as a result of numerous high-profile stalking cases in California, including the 1982 attempted murder of actress Theresa Saldana, [90] the 1988 massacre by Richard Farley, [91] the 1989 murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer, [92] and five Orange County ...
The suspect, a resident of northwest Canton, is charged with intimidating a victim, failure to comply withan order or signal of police officer, menacing by stalking, carrying concealed weapons ...
Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the court ruled that it is constitutional for American police to "stop and frisk" a person they reasonably suspect to be armed and involved in a crime.