Stalking is charged in Greeley and Weld County when a person repeatedly follows, initiates communication, or watches another and makes threats or causes emotional distress. A woman is facing these charges after texting a man she met online 159,000 times in a 10 month period. According to the report, she went out with the man on one date. He was not interested, but she continued to pursue with thousands of texts, showing up at his home, and even entering his home to take a bath while he was away on vacation. Her texts escalated to statements about wanting to bathe in his blood, make sushi out of his kidneys and use his hand bones as chopsticks.
Greeley Stalking Lawyer: Definition of Stalking Communication in Morgan and Logan County
The Weld, Morgan, and Logan County, Colorado law definition of Stalking – C.R.S. 18-3-602 – is:
(a) Makes a credible threat to another person and, in connection with the threat, repeatedly follows, approaches, contacts, or places under surveillance that person, a member of that person’s immediate family, or someone with whom that person has or has had a continuing relationship; or
(b) Makes a credible threat to another person and, in connection with the threat, repeatedly makes any form of communication with that person, a member of that person’s immediate family, or someone with whom that person has or has had a continuing relationship, regardless of whether a conversation ensues; or
(c) Repeatedly follows, approaches, contacts, places under surveillance, or makes any form of communication with another person, a member of that person’s immediate family, or someone with whom that person has or has had a continuing relationship in a manner that would cause a reasonable person to suffer serious emotional distress and does cause that person, a member of that person’s immediate family, or someone with whom that person has or has had a continuing relationship to suffer serious emotional distress. For purposes of this paragraph (c), a victim need not show that he or she received professional treatment or counseling to show that he or she suffered serious emotional distress.
Likely, the woman would have been charged under subsections (a) and (c) – for making threats and causing serious emotional distress.
If you or someone you love has been charged with Stalking in Greeley, Erie, or Evans, be smart, exercise your right to remain silent, and contact the best criminal defense attorneys from the O’Malley Law Office at 970-616-6009 to schedule a free consultation. Together, we can protect your future.
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