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[email protected]In 2009 the stalking statute was amended to state the following:
N.J.S.A. 2C:12-10 (in part)
- As used in this act:
- (1) "Course of conduct" means repeatedly maintaining a visual or physical proximity to a person; directly, indirectly, or through third parties, by any action, method, device, or means, following, monitoring, observing, surveilling, threatening, or communicating to or about, a person, or interfering with a person's property; repeatedly committing harassment against a person; or repeatedly conveying, or causing to be conveyed, verbal or written threats or threats conveyed by any other means of communication or threats implied by conduct or a combination thereof directed at or toward a person.
- (2) "Repeatedly" means on two or more occasions.
- (3) "Emotional distress" means significant mental suffering or distress.
- (4) "Cause a reasonable person to fear" means to cause fear which a reasonable victim, similarly situated, would have under the circumstances.
- b. A person is guilty of stalking, a crime of the fourth degree, if he purposefully or knowingly engages in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear for his safety or the safety of a third person or suffer other emotional distress.
Husband's father hired a PI to place a GPS device on Wife's car and Wife filed a TRO based on stalking. If anyone has experience regarding defending a case involving a GPS device, please contact me offline.
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Jessica N. Mazur, Esq.
Hoagland, Longo, Moran, Dunst & Doukas, LLP
Partner and Chair of the Family Law Department
Certified by the NJ Supreme Court as a Matrimonial Law Attorney
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