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Orders of Protection: What is Stalking?

By Baker Associates

As discussed in our previous blog, one of the prohibitions that can be placed in an Order of Protection is that the respondent (the person against whom the Order is issued) is forbidden from stalking the petitioner (the victim, or person who sought the Order). The type of activity that constitutes stalking could be defined differently by different people, but Tennessee has made stalking a criminal offense in T.C.A. § 39-17-315 and has defined what type of activity constitutes ?stalking? within that very statute. Stalking is defined in the Tennessee Code as a ?a willful course of conduct involving repeated or continuing harassment of another individual that would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested, and that actually causes the victim to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on April 09, 2010 (boomark / email).