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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">From DOJ’s Appellate Update:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">**Remember, when the repeated and unwanted contacts which form the basis of the stalking include communications, you have to
prove that those communications include threats that a reasonable person would conclude were threats “of imminent and serious personal violence.”
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">STALKING: Letters that defendant sent to his former therapist were not<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">communications that a reasonable person could conclude were “threats of imminent<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">and serious personal violence,” as required by
<i>State v. Rangel</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">State v. Hilde</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">, 285 Or App
498, __ P3d __ (2017) (<i>per curiam</i>) (Jackson)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">(AAG Carson Whitehead). Defendant was charged with two counts of stalking,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">ORS 163.732. At trial, he moved for a judgment of acquittal, contending the evidence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">was not sufficient to prove that the letters he sent to the victim, his former therapist, were<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">communications that a reasonable person could conclude were threats “of imminent and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">serious personal violence,” as is required by
<i>State v. Rangel</i>, 328 Or 294 (1999). The<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">trial court (Judge Kelly Ravassipour) denied the motion, and defendant was found guilty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Held</span></i><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">: Reversed and remanded. “The
letters, which were relied upon for both<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">counts, were insufficient under
<i>Rangel </i>to constitute a contact as required under<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">ORS 163.732.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue"><a href="http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/docs/A160154.pdf">http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/docs/A160154.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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