Tharp v. State

On Petition to Transfer from the Indiana Court of Appeals, No. 49A02-0905-CR-394

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

In the second of two cases today addressing the importance of protective or ders, we reverse Jeffrey Tharp’s conviction for invasion of privacy. We concluded in our companion case Joslyn v. State, that a criminal defendant may be found guilty of stalking or invasion of privacy where he has actual knowledge of a protective order, even if there were certain omissions of civil process in serving the order upon him. Still, proof of knowledge must be beyond a reasonable doubt. The evidence of…