State v. Gandhi

Stalking victims live in a nightmarish world of fear, never knowing when and where they are being watched, are being followed, or will be confronted by the unwelcome presence of their stalker. Victims often are forced to seek protection through the courts. The security that a stalking victim may derive from a judicial no-contact order is dependent, however, on the perpetrator’s incentive to comply with the order. Incentive is provided, in part, from the Legislature’s determination to make a stalker’s repeated violation of such orders an offense of the third degree, which carries the prospect…