Legal Question in Criminal Law in Pennsylvania

I need to know why cops are refusing to do anything about a girl harrassing my boyfriend and I he has text messages conversations and other things


Asked on 3/20/13, 2:35 pm

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Michael Kotik Lawyer Michael Kotik | Criminal Lawyer

They might not be doing anything, because she may not have committed a crime yet. Here is the Pennsylvania law with respect to harassment.

(a) Offense defined.--A person commits the crime of

harassment when, with intent to harass, annoy or alarm another,

the person:

(1) strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise subjects the

other person to physical contact, or attempts or threatens to

do the same;

(2) follows the other person in or about a public place

or places;

(3) engages in a course of conduct or repeatedly commits

acts which serve no legitimate purpose;

(4) communicates to or about such other person any lewd,

lascivious, threatening or obscene words, language, drawings

or caricatures;

(5) communicates repeatedly in an anonymous manner;

(6) communicates repeatedly at extremely inconvenient

hours; or

(7) communicates repeatedly in a manner other than

specified in paragraphs (4), (5) and (6).

(b) Stalking.--(Deleted by amendment).

(b.1) Venue.--

(1) An offense committed under this section may be

deemed to have been committed at either the place at which

the communication or communications were made or at the place

where the communication or communications were received.

(2) Acts indicating a course of conduct which occur in

more than one jurisdiction may be used by any other

jurisdiction in which an act occurred as evidence of a

continuing pattern of conduct or a course of conduct.

(c) Grading.--

(1) An offense under subsection (a)(1), (2) or (3) shall

constitute a summary offense.

(2) (i) An offense under subsection (a)(4), (5), (6) or

(7) shall constitute a misdemeanor of the third degree.

(ii) (Deleted by amendment).

Source: http://law.onecle.com/pennsylvania/crimes-and-offenses/00.027.009.000.html

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Answered on 3/29/13, 2:21 am


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