Legal Question in Criminal Law in Texas
If a part-time at will contract employee threatens to give my wife and family damaging information about me if I don't pay her what I will pay her anyway because I owe her money for work done..is that extortion? She claims to have video of me having consentual sex with someone else without my knowledge or conscent.
Asked on 4/13/10, 12:09 am
1 Answer from Attorneys
Mark Dunn
Mark D. Dunn
Try to record her threats; she is committing a crime.
In Texas, it is legal to record your own conversations; you don't need permission from the other person, and you don't even have to tell him that you're making a recording.
Answered on 4/18/10, 1:50 pm
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