anti-stalking statute State v. Fareed M. Gandhi (A-101-08) 2-23-10
The jury charge in this case was not erroneous because
New Jersey’s anti-stalking statute, N.J.S.A. 2C:12-10,
reaches and punishes one who purposefully or knowingly
engages in a course of stalking conduct that would
cause a reasonable victim to fear bodily injury or
death. The statutory offense applies even if the
defendant is operating under the motivation of an
obsessed and disturbed love the purportedly obscures
appreciation of the terror that his or her conduct
would reasonably cause to the victim.
