Stalking in violation of a restraining order may be based on numerous telephone calls to victim from abroad

Stalking conviction upheld by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today. A defendant convicted of stalking his wife in violation of a G.L. c209A Restraining Order appealed his conviction, arguing that the judge’s instruction to the jury misconstrued the legal definition of “stalking,” and that under the correct definition, there was insufficient evidence of guilt beyond a […]