State v. Simone’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “Even in the absence of an explicit verbal threat of physical violence, a reasonable person could view the defendant’s unrelenting telephone calls and gifts to [the victim], especially in light of the defendant’s articulated history of emotional instability, as evidence that the defendant was obsessed with [the victim] and posed a threat of physical violence to her. . . . The evidence demonstrates that the defendant obsessively called and sent packages to [the victim] for several years even though [the victim], the police, and the courts repeatedly and explicitly told him not to do so. He also communicated that he was emotionally unstable and suicidal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ellis