226 N.C. App. 393 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “"[W]here a court orders a defendant to 'stay away' from a particular location, it does so to prevent the defendant from threatening, abusing, following, interfering with, or harassing the protected party. It is possible that a defendant may not actually set foot upon the workplace premises but could harass or interfere with a victim by lurking so near as to impede the victim's ability to travel from place to place -- indeed, defendant herein did just that several times ... -- but the area to 'stay away' from is not without boundaries. ... The indictment alleges defendant was 'outside' [the protected person's] workplace, and although technically the area 'outside of [the protected person's] workplace could include any place in the world outside the walls of the salon, obviously such an interpretation is absurd. Certainly the order must mean that defendant could not be so close to [the protected person's] workplace that he would be able to observe her, speak to her, or intimidate her in any way, but we cannot define the exact parameters of the term 'stay away.' "”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Telcinord

2. “Certainly the order must mean that defendant could not be so close ... that he would be able to observe her, speak to her, or intimidate her in any way”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Watson