Stalking in the second degree
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Morgan v. Commonwealth (2006)
Most recently applied in United States v. Jermaine Jones (March 2020)
Effective: July 14, 1992 History: Created 1992 Ky
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) A person is guilty of stalking in the second degree when he intentionally:
(a) Stalks another person; and (b) Makes an explicit or implicit threat with the intent to place that person in reasonable fear of:
1. Sexual contact as defined in KRS 510.010;
2. Physical injury; or 3. Death.
(2) Stalking in the second degree is a Class A misdemeanor.
Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.