CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Domestic Violence
......Criminal Prosecution Options
.........Stalking
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Willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly following or harassing another may constitute crime of stalking.

PC 649.9, making it a felony to engage in stalking when TRO, injunction, ••or any other court order•• in effect prohibiting that conduct against same party, includes stay away order imposed as probation condition.

Exigent circumstances rendered the victim's communication to the stalker of the demand to cease activity impractical or unsafe.

Re D's stalking ex-girlfriend, court did not err in not instructing D had to know the boyfriend with whom she lived was a member of her immediate family when he threatened him in her presence.

Stalking is an act of domestic violence within meaning of EC 1109 as defined by FC 6211, and admissible to prove propensity to commit the crime of making criminal threats.

Sufficient evidence supported H's conviction for stalking ex-W.