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Convicted Cyberstalker Granted Resentencing by 9th Circuit

By Eric Lipman

"Cyberstalking" has always seemed like a sort of amorphous, subjective concept to me. Nevertheless, there's a federal statute making it a crime. And the California Appellate Report blog reports today on a case which leads me to believe that one man from Montana made it his mission to show me what cyberstalking is all about. The opinion is hot off the presses, having just been released today. The defendant, Jeffrey Grob, sounds like a real winner. After his girlfriend a) had a miscarriage; and b) broke up with him, he decided the best way to deal with his grief was to send her a bunch of e-mails and text messages. One of which, reproduced in the opinion, reads as follows: If you ever come back to Montana again I am going to slit your throat. I am not even kidding. It would make be fill [sic] so good to see you bleed as you gasp for air. I hope your are [sic] ready for retribution, because it is coming. You are going down bitch. Hmm. I wonder why the girlfriend might have broken up with him. Grob's conviction was based on 22 e-mails and 50 text messages, some of which...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on November 10, 2010 (boomark / email).