What exactly constitutes harassment?
Harassment charges are commonly filed in Municipal Court. There are thousands of harassment cases filed each year. These type of cases range from bar fights, neighbor wars, and people who just don’t like each other and have taken it to the next level. New Jersey’s harassment law is set forth at N.J.S.A . 2C:33‑4. A person is guilty of a petty disorderly person’s offense of harassment if he: a. Makes, or causes to be made, a communication or communications anonymously or at extremely inconvenient hours, or in offensively court language, or any other manner likely to cause annoyance or harm; b. Subjects another to striking, kicking, shoving, or other offense touching, or threatens to do so; or c. Engages in any other curse of alarming conduct or of repeatedly committed acts with purpose to alarm or serious annoy such other person. A communication under subsection a. may be deemed to have been made either at the place where I originated or at the place where it was received. Harassment be
New Jersey’s Harassment law is set forth at N.J.S.A. 2C:33-4. A person is guilty of a petty disorderly person’s offense of harassment if he: • Makes, or causes to be made, a communication or communications anonymously or at extremely inconvenient hours, or in offensively court language, or any other manner likely to cause annoyance or harm; • Subjects another to striking, kicking, shoving, or other offense touching, or threatens to do so; or • Engages in any other curse of alarming conduct or of repeatedly committed acts with purpose to alarm or serious annoy such other person. A communication under subsection a. may be deemed to have been made either at the place where I originated or at the place where it was received. Harassment becomes an indictable offense of the fourth degree if the harassment occurs while the defendant is on parole or probation for an indictable criminal offense. The majority of domestic violence cases are filed on the grounds of harassment. When a marriage is o
