Stalking, Hacking And Sentencing

As Wikipedia notes, stalking “is a term commonly used to refer to unwanted or obsessive attention by an individual or group toward another person.”  It is also a crime, a relatively new crime: As Wikipedia alsonotes, between 1990 and 1993, “every state in the United States” made stalking a crime. Indiana was one of those states.

And over the last decade and a half, a new type of stalking – cyber-stalking – emerged and became a serious problem.  This post examines a recent decision from the Indiana Court of Appeals in which it reviewed a challenge to a cyber-stalking conviction and the sentence imposed on the defendant:  McClellan v. State, 2012 WL 6082749 (Indiana Court of Appeals 2012)...  Read rest @:  Cybr3crim3