What Conduct is Considered Stalking Under Maryland Law?
“Stalking” is a specific, and serious, crime under Maryland law, and also a term in common usage.
The statutory meaning and common usage of the term are not a match. Stalking, the crime, under the law, is defined as a course of conduct, where one purses another, or otherwise puts that person in fear of a specified crime. The more common use of the term suggests that one person is paying a lot of attention to another, but not necessarily that the target is in fear. Experienced Baltimore criminal defense attorneys Attorney Eric T. Kirk has seen that what constitutes a ‘course of conduct’ is sometimes open to serious debate. Stalking is a serious offense, and can carry a 5 year sentence.
A course of conduct, for purposes of stalking, means more than once.
Those specified target crimes are:
- assault or bodily injury
- rape
- false imprisonment
- death
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