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Stalking

STALKING

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CHICAGO, IL STALKING DEFENSE

The relevant law can be viewed at: 720 ILCS 5/12-6


https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/fulltext.asp?DocName=072000050K12-6


Penalties: 

As a Class 3 felony you will receive a prison sentence of between two and five years (or an extended term between five and ten years), along with one year of mandatory supervised release. You may instead be sentenced to probation for up to thirty months. 


Definition: 

You commit the offense of intimidation when you intend to cause another to do or not do any act and you communicate to them in any way a threat to unlawfully do any of the following to have them perform or not perform that act:

  • You cause them or anyone else or their property physical harm, or physically confine or restrain them or anyone else, or 
  • to carry out a felony or a Class A misdemeanor, or 
  • to accuse them or someone else of a crime, or
  • to cause any person to cause anyone to be hated or ridiculed, or 
  • that you will act or not act in your capacity as a public official against anyone or anything, or 
  • cause such action or withholding; or cause or prolong a strike, boycott, or similar collective action. 

How we can defend you against a stalking charge:

  • We can show that your communications should not have been perceived as threatening or distressing by a reasonable person or by your accuser (maybe we can argue it was not that bad). We will research and introduce evidence making you seem less culpable. 
  • We might show that on at least one of the occasions your presence was coincidental with their presence (you had legitimate business at the place you were, which is where they happened to be as well).
  • We can argue that it was a case of mistaken identity, that it was not you who was there.
  • We can discover and use mitigating circumstances to lessen the culpability of what you may have done, perhaps that or that you did not intend to say what you did to intimidate or make them do or not do something. 
  • We can dispute the facts and testimony of witnesses (like the alleged victim) for this charge by filing “motions to suppress” unreliable, improperly obtained, or other questionable evidence or testimony (especially if you were improperly questioned or were not made aware of your rights). 
  •  If it is ruled admissible by the judge, we can argue at trial that the evidence or testimony is incorrect or fabricated against you and therefore should give the jurors a reasonable doubt.


Prosecutors do not like to waste taxpayer's money on expensive public trials; we can possibly wrap things up in pretrial phase or if not, start negotiating from there for lesser charges and sentences for you. This is where having an experienced attorney to represent you and negotiate and speak for you can save years of your life and tens of thousands of dollars of fines and/or foregone income. It is worth it, and you deserve a good defense. 


Other lawyers so often talk of how they will “aggressively fight for you.” They are doing nothing more than basically quoting from the American Bar Association’s Rules of Professional Conduct about the principle of a “lawyer's obligation zealously to protect and pursue a client's legitimate interests, within the bounds of the law.” When you hire Phillip Haddad as your criminal defense attorney in Chicago or elsewhere in its suburban area, he will not only do his professional duty to zealously represent you but will get you the justice you deserve. His extensive experience in criminal defense will help you avoid conviction or else minimize the penalties. Call criminal defense attorney Phillip Haddad at 708-833-3505 as soon as possible if you are in legal trouble.

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