Court of Appeals of Washington· 5/16/1994

State v. Alvarez

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872 P.2d 1123
74 Wash. App. 250
1994 Wash. App. LEXIS 217

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holding that requirement of “reasonable fear” in malicious harassment statute provided an objective standard which limited statute’s application
concluding that criminal harassment requires proof of only a single act, and distinguishing the civil antiharassment statute by pointing out that the civil statute requires a “course of conduct” and “continuity of purpose”
“course of conduct” in civil stalking statute defined as a “series of acts,” meaning more than one
omission of \course of conduct\ language in criminal counterpart to civil antiharassment act indicated \Legislature consciously chose to criminalize a single act rather than a course of conduct.\
statement of legislative intent to make unlawful \the repeated invasions\ of a person's privacy did not override unambiguous statute criminalizing a single act of harassment
statement of legislative intent to make unlawful “the repeated invasions” of a person’s privacy did not override unambiguous statute criminalizing a single act of harassment

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