Legal Question in Criminal Law in Virginia

Privacy & Security
My sister lives in a duplex.

She has caught the man from the apartment next-door, on two separate occasions, looking into her apartment.

The landlord has been made aware of this.

She has called the police, and when the officer came to investigate, he told her there was nothing that could be done since this man was a resident of the property and there were no boundary lines. Therefore, he could go and do as he pleases on the property during daylight hours. The officer told her that if she didn�t want him looking in, she should close the doors.

The officer did speak to this man, and that is all that was done.

She contacted the police department, and was told by officers there that they knew nothing of any such thing regarding what she was told by the officer that came to her apartment. She was told that an officer would call her to take her statement for a complaint report, but when the officer called her, he, too, told her the same thing the first officer said to her.

Is this in fact true that she cannot legally do anything about this man looking in to her apartment merely because he lives on the property too and they share a duplex?

What if anything can be done if he continues this action?

Asked on 8/05/04, 8:35 pm

Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

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Re: Privacy & Security

What in your view would be the correct criminal charge which would fit the behavior attributed to the duplex neighbor?

The officers would appear to have made the correct assessment. Perhaps, the landlord can be prevailed upon not to renew this longnecker's lease.

Answered on 8/06/04, 2:08 am

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