Legal Question in Criminal Law in Ohio

Telephone harassment - answering machine

If she told you not to call her or call hernumber, any call made after that constitutestelephone harassment. It makes no differencethat you did not talk to your ex-girlfriend.Had you talked with someone else in the house(as opposed to the answering machine), theresult would be the same. Of course, she hasto prove that she told you not to call or tostop calling. If no one was within earshotwhen she told you, she will have a hard timeproving that.

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