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Oh please. Something can totally be intimidating and legitimately fear-causing without meeting the statutory elements of the crime of stalking or whatever.nothing...just pointing out that her lawyers weren't sure the texts met the classic definition of intimidation, yet some here think anyone who doesn't see the texts as clear cut intimidation are idiots.
Say your daughter is in a dispute with some crazy rich guy and he sends her a text with pictures of her kids and instructions to his shady flunkies to dig up dirt on her. Your daughter is freaked out and talks to a lawyer who tells her that it doesn’t meet the definition of a crime so there’s nothing the cops can do. Are you seriously going to tell your daughter - “it’s ok, honey. The cops said it didn’t meet the definition of a crime, so you’d be silly to worry about it. After all, if it’s not a crime it can’t possibly be intimidating at all. Your fears are totally meaningless and everything is cool.”