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THE EVIDENCE SUPPORTED HARASSMENT AS A FAMILY OFFENSE BUT DID NOT SUPPORT AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT OR DISORDERLY CONDUCT (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing (modifying) Family Court in this family offense proceeding, determined harassment was supported by the evidence but disorderly conduct and aggravated harassment were not:

The undisputed evidence at the fact-finding hearing established that the parties had dated more than a decade earlier and that, after petitioner terminated the relationship, respondent continued to contact her, prompting petitioner to obtain at least two orders of protection against him. After years of not seeing each other, respondent went to petitioner’s house uninvited on October 28, 2021 and rang the doorbell. When petitioner answered the door, respondent said that she owed him a conversation. Petitioner responded that she did not want to talk to him and repeatedly asked him to leave. Respondent refused to leave, prompting petitioner to call the police. Respondent eventually left before the police arrived. Approximately six weeks later, respondent again went to petitioner’s house uninvited and demanded to speak to her. Petitioner asked him to leave at least a dozen times, but respondent ignored those requests and entered her garage where she was standing. The police arrived shortly thereafter and took respondent into custody, charging him with trespass.

In our view, Family Court properly determined that respondent committed the family offense of harassment in the second degree by engaging in a course of conduct or repeatedly committing acts that alarmed or seriously annoyed petitioner while having the intent to harass, annoy or alarm petitioner (see Penal Law § 240.26 [3] … ). We agree with respondent, however, that petitioner failed to meet her burden of establishing by a fair preponderance of the evidence that respondent committed the family offenses of disorderly conduct (§ 240.20) or aggravated harassment in the second degree (§ 240.30 [1]). Matter of Ohler v Bartkovich, 2023 NY Slip Op 02256, Fourth Dept 4-29-23

Practice Point: Here the facts supported harassment as a family offense but did not support aggravated harassment or disorderly conduct.

 

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