Stalking Ms. Robinson
Woman’s Stalking Case Dismissed After Clerical Error:
Carla Robinson of Tulsa, Oklahoma was being stalked by her ex-boyfriend of three years. And when I say stalked I mean STALKED!!!
“It doesn’t quit, constant calling, can we spend one more night together, I love you, can’t live without you crap, poems, letters, constantly getting e-mails. He sends others e-mails pretending to be me. It goes on and on,” stalking victim Carla Robinson said.
She says after someone broke into her home and killed her dog last September, she filed a protective order against the man. She says it only got worse, so bad in fact she says police hid her in a hotel.
“They told the front office not to tell anyone I was there; I was non-existent, in hiding, not here,” said Robinson. “The next night, he was outside the hotel room. The FBI got involved because they wondered if he’d put a tracking device on my car.”
He was arrested that night and several other times for violating the protective order. The suspect was charged with felony stalking, which is stalking someone who has a protective order against you.
Except the suspect walked due to the most ridiculous of technicalities…
Carla took the class to become licensed to carry a concealed weapon. She testified against the man and he was ordered to stand trial, but before that could happen a judge noticed the protective order, that was supposed to expire in June of ‘07, actually said January. It was right on one line, but wrong on another. The judge who made the mistake corrected it, but the district judge dismissed the case because it made it look like there was not a protective order in place during the incidents, so the felony charge could not stand.
Protective/restraining orders are possibly the stupidest thing in the world. For them to be effective the stalker has to be caught in the act by police. By the time the stalker is noticed by the victim it may be too late.
Unfortunately I don’t know what the solution is. I just hope and pray this is the last article we read about Ms. Robinson.
Tags: protective-order, restraining-order, StalkersPOSTED IN: Stalkers
1 opinion for Stalking Ms. Robinson
Soobs
Sep 21, 2007 at 2:12 pm
This is the kind of stuff that happens just before the victim is killed (releasing him because of a technicality.) I hope she uses her CW if she needs to use it.
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