A defendant who made several “inherently menacing” phone calls to his ex-girlfriend violated an order of protection, even though he did not make any explicit threats during the calls, an upstate appellate court has ruled.
After allegedly calling Maribeth Taylor approximately 10 times in the span of three weeks, William J. Clark Jr., who previously had been convicted of stalking Ms. Taylor and kept a trove of images of her with her head lopped off, showed up at Ms. Taylor’s workplace at night and began pounding on her car window.
