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N.J.S.A. 2C:33-4

What Is Harassment In New Jersey?

If with purpose to harass another, you:

  1. Make, or cause to be made, a communication or communications anonymously or at extremely inconvenient hours, or in offensively coarse language, or any other manner likely to cause annoyance or alarm;
  2. Subject another to striking, kicking, shoving, or other offensive touching, or threatens to do so; or
  3. Engage in any other course of alarming conduct or of repeatedly committed acts with purpose to alarm or seriously annoy such other person.

What Degree Is Harassment?

  • Fourth degree: if when committing this offense, you were serving a term of imprisonment or on parole/probation as the result of a conviction of any indictable offense
  • ​Petty Disorderly Persons Offense: all other instances

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Call us at 609-392-7600 to discuss your case. Make sure the lawyer you hire is experienced, like us, in handling this type of ticket. Otherwise, you will have a few surprises you were not warned of.

We handle harassment charges in Mercer County, Middlesex County, and Burlington County. 

Mercer County: Hamilton, Trenton, Ewing, Lawrence, Pennington, East Windsor, West Windsor, Hopewell, Princeton Township, Princeton Borough, Hightstown, and Robbinsville.

Middlesex County: Plainsboro, Cranbury, East Brunswick, South Brunswick, and Sayreville.

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