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How To Beat A Harassment Charge In Texas: A Former Prosecutor Explains How! (2022)

If you have been arrested, charged or are facing criminal investigation for the crime of harassment in Fort Worth or a surrounding city in Tarrant County, Texas, you should call The Hampton Law Firm now to determine what your legal rights and options are under Texas law.

Upon first glance, it may appear that the crime of harassment is not a serious concern. However, because it is an arrestable offense under Texas law, facing allegations of harassment will lead to a criminal arrest, bonding out of jail and a series of court dates to determine if you will receive a conviction that will remain permanently on your criminal record.

If you are a first-time offender, receiving a conviction for harassment can have serious and long-term consequences on your future. For instance, many employers view a harassment conviction as a sign that you are unstable and untrustworthy. In fact, having a criminal conviction on your record for anything more than a traffic violation will limit future employment opportunities. As such, it is critical that your Fort Worth criminal defense attorney has a proven track record of resolving harassment cases in a favorable manner that provides you an opportunity to have your criminal record cleared.

What Qualifies As A Harassment Charge In Texas?

Harassment charges usually arise when an alleged victim receives some form of communication from the accused (in-person, phone, email, text) that annoys or alarms them to the point of calling the police. The biggest challenge for the police will involve proving that you were the person that made the communication and that you acted with criminal intent.

For example: many times criminal intent can be inferred based upon the nature of the contact. We have seen harassment cases where the accused has made hundreds of calls repeatedly to the alleged victim over a period of a few days. The more times the accused calls someone, the easier it is for the prosecution to infer criminal intent to annoy, alarm or abuse the alleged victim. Alternatively, if a call is made by the accused threatening the alleged victim with bodily injury or against a family member, the police can take this conduct and proceed forward with a harassment charge (if the call was made to harass or annoy), or a terroristic threat charge (if it placed the alleged victim in fear of the action).

Some of the more common examples of how citizens of Fort Worth, Texas and Tarrant County, Texas receive a criminal harassment charge are as follows: communicating with someone with intent of annoying, scaring or embarrassing them, requesting or describing sex acts with intent to annoy, threatening the alleged victim or their family, making false reports of death, calling repeatedly, etc.

Under Texas Penal Code, Section 42.07, the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office must prove the following elements of harassment beyond a reasonable doubt:

A person commits an offense of harassment if, with intent to harass, annoy, alarm, abuse, torment, or embarrass another, he:

• Initiates communication by telephone, in writing, or by electronic communication and in the course of the communication makes a comment, request, suggestion, or proposal that is obscene;

• Threatens, by telephone, in writing, or by electronic communication, in a manner reasonably likely to alarm the person receiving the threat, to inflict bodily injury on the person or to commit a felony against the person, a member of his family or household, or his property;

• Conveys, in a manner reasonably likely to alarm the person receiving the report, a false report, which is known by the conveyor to be false, that another person has suffered death or serious bodily injury;

• Causes the telephone of another to ring repeatedly or makes repeated telephone communications anonymously or in a manner reasonably likely to harass, annoy, alarm, abuse, torment, embarrass, or offend another;

• Makes a telephone call and intentionally fails to hang up or disengage the connection;

• Knowingly permits a telephone under the person’s control to be used by another to commit an offense under this section; or
sends repeated electronic communications in a manner reasonably likely to harass, annoy, alarm, abuse, torment, embarrass, or offend another.

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00:00 How To Beat A Harassment Charge In Texas
01:35 What Is Harassment?
05:23 What Does “Obscene” mean?
05:55 Can Electronic Communications Be Considered Harassment?
07:39 What Is Threatening Communication?
08:44 What Are The Punishments For A Harassment Charge?
08:59 Defenses To A Harassment Charge
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