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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 2261A. Interstate stalking
Whoever -
(1) travels in interstate or foreign commerce or within the
special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United
States, or enters or leaves Indian country, with the intent to
kill, injure, harass, or intimidate another person, and in the
course of, or as a result of, such travel places that person in
reasonable fear of the death of, or serious bodily injury to,
that person, a member of the immediate family (as defined in
section 115) of that person, or the spouse or intimate partner of
that person; or
(2) with the intent -
(A) to kill or injure a person in another State or tribal
jurisdiction or within the special maritime and territorial
jurisdiction of the United States; or
(B) to place a person in another State or tribal
jurisdiction, or within the special maritime and territorial
jurisdiction of the United States, in reasonable fear of the
death of, or serious bodily injury to -
(i) that person;
(ii) a member of the immediate family (as defined in
section 115) of that person; or
(iii) a spouse or intimate partner of that person,
uses the mail or any facility of interstate or foreign commerce
to engage in a course of conduct that places that person in
reasonable fear of the death of, or serious bodily injury to, any
of the persons described in clauses (i) through (iii),
shall be punished as provided in section 2261(b).
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