Tag: Harassment

Revenge Porn

Catch your significant other cheating?  Think it would be a good idea to share pictures or videos of their infidelity with their friends and family?  Hold that send! The phrase “revenge porn” describes situations where an individual shares intimate pictures or videos of another person in order to get “revenge.”  It most commonly arises in bad breakups or instances where one partner catches the other partner cheating.  The jaded partner takes it upon themselves to share, post, disseminate or otherwise disclose pictures or videos of the other individual nude or engaged in sexual activity. Often, these disclosures take place to […]

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41 + 20 = 61 NFGs

Waukee, Dallas County, Iowa.  Not Guilty on another 20 charges brings the total of NFG’s in one case to 61.  After a jury returned Not Guilty verdicts on 41 counts of Harassment in the First Degree, the prosecutor still pressed on with the remaining 20 counts of simple misdemeanor Harassment in the Third Degree.  Those charges were finally brought to trial and the magistrate found GRL’s client Not Guilty of all the accusations.  This case required a little extra perseverance but patience paid off with a total of 61 Not Guilty verdicts in one case.

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Not Guilty x 41 Counts

Adel, Dallas County, Iowa.  A Dallas County Jury found GRL Law’s client not guilty on a total of 41 counts after slightly over an hour of deliberation.  In one of the first prosecutions under a new law passed in 2018, the State accused GRL Law’s client of what has been commonly referred to as “Revenge Porn.”  The new law makes it a crime to “disseminate, publish, distribute, post or cause to be disseminated, published, distributed or posted, a photograph or film showing another person in a state of full or partial nudity or engaged in a sex act” with the […]

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Harassment 1st degree charges dismissed against GRL Law Client

Polk County- Harassment 1st degree, an aggravated misdemeanor, charges were filed against a GRL Law client for allegedly posting nude videos of the client’s roommate to her Snapchat account.  After obtaining discovery materials, Mr. Gangestad was able to determine that the client did not in fact post the images to her own Snapchat account.  Mr. Gangestad was able to successfully convince the prosecution to dismiss the case against the client, saving her hundreds of dollars in fines and potential jail or prison time.

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