Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1999

The court affirmed the denial of the motion to dismiss and all four stalking convictions. It held that the divorce judgment’s stay-away provisions qualified as an order supporting stalking convictions under the statute, and that although the jury instructions on the timing of harassment and the meaning of “repeatedly”…

The court held that Massachusetts law does not require child-support modifications to operate retroactively; whether to make a modification retroactive rests in the trial judge's discretion.