0001|                       HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 16
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                        PATSY TRUJILLO KNAUER
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0010|                           A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0011|     REQUESTING THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TO DIRECT THE APPROPRIATE
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0012|     COMMITTEE TO STUDY THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COOPERATION BETWEEN
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0013|     THE LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY AND THE JUDICIARY IN THE
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0014|     ENFORCEMENT OF RESTRAINING ORDERS AND ANTI-STALKING LAWS.
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0015|     
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0016|          WHEREAS, Gloria Zamora was murdered in 1996 in Santa Fe
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0017|     by Jack Adams, a stalker who was free on bail and under a
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0018|     restraining order; and 
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0019|          WHEREAS, also in 1996, Charlie Watson was shot and killed
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0020|     in Albuquerque by his wife's father because Watson was
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0021|     stalking his daughter in spite of an outstanding restraining
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0022|     order; and
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0023|          WHEREAS, a woman in Alamogordo has charged that a man has
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0024|     threatened her life and violated a restraining order more than
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0025|     thirty-eight times without long-term incarceration; and
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0001|          WHEREAS, restraining orders have been issued against many
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0002|     stalkers by judges trying to protect the victims and enforce
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0003|     the law, but still people are harassed and killed by stalkers;
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0004|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0005|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the legislative council direct the
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0006|     appropriate interim committee to study cooperation between the
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0007|     law enforcement community and the judiciary in the enforcement
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0008|     of restraining orders and the state's anti-stalking law and
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0009|     recommend legislation by November 1, 1998 to improve the
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0010|     effectiveness of anti-stalking laws; and
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0011|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0012|     transmitted to the co-chairmen of the legislative council.
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