Tafoya

INTRODUCTION

Over a five-year period, defendant Robert Michael Tafoya stalked and harassed

E.R. in multifarious ways. He regularly appeared at E.R.’s workplace where he watched

and bothered her, gained access to her car to leave flowers, followed or tracked her when

she went shopping, made numerous Facebook posts in which he held himself out to be

involved in a relationship with E.R. and claimed to be the father of one or more of E.R.’s

three children, fraudulently applied to family law court for custody and visitation orders

respecting E.R.’s children, and then fraudulently sought a default judgment by forging the

signature of another on the proof of service of his family law filings. He also showed up

at the children’s school purportedly to pick them up when students were being dropped

off for school in the morning. Defendant’s conduct continued unabated for several years

despite the issuance of restraining orders protecting E.R. and her children. Following a

jury trial, defendant was convicted of stalking (Pen. Code, § 646.9, subd. (b)), 1 perjury

(§ 118a), attempted child abduction (§ 278), and filing false documents (§ 115, subd. (a)).

Defendant was sentenced to…