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| Garondo Marondo... |
 Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 4:26 pm |
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By SAMUEL MAULL, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK - A celebrity-obsessed loner "terrified" Uma Thurman by
flooding her with phone calls and e-mails, ringing her doorbell at all
hours and threatening to kill himself if he couldn't meet her, a
prosecutor said Monday in closing arguments.
"This isn't about love for Uma Thurman," Assistant District Attorney
Jessica Taub told jurors. "This is about self-absorption."
Jack Jordan, 37, is on trial in state Supreme Court in Manhattan on
charges of stalking and aggravated harassment; he faces up to a year
in jail if convicted. Jurors began deliberations Monday afternoon
before leaving for the day. They were expected to resume Tuesday
morning.
Defense lawyer George Vomvolakis conceded in his closing argument that
Jordan's behavior was obsessive, but said his client did not have
criminal intent to scare or harass the "Kill Bill" and "Pulp Fiction"
actress.
"He's trying to get to the woman he loves — although it's an obsession
— in the hope that she will love him back," Vomvolakis said. "Jack
Jordan is not charged with obsession. Obsession is not a crime."
Vomvolakis also complained that the case went to trial only because a
celebrity was involved.
But Taub countered by saying that Jordan's actions indicated his
intent to hound or harass anyone who stood in his way because "he
wanted to be with Uma Thurman and he would not take no for an answer."
"The defendant drove through every single stop sign that was in his
path," the prosecutor said.
She said he tried to emotionally blackmail Thurman and her family by
threatening to kill himself; harassed her by ringing her doorbell at
all hours of the day and night; and stuffed letters into her mailbox
or left them on her movie set — but was thwarted numerous times by her
relatives and her staff.
"She was terrified by this," she said.
Last Thursday, Thurman testified about a card Jordan delivered to her
trailer in Manhattan's SoHo section, where she was filming "My Super
Ex-Girlfriend."
It bore a drawing of an open grave, a headstone and a man standing on
the edge of a razor blade. A spiral of random words referred to
"chocolate, mouth, soft, kissing" and declared, "My hands should be on
your body at all times."
"I was completely freaked out," the 38-year-old actress said of the
drawing, which was on a religious confirmation card. "It was almost
like a nightmare. It was scary."
Taub said a card like that from a stranger amounts to harassment.
"This is not `roses are red, violets are blue,'" the prosecutor said.
"This is not an innocuous little love note."
Prosecutors say Jordan began stalking Thurman in 2005 and, following
the incident with the confirmation card, was involuntarily committed
to a mental institution. When he got out, prosecutors say he started
showing up at the front doorstep of her Greenwich Village town house.
Jordan, who lives with his parents in Gaithersburg, Md., is an out-of-
work lifeguard who was living in his car at the time of his arrest
last year.
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