A Victim’s Shield or a Stalker’s License to Kill? Court Ordered Restraining Orders
December 18, 2020By Carly McAllister
On June 1, 1992, a leading headline of The Washington Post read: “D.C. WOMAN IS FATALLY SHOT IN BOSTON BY EX-BOYFRIEND.” Kristin Lardner, a 21-year-old art student at Boston’s Museum School, was the innocent victim doomed at the lethal hands of former boyfriend Michael Cartier, whom she had only dated for around two months. Lugubriously, […]