Jury Convicts Man of Stalking The Actress Uma Thurman

A lovesick former mental patient was convicted yesterday of stalking and harassing Uma Thurman for more than two years, showing up on her front doorstep and movie set, and sending the actress a series of creepy love letters.A 37-year-old out-of-work lifeguard and pool cleaner, Jack Jordan, faces up to a year in jail. He was convicted of stalking and one count of aggravated harassment, and acquitted of two other harassment counts.Jordan, who looked calm, was led from the courtroom in handcuffs. The judge ordered a psychiatric exam before his next court date on June 2.“I’ve learned some disturbing things about this defendant during this case. I am going to remand him for a psychiatric exam,” a state Supreme Court justice, Gregory Carro, said.Defense lawyer George Vomvolakis requested protective custody, saying Jordan faces “specific threats because he’s a stalker. … He was actually assaulted” in jail after his arrest.The verdict comes after a week-long trial that featured riveting testimony from the Academy award-nominated actress, who told the jury she was “completely freaked out” by Jordan’s behavior. She called the whole experience “a nightmare.”Prosecutors say Jordan had stalked the “Kill Bill” and “Pulp Fiction” star since 2005, when an intense crush that had been building since high school made him decide the two just had to be together.At one point, he sent a note that said, “My hands should be on your body at all times.”He showed up on Ms. Thurman’s Greenwich Village doorstep and on the Manhattan set of her movie “My Super Ex-Girlfriend.” He sent her bizarre cards and letters, at least 20 of them after he was committed to a Maryland mental facility.Jordan testified in his own defense, saying Friday he now understands how Ms. Thurman could have been frightened by his attempts to see her, and by his comment that her two children didn’t exist, that they were “an illusion.”“I was feeling distressed,” Jordan said. “I had this feeling of longing for Ms. Thurman and I was trying to explain it. I was not trying to scare her in any way.”Ms. Thurman, 38, testified for three hours Thursday, captivating the jury with her story of how the stalking frightened her and made her fear for her children. She testified about a card Jordan delivered to her movie trailer in lower Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood. 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 on the card referred to “chocolate, mouth, soft, kissing” and the remark about his hands being on her body.

Jury Convicts Man of Stalking The Actress Uma Thurman

Jury Convicts Man of Stalking The Actress Uma Thurman

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