IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF MULTNOMAH

Catherine Lynne Carter, DOB: 2/2/5/77
vs
Rory Grey Bowman, DOB: 10/6/65, aka Rain Grey Bowman

Case number 0603 03051
NOTICE TO RESPONDENT

Rory Grey Bowman aka Rain Grey Bowman DOB: 10/6/65 [service address redacted]

You, the Respondent, have been named as an alleged stalker in the attached complaint. The complaint alleges that you have intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly alarmed or coerced another person or a member of that person’s immediate family or household by engaging in repeated and unwanted contact with the other person. A temporary court’s stalking protective order has been entered against you. See the attached copy of this temporary order.

VIOLATION OF A STALKING PROTECTIVE ORDER IS A CRIME. The crime is a Class A Misdemeanor, but if you have a prior conviction for Stalking or Violating a Stalking Protective Order, violation is a Class C Felony.

You must appear for a hearing in Room JC2, Multnomah County Justice Center, 1120 SW 3rd Avenue, Portland, Oregon at 1:15 PM on April 21, 2006. If you fail to appear at this hearing, the court may issue a warrant for your arrest and may enter a permanent Stalking Protective Order.

At this hearing the Court will determine whether to continue this Order for an indefinite period. If a Stalking Protective Order is issued at this hearing, your situation might subject you to federal prosecution for possession of firearms or ammunition for as long as the Protective Order is in effect.

While this order, or any order continuing this order, is in effect, federal lay may prohibit you from:

1) traveling across state lines or tribal landlines with the intent to violate this order and then violating this order.
2) causing the person protected by the order to cross state lines or tribal land lines for your purpose of violating this order
3) possessing, receiving, shipping, transporting, selling, or otherwise disposing of any firearm or firearm ammunition

Whether or not a stalking protective order is in effect, federal law may prohibit you from:

1) traveling across state lines or tribal land lines with the intent to injure, harass, or intimidate your current or former spouse or intimate partner and then intentionally committing a crime of violence causing bodily injury to that person
2) causing your current or past spouse or intimate partner to travel across state lines or tribal land lines and then intentionally committing a crime of violence causing bodily injury to that person.
3) traveling across state lines with the intent to injure or harass another person, and as a result of, or in the course of such travel, placing that person in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury of that person or a member of that person’s immediate family
4) using the mail or other interstate instrumentality to seriously injury [sic] another person, or to place that person in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury of that person or a member of that person’s immediate family.

Dated March 23, 2006 by Circuit Court Judge Albrecht

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF MULTNOMAH

Catherine Lynne Carter, DOB: 2/2/5/77
vs
Rory Grey Bowman, DOB: 10/6/65, aka Rain Grey Bowman

Case number 0603 03051
TEMPORARY STALKING PROTECTIVE ORDER

This matter came before the court on 03/23/06 for hearing on issuance of a Temporary Stalking Protective Order based on the Petition. Petitioner appeared in person. The court considered the allegations made. As indicated by its initials, the court finds for temporary order probable cause that

1. Respondent has engaged knowingly, recklessly, in repeated and unwanted contact with the Petitioner or a member of the Petitioner’s immediate family or household.
2. Respondent knew or should have known that the repeated contact was unwanted
3. Petitioner was alarmed or coerced by this unwanted contact.
4. It is objectively reasonable for a person in Petitioner’s situation to have been alarmed or coerced by Respondent’s contact
5. Respondent’s repeated and unwanted contact caused the Petitioner reasonable apprehension regarding the Petitioner’s own personal safety or the safety of a member of his/her immediate family or household.
6. Respondent represents a credible threat to the physical safety of the person to be protected by this order.

8. It is therefore ordered that Respondent is required to stop any contact with the person protected by this order, and any attempt to make contact with the person protected by this order.

9. Contact includes, but is not limited to, the following:
A. Coming into the visual or physical presence of the other person;
B. Following the other person;
C. Waiting outside the home, property, place of work or school of the other person or a member of that person’s family or household;
D. Sending or making written or electronic communications in any form to the other person;
E. Speaking with the other person by any means;
F. Communicating with the other person by any means, including through a third person;
G. Committing a crime against the other person;
H. Communicating with a third person who has some relationship to the other person with the intent of affecting the third person’s relationship with the other person;
I. Communicating with business entities with the intent of affecting some right or interest of the other person;
J. Damaging the other person’s home, property, place of work, or school: or
K. Delivering directly or through a third person any object to the home, property, place of work or school of the other person.

11. RESPONDENT MUST APPEAR at a hearing on this Temporary Order on April 21, 2006 and 1:15 PM in Courtroom #2 of the Justice Center to show why the temporary order should not be continued for an indefinite period. The Stalking Protective Order issed on 3/23/06 shall remain in effect pending this hearing.

Dated this 23rd of March, 2006 by District Court Judge Pro Tempore Albrecht.

Supplemented by testimony on record.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF MULTNOMAH

Catherine Lynne Carter
vs
Rory Grey Bowman, aka Rain Grey Bowman

Case number 0603 03051
PETITION FOR STALKING PROTECTIVE ORDER
under ORS 30.866

I am the petitioner and I state the following is true:
1. I am a resident of Multnomah County, state of Oregon
2. Respondent is a resident of Clark County, state of Washington. He or she is 40 years old.
3. Relationship between Respondent and Petitioner: cohabitated during 1997 & 98, former romantic partner.

Petitioner requests the Court to order the Respondent to STOP ANY CONTACT and AVOID ANY CONTACT WITH PETITIONER.

At least two unwanted instances of contact have occurred within the last two years which were alarming or coercive.

On 03/17/06 in the parking lot of CNF, NW 21st and Savier, Mr. Bowman (respondent) either followed or was waiting for my boyfriend Kevin D Balmer & attempted to confront Mr. Balmer outside his workplace with questions regarding me and my relationship with Mr. Balmer.

Mr. Bowman has apparently sought & found information regarding my whereabouts, relationship status & address in disregard of a verbal order from a judge.

On January 28th, 2006, on the internet bulletin board tribe.net, Mr. Bowman somehow determined my relationship w Mr. Balmer and appeared at a public screening of a film by Mr. Balmer where he had reason to believe I would be. He then emailed Mr. Balmer.

Mr. Bowman’s attempts to make contact with me through my boyfriend are alarming because they constitute a pattern of escalating behavior. His attempts to determine my whereabouts appear to be ongoing.

Before that, on February 20, 2003, in Bar Harbor ME, Mr. Bowman sent a series of letters to me via my parents in disregard of a judge’s order. In the feb 20th letter, he used an out of state post mark and admits to ongoing mental health issues and to being off his medication. The Feb 20th letter used a return address of Elinore Friedberg, a business client of mine. the contents of the letter indicate a disturbed mental state.

In 1999, I unsuccessfully filed for an anti-stalking order against Mr. Bowman. The judge verbally ordered him to return a car key he used to gain unauthorized access to my vehicle & never to contact me again: He continued to send letters to my lawyer and parents.

Mr. Bowman has an extensive background in martial arts and a violent temper. He appears to be in an unstable mental state. I am very concerned that he is targeting my boyfriend to gain information & access to me.

The spoken or written contacts described were NOT a threat that made me afraid of imminent and serious personal violence or physical harm.

Respondent is self-employed [address redacted], 6′ tall, 185 pounds with light brown hair and blue eyes: medium build and unknown vehicle, weapons or criminal hisotry. Respondent appears to be in a distressed mental state. It is unknown if respondent has weapons or access to weapons, or has ever been arrested for or convicted of a violent crime.

Submitted by Catherine Lynne Carter
Subscribed and sworn before the Court Clerk on the 22nd day of March, 2006.

Transcript from meeting on NW Savier. Rory has performed a simple Google search and asked at the Consolidated Freightways information desk to confirm that this is where Kevin works, deciding to wait. Kevin has parked and gotten out of his car, arriving at work. Rory meets him on the public sidewalk, as he is headed toward his building, on the theory that a public, daylight meeting would be the least threatening and intrusive point of contact. This single contact with Kevin Balmer will be the basis for Carter’s assertion that Bowman is trying to browbeat Balmer for information with which to harm her.

K: Hi.

R: Kevin?

K: Yes.

R: My name is Rory Bowman.

K: Oh hey. How are you doin’?

R: Care to have lunch?

K: Right now?

R: No, no. Not right now: at some point.

K: Uhhh. How did you find me here?

R: Google.

K: Oh. Umm. I don’t know.

R: My rationale is that I apparently am more of a psychic presence in Cate’s life than I want to be. I showed up on Tribe and she sent what I thought were ambiguous messages and so I thought she might be engaging.

K: To you?

R: Yeah. I didn’t show up on Tribe for that. It was like a public place and I was there for clients. I saw her and I assumed she saw me. I think that a large part of what is wrong with the world right now is a lot of fear, and I think this is the single biggest fear that I can do something about. It would make her uncomfortable if I were to contact her directly but you are, I think, perceived as her protection. And so contacting you so that you’re clear about where I am decreases the amount fear in the world and increases communication. I have no idea what she has told you about me, so I am presenting myself in the interests of communication.

K: Okay.

R: I thought it would be good to touch base with you directly, and I understand that you’re at work now.

K: Well, I guess if you’re on Tribe I can get ahold of you on Tribe.

R: Oh no. I’m not on Tribe. I left Tribe on Cate’s birthday.

K: Oh?

R: Yes. It was  a gesture, like “hey man, my bad!” I didn’t know my presence was going to be an issue. I mean, I’d seen her on Tribe and I assumed she had seen me. Then she freaked out and my girlfriend asked me “did you contact Cate?” I’m like “nope.” “Because she has this thing on Tribe.”

K: Yeah.

R: And it created some friction for me at home.

K: Okay.

R: But that’s cool now, so think about it. I sent a letter to your home, which you’ve probably received already. I sent it to you because I wanted you to make a decision where Cate was.

K: Okay.

R: I don’t know where she is; I haven’t talked to her in like, um, seven years?

K: Yeah.

R: Seven years or something like that. I was surprised when she freaked out on Tribe, but there’s a charge there and there’s a charge that I might be able to do something about. And I think a lot of it has to do with her mother’s death. A lot of it has to do with Marcus’ death. A lot of it has to do with various things she was doing in her personal life, like magic and drugs and such

K: Yeah.

R: So I just wanted to make myself a human being, connect with you as a human being, and give you the sort of information I would want if I was in your situation.

K: Okay.

R: And it would help me resolve the concern that someone I cared about a great deal at one time has, you know, bad feelings about me. In a certain sense, if she is mentally ill or whatever, I can’t do anything about that: I can’t help her, she’s not going to let me in there. And it’s not really – I don’t want to be cold, but it’s not my problem.

K: Yeah.

R: But you can, and I think that you and she and the entire world would be better off if she wasn’t freaking out about things she doesn’t need to freak out about, and if she didn’t think that I was the bogeyman.

K: Right.

R: So think about it. Whenever. Here’s my card. You can contact me at your convenience. If you don’t want to contact me, that’s cool too. I’m not overly invested, but I wanted you to know that I’m not the bogeyman and you don’t need to do things that make your life harder.

K: I know. It takes a lot, it takes a lot of gumption to approach me, and I appreciate your efforts and candor.

R: Well, anyway, have a great day.

K: Yeah, see you later.

Text of letter sent to Kevin Balmer at 5704 NE Mason, Portland. Return receipt requested, week of 17mar06. Never delivered.

March 2006
Post Office Box 202
Vancouver WA 98666

Dear Cate,

Please don’t be upset with Kevin, as he had no defense. I am older than him (among other things) and am sure he loves you as best he is able.

The main thing I want you to know is that I forgive you, and that any fear you have nine years after Marcus’ death is entirely your own. My gesture with the couch was never intended as a threat, and the subpoena that brought me down from Seattle for your hearing mostly just confused and saddened me. I carried a huge charge around that for a long time, and worked on it harder than you know. Marcus’ death was not your fault, nor mine, and I forgive whatever craziness your guilt must have brought you, as I believe Marcus would forgive me mine.

Very near the end of my madness someone asked me if Marcus would want to see me so broken. I didn’t think he would (you were with me at the portal) and I often wonder what he and Lynne, your mother, would say of us. Would they want this ongoing tension? Are these the lives that best honor the dead? I do not think so, and we all deserve better.

I forgive you.

Love,
Rory