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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Our legal system is long accustomed to dealing with published liable and threats if they were written in a newspaper or published in some ink-on-paper form. The system doesn’t quite know what to do with internet or email posts. We have seen crazy extremes, where prosecutions went forward for a perceived internet threat which wasn’t intended as a threat at all and was posted to a private internet group. Now we see what looks like a specific intentional threat, posted on a wide-open forum (Facebook) and the Supreme Court doesn’t really explain to lower courts how to deal with it:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/01/supreme-court-throws-out-conviction-for-facebook-threats/">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/01/supreme-court-throws-out-conviction-for-facebook-threats/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From the article:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.25in;margin-left:0in;background:#F4F4F4'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#222222'>The Supreme Court on Monday threw out the conviction of a Pennsylvania man convicted of making threats on Facebook, but dodged the free speech issues that had made the case intriguing to First Amendment advocates. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.25in;margin-left:0in;background:#F4F4F4;box-sizing: border-box;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;background-position-x:0px;background-position-y:0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#222222'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.25in;margin-left:0in;background:#F4F4F4;box-sizing: border-box;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;background-position-x:0px;background-position-y:0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#222222'>One post about his wife said, "There's one way to love you but a thousand ways to kill you. I'm not going to rest until your body is a mess, soaked in blood and dying from all the little cuts." <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.25in;margin-left:0in;background:#F4F4F4;box-sizing: border-box;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;background-position-x:0px;background-position-y:0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#222222'>After his wife obtained the protective order, Elonis wrote: "Is it thick enough to stop a bullet?" <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sheesh.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>