[ExI] free speech: how times have changed

[William Flynn Wallace]

<http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/01/supreme-court-throws-out-conviction-for-facebook-threats/>

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> 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.
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> 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."
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> After his wife obtained the protective order, Elonis wrote: "Is it thick
> enough to stop a bullet?"
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> Sheesh.
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> spike
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> ​I have to wonder what he was convicted of.  This clearly qualifies as
assault - a tort. It creates the expectation of ensuing battery. Assault
without battery may not be dealt with much anymore, but it goes back
hundreds of years in case law.  bill w​


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