The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out the stalking conviction of a Colorado man who sent hundreds of unwanted Facebook messages to a female musician, ruling that state prosecutors had not shown that he was aware of the "threatening nature" of his statements.
No, they declared Colorado’s law is bad. This was a decision written by a liberal woman, joined by the other two liberal justices and four of the conservative ones. They do not have it out for women.
They essentially said that the messages he sent were covered under the first amendment. Have you read the messages he sent?
Not the guy you responded to but god damn… I can’t see that message being interpreted as anything BUT a threat. All I gotta do is declare insanity I guess.
Those were some of the most tame, to be honest.
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The man had also repeatedly made new accounts to continue messaging women after they blocked him. Multiple times.
They didn’t say that at all. They said the standard Colorado is using to convict people is too loose, and could theoretically be used to restrict constitutionally protected speech. They were not ruling on merits on if this speech is protected or not. It probably isn’t. Now the case has been sent back to Colorado, not closed. Colorado can retry him, and it’s quite likely they would win even under the stricter standard. But they can’t try him under a loose standard that could allow for protected speech to be criminalized. This has very little to do with the actual case, and a lot to do with the law that Colorado was using. Most articles written about this are lacking in information and misleading at best, you could find better information on the ruling on scotusblog or the ruling itself.
AFAICT they’ve said that Colorada’s law is bad because it does not require intent. Which means they consider any stalker to be innocent as long as they can claim they’ve grown up in a society which never taught them that harassing women is bad. Which all of them can.