Supreme Court Makes It More Difficult To Convict People Making Violent Threats Online
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled to make it more difficult to convict someone of making a violent threat. The 7-2 decision will now serve as a precedent for similar cases. The justices ruled in favor of Billy Counterman, who contacted musician Coles Whalen on Facebook in 2010 and resumed communications with her four years later. He sent her hundreds of concerning messages, to which she did not respond and ended up blocking him. However, Counterman continued to make new accounts and text her. Counterman’s notes became delusional and dark, as he began threatening and insinuating that he was stalking...