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COMMONWEALTH v. JOHNSON

SJC-11660

470 Mass. 300 (2014)

COMMONWEALTH v. WILLIAM P. JOHNSON (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

December 23, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Sinsheimer ( Lisa A. Parlagreco & Ronald J. Ranta with him) for William P. Johnson.

Valerie A. DePalma ( Susan H. McNeil with her) for Gail M. Johnson.

David F. O'Sullivan , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Daniel J. Lyne & Theodore J. Folkman , for Eugene Volokh, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, DUFFLY, LENK, & HINES, JJ.

This case concerns the constitutionality of the criminal harassment statute, G. L. c. 265, § 43A (a), and its application to acts of cyberharassment among others. Specifically, we consider whether a pattern of harassing conduct that includes both communications made directly to the targets of the harassment and false communications...

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