STATE v. BISHOP

No. 223PA15.

787 S.E.2d 814 (2016)

368 N.C. 869

STATE of North Carolina v. Robert BISHOP.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Filed June 10, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy Cooper , Attorney General, by Kimberly N. Callahan , Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Glenn Gerding , Appellate Defender, by James R. Grant , Assistant Appellate Defender, for defendant-appellant.

Ellis & Winters LLP, Raleigh, by C. Scott Meyers ; and Eugene Volokh , pro hac vice, UCLA School of Law, for Electronic Frontier Foundation, amicus curiae.


On 9 February 2012, defendant Robert Bishop was arrested and charged with one count of cyberbullying under North Carolina's cyberbullying statute, N.C.G.S. § 14-458.1. Under that statute, it is "unlawful for any person to use a computer or computer network to ... [p]ost or encourage others to post on the Internet private, personal...

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