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Case Details
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts reversed a stalking conviction based on a Facebook profile page, ruling that a reasonable jury could not have found the defendant’s Facebook profile page constituted a threat.
Additional Notes
Case: Commonwealth v. Walters, 472 Mass. 680 (2015). SJC held that, although content posted to Facebook may qualify as a threat as defined in the statute, in this particular case, a reasonable jury could not have found that the defendant’s Facebook profile page constituted such a threat.