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  • Vulgar Messages to Prosecutor Called Protected Speech

    07/26/2011 8:03:36 PM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 6 replies
    New York Law Journal ^ | 07.27.11 | Andrew Keshner
    A man who left vulgar messages on an assistant district attorney's voicemail cannot be charged with second-degree aggravated harassment for what a judge concluded was protected speech that did not rise to a "true threat." In dismissing the misdemeanor case on Monday, District Court Judge Valerie Alexander in Nassau County observed that the state's harassment statute unconstitutionally infringed on the defendant's First Amendment rights, saying the law's "vagueness and overbreadth" was clear and "cries out to be reworked." For an almost two-month period in 2010, Nicolas Pierre-Louis left expletive-laced voicemails for an unidentified assistant district attorney, calling for the arrest...