Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 12/23/2014

Commonwealth v. Johnson

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470 Mass. 300
21 N.E.3d 937

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relying on false accusation of child abuse as one of three acts supporting conviction of criminal harassment
construing element of “serious[ ] alarm[ ]” under criminal harassment statute
where sole purpose of defendants’ speech was to harass victims, speech was not protected by First Amendment
there is no First Amendment protection for electronic communications and Internet postings used to commit harassment
“Section § 43A[a] requires that the Commonwealth prove three or more predicate acts of harassment that were ‘directed at a specific person’ ”
trial court judge “acted well within his discretion” in declining to consider unsupported and undeveloped argument in support of motion

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Judges: Gants, Spina, Cordy, Botsford, Duffly, Lenk, Hines

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