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Galloway v. State

Citations

  • 781 A.2d 851
  • 365 Md. 599
  • 2001 Md. LEXIS 615

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that a harassment statute was not unconstitutional for vagueness and overbreadth
  • redeeming a harassment law from a void-for-vagueness challenge by reading in a \reasonable person standard\
  • setting forth requirements of notice in criminal statute and compendium of decisions on the subject
  • reading a reasonable person standard into Maryland’s harassment statute to narrow the statute’s construction and provide an appropriate guide to conduct
  • giving harassment statute a narrowing construction by reading into it a limiting “reasonable person” standard saved the statute from “constitutional demise”
  • reading a reasonable person standard into a harassment statute to carve out protected speech from the statute’s reach

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Judges: Harrell, Eldridge

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