In re Resignation of Tripp

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• holding that threat to kill plaintiff was not protected speech and violated protective order issued pursuant to G. L. c. 209A
• holding that threat to kill plaintiff violated protective order issued pursuant to G. L. c. 209A and was not protected by First Amendment
• denying First Amendment protection to verbal threats that placed victim in “reasonable apprehension of imminent serious physical harm”
• “ ‘Fighting words’ ”... are not the only type of expression for which the protections of the First Amendment do not extend”
• speech that places victim in reasonable apprehension of imminent serious physical harm is conduct equivalent to crime of assault and is unprotected by First Amendment
• “actions and words of the defendant [must] place[] the victim in reasonable apprehension that physical force might be used against her”

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