Lawrence Shackelford v. Jack Shirley, Sheriff, Lee County, Mississippi

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• noting that statute requiring threat to be made with specific intent to injure precludes statute from reaching protected communications
• “[T]hreats made with specific intent to injure and focused on a particular individual easily fall into that category of speech deserving of no first amendment protection.”
• “[E]xpression has special value only in the context of ‘dialogue’: . . . It is not plausible to uphold the right to use words as projectiles where no exchange of views is involved.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).