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June 17, 2017
Re: Michelle Carter's "bullying" felony-murder conviction yesterday in Massachusetts.
Horrible little person--she texted her beta boyfriend to kill himself, and he did--but bad precedent, too. Not a good conviction. The worst. If it can be narrowly limited to its facts on how she arguably created a duty, sure, granted, maybe it won't be so bad. But her conviction in this judge-heard case in any event opens the doors to all manner of vague "bullying" litigations. Bad idea. We'll regret it. Hope it's overturned on appeal. It's not illegal 90% of the time to be a "bad" person or an asshole in America. Nor should it be. We can't criminalize real life bullying and high-handedness. Even for this little creep. That needs to be driven home. It's still speech, too. Good news? ACLU gets this one. Denounced it.
Posted by JD Hull at 03:18 PM | Comments (0)