Texas Teen Arrested Under New Online Harassment Law

Posted by kdawson on Friday October 16, 2009 @02:17AM from the play-nice-now dept.

SpaceGhost sends in a story from San Antonio, TX: "Police have arrested a 16-year-old girl on charges of harassment under a new Texas law that took effect September 1, 2009. H.B. 2003 says a person commits a third degree felony if the person posts one or more messages on a social networking site with the intent to harm, defraud, intimidate or threaten another person. Police say the harassment went on for a few months and involved a dispute over a boy. ... Some people expect legal challenges to the constitutionality of the new Internet law.' The law is evidently a response to the Lori Drew case.

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Your Honor! by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · 2009-10-16 02:19 · Score: 5, Funny

"I respectfully submit that the defendant is a Meanie-Head in the first degree!"

"My client wishes the court to know that the witness, in fact, 'started it'."
1. Re:Your Honor! by L4t3r4lu5 · 2009-10-16 02:43 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  "Enough! By the power vested in me by the State of My Mom's Dining Table, I sentence you to both... Kiss each other for 5 seconds!"
  
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Re:Idiocracy by Thansal · 2009-10-16 03:16 · Score: 5, Funny

Meh! Kirk has a goat in every port. Who does Picard have to come home to?
An acting career?

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