{"id":26702,"date":"2011-09-13T11:48:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T10:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26702"},"modified":"2011-09-13T11:48:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T10:48:53","slug":"usa-stalkers-free-speech-defence-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26702","title":{"rendered":"USA: Stalker&#8217;s free speech defence rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Index on Censorship - USA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/usa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oregon&#8217;s Supreme Court<\/a> has\u00a0<a title=\"Oregon High Court rules against free speech claim\" href=\"http:\/\/news.opb.org\/article\/oregon_high_court_rules_against_free_speech_claim\/\" target=\"_blank\">rejected an appeal<\/a>\u00a0made by a convicted stalker. John Norman Ryan\u00a0began stalking a woman in 2005, eventually she took out a stalking protective order which forbade Ryan from making any contact. Ryan breached the order and was convicted by the courts. He appealed on the grounds that as the communication was not violent, he was expressing his First Amendment\u00a0right to free speech. The judges ruled against him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oregon&#8217;s Supreme Court has\u00a0rejected an appeal\u00a0made by a convicted stalker. John Norman Ryan\u00a0began stalking a woman in 2005, eventually she took out a stalking protective order which forbade Ryan from making any contact. Ryan breached the order and was convicted by the courts. He appealed on the grounds that as the communication was not violent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[986,198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26702"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26730,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26702\/revisions\/26730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}