Email was ‘disgusting’ but was not ‘obscene’ 
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Published: June 15, 2012
Tags: Criminal, Judge Edward W. Hanson Jr., Justice Charles S. Russell, Justice Donald W. Lemons, Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr., Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn, Supreme Court of Virginia News
An angry doctor’s “disgusting” emails to his ex-wife were not “obscene” under a Virginia criminal law and his conviction for harassment by computer has been overturned by the Supreme Court of Virginia.
Where a Court of Appeals majority rejected a narrow interpretation of “obscenity” and embraced instead a broader dictionary definition, the Supreme Court insisted the ...
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