The ruled Tuesday ruled in favor of a man who'd been convicted of stalking a singer in what critics say could make it more difficult to convict a person of making a violent threat against public figures.The court threw out the stalking conviction of Billy Counterman, who sent a barrage of unwanted messages to Coles Whalen in a case involving constitutional free speech protections, ruling that prosecutors had not shown he understood the 'threatening nature' of his words.The 7-2 decision, authored by liberal Justice Elena Kagan, vacated a lower court's ruling that had rejected defendant Counterman's claim that his messages to Denver singer-songwriter Whalen were protected under the First Amendment.
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