'I’m planning on shooting up a public place soon,' Christopher Cleary wrote on Facebook. The case tested the courts' ability to balance First Amendment rights with public safety.
Christopher W. Cleary makes a court appearance in Provo, Utah, during his sentencing Thursday. Cleary, who posted a Facebook message threatening to kill"as many girls as I see" in retaliation for years of romantic rejection, was sentenced to up to five years in prison.
According to legal experts, the case has pitted the First Amendment right to free speech against public safety concerns, testing the criminal justice system’s ability to respond to a man who wrote online that he wanted to be “the next mass shooter.” “I don’t want to be in the position of guessing what Colorado is going to do,” the judge said, the Deseret News reported.
[Internet Culture Analysis Inside the online world of ‘incels,’ the dark corner of the Internet linked to the Toronto suspect]
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