A defendant’s claim that his online chats about kidnapping, raping and murdering women were protected by the First Amendment has been rejected by a federal judge.
Michael Van Hise, about to go on trial for a kidnapping conspiracy to target victims that included his wife, asked U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe in the Southern District of New York to dismiss the charge because the kidnapping statute, as applied to him, prohibits “pure speech.”
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