A New Jersey appeals court—dispensing with a criminal defendant’s efforts to parse statutory language—has given an expansive interpretation to a state law that criminalizes the practice of “upskirting.”

A three-judge Appellate Division panel on Thursday said, in a published opinion in State v. Nicholson, that a victim’s “intimate parts” need not be completely exposed in order to sustain a conviction of criminal invasion of privacy.

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