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MySpace Threats Reach Across State Lines

By Peter Hall
November 25, 2009

Pennsylvania law enforcement authorities have jurisdiction to prosecute domestic violence charges for comments posted on a defendant's MySpace page from a computer in another state, a Lawrence County, PA, common pleas judge has ruled.

Judge J. Craig Cox drew upon a Connecticut appellate court's decision to determine that because defendant John C. Bragdon included specific references to Lawrence County and the city of New Castle, PA, in MySpace posts that threatened his estranged wife, the posts could be distinguished from general Internet postings “because they are decipherable only to Pennsylvania residents.”

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