The circuit court found that the messages that Willie Dennis sent to a former colleague could be “distressing,” but not true threats.
The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals has unraveled part of the cyberstalking conviction that landed a former K&L Gates partner in prison, finding that some of the thousands of messages he sent to his former colleagues hadn’t amounted to “true threats.”
The decision was handed down on Friday, two-and-a-half years after a New York jury convicted Willie Dennis on three counts of cyberstalking. One of the counts stemmed from messages that Dennis sent to an ex-coworker at a conference after Dennis was fired from K&L.
