{"id":112034,"date":"2025-03-26T14:11:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/26\/2nd-circuit-unravels-part-of-ex-kl-partners-conviction-for-cyberstalking-former-colleagues\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T14:11:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:11:21","slug":"2nd-circuit-unravels-part-of-ex-kl-partners-conviction-for-cyberstalking-former-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/26\/2nd-circuit-unravels-part-of-ex-kl-partners-conviction-for-cyberstalking-former-colleagues\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd Circuit Unravels Part of Ex-K&L Partner’s Conviction for Cyberstalking Former Colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"

The circuit court found that the messages that Willie Dennis sent to a former colleague could be “distressing,” but not true threats.<\/p>\n

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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\u2019t amounted to \u201ctrue threats.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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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<\/u><\/a>. One of the counts stemmed from messages that Dennis sent to an ex-coworker at a conference after Dennis was fired from K&L.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The circuit court found that the messages that Willie Dennis sent to a former colleague could be “distressing,” but not true threats. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":112035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/legal-news-rd5GqM.jpeg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}