Commonwealth v. Hendrickson

FORD ELLIOTT, Judge:

In this appeal, we are asked to decide whether Pennsylvania’s harassment by communication or address statute, 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 5504, is unconstitutionally vague and overbroad in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 7 of the Pennsylvania Constitution. 1 We are also asked to decide whether the District Attorney of Allegheny County had jurisdiction to prosecute appellant under 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 5504(a)(2) when the facsimile transmissions (faxes) forming the subject of the crime were sent from appellant’s office…