Legal Opinion

Major v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided May 15, 2017No. S17A0086PublishedCited by 28 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HUNSTEIN, Justice.

We granted this interlocutory appeal to address whether the former1 version of OCGA § 16-11-37 (a), Georgia’s Terroristic Threats *148statute, is unconstitutionally overbroad and vague. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the judgment of the trial court that the statute is constitutional.

The stipulated facts show that in September 2014 Appellant Devon Major, who was a student at Lanier Career Academy, posted the following message on his Facebook page:

Bruh, LCA ain’t a school. Stop coming here. Ally’all ain’t going to graduate early. Why? Because there are too many of y’all…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Broadrick v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  2. Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1982
  3. R. A. v. v. City of St. PaulSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
  4. Virginia v. BlackSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
  5. United States v. AlvarezSupreme Court of the United States · 2012

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3Cited by28 opinions

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  3. State v. BoettgerSupreme Court of Kansas · 2019
  4. Kansas v. BoettgerSupreme Court of the United States · 2020
  5. United States v. Najee OliverCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2020

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