State v. Ryan

*672DE MUNIZ, C. J.

This case involves the intersection of free speech rights under Article I, section 8, of the Oregon Constitution, and the crime of violating a stalking protective order, ORS 163.750. Defendant violated the terms of a stalking protective order by contacting the victim through a third party and was subsequently found guilty by a jury of two counts of violating ORS 163.750. The Court of Appeals reversed defendant’s convictions. That court reasoned that Article I, section 8, required that ORS 163.750 be judicially narrowed to require “an unequivocal threat of the sort that makes it…