When my divorce started and the Guardian ad litem had started to show her intentions I remember coming across a posting on Dan Brewington. He is in the news again after serving 2.5 years in prison because of a free speech dispute.
Yahoo! News
The Supreme Court recently heard a free speech dispute over a 27-year-old's angry Facebook rants, and now another guy is asking the justices to weigh in on whether his vitriolic blog posts deserve First Amendment protection.
That blogger, Dan Brewington, filed a petition in October asking the Supreme Court to overturn his conviction of violating an Indiana law against "intimidation" for writing highly unflattering blog posts about the judge who sided against him in a custody battle.
Perhaps the worst thing in those blog posts was the repeated claim that Judge James D. Humphrey was a "child abuser," and here is how Brewington justified that claim to me: "He was taking away children from capable parents."
Brewington, now 41, already served two and a half years in prison for allegedly communicating threats to Humphrey. While he's already done his time, on Jan. 9 the Supreme Court will consider whether to hear his case and potentially overturn his conviction and clear his name.
"I've never been in trouble. I'm a friendly guy. I'm known around the neighborhood for volunteering," Brewington, who does computer-aided design from home, told me over the phone. "I don't know why they spent that much time coming after me."
Full story: Yahoo! News
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