A blogger known as “Rooster” was found guilty of harassment after he admitted to sending a sexually explicit image of the Shrek cartoon character to an Ohio politician.
Eight jurors in Lake County, Ohio, took only 30 minutes to find Donald “D.J.” Byrnes guilty of telecommunications harassment for texting the image to state Sen. Jerry Cirino, a Republican.
‘This wasn’t a free speech issue; this was a harassment statute that I believed he was in violation of.’
The blogger faced up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine for the offense, but a judge decided to sentence Byrnes to pay only $200 on top of court costs.
The offensive messages included a meme of the Shrek cartoon character holding his genitals and two messages taunting the
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