Marquan And Bezio V. Dorsey: Case Study

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Two cases that have been previously decided on in New York are People v. Marquan and Bezio v. Dorsey. In the case of People v. Marquan, Marquan M. made a pseudonymous Facebook page, where he “posted photographs of his classmates with ‘detailed descriptions of their alleged sexual practices and predilections, sexual partners and other types of personal information’” (Technology Marketing Law Blog). In 2010, Marquan was a high school student in Albany County when he posted these outrageous photographs. The general consensus was that “the defendant's Facebook communications were repulsive and harmful to the subjects of his rants, and potentially created a risk of physical” (FindLaw). A month prior to Marquan’s actions, Albany Court Legislature introduced a law which made cyber-bullying …show more content…
On July 1, 2014 a 5–2 decision, the court concluded that the law, as drafted, was "overbroad and facially invalid under the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment” (Find Law). I don’t think this case was assessed fairly. The defendant should not have gotten away with the crime that specifically broke a law in his area. The case of Bezio v. Dorsey began after Leroy Dorsey, an inmate in the custody of the State Department of Corrections and Correctional Services (DOCCS), took part in a hunger strike. He first engaged in this hunger strike in January 2010 while incarcerated at Clinton Correctional Facility in order to be transferred. Dorsey said he would begin to eat again if he was transferred. While DOCCS was seeking judicial approval to feed Dorsey by a nasogastric