54 Or. App. 630 - State v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “"* * * Here, the statute is not directed at the act of communicating and in that respect is like any other criminal statute defining a crime, such as robbery, which may incidentially involve communication. Defendant also argues that speech is indirectly affected by the provision. He contends that the speech which is `chilled' is that involved in the threat to `expose a secret or publicize an asserted fact.' What is prohibited by this particular section of the coercion statute, however, is the conduct of compelling another to act or refrain from acting by means of a promise to forego the threatened speech. We find no First Amendment invasion." (at 633, 635 P.2d at 1059 )”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 55 Or. App. 519 - State v. Paige

2. “"(1) A person commits the crime of coercion when he compels or induces another person to engage in conduct from which he has a legal right to abstain, or to abstain from engaging in conduct in which he has a legal right to engage, by means of instilling in him a fear that, if the demand is not complied with, the actor or another will: "* * * "(e) Expose a secret or publicize an asserted fact, whether true or false, tending to subject some person to hatred, contempt, or ridicule; * * *" [1]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 55 Or. App. 519 - State v. Paige