ATLANTA - A man sentenced to prison for a provocative online video that authorities say disrupted the investigations into the disappearances of two women is asking the Georgia Supreme Court to overturn his conviction on free speech grounds.
Andrew Scott Haley was charged in 2009 with posting a video on YouTube under the moniker ``catchmekiller'' in which he claimed to have killed 16 people and suggested he had information about two unsolved crimes in Florida and Georgia.
Georgia prosecutors charged him under a statute that criminalizes people who knowingly and willfully makes a false statement that can disrupt state investigations.
His lawyers say what he did may have been in poor taste, but that authorities turned "a fiction writer into a felon."
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October 18th, 2024
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