Two defendants are charged with criminal harassment, and two are charged with stalking.
Guernsey police confirmed it had investigated complaints from residents relating to alleged criminal harassment by the newspaper.
The column provided an account of Ramos's guilty plea to criminal harassment of a woman over social media.
The various charges include statutory rape for the two boys, criminal harassment, violation of civil rights, stalking and other similar crimes.
Sean Mulveyhill, 17, and Kayla Narey, 17, are charged with violation of civil rights, criminal harassment and disruption of a school assembly, all felonies.
There's a very fine line between criminal harassment and sex crimes and other things like freedom of speech and bad behavior".
I've long criticized such overbroad injunctions (and overbroad "criminal harassment" or "cyberstalking" statutes), both in blog posts and in a 2013 Northwestern University Law Review article.
In 2011, the newspaper had written about a criminal harassment case against Ramos, triggering a defamation suit from him in 2012.
Ramos – who has a degree in computer engineering and worked for the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, according to court documents – pleaded guilty to criminal harassment.
In May 2015 he pleaded guilty to 23 counts of extortion, public mischief, and criminal harassment; he was later sentenced to 16 months in youth custody and was due to be released in April 2016.
And indeed criminal harassment laws have already been used to punish criticism of the sort I describe, as I laid out in my 2013 article and in many posts on this blog.
