Title: State v. Rangel
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: S44151
State: Oregon
Issuer: Oregon Supreme Court
Date: February 26, 1999

Filed: February 26, 1999

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON

STATE OF OREGON,

	Respondent on Review,

	v.

EDUARDO TINOCO RANGEL,

	Petitioner on Review.

(CC 95-0127CM; CA A91166; SC S44151)

	On review from the Court of Appeals.*

	Argued and submitted September 10, 1997; resubmitted
September 30, 1998.

	Andy Simrin, Deputy Public Defender, Salem, argued the cause
for petitioner on review.  With him on the briefs was Sally L.
Avera, Public Defender.

	Robert M. Atkinson, Assistant Attorney General, Salem,
argued the cause for respondent on review.  With him on the brief
were Hardy Myers, Attorney General, and Virginia L. Linder,
Solicitor General.

	Before Carson, Chief Justice, and Gillette, Van Hoomissen,
Durham, and Leeson, Justices.**

	VAN HOOMISSEN, J.

	The decision of the Court of Appeals is affirmed.  The
judgment of the circuit court is reversed, and the case is
remanded to the circuit court for further proceedings.

	*Appeal from Hood River County Circuit Court,

	 Paul Crowley, Judge.

	 146 Or App 571, 934 P2d 1128 (1997).

	**Fadeley, J., retired January 31, 1998, and did not
participate in this decision; Graber, J., resigned March 31,
1998, and did not participate in this decision; Kulongoski, J.,
did not participate in the consideration or decision of this
case.

		VAN HOOMISSEN, J.

		The issue in this criminal case is whether Oregon's
stalking statute, ORS 163.732, is overbroad in violation of 
Article I, section 8, of the Oregon Constitution,(1) or the First
Amendment to the United States Constitution.(2)  For the reasons discussed below, we hold that
the statute is not overbroad under either constitution.

		ORS 163.732 provides in part:

		"(1) A person commits the crime of stalking if:

		"(a) The person knowingly alarms or coerces another person or a member
of that person's immediate family or household by engaging in repeated and
unwanted contact with the other person; 

		"(b) It is objectively reasonable for a person in the victim's situation to
have been alarmed or coerced by the contact; and

		"(c) The repeated and unwanted contact causes the victim reasonable
apprehension regarding the personal safety of the victim or a member of the
victim's immediate family or household."(3)

		Defendant was charged with stalking by "unlawfully and knowingly alarm[ing the
victim] by coming to her place of employment and threatening her" on several occasions.(4)

		Before trial, defendant demurred, contending that ORS 163.732 is overbroad in
violation of Article I, section 8, and the First Amendment.  The trial court held that the statute is
overbroad, is not capable of judicial narrowing and, thus, is prohibited by Article I, section 8. 
The Court of Appeals reversed, concluding that ORS 163.732 is akin in virtually all material
respects to ORS 166.065(1)(d) (1981), the harassment statute that this court upheld in State v.
Moyle, 299 Or 691, 705 P2d 740 (1985).(5)  The court construed and narrowed ORS 163.732 to
require proof that the accused made a threat or its equivalent and that the accused intended to
cause the victim alarm.  The court held that, as so construed and narrowed, the statute is not
overbroad under Article I, section 8, or the First Amendment.  State v. Rangel, 146 Or App 571,
934 P2d 1128 (1997).  We allowed defendant's petition for review.

		On review, defendant argues that ORS 163.732 is facially overbroad under
Article I, section 8, because the alarm element of the statute does not require the state to prove
that the defendant made a "threat," and because the statute does not require the state to prove
that the defendant "intended" to harm anyone.  Defendant further argues that the Court of
Appeals' narrowing constructions cannot be attributed to the legislature with reasonable fidelity
to the legislature's words and apparent intent and, therefore, the statute is invalid as enacted. 
See State v. Robertson, 293 Or 402, 411-13, 649 P2d 569 (1982) (to be valid, a narrowing
construction must maintain reasonable fidelity to the legislature's words and apparent intent).  In
the alternative, defendant argues that ORS 163.732 violates the First Amendment.  The state
responds that the stalking statute is not overbroad, because the narrowing construction of ORS
163.732 adopted by the Court of Appeals follows the constitutional requirements delineated by
this court in Moyle.

		We review a lower court's interpretation of a constitutional provision for legal
error.  We consider all questions of state law before reaching federal constitutional issues.  State
v. Kennedy, 295 Or 260, 262-65, 666 P2d 1316 (1983).

Article I, section 8

		Our starting point is the analytical framework, first set out in Robertson, that this
court traditionally has employed in evaluating the constitutionality of laws involving expression. 
See State v. Stoneman, 323 Or 536, 543-44, 920 P2d 535 (1996) (explaining and applying the
Robertson framework); City of Eugene v. Miller, 318 Or 480, 488, 871 P2d 454 (1994) (same);
State v. Plowman, 314 Or 157, 163-64, 838 P2d 558 (1992) (same). 

		Our first inquiry under the Robertson analysis is whether Article I, section 8,
forecloses the enactment of ORS 163.732.  Article I, section 8, forbids the enactment of any
statute that is written in terms directed to the restraint of "free expression of opinion" or the
restriction of "the right to speak, write, or print freely on any subject" of communication, unless
the restraint is wholly confined within some historical exception to the free speech guarantees. 
Robertson, 293 Or at 412.  Article I, section 8, does not prohibit the enactment of statutes which
focus on forbidden effects of expression, if they are not directed at the substance of expression. 
If the proscribed means include speech or writing, however, even a law written to focus on a
forbidden effect must be scrutinized to determine whether it appears to reach privileged
communication or whether it can be interpreted to avoid such "overbreadth."  Id. at 695-97, 702;
State v. Garcias, 296 Or 688, 699, 679 P2d 1354 (1984) (concluding that, under Robertson, 293
Or at 437 n 32, a statute that reaches protected conduct only rarely when compared with its
legitimate applications need not succumb to an overbreadth attack and may be interpreted as
impliedly excluding the protected activity from coverage).  An overbroad statute is one that
proscribes speech or conduct that the constitution protects.  See Robertson, 293 Or at 412-13
(discussing analysis of "overbreadth" claim).

 		The Court of Appeals concluded, and the parties agree, that ORS 163.732 is
directed at the pursuit of forbidden effects (repeated and unwanted "contacts").  Rangel, 146 Or
App at 574.  We agree.  However, because the law identifies expression as one means that may
produce those forbidden effects, the law is open to an overbreadth challenge under Article I,
section 8. 

		As Moyle illustrates, a law written to focus on undesired effects, but which
includes speech or writing as the proscribed means of violation, must be examined to determine
whether it reaches privileged communication and, if it does so more than rarely, whether a
narrowing construction is possible to save it from overbreadth.(6)  If a statutes passes the first test
(which is a determination of whether the statute was directed at the substance of any "opinion"
or at the "subject" of communication) it remains open to an overbreadth challenge.  A "law is
overbroad the extent that it announces a prohibition that reaches conduct which may not be
prohibited."  Robertson, 293 Or at 410 (citation omitted).  Therefore, a law challenged as
overbroad is scrutinized to determine whether it appears to reach communication privileged by
Article I, section 8, or whether the law can be interpreted to avoid such overbreadth.  Moyle, 299
Or at 702 (quoting Robertson, 293 Or at 418).  Therefore, we examine the stalking statute to
determine whether it is overbroad.  

		To commit the crime of stalking, a person must make unwanted and repeated,
i.e., at least two, "contacts" of the kinds set forth in ORS 163.730(3).  Several examples of what
may constitute a forbidden "contact" under ORS 163.730(3) consist solely of communication,
orally or in writing, between the actor and the alleged victim or a third person.  ORS
163.730(3)(d), (e), (f), (h), and (i) describe the methods of "contact" that most clearly involve
some form of communication, although the statutory list is not exclusive.  Our discussion here
concerns only the state's invocation of at least one communication-based form of "contact" to
establish the repeated and unwanted contact element of stalking.  No overbreadth problem arises
if none of the contacts on which the state relies to establish stalking involves communication.  

		The notable characteristic of the crime of stalking is that the victim's
apprehension must arise from, and the actor must inflict alarm or coercion through, "repeated
and unwanted" contacts.  ORS 163.732(1).  A single contact that causes apprehension, no matter
how severe, does not constitute criminal stalking.  But a contact that occurs through
communication with the victim or a third person constitutes stalking if the actor also makes at
least one other contact, the actor knowingly alarms or coerces the victim by engaging in the
repeated contact, and the repeated contact is unwanted, causes the victim reasonable
apprehension, and would have alarmed or coerced a reasonable person.  The stalking statute
does not require that a "contact" that occurs through speech or writing by itself (1) must
constitute a use of words that the law may prohibit, such as the solicitation of a crime, or
blackmail, or (2) cause any particular proscribable effect.  

		We agree with the Court of Appeals that the stalking statute restricts speech, at
least in part, because it criminalizes the inducement of alarm or coercion from the repetition of
contacts with a victim and those contacts can include speech or writing.  Moyle supports that
conclusion.  In Moyle, this court similarly determined that the statute in question, prohibiting
harassment, defined the crime to include the communication of verbal threats, and concluded
after analysis that some threats constitute protected speech.  Moyle, 299 Or at 702.  For similar
reasons, the communication-based forms of contact listed in ORS 163.730(3) may constitute
protected expression in a variety of political and social settings.

		The fact that a speech-based contact may combine with a non-speech-based
contact to induce apprehension does not obviate the overbreadth inquiry.  In analyzing criminal
statutes that forbid the inducement of undesired effects through communicative acts, this court
steadfastly has required a showing that the communicative act itself is unprotected because, for
example, it is a prelude to imminent and serious proscribable harm.  See Moser v. Frohnmayer,
315 Or 372, 379, 845 P2d 1284 (1993), holding that, to be valid as a law that focuses on a
harmful effect of speech, the law must specify expressly or by clear inference what serious and
imminent effects it is designed to prevent.  For example, Moyle, 299 Or at 703, construed the
term "alarm" in the harassment statute to mean

	"more than mere inconvenience or feelings of anguish which are the result of
angry or imposing words; it means being placed in actual fear or terror resulting
from a sudden sense of danger."

In Garcias, 296 Or at 701, this court upheld the menacing statute against a claim of overbreadth,
stating:

	"[t]here is harm to be caused, fear of imminent serious physical injury, and it is
specific enough that it can be caused only by a narrow category of conduct, a face
to face confrontation between actor and victim."

We cannot say that the instances of potential impermissible application of the stalking statute
will be rare, in part because the range of communicative acts that the statutory term "contact"
includes is quite broad.  We turn to the question whether we can interpret the stalking statute to
eliminate any overbreadth while maintaining reasonable fidelity to the legislature's words and
apparent intent.

		In Moyle, this court concluded that it could adopt several narrowing constructions
of the harassment statute that would conform it to the legislature's probable intent, as
demonstrated by the statute's words, and still satisfy the following equirement of Article I,
section 8:

		"'[A]rticle I, section 8, prohibits lawmakers from enacting restrictions that
focus on the content of speech or writing, either because that content itself is
deemed socially undesirable or offensive, or because it is thought to have adverse
consequences.  * * * [L]aws must focus on proscribing the pursuit or
accomplishment of forbidden results rather than on the suppression of speech or
writing either as an end in itself or as a means to some other legislative end.' State
v. Robertson, supra, 293 Or at 416."  Moyle, 299 Or at 697 (emphasis in original). 

	For purposes of analysis under Article I, section 8, the Court of Appeals
concluded that ORS 163.732 is not distinguishable from the harassment statute considered in
Moyle.  Rangel, 146 Or App at 578.  Consequently, the Court of Appeals, addressing two aspects
of the stalking statute, applied narrowing constructions that closely resemble the narrowing
constructions this court applied in Moyle.  We turn to an examination of those constructions.

	First, the Court of Appeals determined that, although ORS 163.732 does not
expressly require that a "threat" be made to the victim, the terms of ORS 163.730 and ORS
163.732 demonstrate that "a threat or its equivalent must have been made in order for the crime
of stalking to be found."  146 Or App at 577.  We agree.

	The gist of the crime of stalking is knowingly alarming or coercing another
through repeated and unwanted "contacts."  Where the state relies on one or more "contacts" that
constitute speech or writing, rather than physical force or other behaviors that are beyond the
scope of Article I, section 8, the definition of "coerce" in ORS 163.730(2) expressly requires
proof of a threat.  We conclude that in defining "alarm" in ORS 163.730(1), the legislature also
contemplated, as a logical necessity, that a speech-based contact would be punishable as an
element of stalking only if it constitutes a threat.  If the contact in question amounts to
communication by speech or writing, only a threat will be sufficient to "cause apprehension or
fear resulting from the perception of danger," as ORS 163.730 requires.

	Moyle explains what behavior constitutes a proscribable "threat" in this context. 
This court recognized that, in a number of settings, vigorous advocacy of conflicting viewpoints
may create feelings of anger, fear, annoyance or loss of control, and that proof in a concrete case
of specific factual criteria about the communication is necessary to demonstrate that the
speaker's statement amounts to a proscribable threat.  According to Moyle, a proscribable threat
is a communication that instills in the addressee a fear of imminent and serious personal
violence from the speaker, is unequivocal, and is objectively likely to be followed by unlawful
acts.  See Moyle, 299 Or at 703-05 (explaining those requirements for a "threat" under
harassment statute).  Those characteristics of a threat

	"exclud[e] the kind of hyperbole, rhetorical excesses, and impotent expressions of
anger or frustration that in some contexts can be privileged even if they alarm the
addressee."  Moyle, 299 Or at 705.

Moyle concluded that those characteristics of a proscribable threat were faithful to the
legislature's intent by examining the elements of the crime of harassment.  Because the material
elements of stalking, particularly those in ORS 163.730(1) and ORS 163.732(1)(b) and (c),
indicate that the legislature intended the term "alarm" in the stalking statute to apply to the same
type of communications, we reach the same conclusion here.

		Second, in response to defendant's argument that the stalking statute falls short
because it requires the actor to induce alarm or coercion "knowingly" rather than intentionally,
the Court of Appeals concluded:

	"[W]e interpret the stalking statute to require proof that the alarm as well as the
threatened act must be intended by the speaker."  Rangel, 146 Or App at 578.

As explained below, we adopt a somewhat different narrowing construction.  

		Defendant is correct that any judicial narrowing construction, adopted to address
a statute's unconstitutional overbreadth, must keep faith with the legislature's policy choices, as
reflected in the statute's words, and respect the legislature's responsibility in the first instance to
enact laws that do not intrude on the constitutionally protected right of free speech.  Defendant's
claim that the Court of Appeals simply nullified the legislatively adopted mental element,
"knowingly," in ORS 163.732(1)(a), and replaced it with a different mental element,
"intentionally," that the legislature did not enact, raises at least a colorable argument that the
Court of Appeals exceeded its authority to adopt a narrowing construction in order to eliminate
overbreadth.  Defendant's argument rests on the premise that, under the definitions stated in ORS
161.085(7) and (8),(7) "intentionally" and "knowingly" are substantively different mental states.  He also contends that, in Moyle, this court's adoption of a mental element of
"intent" did no violence to the legislative intent, because the statute there was silent regarding
the need for a specific intent to carry out a threat.  He points out that the stalking statute
expressly adopts a mental element, "knowingly."  ORS 163.732(1)(a).  

		ORS 163.732(1) uses the term "knowingly" to mean that a person acts with an
awareness that his or her conduct is of a nature so described or that a circumstances so described
exists, as ORS 161.085(8) indicates.  The stalking statute also uses "knowingly" with reference
to the conscious inducement of an actual effect -- fear -- by creating a perception of danger in
the victim through multiple unwanted contacts.  The requirement in ORS 163.732(1)(b) that the
perception of danger to personal safety from the actor's contacts be "objectively reasonable"
establishes the foreseeability and, thus, the predictability, of the proscribed harm.

		Because ORS 163.732(1) requires both awareness of the nature of the conduct
and consciousness that the conduct predictably will lead to a specific result, the statute presents
an analytical problem similar to that addressed by this court in the following passage regarding
the harassment statute at issue in Moyle:

		"The statute, as written, requires neither proof of a specific intent to carry
out the threat nor of any present ability to do so.  However, the elements -- actual
alarm and the reasonableness of the alarm under the circumstances -- have a
similar purpose and effect.  These elements limit the reach of the statute to
threats which are so unambiguous, unequivocal and specific to the addressee that
they convincingly express to the addressee the intention that they will be carried
out."  Moyle, 299 Or at 703.

		The harassment statute in Moyle required communication of a threat "with intent
to harass, annoy or alarm another  person."  That statute, as written, required neither proof of a
specific intent to carry out the threat nor of any present ability to do so.  The Moyle court
concluded, however, that the elements of actual alarm and the reasonableness of the alarm under
the circumstances had a similar purpose and effect.  

	"These elements limit the reach of the statute to threats which are so
unambiguous, unequivocal and specific to the addressee that they convincingly
express to the addressee the intention that they will be carried out."  Moyle, 299
Or at 703 (emphasis added).

The same analysis applies here.  

		ORS 163.732(1) requires that the actor "knowingly" alarm or coerce another
person or a member of that person's immediate family or household.  The statute does not
expressly require that a contact involving communication be established with proof of a specific
intent to carry out the threat or of any present ability to do so.  However, we conclude that the
requirements in ORS 163.732(1) of actual alarm and the subjective and objective reasonableness
of the alarm in the circumstances have the same purpose and effect.  Just as in Moyle, those
elements limit the reach of ORS 163.732(1) to a threat that is so unambiguous, unequivocal, and
specific to the addressee that it convincingly expresses to the addressee the intention that it will
be carried out.

		Our analysis does not remove the mental element of "knowingly" from ORS
163.732(1)(a).  Instead, we conclude that, under ORS 163.732(3), a contact based on
communication must consist of a threat that convincingly expresses to the addressee the
intention that it will be carried out, and that the actor has the ability to do so.  Because that
determination leaves the statutory mental element, "knowingly," undisturbed, and construes the
contact element consistently with the analysis followed in Moyle, defendant's argument fails. 
Accordingly, we hold that, as construed, ORS 163.732 is not overbroad under Article I, section
8.

First Amendment

		Freedom of speech is among the fundamental personal rights and liberties
protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments.  Gitlow v. New York, 268 US 652, 666, 45 S
Ct 625, 69 L Ed 2d 1138 (1925).  Defendant argues that ORS 163.732 is overbroad in violation
of the First Amendment because it does not require proof that the actor intended to cause harm,
does not require proof that the actor made an actual threat, and creates no express exemption for
constitutionally protected activity.

		Because defendant's first two arguments do not take into account the narrowing
constructions that this court has applied to ORS 163.732, they are unpersuasive.  Those
constructions supply the requirements of genuine threat and intent to carry out the threat that
defendant argues are missing from the statutory text.

		Defendant also asserts that legislatures in other states have inserted specific
exemptions in stalking legislation for legitimate free speech activity, such as labor picketing, in
order to insulate their stalking laws from overbreadth attacks.  Oregon's stalking statute does not
contain an exemption for all forms of "constitutionally protected speech," although it does
expressly exempt conduct protected by state and federal labor laws.  See ORS 163.755
(exempting conduct protected by state or federal labor laws).

		However, defendant's argument does not identify a constitutional requirement
that, if absent, demonstrates that the Oregon stalking statute is overbroad for that reason alone. 
For the purpose of addressing defendant's present argument, it is sufficient to observe that no
decision of the United States Supreme Court requires that an express exemption for lawful
speech accompany a stalking statute in order to avoid unconstitutional overbreadth. 

		In Broadrick v. Oklahoma, 413 US 601, 613-15, 93 S Ct 2908, 37 L Ed 2d 830
(1973), the United States Supreme Court set limitations on the invocation of the overbreadth
doctrine where conduct and not merely speech is involved.  The Supreme Court declared that
application of the doctrine is "strong medicine," to be employed "sparingly" and "only as a last
resort."  Where conduct is regulated, a statute that has constitutional applications is facially
invalid only if its overbreadth is "real, [and] substantial as well, judged in relation to the statute's
plainly legitimate sweep."  Id. at 415.(8)  We conclude that, as construed, ORS 163.732 is
narrowly tailored and does not burden protected speech.  See New York v. Ferber, 458 US 747,
769, 102 S Ct 3348, 73 L Ed 2d 1113 (1982) (only a statute that is substantially overbroad may
be invalidated on its face); Broadrick, 413 US at 615 (same).  We hold that ORS 163.732 is not
overbroad under the First Amendment.

		In summary, we hold that, as construed, ORS 163.732 is not facially overbroad
under Article I, section 8, or the First Amendment for any of the reasons argued by defendant. 
Our holding that ORS 163.732 is not overbroad does not preclude a constitutional challenge to
the statute "as applied" to specific circumstances.

		The decision of the Court of Appeals is affirmed.  The judgment of the circuit
court is reversed, and the case is remanded to the circuit court for further proceedings. 

 	1	Article I, section 8, of the Oregon Constitution, provides: 

		"No law shall be passed restraining the free expression of opinion, or
restricting the right to speak, write, or print freely on any subject whatever; but every
person shall be responsible for the abuse of this right."

2		 The First Amendment to the United States Constitution  provides in part:

		"Congress shall make no law * * * abridging the freedom of speech * * *."

The First Amendment applies to the states by virtue of the Fourteenth Amendment.  Gitlow v.
New York, 268 US 652, 666, 45 S Ct 625, 69 L Ed 2d 1138 (1925).

3 		ORS 163.730 provides in part:

		"As used in ORS 30.866 and ORS 163.730 to 163.750, unless the context
requires otherwise:

		"(1) 'Alarm' means to cause apprehension or fear resulting from the
perception of danger.

		"(2) 'Coerce' means to restrain, compel or dominate by force or threat.

		"(3)  'Contact' includes but is not limited to:

		"(a) Coming into the visual or physical presence of the other person;

		"(b) Following the other person;

		"(c) Waiting outside the home, property, place of work or school of the
other person or of a member of that person's family or household;

		"(d) Sending or making written communications in any form to the other
person;

		"(e) Speaking with the other person by any means;

		"(f) Communicating with the other person through a third person;

		"(g) Committing a crime against the other person;

		"(h) Communicating with a third person who has some relationship to the
other person with the intent of affecting the third person's relationship with the
other person;

		"(i) Communicating with business entities with the intent of affecting
some right or interest of the other person;

		"(j) Damaging the other person's home, property, place of work or school;
or

		"(k) Delivering directly or through a third person any object to the home,
property, place of work or school of the other person."

		"* * * * *

		"(7) 'Repeated' means two or more times." 

4 		ORS 163.730(3) defines "contact" to include different acts, some of which are
communicative in nature and some of which are not.  Because the word "threatening" in the
accusatory instrument connotes some form of speech or communication, we assume, for the
purposes of this opinion, that there is a cognizable issue under the speech provisions of the state
and federal constitutions.

5 		Moyle examined ORS 166.065(1)(d) for overbreadth.  That statute, renumbered
as ORS 166.065(1)(c) (1997), provides in part:

		"A person commits the crime of harassment if, with intent to harass,
annoy or alarm another person, the actor:

		"* * * * *

		"Subjects another to alarm by conveying a telephonic or written threat to
inflict serious physical injury on that person or to commit a felony involving the
person or property of that person or any member of that person's family, which
threat reasonably would be expected to cause alarm."

6 		In State v. Spencer, 289 Or 225, 611 P2d 1147 (1980), this court held that a
disorderly conduct statute, ORS 166.025(1)(c), violated Article I, section 8, of the Oregon
Constitution.  The statute made the use of abusive or obscene language or making an obscene
gesture in a public place criminal if done intentionally to cause "public inconvenience,
annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof".  However, the statute did not require
that the words spoken actually cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm.  The statute
made the speaking of the words themselves criminal, if spoken with the requisite intent, even if
no harm was caused or threatened.

7		ORS 161.085(7) and (8) provide:

		"(7) 'Intentionally' or 'with intent,' when used with respect to a result or to
conduct described by a statute defining an offense, means that a person acts with
a conscious objective to cause the result or to engage in the conduct so described.

		"(8) 'Knowingly' or 'with knowledge,' when used with respect to conduct
or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, means that a
person acts with an awareness that the conduct of the person is of a nature so
described or that a circumstance so described exists."

8		"But the plain import of our cases is, at the very 	least, that facial overbreadth
adjudication is an exception to our traditional rules of practice and that its function, a
limited one at the outset, attenuates as the otherwise unprotected behavior that it forbids
the State to sanction moves from 'pure speech' toward conduct and that conduct -- even if
expressive -- falls within the scope of otherwise valid criminal laws that reflect
legitimate state interests in maintaining comprehensive controls over harmful,
constitutionally unprotected conduct.  Although such laws, if too broadly worded, may
deter protected speech to some unknown extent, there comes a point where that effect --
at best a prediction -- cannot, with confidence, justify invalidating a statute on its face
and so prohibiting a State from enforcing the statute against conduct that is admittedly
within its power to proscribe."  Broadrick, 413 US at 615.