The Supreme Court on Monday tossed out the conviction of Pennsylvania resident Anthony Elonis, whose Facebook posts allegedly threatened the lives of his estranged wife, an FBI agent, and a kindergarten classroom full of five-year-olds.

In one incident, after Elonis received a restraining order, he substituted the phrase "my wife" while quoting the "It's illegal to say I want to kill the president" sketch from the comedy group The Whitest Kids U'Know. On other occasion, Elonis posted rap lyrics like the following:

Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben argued the feds' case back in December, suggesting that a reasonable person might feel threatened by Elonis, whereas when similar words are spouted by a professional rapper, "the clear purpose is entertainment."

But in the ruling Monday, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the conviction was "inconsistent with the conventional requirement for criminal conduct—awareness of some wrongdoing." Still, this is not likely to prove a precedent-setting First Amendment case because the judges punted on the broader free speech issue, the Associated Press reports.

After serving over three years of a 44-month prison sentence last year, Elonis was arrested again this April for allegedly throwing a pot at his girlfriend's mother's head. That case is unlikely to reach the Supreme Court.

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