Imagine your ex sent you this message.
How would you interpret it?
When it turned up as evidence in a court case, a New Zealand judge convicted the sender of stalking, sentencing him to eight months in jail.
The judge reasoned that the words plus emoji combined to convey an actual threat.
What about this one?
Fist, point, ambulance?
No text, just the three emojis.
The defendant here was also charged for stalking.
He had previously attacked the guy he sent this message to.
Between 2004 and 2018 there's been a surge of emoticons and now emojis in the courtroom.
