A jury in Ohio has found political blogger DJ Byrnes guilty of harassment for sending an explicit image of Shrek to a Republican state senator. The judge ordered Byrnes, owner of the blog The Rooster, to pay a $200 fine. Byrnes sent a nude image of Shrek to Ohio Sen. Jerry Cirino in May after the senator dropped out of the Senate presidential race. The message accompanied the image with a provocative and insulting caption, according to reports from the Columbus Dispatch.

Cirino filed a police report against Byrnes, describing his messages as pornographic and harassing. Four state police officers arrested Byrnes at the Ohio statehouse in June. Despite posting bail, Byrnes was reportedly held in jail overnight. Byrnes pleaded not guilty to telecommunications harassment, claiming that the text was protected free speech. Cirino stated after the ruling, 'This wasn’t a free speech issue; this was a harassment statute that I believed he was in violation of.'

Byrnes’s case highlights the thin line between political satire and harassment. 'I can’t wait for the jury to see the image that he sent to me,' Cirino said ahead of the trial, according to the Columbus Dispatch. 'Obviously, he’s free to write on his blog whatever he wants. I just don’t want to be accosted in the Statehouse in the future.'