Lawyers for a Colorado man who was convicted after repeatedly sending abusive messages to a local musician, are asking the court to limit the definition of a true threat to situations in which the defendant intended to threaten the person.
agreed to decide what kind of conduct constitutes a “true threat” that can be prosecuted as a criminal offense in a case brought by a Colorado man who repeatedly sent abusive messages to a local musician.says his conviction for sending Facebook messages to singer-songwriter Coles Whalen is invalid because the jury was not required to make any finding about whether he intended his comments to be genuine threats.
Counterman's lawyers are asking the court to limit the definition of a true threat to situations in which the defendant intended to threaten the person. Some lower courts have reached that conclusion, while others have said prosecutors only have to show that a “reasonable person” would consider the message to be a threat.in which the court threw out the conviction of a Pennsylvania man who made threatening remarks on Facebook aimed at his ex-wife.
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