criminal-threat
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22-6973 | Joseph Woloszyn v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-threat drug-addiction due-process preponderance-of-evidence probation-violation revocation-hearing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release uncorroborated-statements | Did Woloszyn's Uncorroborated Statements to the Probation Officer Prove Woloszyn Violated the Terms of His Supervised Release? |
| 20-264 | Stephen S. Bona v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-09-02 | Denied | criminal-threat elonis-v-united-states first-amendment free-speech intent-to-harm political-speech true-threat virginia-v-black | Whether the First Amendment allows a state to criminalize a knowing threat of violence directed against a political official without a showing of an i… | |
| 19-1370 | Kimberley Thames v. City of Westland, Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-12 | Denied | abortions brandenburg-test criminal-threat first-amendment free-speech monell-claim municipal-liability naacp-v-claiborne-hardware qualified-immunity true-threats westland | Did Petitioner's arrest and subsequent detention based on her speech violate her clearly established rights as set forth in Watts v. United States, Vi… | |
| 18-8999 | Mark Richard Hillstrom v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-threat due-process elonis-standard elonis-v-united-states grand-jury harmless-error indictment intent mens-rea mental-state statutory-interpretation | Whether the government must prove a defendant knowingly intends his communications to be a threat |
| 18-949 | Jamal Knox v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-01-22 | Denied | Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-threat first-amendment free-speech reasonable-person speech-protection subjective-intent terroristic-threats true-threat true-threats | Whether a 'reasonable person' standard or a 'subjective intent' standard should apply to determine if a statement is a 'true threat' unprotected by th… |