criminal-threat

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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…