The Supreme Court rules in favor of a Colorado man who repeatedly sent abusive messages to a local musician, saying the conviction was based on the wrong legal standard.
on Tuesday ruled in favor of a Colorado man convicted of making"true threats" who repeatedly sent abusive messages to a local musician.'s conviction for sending Facebook messages to singer-songwriter Coles Whalen was based on the wrong legal standard.
The case now returns to lower courts for further proceedings on whether the conviction should be thrown out. Counterman’s lawyers asked the court to limit the definition of a true threat to situations in which a defendant intended to threaten a person. Some lower courts have reached that conclusion, while others have said prosecutors have to show only that a “reasonable person” would consider a message to be a threat., 25 states urged the justices to give them leeway to prosecute without imposing an intent requirement, saying it can help to curb threatening conduct before it leads to violence.
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