State v. Olsen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 state decisions

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1. “[a]ny person who willfully threatens to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, with the specific intent that the statement, made verbally, in writing, or by means of an electronic communication device, is to be taken as a threat, even if there is no intent of actually carrying it out, which, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made, is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person threatened, a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and thereby causes that person reasonably to be in sustained fear for his or her own safety or for his or her immediate family’s safety.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Olsen

2. “(i) To cause bodily injury immediately or in the future to the person threatened or to any other person. . . . (b) The person by words or conduct places the person threatened in reasonable fear that the threat will be carried out. . . . (2) A person who harasses another is guilty of a gross misdemeanor . . . except that the person is guilty of a class C felony if. . . (b) the person harasses another person under subsection (1)(a)(i) of this section by threatening to kill the person threatened or any other person.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Olsen