(1) A person commits terroristic threats if he or she threatens to commit any crime of violence: (a) With the intent to terrorize another; (b) With the intent of causing the evacuation of a building, place of assembly, or facility of public transportation; or (c) In reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror or evacuation. (2) Terroristic threats is a Class IIIA felony.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 28-311.01
Terroristic threats; penalty
Applied in 51 court decisions — leading case State v. Bottolfson (2000)
Most recently applied in State v. Wilson (January 2026)
Laws 1986, LB 956, § 11; Laws 2015, LB605, § 15.
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