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 | I. Did Woloszyn's Uncorroborated Statements to the Probation Officer Prove Woloszyn Violated the Terms of His Supervised Release? II. Does a Violatio… |
| 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 | 1. Whether, in a case involving political speech, the first amendment allows a state to criminalize a knowing threat of violence directed against a po… | |
| 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 | 1. Did Petitioner's arrest and subsequent detention based on her speech violate her clearly established rights as set forth in Watts v. United States,… | |
| 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, in light of this Court's holding in Elonis v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2001 (2015), that, to obtain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), t… |
| 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 | Under Watts v. United States, 394 U.S. 705 (1969) (per curiam), the First Amendment does not protect "true threats." Federal courts of appeals and sta… |