Commonwealth v. Anneski

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• holding evidence insufficient to support terroristic threats conviction when exchange of threats was made during a heated argument between neighbors
• finding evidence insufficient where defendant threatened to shoot victim in response to victim’s threat to run over defendant’s children with her car
• finding evidence insufficient where defendant threatened to shoot victim in response to victim’s threat to run over defendant’s children with her car
• finding a defendant lacked a settled purpose to terrorize a neighbor when she made a threat to shoot the neighbor “during a heated, perhaps hysterical, argument between neighbors”
• we will not look at a statement in a vacuum as we consider it in light of the surrounding circumstances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).