Commonwealth v. De Vincent

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• defining threat as “the expression of an intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage on another”
• affirming violation of attempted extortion statute, G. L. c. 265, § 25
• \the threat is to be tested objectively; the state of mind of the person threatened is not controlling\
• “the threat is to be tested objectively; the state of mind of the person threatened is not controlling”
• malicious threat of bodily injury criminal even though intended to force payment of just debt
• restating essential elements of extortion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).