F.C. v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that, in context, defendant's threats to \kick your punk ass\ directed at two different police officers constituted true threats subject to prosecution under statute prohibiting breach of peace
• affirming defendant’s conviction for breach of the peace under section 53a-181(a)(3) based on his use of obscene gestures and profane statements, as well as non-profane statements accompanied by physically threatening gestures
• acknowledging Black's formulation of a true threat and applying objective test
• “[although the doctrines of over-breadth and vagueness are closely related . . . they are distinct” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• “[w]here the trial court reaches a correct decision but on [mistaken] grounds, this court has repeatedly sustained the trial court’s action if proper grounds exist to support it” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• in determin- ing whether statement is true threat, surrounding events and reaction of listeners should be considered

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).