KOLDEWEY v. State

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• holding that a defendant had no intent to communicate his threats to a victim where he made them for the purpose of obtaining a diagnosis and treatment from mental health professionals
• reversing conviction when defendant communicated threat for purpose of seeking mental health evaluation and treatment
• “To prove the crime of terroristic threats as alleged in Counts 1 through 4, the State’s burden was to show that Koldewey ‘threaten[ed] to commit any crime of violence . . . or to burn or damage property . . . .” (quoting O.C.G.A. § 16-11-37(a))
• where defendant informed victim in a telephone call that, after his release from the mental health hospital, “whatever happens, happens,” evidence would support the inference that call was made with intent to terrorize or “at least in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror”

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