Santiago v. Towle

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant’s statement to third party that he “had a gun and was not afraid to use it” did not constitute an incident of violence because there was no “overt act indicating an ability to carry out the threat or justifying a belief that violence was imminent”
• “The sparse evidence adduced, even if believed, indicates that Mr. Santiago did not make any overt act that would have placed Ms. Towle in imminent danger, but rather only shouted and made hand gestures.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).