State v. SCHALER

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• holding that felony harassment statute proscribes only \true threats\
• holding that felony harassment statute proscribes only “true threats”
• recognizing the “true threats” doctrine in the context of an antiharassment statute and noting that “[t]he First Amendment prohibits the State from criminalizing communications that bear the wording of threats but which are in fact merely jokes, idle talk, or hyperbole”
• noting the Washington State Supreme Court Committee on Jury Instructions amended WPIC 2.24 after State v. Johnston, 156 Wn.2d 355, 127 P.3d 707 (2006)
• a party who fails to object to jury instructions in the trial court waives a claim of error on appeal
• defendant's statements about wanting to kill his neighbors were not utterances that \unequivocally lead to a finding of a true threat\

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