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Washington Supreme Court· 10/27/2016

State v. Trey M.

Citations

  • 186 Wash. 2d 884
  • 383 P.3d 474

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the threatened individuals’ testimony that they were “scared” after being named on a hit list was sufficient to show the victims feared that the threat to kill would be carried out
  • declining invitation to overrule Washington’s settled precedent in determining a true threat for First Amendment purposes
  • applying an objective reasonable person standard, rather than a subjective intent to threaten, to determine whether a statement is a “true threat”
  • holding statements that threatened persons were “scared” was sufficient
  • “nothing in Black imposes in all cases an ‘intent to of violence
  • “[E]ach boy testified that when he heard that he was on [the defendant’s] ‘hit list,’ he was ‘scared.’ . . . That is sufficient.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Fairhurst, González, Johnson, Madsen, McCloud, Owens, Stephens, Wiggins

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Cites

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