United States v. Abdel-Jabbor Malik, Cross-Appellee

How courts have described this case

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• holding that references to Biblical retribution indicated intent to communicate true threat
• holding that true threat can be implicit as well as literal
• holding Biblical reference to “eye for an eye” indicated that defendant’s proposal to “play” with targets was true threat
• finding a threat where defendant sent letters to a federal appellate judge suggesting he would use force against the panel unless it reversed its decision
• following “play” proposal with explicit reference to physical harm, i.e., “that[‘s] an eye for an eye and life for a life”
• rejecting “rigid adherence to the literal meanings of a communication without regard to its reasonable connotations derived from its ambience”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).