United States v. Alfredo Orozco-Santillan

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the following communication was a threat: “You m f_, you will pay for this” in the context of an earlier conditional threat at the time of arrest, “Take these handcuffs off and I’ll kick your f_ass.”
• concluding that the following communication was a threat: “You m f_, you will pay for this” in the context of an earlier conditional threat at the time of arrest, “Take these handcuffs off and I’ll kick your f_ass.”
• equating a \true threat\ with a situation \where a reasonable person would foresee that the listener will believe he will be subjected to physical violence upon his person....\
• “The fact that a threat is subtle does not make it less of a threat.” (citation and quotation marks omitted)
• \whether a reasonable person would foresee that the statement would be interpreted by those to whom the maker communicates the statement as a serious expression of intent to harm or assault\
• “Although a threat must be ‘distinguished from what is constitutionally protected speech,’ this is not a case involving statements with a political message.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).