United States v. Baish

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the threatening message must have been “conveyed to someone—either to the object of the threat or to a third party” (emphasis added)
• explaining that threats are no longer “inchoate” once “someone, other than the speaker, hears the threat”
• “a person ‘threatens’ when she utters words, which are intended to convey her desire to inflict physical or other harm on any person or on property, and these words are communicated to someone”
• “... that the defendant intended to utter these words as a threat.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).