United States v. Keith Dwayne Gilbert

How courts have described this case

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• holding that criminal prosecution under FHA of person who mailed letters and flyers threatening to murder whites who aided blacks and other minorities was not precluded by First Amendment
• “[L]egislation which proscribes the use of force or the threat of force should not be found to be void for vagueness.”
• “the statute’s requirement of intent to intimidate serves to insulate the statute from unconstitutional application to protected speech”
• “The government bears the ultimate burden of proving that [the defendant’s] actions were taken with the requisite intent to place them into [the] category [of a ‘true threat’].”
• “The government bears the ultimate burden of proving that [the defendant’s] actions were taken with the requisite intent to place them into [the] category [of a ‘true threat’].”
• reaffirming Hattrup's requirement of “demonstrable prejudice or substantial [threat] thereof”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).