Supreme Court Clarifies First Amendment Test for True Threats
Constitutional Law Reporter
JULY 19, 2023
Colorado , 600 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court held that to establish that a statement is a “true threat” unprotected by the First Amendment, the state must prove that the defendant had some subjective understanding of the statements’ threatening nature, based on a showing no more demanding than recklessness. In Counterman v.
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