State v. Taupier

**153The principal issue in this appeal is whether the free speech provisions of the first amendment to the United States constitution1 and article first, §§ 4, 5 and 14, of the Connecticut constitution2 require **154the state to prove that a defendant has a specific intent to terrorize another person in order to sustain a conviction of threatening in the first degree under General Statutes § 53a-61aa (a) (3),3 which criminalizes threatening speech. The defendant, Edward Taupier, sent an e-mail *8containing threats of violence against a judge of the Superior Court, Elizabeth A. Bozzuto, to a…