Legal Opinion
Elonis v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 1, 2015No. 13-983PublishedCited by 442 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Roberts
Federal law makes it a crime to transmit in interstate commerce "any communication containing any threat ... to injure the person of another." 18 U.S.C. § 875(c). Petitioner was convicted of violating this provision under instructions that required the jury to find that he communicated what a reasonable person would regard as a threat. The question is whether the statute also requires that the defendant be aware of the threatening nature of the communication, and-if not-whether the First Amendment requires such a showing.
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