Andrews v. State

STEELE, Chief Justice:

Defendant-appellant Joshua Andrews 1 appeals his convictions for terroristic threatening and committing a hate crime. Andrews presents two arguments on appeal.

First, Andrews argues that the trial judge erred when he held that the “true threat” doctrine subsumed in First Amendment law only applies to political speech and, therefore, does not protect Andrews from conviction under Delaware’s terrorist threatening statute, 11 Del. C. § 621. Andrews contends that because no reasonable speaker should have foreseen that Andrews’s words would be interpreted as a serious…