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Posting "I Wish Someone Would In Alive Him" About Federal Judge Isn't Punishable Threat
['Eugene Volokh', 'Charles Oliver', 'Hunt Beaty', 'Elizabeth Nolan Brown', 'Peter Bagge', 'C. Jarrett Dieterle']
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Even accepting this construction as true, no reasonable jury could consider this broad, non-detailed wish to be a threat at all, much less a true threat.
Under certain circumstances, a wish may possibly constitute a true threat.
However, in the few cases where an "I wish" type of statement constituted a true threat, there were additional statements alleged that provided threatening context.
2013) ("[T]he mere wish that a person die from a slow and painful disease does not constitute a true threat.
The statement "I wish someone would in alive him" is simply not a threat.