The question for the court was whether prosecutors must show that a person being prosecuted for making a threat knew their behavior was threatening or whether prosecutors just have to prove that a reasonable person would see it as threatening.
The Supreme Court has ruled to make it more difficult to convict a person of making a violent threat.
Justice Elena Kagan wrote that prosecutors have to show that “the defendant had some subjective understanding of the threatening nature of his statements.”
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