All written threats are felonies
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  1. 02-05-2020, 01:44 AM #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by “Marc Freeman”
    FORT LAUDERDALE — David Puy headed out to meet friends for dinner. “On my way! School shooter,” he joked in a Snapchat post with his photo.

    The next day, detectives arrested him for a felony, punishable by 15 years in prison. Judge Elijah H. Williams warned: “it does not [contextually] matter if you are joking when you make a written threat.”

    After trying unsuccessfully to get the charge dismissed, the judge put the case on hold, pending a challenge before the Fourth District Court of Appeal.

    A Florida appellate court threw out the conviction of a Sarasota High School student who tweeted he “can’t wait to shoot up my school soon...”
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  2. 02-05-2020, 07:03 PM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marc Freeman View Post
    Judge Elijah H. Williams warned: “it does not [contextually] matter if you are joking when you make a written threat.”
    When context is not judicially applied, in combination with an application of common sense, then the law is egregious, as well as inappropriate.
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