Again, there are literally thousands of stories you can find in every single state that results in an arrest for threatening someone on the internet.
There is more than enough evidence in Josh`s (Disturbia) past and on these forums that could easily warrant an arrest and a possible conviction.
On a side note: All one has to do in my state is go down to a magistrate and say a death threat has been made against you by X person. Once you do that, the police are immediately sent to pick up person X, no further questions asked. (I do realize an arrest is different than a conviction)
It depends on the states laws, it also depends on what was filed. Since you are not looking at the statement of charges you don't know the whole story. It is not just the threats. What happen with the people, how do they know each other. Also, how did you know this person wrote it? It has to be something within the email that lets you know that is really the actual person who wrote it. Also, don't confuse a arrest, with a unlawful arrest, nor confuse a arrest for an actual conviction.
But do you know how many people say they are going to kill or beat someone up? Millions, the police in your state or others, will not just go and pick someone up just because the accuser (who generally are people who want to stir trouble) comes down in the dead of the night and says that the person threaten them to the magistrate. Chances are its the magistrate that will either issue a summons or a warrant. And I certainly doubt that a magistrate would issue a warrant for a parking lot incident, where tempers just flared, and the people don't know each other, or a situation where a person is in Canada. And also they would have to check the person's criminal record as well.
And if it was so pertinent, then the police would have gotten involved first, as they part of the Executive Branch, the magistrate is part of the Judicial Branch, so they do not tell the police what to do, neither do the police. They work together, but seperately. If the police don't check it out, then obviously they will send you to the magistrate's office, because they don't want to deal with some bullshucks, that is pretty much petty.
In MD, there was a charge called Assault by Threat, it eventually was(repealed) thrown out because everybody wanted to come to the Commissioner's office and file charges for people saying that they were going to do bodily harm to them. Fathers, Mothers, children, boyfriends, girlfriends, neighbors, husbands, wives,etc. In a sense, it was violating a person's 1st Admendment Right. Plus, it was being cowardly of the complainants. Because many times they try and beat the other person to the Commissioner's Office to file, over something petty, words. They are just words,period. Now, Arson, threating to do so, is different.
TA, people say things all the time, you just have to brush it off your shoulder and move on. Would you go to the Magistrate's office and file on your girlfriend
