Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a Colorado man who was convicted of a crime after sending numerous threatening messages to a woman on Facebook, with the justices raising the bar ...
This case asks “[w]hether, to establish that a statement is a ‘true threat’ unprotected by the First Amendment, the government must show that the speaker subjectively knew or intended the threatening ...
A Lehigh County judge has granted a new trial and set aside a death sentence for an Allentown man who was convicted of setting a 1988 fire that killed his three children. Dennis Counterman, 41, did ...
An Otsego County man was arrested Friday in connection to the murder of Robert Jack Counterman Jr., the result of meticulous, coordinated work between police agencies that began earlier this month in ...
Update: On June 27, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a threat prosecution requires proof of subjective recklessness — that “the defendant consciously disregarded a substantial risk that his ...