United States Fifth Circuit

18 USC 875(c), knowingly and intentionally transmitting in interstate commerce a threat to injure another, applies to statements made in an Internet chat room to a third party unconnected with the target of the threat.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/05/2001
• Published 11/05/2001

Judges

• E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, Chief Judge, and JOLLY and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Kathlyn Giannaula Snyder (argued), Asst. U.S. Atty., James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Atty., Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Roland E. Dahlin, II, Fed. Pub. Def., Marjorie A. Meyers, Asst. Fed. Pub. Def. (argued), Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.