We opposed this bill which would have created a crime of “menacing,” which would make criminal a wide variety of hyperbolic comments regularly expressed by people in the heat of the moment. Fortunately, this bill died in committee.
Creation of Crime of “Menacing” (H 5895, S 686)
Sponsors
Representative Robert Craven and Senator John Burke
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