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somunny:
Here's the ubiquitous myspace page:

http://www.myspace.com/scarizona

Graverobber *and* proud parent, to boot!

shmokes:
Saint has the difference between assault and battery basically correct, though it's missing the word "imminent".  Your victim must believe that he is in imminent danger.  Even if I see you in a Super Market and say that I am going to go get a gun from my trunk and return in less then a minute to put a bullet in your ass, I haven't committed assault.  Unless I appear to have the intent and capability to carry out my threat at the exact moment that I make the threat, it's not assault.  Thus you could never be guilty of assault based on a mailed letter unless, I suppose, the letter said, "I know you open your mail in your office.  Well . . . guess who's hiding behind your desk with a length of piano wire, Dead Man?".  Frankly, it's questionable whether even that would be assault . . .

In this case, you'd also have a problem because none of the intended victims knew about the letter, as far as I can tell.  The person being assaulted must be put in an apprehension of an imminent harmful or offensive touching.  If I walk up behind you and point a loaded pistol at the back of your head, I haven't assaulted you because, while you were definitely in danger of an imminent harmful or offensive touching, you never had an apprehension of it.  That is how I think I would characterize all the innocent people at the Superbowl who might have been injured by this guy.

CCM:
Can't you be arrested and charged for terroristic threats?

http://definitions.uslegal.com/t/terroristic-threat/

http://members.aol.com/StatutesP8/18PA2706.html


--- Quote ---(a) Offense defined. A person commits the crime of terroristic threats if the person communicates, either directly or indirectly, a threat to:

   1. commit any crime of violence with intent to terrorize another;
   2. cause evacuation of a building, place of assembly, or facility of public transportation; or
   3. otherwise cause serious public inconvenience, or cause terror or serious public inconvenience with reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror or inconvenience.
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These laws seem to vary by state...

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shmokes on February 08, 2008, 03:23:46 pm ---.  If I walk up behind you and point a loaded pistol at the back of your head, I haven't assaulted you because, while you were definitely in danger of an imminent harmful or offensive touching, you never had an apprehension of it. 

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I know where you watch your pr0n... guess who is behind the couch with a kung fu grip, Squeeze Toy?

hypernova:

--- Quote ---"No one destroys my dream," he wrote.
--- End quote ---

...of filling people with booze, and contributing to drunken driving! :)

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