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A demand letter is a formalized demand by a party that another party pay money or take certain acts, often accompanied by a claim that the second party has engaged in illegal conduct, with an implicit or explicit threat that the demanding party will take some form of legal action.
The standard definition of a true threat does not require actual subjective intent to carry out the threat. [72] A defendant's statement that if they got the chance they would harm the president is a threat; merely because a threat has been conditional upon the ability of the defendant to carry it out does not render it any less of a threat. [8]
Threats against federal judges and prosecutors have more than doubled in recent years, with threats against federal prosecutors rising from 116 to 250 from 2003 to 2008, [50] and threats against federal judges climbing from 500 to 1,278 in that same period, [51] [52] prompting hundreds to get 24-hour protection from armed U.S. marshals.
Since 2020, the Justice Department has recorded an “unprecedented spike in threats against the public servants who do administer our elections,” Garland said earlier this month.
Police across Maine were alerted just last month to “veiled threats” by the U.S. Army reservist who would go on to carry out the worst mass shooting in the state’s history, one of a string ...
The pressure campaign often included not-so-veiled threats of primary challenges from the right. “Jim’s been nice, one-on-one, but his broader team has been playing hardball,” Mr Bacon told ...
The letter also made veiled threats to disclose (to the media and Grey's clients) alleged illegal behaviour by Grey, such as overcharging of their clients by Grey. Grey's lawyers argued that this letter amounted to extortion (a criminal act), and at the very least placed undue and unfair pressure on Grey to settle this matter, and asked the ...
“For any radical left charity, non-profit, or so called aid organizations supporting these caravans and illegal aliens, ... He’s also made other veiled threats, saying Cheney and others who ...