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"Criminal Threats" via email or text message (Legal Analysis)

2,756 views · Published 11 May 2011 · 0:39 · Indexed 5 October 2026

Channel: Shouse Law Group Channel · 2011 · Education

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California criminal defense attorney Neil Shouse explains the laws regarding "criminal threats" via an email or text message.

A 'criminal threat' can be made via email, text or third party. California defense lawyer, Neil Shouse explains. Section 422 of the California Penal Code makes it illegal to make criminal threats (formerly called " terrorist threats"), even via email or texts. A criminal threat under California law is a threat of immediate harm made to another person when the defendant intends to, and does, cause fear in the person threatened. The punishment or penalty for criminal threats in California is up to three years state prison. Criminal threats is also now considered a strike under California's three strikes law.

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