The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled that a Craigslist posting in which a man wished death on a police officer constituted a threat under federal law.
The court also clarified that the term "threat" in Section 875(c), Title 18 of the U.S. Code refers only to statements that express an intent to harm in either the present or the future, but not the past.
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