The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to review a Superior Court ruling that upheld an order of probation for a student found to have made terroristic threats, including stating a desire to “beat the record” for the number of deaths in a school shooting.

In a one-page order issued April 1 in In the Interest of J.J.M., a Minor, the justices agreed to consider a single question: “Whether the Superior Court misapprehended controlling facts, in a case of first impression in this commonwealth, when concluding that the terroristic threats statute, requiring only a conviction based upon recklessness, did not violate [petitioner’s] First Amendment right under the United States Constitution to free speech?”

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