Michigan Terroristic Threats Law Constitutional, Court Now Says

Michigan’s terroristic threats law is constitutional on its face and can be used to prosecute a suburban Detroit man who allegedly wrote on social media that he’d attack a school, a state Court of Appeals panel said Monday as it reversed itself.

While the panel previously deemed the law unconstitutional because it doesn’t say prosecutors must prove a defendant disregarded the risk that a message would be viewed as promising violence, the panel now says “a statute is not unconstitutional merely because it is silent regarding the element of intent.”

Instead, “the statute should be broadly interpreted to include a ...