Title: Facing a Terroristic Threat Charge? Contact Criminal Defense Attorney | Andrew Deegan Attorney at Law
Headings: Terroristic Threat
Terroristic Threat
How Severe is a Terroristic Threat Charge?
Section 22.07. Terroristic Threat.
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Content: At its essence, the charge penalizes threats of imminent serious bodily injury. Imminent means that it is about to happen, and serious bodily injury means injury that involves the threat of death, or permanent disfigurement, or the extended loss of any bodily function. The terroristic threat statute deals with and criminalizes different types of threats of committing a violent criminal offense either toward a person, toward a group of people, toward someone's property. Most often, an allegation of a terroristic threat means to threaten or cause fear of imminent harm to someone. However there are different ways to get charged with terroristic threat, as seen below. These can include disrupting a public function or interrupting the use public place because of the threat of an offense involving violence. Terroristic threat can also threatening to commit an offense that causes disruption of public communications, transportation, water, gas, or power supply. How Severe is a Terroristic Threat Charge? This crime can be either a misdemeanor or a felony, depending on what is alleged to have occurred, the effect of the threat, and how it occurred. Most often, terroristic threat is a misdemeanor.