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Appellate Division, Third Department
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People v. Rainey — Court Splits on Social Media Bomb Threats, Reverses Private Snapchat Conviction

The Third Department reversed one of Rainey’s two terroristic-threat convictions — holding that a private Snapchat message he did not intend to circulate lacked the required intent to intimidate a civilian population — while affirming convictions for Whisper bomb-threat posts and emails threatening a TV news station.

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