Making a Terroristic Threat

Making a Terroristic Threat. (a) A person is guilty of making a terroristic threat when with the intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion, or affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder, assassination or kidnapping, he or she threatens to commit or cause to be committed a specific offense and thereby causes a reasonable expectation of fear of the imminent commission of such offense. (b) It shall be no defense to a prosecution pursuant to this section that the defendant did not have the intent or capability of committing the specified offense or that the threat was not made to a person who was a subject thereof. (c) A person convicted under this section may be punished by imprisonment of not more than ten years. Source: PL 14-59, § 3 (3503), modified. Commission Comment: The Commission substituted the word “defense” in place of “offense” and deleted an duplicate “that” in subsection (b) above to correct manifest errors, and deleted figures that were a repetition of words in subsection (c) above pursuant to its authority by 1 CMC § 3806(g) and (e), respectively.