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Question: If someone threatens to kill me can he/she go to jail?

Answer:

Arizona Law (A.R.S. § 13-1202) states that threatening or intimidating to cause physical injury to another person is a class one (1) misdemeanor. A class one misdemeanor is punishable by up to six (6) months in jail and a $2500 fine. (A.R.S. § 13-707).

 

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On 11/20/03
Elizabeth from TX said:
A woman wants to kill my boyfriend because he told the police that she needed to be put in rehab. She indeed need to go to re-hab for excessive heroin and crack use. She was a danger to her life as well as others. They let her out of the facility a few hours later for this reason... she was detoxing and therefor no one could make a decision weather she was phycotic or not. So she is free to roam around again, within the same day she was taken into custudy. Today she told her mother that she was going to obtain a gun within a week in which she intends to shoot my boyfriend with. She already own
On 08/25/03
tim from CO said:
What is the laws about this in Colorado?
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