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It’s a frolicking federal case:
Anthony Douglas Elonis, 28, was charged in January with interstate communication of threats.
When federal defender Benjamin Brait Cooper asked agent Denise Stevens if she could explain “disclaimers” that Elonis made with the alleged threats, she said she didn’t know how to. Later, she said the disclaimers “actually made [the posts] seem more threatening to me.”
For example, in a Nov. 6, 2010, post about his estranged wife, Tara, Elonis wrote: “Did you know that it’s illegal for me to say I want to kill my wife? . . . Now, it was OK for me to say it right then because I was just telling you that it’s illegal for me to say I want to kill my wife. I’m not actually saying it.”
