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Jail time for threats?
I did something really stupid. I was talking to my ex online, and he was trying to make me mad, and it worked. So I said "you're a dead man". He said he was going to the police. I told him I didn't mean it, and he knows I didn't. I was just mad. Can I still get in trouble for it if I told him I didn't mean it, and does anyone have an idea of how much jail time I can get if he does turn it in?
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its called The Baker Act. they can preemptively arrest you for shit like that.
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not really any jail time you can easily justify yourself considering that it was a metaphor and your ex was probably just saying that to make you afraid and anyways even if he did take it serious do you really think he would put his pride aside and tell people that a girl threatened him? pretty stupid guy if he does
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No jail time. Not if that was all you said.
"You're a dead man" is a pretty acceptable form of metaphorical language. At most, they might call you and warn you against threatening, even as a joke, and ask you not to speak to your ex again.
Unless you said something much more pointed and deliberate as well as that line (like told him you had a weapon, or friends who would kill him at such and such a time) it's unlikely he'll be able to convince the cops that your threat was credible. The rules about uttering threats are different from state to state and country to country, but in most cases the threat must be intended to intimidate the victim and/or expressed in some way that the threat should be taken seriously. Uttering threats is a crime where your expressed intent, rather than other person's interpretation, is given a lot of weight. It doesn't matter too much if he was confused, what matters the most if other sane people look at the 'threat' and think it was intended as a real threat.
Very, very few people, would think that a young girl saying "You're a dead man" on chat to her ex boyfriend, actually meant it as a threat agianst his life.
An adult, who was found guilty (which, unless you said something like "Dude, no I'm serious, I'm gonna come over and kill you right now.", you wont be) would be looking at between 1 and 5 years.
Maybe it's best you don't talk to him anyways - he's a bit of a loon. He tried to make you angry, and I'd bet, he only said what he did about the police to upset you as well. Don't apologize or grovel - you didn't do anything cirminal - just block him and ignore him.
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