Legal Question in Criminal Law in South Carolina

Threats

Is it legal to threaten to call someone's current employer, and ''guarentee'' that that individual will not be working there once they found out about something they had done PRIOR to their being employed at that current job? The issue PRIOR to that person (me) being at their current job is that they did some very stupid things, but there was never anything that went to the courts, or anything like that.

Thanks.


Asked on 8/10/04, 6:19 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

Re: Threats

Specific threats to inflict serious bodily injury

or death are illegal under the criminal codes of most jurisdictions including D.C,(and presumably S. Carolina).

However, the kinds of threats which you've alluded to, if actionable at all, would most likely fall under the law of defamation and could be possibly subject to the sanctions and remedies afforded by this category of the civil rather than the criminal law of the applicable jurisdiction in which the alleged actions occurred.

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Answered on 8/11/04, 3:23 pm


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