• 2009 - Terrorizing (False Information)
  • K-8.30
    • Terrorizing
    • Other Personal Crimes
    • Other Personal Crimes
  • A person who, with intent to cause the evacuation of a building, place of assembly, or facility of public transportation, or otherwise to cause serious disruption or public inconvenience, or in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such disruption or inconvenience, and the person falsely informs another that a situation is dangerous to human life or commission of a crime of violence is imminent knowing that the information is false, is guilty of Terrorizing.

     

    ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF OFFENSE

     

    The State’s burden of proof is satisfied if the evidence shows, beyond a reasonable doubt, the following essential elements:

     

    1) On or about [month] [day] [year], in [County], North Dakota, the Defendant, _____________ ;

     

    2) With intent to cause the evacuation of a building, place of assembly, or facility of public transportation, or otherwise to cause serious disruption or public inconvenience, or in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such disruption or inconvenience; and

     

    3) Falsely informed another that a situation dangerous to human life or commission of a crime of violence was imminent knowing that the information was false.

     

    DEFINITIONS [Insert relevant definitions. NDCC 12.1-02-02]


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    • State v. Hass, 268 NW2d 456 (ND 1978)
    • State v. Laib, 2005 ND 191, 705 NW2d 815
    • State v. Olson, 552 NW2d 362 (ND 1996)
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