A defendant's verbal threats to kill a fellow artist in a dispute over a lease do not constitute attempted aggravated harassment, but hanging a poster on his rival's apartment door falsely accusing him of being a child molester is a different matter, a Brooklyn judge has decided.
Criminal Court Judge Michael Gerstein (See Profile) said the difference lies in the actual potential for violence contained in the verbal death threats made by Christopher Brodeur against Harry Stuckey, given Brodeur's "propensity for hyperbole and exaggeration," as opposed to the more realistic threat posed by his labeling Stuckey a child molester and a "violent drug dealer" in the poster.
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