My question involves criminal law for the state of: Wy
Just a simple question.
Would you consider this email I received as a threatening email or a profanity laced ranting email??
First some background which is mostly useless and very long winded but it adds some information. In late 2005 I graduated in the area of computer software programming and analyst with very high marks. The bottom fell out of the IT market and I had to work labor on graveyards for under 9 an hour in a warehouse. I found an ad in the paper for a software developer in late 2006. I sent an email resume. I was contacted back with a link to the software company website and a phone number. It was a work from home, provide my own computer, provide my own development software, and he verbally said 50 an hour cash. Ya I know that should of been a high sign to walk away but times were tough and I needed better income. When I got started to develop he says no I had to bid on each piece of code and get approved for that dollar amount and chunk of code before I start. This was nonsense since their is no way to know how long it will take for coding. I told him I could not work under these conditions and that I felt he changed the method of pay. Emails went back and forth for a few days with him threatening lawsuits for possible future piracy of his software. He continued arguing about his closed source code. It was open source such that it was interpreted by the machine and not compiled. Anybody installing it had access to the code. Since I graduated nearly straight A's every semester and refused to work under his modified pay schedule I think he was simply mad and ranting legal trash threat talk. I had returned all his disks and paperwork via signed FedEx.
Three and half years later I received an anonymous message in my mail box at school with a case number and a link to pacer.gov which you all know what that is. The note said they worked with me in my past and wanted me to have a heads up on this guy. After checking out the case number at pacer.gov I found between 100 and 200 pages of court case documents for over a year period of him being sued for software piracy. The lawsuit alleged he removed the copyright, put his company name on it, changed some of the code around, and resold it to other city governments for use on their computers. I sent him two emails asking him about any similarities to what he wanted me to work on. I was trying to find out if there were any laws broken. He never replied so I sent a third email and included the name of the software company who filed the lawsuit against him. At that point he sent an email threatening to take legal action if I ever revealed to anybody that he had been sued. Interesting threat since pacer is publicly available to anyone. He also threatened again with lawsuits for possible future piracy of his software. I was considering libel or slander but that is probably very thin at best so I just let it go. So that was the end at that point.
Here it is late 2012 I had long since forgotten this person. My very young son and I had just finished having some dinner in the mall. We walked in the mall for a few minutes and low and behold there was this guy again walking right in my path towards me. Just as I passed him I said software piracy suit. Within a couple of seconds he turns 180 degrees and proceeds to come after me and my son. I look back and he is walking fast. We walk a little faster and he then walks even faster. We head to the right path in the mall away from him and he heads to the right behind us moving faster. An operation had left me semi disabled with meralgia paresthetica in both legs. There is no way I could outrun this guy. Feeling threatened by his continued fast pursuit especially for my son's well being I stopped and pulled a folded knife out of the case on my belt. He instantly stops and goes back the other direction. I contacted mall security, and spoke with all the stores in the area hoping maybe a camera was pointed in that direction. Most of the stores cameras are on their product and cash register areas. Only one store may have video but their cameras pan and there is only a slim chance of catching an event that lasted about a minute or two. They said they could not release any information except for a court order assuming anything was taped.
The following is the email I sent to this guy after we got home that night. I will use ~HisName~ in place of his name, ~ThirdPartyNameHere~ for the software company who sued him, and ~MyEmailAddress~ for my email address.
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Subject: You scared an 11 year old child in the mall today ~HisName~
I walked passed you in the mall today. After recognizing your face I said "software piracy suit" as I walked past you. You turned and came after me and an 11 year old child who is relation in a fast, aggressive, and threatening manner. The 11 year child was terrified of the look in your face and how fast you were moving towards him.Threatening a child in any manner is very serious ~HisName~. There were witness, several cameras were pointed in the direction showing you turning and coming after me and the 11 year old child in a fast and threatening manner. The 11 year child pointed you out in an online picture half an hour after we got home with no problem.
Consider this a legal and binding CEASE AND DESIST. I am DIRECTLY ordering you to NEVER go anywhere near me and NEVER go anywhere near any of my family members EVER again. Especially in a threatening manner like you did in the mall today. I will file a lawsuit against you if it ever happens again ~HisName~.
BTW, I received links and data to the publicly available case files in my mail box on the lawsuit against you about one or two years ago in school. I am referring to the one about the software piracy suit filed by ~ThirdPartyNameHere~ several years ago. I saw the scanned evidence in the lawsuit documents in addition to the other evidence in those online files. A very good long read and in my opinion the evidence was overwhelming against you ~HisName~. In my opinion it would not look good to anybody that would read it from start to stop. I do find it odd that you would FALSELY claim I would pirate your software ~HisName~ after reading the case against you.
Once more consider this a legal and binding CEASE AND DESIST. I am DIRECTLY ordering you to NEVER go anywhere near me and NEVER go anywhere near any of my family members EVER again. Especially in a threatening manner like you did in the mall today. I will file a lawsuit against you if it ever happens again HisName.
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Now his return email which I would like to know if it would be considered a threatening email or a profanity laced ranting email. I should note in his second paragraph he claimed I hassled him for 8 years. I have only known him for 6 years. The claims in his second paragraph are all false. In my defense it sounds like desperation on his part since he should of never pursued me and my son in the mall. His email was received after the mall incident of less than 24 hours prior. It is full of very bad words so I will use a code. I will use ~HisName~ in place of his name, ~ThirdPartyNameHere~ for the software company who sued him, and ~MyEmailAddress~ for my email address.
BLANK1 is where he used the F word.
BLANK2 is where he used the A word.
BLANK3 is where he used the P word.
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Subject: Re: You scared an 11 year old child in the mall today ~HisName~
You are such a BLANK1ing Liar. You and your boy knows exactly what you said. The boy even laughed at it. Have some balls and if you want to call someone a name .... back it the BLANK1 up.
Listen you '~MyEmailAddress~" (I thought I blocked you) or should I say Corn Dog cooker. You have been hassling me for about 8 years, you have sent emails to my work, you harass me on my email, you call with threats, you BLANK1 with my house and vehicles and the only thing I did to you is fire you from my company when you were acting like a flake on dope. I know that's not the first time you were fired, so what's the big deal.
As for the lawsuit we had settled over 13 years ago that states we cannot talk about it and neither can ~ThirdPartyNameHere~, but if you have been talking about
it with ~ThirdPartyNameHere~ that is real interesting. I don't give a BLANK1 what you think about that lawsuit or my company but the harassment of me and my family ends yesterday.
I also don't give a BLANK1 what your son thinks of his BLANK3y Dad hiding behind him in the mall. But if you ever pull a knife on me again I will stick it up your BLANK2 and turn you into a pop sickle. Yes, the Mall does have you pulling the knife on camera and asked if I wanted to press charges. I said no because of you hiding behind your son, your boy was the only thing that saved you from getting a strong talking to by me.
In the future you better keep your mouth shut when you see people that you don't like or someone is going to teach you a lesson about calling people names.
I will block this e-mail again and in the future do not contact me again in
any way shape or form!!!!!!!!!
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Mall security and one of the security person in the store said I should call the police and report the incident especially since there was a child involved. They highly recommended to give them the email.

