1st amend, thoughtcrime, schools as pipelines to jail

To establish a criminal threat, it would have to be shown that he wanted the [threatened] officer to see the work, the court said. "The painting does not appear to be anything other than pictorial ranting," the court said. "The criminal law does not, and cannot now, implement a zero-tolerance policy concerning the expressive depiction of violence." Schools are becoming one of the primary pipelines to the juvenile justice system," said Shannan Wilber, executive director of Legal Services for Children in San Francisco. Excerpts from http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-threat18jun18001434,1,6789200.story?...