Over this past weekend I was out at a bar and my friend got into a shoving match with my cousin. Later that evening while I was with my friend, I got a voice mail message from my cousin saying that he was going to come to my friends house and kill him. The exact wording was something like "I don't want you to get hurt, so don't go to his house. I made phone calls already, tomorrow night he is going to die. Tell him to move out if he wants to live."
Now my cousin is threatening to press charges for battery, and my friend is debating whether or not to press charges for the death threat. My cousin also is not a US citizen(he's on a green card) if that makes any difference.
Acting as the mediator of sorts between the two of them, my cousin feels as though he cannot get charged with any crime for the phone call since he left it on my phone and since he was not threatening me, it was an indirect threat, though I'm sure it can be proven that he left the message under the assumption that I would have my friend listen to it.
So what I'm wondering is if my friend has any legal ground to stand on if he wants to press charges for the phone call?
Now my cousin is threatening to press charges for battery, and my friend is debating whether or not to press charges for the death threat. My cousin also is not a US citizen(he's on a green card) if that makes any difference.
Acting as the mediator of sorts between the two of them, my cousin feels as though he cannot get charged with any crime for the phone call since he left it on my phone and since he was not threatening me, it was an indirect threat, though I'm sure it can be proven that he left the message under the assumption that I would have my friend listen to it.
So what I'm wondering is if my friend has any legal ground to stand on if he wants to press charges for the phone call?