To be convicted of most crimes, the criminal must be found to have had a particular mental state (mens rea), such as a specific intent that the words be taken a

To be convicted of most crimes, the criminal must be found to have had a particular mental state (mens rea), such as a specific intent that the words be taken as a threat. By including "lol jk" along with the threat, I can guess what the teen's mental state actually was.