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A fifteen year old student posts on social media saying she is going to launch a terrorist attack on her high school and asks if

  1. A fifteen year old student posts on social media saying she is going to launch a terrorist attack on her high school and asks if anyone wants to help. The police arrest the girl for making the threat in violation of a criminal statute that prohibits the publication of threats made with"the intent to terrorize" or "in reckless disregard of therisk of causing terror or inconvenience."The girl claims her post was a prank and she never intended to cause harm. If she is prosecuted under that statute:

(a) The case will be dismissed because of the absence of mens rea.

(b) She will be convicted if the state can prove her act constituted"reckless disregardof the risk of causing terror"under the statute.

(c) She cannot be prosecuted unless she actually committed a terrorist attack.

(d) The case will be dismissed because she is a minor.

(e) Entrapment would be a valid defense.

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