“It’s designed to make the jury sympathetic to the wife who’s “...been ‘wronged in so many ways’.”
Interesting enough it is a real crime in many states. The penal Code 422 PC is the California statute that prohibits one from making criminal threats. These are threats of death or great bodily injury that are intended to (and that actually do) place victims in reasonable and sustained fear for their safety or that of their families. The offense can be charged as a misdemeanor or a felony, and is punishable by up to 3 years in jail or prison.
We have no idea what he said, or threatened to do, in this article thread, but it is legit.
wy69
In one article I saw he threatened to “bury her” but in the context of what he said he was clearly speaking figuratively, not literally. The lawyers conveniently took that as a ‘terroristic threat’.