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PositionTeenager convicted for making death threats online - Brief Article

Think twice before you hit that "send" key.

A federal jury has indicted a Florida teenager who threatened over the Internet to "finish what [was] begun" at Columbine High School.

Michael Ian Campbell, 18, faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for sending the threat through an online chat room in December to a student at the Colorado school where two students shot and killed 13 people and themselves last April. The student notified school officials, who closed the school for two days in response.

Campbell...

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