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Homeless Man Convicted in Sen. Clinton Death Threat Case
The Legal Intelligencer ^ | 11-23-2005 | Shannon P. Duffy

Posted on 11/22/2005 10:51:34 PM PST by ncountylee

A homeless man who was overheard saying in a dinner line at a shelter that he was going to "put two bullets into Hillary Clinton" was convicted, after a nonjury trial in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, of violating a federal statute that prohibits making death threats against a family member of a former president.

In his 19-page opinion in United States v. Richards, U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick rejected a defense argument that Maurice Richards never made a "true threat" because he was merely talking to himself.

Assistant Federal Defender Elizabeth T. Hey argued in a post-trial brief that the government had failed to prove an essential element of its case because "the evidence is undisputed that the allegedly threatening words were never directed at any person; rather they were overheard when the man was talking to himself."

(Excerpt) Read more at law.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: deaththreat; hillary; homeless
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1 posted on 11/22/2005 10:51:35 PM PST by ncountylee
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To: ncountylee

Can't say what I want to.


2 posted on 11/22/2005 10:52:19 PM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: ncountylee

This is going to be the longest "thinking thread".


3 posted on 11/22/2005 10:53:11 PM PST by BulletBobCo
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To: ncountylee

THree hots and a cot through winter, anyway...


4 posted on 11/22/2005 10:56:20 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: ncountylee
The Judge in the case sentenced the man to 100 hours of Community Service, The recommended that the convicted man immediately serving his sentence by providing personal security for the former First Lady :-)
5 posted on 11/22/2005 10:57:10 PM PST by MJY1288 (The Democrats have the wisdom of a new born and the vision of a still born)
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To: ncountylee

I hope that Senator Clinton gets everything she deserves from her husband...an incurable STD for starters.


6 posted on 11/22/2005 10:57:25 PM PST by peyton randolph (Warning! It is illegal to fatwah a camel in all 50 states)
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To: ncountylee

But he would need silver bullets, wouldn't he?


7 posted on 11/22/2005 10:59:40 PM PST by GSlob
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To: GSlob

LOL!


8 posted on 11/22/2005 11:00:34 PM PST by Howlin ("Victory is not a strategy. " ``Jack Murtha 11/18/05)
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To: ncountylee

His sentence should have been free room and board for a lifetime at the Ritz,and regular eye examinations along with free glasses.


9 posted on 11/22/2005 11:18:08 PM PST by AmeriBrit (DEMOCRATS LIE AND OUR TROOPS DIE!)
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To: AmeriBrit

And plenty of range time.


10 posted on 11/22/2005 11:20:49 PM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: ncountylee

ROTFLMAO.....I think we're on the same wave length:>)))))

Just a thought. When something happens to one of them are we supposed to put out the Stars and Stripes at half mast or the Hammer and Sickle?


11 posted on 11/22/2005 11:26:45 PM PST by AmeriBrit (DEMOCRATS LIE AND OUR TROOPS DIE!)
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To: BulletBobCo
"This is going to be the longest "thinking thread".

I can read your mind. Can you read mine? :)

12 posted on 11/22/2005 11:28:02 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: AmeriBrit

The Jolly Roger would work.


13 posted on 11/22/2005 11:28:24 PM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: ncountylee

At least the judge spared him from having to smell old crusty for 30 days...


14 posted on 11/22/2005 11:29:28 PM PST by TommyDale
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To: ncountylee

Can we start a fund to feed this man? lol


15 posted on 11/22/2005 11:30:38 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: ncountylee
Now, now....

I find the idea of shooting Hillary! to be vile and disgusting.

Shooting is too good for treasonous, socialist scum.

I would think that a barrel of hot tar and a bag of feathers would be more appropriate.

Followed by a long drop at the end of a rope.

After a proper trial, of course. ;)

16 posted on 11/22/2005 11:48:21 PM PST by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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To: TommyDale
At least the judge spared him from having to smell old crusty for 30 days...

That would not happen...under the 8th Amendment....Cruel and Unusual.......

17 posted on 11/22/2005 11:53:51 PM PST by BulletBobCo
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To: ncountylee
What a silly fool.
Everyone knows that it would take a wooden stake...

Oh, never mind. :-)

This in now way should be construed as an endorsement of harming any person - human or otherwise.

20 posted on 11/23/2005 12:39:38 AM PST by Bon mots
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