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 ...
Seems ridiculous to me, but at least the poor guy will have a nice warm place to sleep this winter. At your expense of course.
And how many threats, publically, have been made by the media, the Hollywood goons, and others, but no one is arrested or warned in regards to it when it is a sitting president...Bush?! This is an outrage!
But what about the insinuations about W. from the hollywierd elite and the DNC featherbrains?
LMAO, Hillary's challlenge - - how to win back the homeless vote.
Because these useless parasites are better than actual taxpayers. Anyone can make all the threats they want against normal people, but not Our Rulers.
I don't know why they convicted him......Two bullets with Hillary wouldn't even hurt her.....
She's impervious.....
Now if that homeless guy had talked about Holy water and wooden stake....then the jury should've convicted him.....
Sarcasm off....
I'd bet a bucket of doughnuts this judge is a Clinton appointee who's padding his resume in the hope that hillarity becomes president.
He'd be great on an appeals court to destroy freedom of religion, speech, private property rights, etc.
---wonder if it is what some of us are thinking?
Fascist criminal justice system!
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