Posted on 11/17/2006 2:50:00 PM PST by PeterFinn
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Cookies mailed to the U.S. Supreme Court last year contained enough rat poison to kill all nine justices, retired member Sandra Day O'Connor said at a conference last week.
Barbara Joan March, a 60-year-old Connecticut woman, was sentenced last month to 15 years in prison. She sent 14 threatening letters in April 2005 -- each with a baked good or piece of candy laced with rat poison -- to a variety of federal officials: the nine Supreme Court justices; FBI Director Robert Mueller; his deputy; the chief of naval operations; the Air Force chief of staff and the chief of staff of the Army.
March pleaded guilty in March to 14 counts of mailing injurious articles.
March's plea received little public attention until O'Connor discussed it last week.
"Every member of the Supreme Court received a wonderful package of home-baked cookies, and I don't know why, (but) the staff decided to analyze them," the Fort Worth Star-Telegram quoted O'Connor as saying at the legal conference November 10 in the Dallas area. "Each one contained enough poison to kill the entire membership of the court."
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Uh, ya think maybe because the cookies accompanied threatening letters? Sandy not sounding too bright here!
Hey, one justice DID DIE - anyone know if he ate cookies sent to him?
She wasn't a FReeper was she? </sarcasm>
Tough day?
With great intellect like that </sarcasm_dripping>, how in the hell was she ever a Supreme Lawgiver-In-Black? Perhaps this press release from the DC US Attorney's office could shed some light on why the staff analyzed the cookies:
The government's evidence established that on or about April 22, 2005, Barbara Joan March mailed 14 threatening letters, each containing either a baked good or a piece of candy laced with rat poison to each of the Supreme Court Justices, the Director and Deputy Director of the FBI, and the Chiefs of Staff of the Army, Navy and Air Force, at addresses in Washington, D.C. Each envelope contained a one-page typewritten letter stating, either "I am" or "We are," followed by "going to kill you. This is poisoned."Well, duh! When the letter sent with the cookies threatens death to the recipients, why would the staff NOT test the cookies? Then again, O'Connor could be the real-life Poison Ivy, immune to poisons.
Who has been baking?
LOL! I had the same thought. :)
I mean, seriously...this is an article about the attempted murder of various high officials and Supreme Court Justices and that's the headline? A pun that doesn't even make sense: nothing in the article remotely suggests that any of the items were "half-baked".
It's nothing more than a ridiculous attempt to be cute about attempted murder.
And people in the news industry wonder why they're not taken seriously anymore....
That woman's a nut case if I've ever seen one. I'm glad no one died after eating her food.
This is news? I already knew that O'Connor is a dope.
Why is it that even in the most serious of situations, news editors feel compelled to come up with revolting little, artsy-fartsy pun headlines?
I swear to God that if I could go back in time and kick any one person's ass, it would be the editor who first came up with this idea.
That would be just desserts!
"Barbara Joan March reminds me of the batty old aunts in Arsenic & Old Lace."
Teddy! Time to dig the Panama Canal!
I would never eat anything sent to me, especially if I was a political official.
whoops...I replied to the wrong person....sorry...lol
heheheheheh......you suck.
What a friend to have implicate them in such a scheme!..She should have been locked up for life..JMO
I'm not sure about her politics... After all, she sent the poison to all 9 judges. In the pre-election environment, if it worked, it means W got to appoint 9 SCOTUS... Not a good thing for the liberals...
Excellent question.
Fifteen years...unbelieveable.
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