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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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Knowing what you are talking about is not a prerequisite for a Supreme Court Justice, I guess. From the government sentencing memo:
On or about April 22, 2005, Barbara Joan March mailed fourteen threatening letters, each containing either a baked good or a piece of candy laced with rat poison, to the Supreme Court Justices, ... Each envelope contained a one page typewritten letter stating either "I am" or "We are," followed by "going to kill you. This is poisoned."Gosh, I wonder what would give them the idea that those cookies needed to be examined? /sarcasm
The old bag is on a Court in NY now. Briefly filling in for a vacancy or some such. Guess her hubby didn't want her around or she has a new squeeze.
I'm guessing the perp is a registered Democrat.
of course
You couldn't ever remotely understand...
who would eat cookies they got in the mail from a stranger?
So, if the cookies had been sent with a complimentary note, they would not have been analyzed? goes to show that you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
I played one of those batty old aunts in my Junior Play. It was FUN.
"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 "Headless Body Found in Topless Bar";)
When some Jihadi directly bombs their houses, they might figure it out. But even that's not a given.
"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 . . . ."
""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"
Gee, Sandy Dee, maybe they decided to analyze the cookies because they had come in a package that also included a "threatening letter." And this idiot was the swing vote in the Supreme Court for 25 years?
Maybe it's just me but I always assumed that people of such stature receive this kind of stuff from crazies all the time? I don't see this as news.
If she could have appealed this case all the way to the Supreme Court, would all the justices have to recuse themselves? What would happen?
It's not the first time she's had a brain freeze moment out in public. And her constant whining about how people don't have any respect for judges could use a little analysis too. She could, for example, ask herself WHY people have lost respect for our courts, and she could answer herself by looking in the mirror.
Good point.
I am glad no one was harmed, and the perp was caught and soon to be punished.
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