Legal Opinion
United States v. Barron D. Fonner
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 14, 1990No. 89-3054PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
In 1972 Barron Fonner slit the throat of Pete Lackey, a state police officer who had arrested him for a drug offense. Fonner was charged with murder, tried, and acquitted; the jury evidently accepted Fon-ner’s contention that he acted in self defense. More than 15 years later Fonner mailed a death threat to Philip Kocis, Commander of the Illinois State Police, who worked with Lackey in 1972. Fonner also threatened to kill Chief Judge Baker of the Central District of Illinois, who sentenced Fonner in 1982 for threatening President Reagan. The two latest menacing…
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