United States v. Antoine Andre Miller

KRUPANSKY, Circuit Judge.

The defendant-appellant, Antoine Andre Miller (“Miller”), has contested his jury conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 871(a) 1 for mailing a threatening message to the President and the Vice President of the United States from a Michigan state penitentiary. He contends that the subject communication did not comprise a believable “true threat,” that the district court unjustifiably excluded evidence germane to his defense that he had not written the letter but rather prison guards had forged the document, and that a second threatening missive that he had penned had been…