Legal Opinion
United States v. Pinson
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided September 17, 2008No. 07-6013, 07-6079, 07-6081PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McCONNELL, Circuit Judge.
Mr. Jeremy Vaughn Pinson, a mentally-ill inmate with a propensity for making grandiose threats, was convicted of one count of threatening to harm the President of the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 871. Following his conviction, but prior to sentencing, he falsely told the district court that another inmate intended to kill his sentencing judge. Shortly after this, in a letter to the Chief Judge for the Western District of Oklahoma, he threatened to injure a juror who had served on his trial. He was charged with, and pleaded guilty to, one count of…
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