United States v. Michael Keith Samuels

HANSON, Senior District Judge.

Samuels appeals from the district court’s judgment of conviction sentencing him to serve five years for his violation of 18 U.S.C. § 871(a), charging that he mailed a letter threatening to take the life of or inflict bodily injury on the President of the United States. Samuels contends that there was insufficient evidence of his sanity at the time of the offense to support the jury’s verdict. Furthermore, he claims that the government’s psychiatric witness should not have been allowed to state the test for insanity because this amounted to a statement of opinion…