United States v. Jackson Rip Holmes

Jackson Rip Holmes appeals from a judgment of conviction entered on January 15, 1988, in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, Blumenfeld, J, following a jury trial which consisted of three actual trial days. Appellant was convicted on two counts of threatening the son of the Vice-President of the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 879(a)(2). Count One charged appellant with threatening to kill Vice-President George Bush’s son Jeb, and was based on an oral threat against Bush which he made during a telephone conversation with former Hartford Police…