Legal Opinion
United States v. Santos
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 9, 1997No. 19-1323PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
On this appeal, Edward Santos seeks review of his conviction and sentence for threatening to kill President Clinton. At the time of the threat, Santos was an inmate at the Adult Correctional Institution (“the ACI”) in Cranston, Rhode Island. Santos had a history of psychiatric disease, including a diagnosis of chronic paranoid schizophrenia. The pertinent events can be quickly summarized.
On August 17, 1994, the White House mail room received a letter containing a threat to assassinate President Clinton. The letter, which had been mailed from the ACI, read in relevant…
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