United States of America, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Patrick Timothy McMorrow Appellant/cross-Appellee

RILEY, Circuit Judge.

A ten-person jury found Patrick Timothy McMorrow (McMorrow) guilty of mailing threatening communications, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 876(c); extortion, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 876(b); and threatening the use of a weapon of mass destruction, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2332a(a)(2). At sentencing, the district court granted McMorrow’s downward-departure motion and sentenced him to concurrent prison terms of 120 months, 140 months, and 140 months, respectively, and to three years’ supervised release. McMorrow appeals his conviction and sentence, asserting he did not…