Legal Opinion
United States v. Robert D. Stewart, Jr., AKA Robert Wilson Stewart, Bob Stewart
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 23, 2005No. 03-10662PublishedCited by 111 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEA, Circuit Judge:
We are asked to determine whether certain words, spoken under certain circumstances, constitute criminal threats of harm against a federal judge and are not protected by the First Amendment. We are also asked to determine what quantum of evidence the Government must present to establish that a defendant, who solicited another person to murder a federal judge, had the required criminal intent for the other person to commit the murder.
FACTS
Robert D. Stewart, Jr. appeals his convictions and sentence for threatening to murder a federal judge (Count 1), soliciting the murder of…
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