Legal Opinion
United States v. Williams
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 11, 2011No. 09-5256PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J., joined by Stranch, J., and Thapar, D.J.,
THAPAR, D.J. (pp. 770-73), delivered a separate concurring opinion.
OPINION
BOYCE F. MARTIN, JR., Circuit Judge.
While serving a sentence for planting a pipe-bomb in a newspaper vending machine that exploded and killed his stepfa*762ther, Marshall Williams mailed a letter containing a white substance purported to be anthrax to the district court judge who denied his habeas corpus petition. Williams proceeded pro se at trial, and a jury convicted him of mailing a threatening communication to a federal judge in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 876(c). The district court proceeded to sentence Williams without…
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- United States v. William Stewart McDowellCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1987
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