State v. Miller

NEUMAN, Justice.

This is a case about mixed messages.

Angered over the outcome of a trial, Oliver Miller reduced $25 in court costs to pennies, wrapped them in socks and barbed wire, and sent them to the Marshall County clerk of court in a crudely-taped Valvoline Oil box. He affixed no return address to the package and, in a deliberate fit of pique, misspelled the name of the clerk, Doloris Falstrup, as Doloris “Fascistrup.” Block letters on one side of the box warned “TOP OPEN CAREFULLY.” Shipped via UPS, the - package weighed roughly seventeen pounds.

Alarmed over the heavy and…