Legal Opinion
United States v. Paul Kent Cassel
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 24, 2005No. 03-10683PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge.
We must decide- whether the First Amendment permits the government to punish a threat without proving that it was made with the intent to threaten the victim.
I
In early 1998, Paul Kent Cassel and his girlfriend, Anastasia Kafteranis, were living on property owned by Kafteranis and located near Randsburg, California, in the Mojave Desert. The federal government owned several lots near Kafteranis’s property and it sought to sell them, acting through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Cassel apparently liked his privacy, though, and was not about to let neighbors move…
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