United States v. Sharif Bishara Sirhan

OPINION

Appellant was convicted of a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 876, which makes it a crime to threaten injury to any person by a communication sent by mail. Appellant was charged with and convicted of sending a letter to Secretary of State William P. Rogers in which he threatened to shoot and kill Israeli Prime Minster Golda Meir on March 1, 1973, a date when Mrs. Meir was scheduled to be in the United States on official business. The letter was. signed “P.L.O.,” presumably for “Palestinian Liberation Organization.”

I

Appellant contends that it was reversible error for the trial court to refuse…