United States v. Nixon, No. 10-5929 (6th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseDefendant sent six threatening letters to the federal district judge who had sentenced him to prison for fraudulent use of an unauthorized credit card. The unsigned letters demanded money and threatened the judge's life. One of them contained a white-powder substance, which was later determined to be a harmless artificial sweetener. Defendant pled guilty to committing a hoax involving a biological weapon (18 U.S.C. 1038(a)(1)). The Sentencing Guidelines recommended a sentence of 30 to 37 months in prison. The district court imposed a sentence of 60 months, the statutory maximum, and ordered that he have no contact with any member of the postal service during his three years of supervised release. The Sixth Circuit affirmed the sentence as reasonable. The court noted the effect of the crime on the operation of government.
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