United States Ninth Circuit

Under USSG 5K2.13(2), a defendant convicted of forging a letter threatening violence against the president in another person's name did not commit a threat of serious violence if his only intent was to get the other person in trouble.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/18/2001
• Published 07/18/2001

Judges

• LAY, Circuit Judge:, Before:  SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, LAY and BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Shawn Halbert, Assistant Federal Public Defender, San Francisco, California, for the defendant-appellant., Michael Wang, Assistant United States Attorney, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.