United States Ninth Circuit

18 U.S.C. section 871(a), prohibiting threats against the President of the United States, is not unconstitutionally overbroad in the absence of a specific intent requirement; erroneous admission of law enforcement officers' testimony, that they understood communications to be serious threats, was not harmless.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/15/2001
• Decided 06/20/2002
• Published 06/20/2002

Judges

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

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Glynn B. Cartledge, Reno, Nevada, for the defendant-appellant., L. Anthony White, Assistant United States Attorney, Reno, Nevada, for the plaintiff-appellee.