United States Ninth Circuit

A conviction and sentence for mailing threatening communications and threatening the President of the United States is affirmed where the district judge reasonably construed defendant's threatening phone message left on the judge's home phone as an attempt to manipulate the court system which did not warrant his sua sponte recusal.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/08/2007
• Decided 09/04/2007
• Published 09/04/2007

Judges

• Before DAVID R. THOMPSON, ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, and JAY S. BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Philip Gordon, Boise, ID, for appellant Russell Laroy Holland.


• For Appellees:
  
• Alan G. Burrow & George W. Breitsameter, Boise, ID, for appellee United States of America.