United States Ninth Circuit

A conviction and sentence for mailing threatening communications and threatening the President of the United States is affirmed over a claim that the district court judge should have recused himself where the district judge reasonably construed defendant's threatening phone message as an attempt to manipulate the court system which did not warrant his sua sponte recusal. (Superceding opinion)

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/08/2007
• Decided 03/17/2008
• Published 03/17/2008

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.