United States v. Robert D. Stewart, Jr., AKA Robert Wilson Stewart, Bob Stewart

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · Decided 2005-08-23

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BEA, Circuit Judge: We are asked to determine whether certain words, spoken under certain circumstances, constitute criminal threats of harm against a federal judge and are not protected by the First Amendment. We are also asked to determine what quantum of evidence the Government must present to establish that a defendant, who solicited another person to murder a federal judg…

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