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9th Circuit Holds That A Corporation Can?t Be Threatened

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Apparently, if you want to threaten Superbowl viewers lives without punishment, all you need to do is address your letters to media organizations instead of actual individuals. At least that?s what worked for Kurt Havelock, whose conviction of mailing threatening messages was overturned by the ninth circuit this week. According to the LA Times, Havelock was upset because he had been denied a liquor license for his horror-themed bar in Tempe, Arizona. So he decided to vent his frustrations at the 2008 Superbowl. Havelock gathered an assault rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition, which he planned to use to randomly kill football fans as they entered the Superbowl at the University of Phoenix stadium. Just before he drove to the parking lot of the Superbowl, he dropped six priority mail envelopes in the mailbox, all mailed to different news organizations...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Criminal Defense Blog on August 27, 2010 (boomark / email).