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U.S. v. INGRAHAM

No. 86-1993.

832 F.2d 229 (1987)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Robert Christopher INGRAHAM a/k/a Arthur Robert MacKeil, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 29, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Clayton Spencer with whom Janis M. Berry, by Appointment of the Court, and Ropes & Gray, Boston, Mass., were on brief for appellant.

Margaret D. McGaughey, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Richard S. Cohen, U.S. Atty., Portland, Me., and James L. McCarthy, Asst. U.S. Atty., were on brief for appellee.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, NOONAN and SELYA, Circuit Judges.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

It has been written that, "when Fortune means to men most good, she looks upon them with a threat'ning eye." W. Shakespeare, King John, Act III (1597). Whether or not the casting of black glances comprises an auspicious augury, giving voice to the menace may catalyze 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), a federal criminal statute which makes it a crime to transmit "in interstate commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person...

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