UNITED STATES v. VAN ORSDELL

No. 1111, Docket 75-1071.

521 F.2d 1323 (1975)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. John VAN ORSDELL, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 8, 1975.

Certiorari Denied January 12, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Lemle Amsterdam, New York City, for defendant-appellant.

Don D. Buchwald, Asst. U. S. Atty. (Paul J. Curran, U. S. Atty., for the Southern District of New York and Lawrence S. Feld, Asst. U. S. Atty., of counsel), for appellee.

Before FEINBERG and VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judges, and DOOLING, District Judge.


Certiorari Denied January 12, 1976. See 96 S.Ct. 796.

VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment convicting defendant on both conspiracy and substantive counts for sending threatening mail for purposes of extortion in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371 and 876. We affirm.

On June 30, 1973, defendant mailed to the Concord Hotel a xerox copy of an anonymous letter in which he threatened to put LSD in the hotel's water supply...

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