UNITED STATES v. SAMUELS

No. 85-2002.

801 F.2d 1052 (1986)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Michael Keith SAMUELS, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided September 24, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sylvester James, Jr., Kansas City, Mo., for appellant.

J. Whitfield Moody, Asst. U.S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., for appellee.

Before McMILLIAN and BOWMAN, Circuit Judges, and HANSON, Senior District Judge.


HANSON, Senior District Judge.

Samuels appeals from the district court's judgment of conviction sentencing him to serve five years for his violation of 18 U.S.C. § 871(a), charging that he mailed a letter threatening to take the life of or inflict bodily injury on the President of the United States. Samuels contends that there was insufficient evidence of his sanity at the time of the offense to support the jury's verdict. Furthermore, he claims that the government...

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