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U.S. v. COPLEY

No. 90-6649.

935 F.2d 669 (1991)

UNITED STATES of America, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Craig O. COPLEY, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 17, 1991.

As Amended July 11, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Lee Starkwater, Asst. Federal Public Defender, Raleigh, N.C., argued (William E. Martin, Federal Public Defender, Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for respondent-appellant.

G. Norman Acker, III, Asst. U.S. Atty., Raleigh, N.C., argued (Margaret Person Currin, U.S. Atty., Eileen G. Coffey, Asst. U.S. Atty., Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for petitioner-appellee.

Before WILKINSON, Circuit Judge, BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge, and SPENCER, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

SPENCER, District Judge:

This is an appeal from the district court's determination that appellant should be civilly committed pursuant to Title 18 U.S.C. § 4246(a). We agree and affirm.

I.

Craig O. Copley, appellant, was indicted on August 24, 1988 in the Northern District of New York on two counts of mailing threatening communications to the president1 and on one count of threatening the life of the president.

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