U.S. v. SANTOS

No. 97-1085.

131 F.3d 16 (1997)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Edward J. SANTOS, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 8, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James T. McCormick, Providence, RI, for appellant.

Margaret E. Curran, Assistant United States Attorney, Providence, RI, with whom Sheldon Whitehouse, United States Attorney, and Edwin J. Gale, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief for the United States.

Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, BOUDIN, Circuit Judge, and WOODLOCK, District Judge.


BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

On this appeal, Edward Santos seeks review of his conviction and sentence for threatening to kill President Clinton. At the time of the threat, Santos was an inmate at the Adult Correctional Institution ("the ACI") in Cranston, Rhode Island. Santos had a history of psychiatric disease, including a diagnosis of chronic paranoid schizophrenia. The pertinent events can be quickly summarized.

On August 17, 1994, the White House mail room...

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