U.S. v. SERRAPIO

No. 12-14897.

754 F.3d 1312 (2014)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joaquin Amador SERRAPIO, Jr. a.k.a. Jay Valor, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 18, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wifredo A. Ferrer , Lisa Tobin Rubio , Kathleen Mary Salyer , Seth Michael Schlessinger , Anne Ruth Schultz , U.S. Attorney's Office, Miami, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Benjamin Samuel Waxman , Alan Shelley Ross , Robbins Tunkey Ross Amsel Raben & Waxman, P.A., Miami, FL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before MARTIN and JORDAN, Circuit Judges, and BAYLSON, District Judge.


JORDAN, Circuit Judge:

Like others before him, Joaquin Serrapio, Jr. learned the hard way that whatever one says to a reporter may later appear in print. After being sentenced to three years of probation (with a number of conditions, including four months of home confinement with electronic monitoring and 250 hours of community service) for threatening to shoot President Barack Obama during his 2012 visit to the University of Miami, Mr. Serrapio spoke to a reporter...

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