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240-Month Sentence, More than Twice the Advisory Range, Affirmed for Mentally Ill Defendant

By Shari Allison

US v. Pinson, 2008 WL 4238999, No. 07-6013 et al. (Sept. 17, 2008)Mr. Pinson, a 21-year-old "mentally-ill inmate with a propensity for making grandiose threats," was convicted of one count of threatening to harm the US President. Before sentencing, he told the district court that another inmate intended to kill the judge. This was false. He sent a letter to the Chief Judge for the district threatening to injure a juror. These exchanges resulted in two more convictions for willfully making a false statement to a US Marshall and for mailing a threatening communication. At sentencing, the district court varied upward and imposed the maximum he could on each count, to be served consecutively, for a total of 240 months imprisonment. He appealed the conviction for threatening the President and his sentence...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tenth Circuit Blog on September 23, 2008 (boomark / email).