United States v. Alfonso Velasquez, Ramon Dominguez, Esmerido Galvan Olamendi, Ramon Gomez, and Armando Gomez

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• holding that threats of physical violence are not protected by First Amendment
• interpreting statute punishing the making of a threat to do bodily harm to or to destroy or damage the property of a government informant
• threatening a person is not an opinion or idea that is needed in marketplace of ideas
• “the test for misjoinder is what the indictment charges, not what the trial shows”
• “The indictment need not charge a single overarching conspiracy, provided the separate conspiracies it charges arise from a common plan or scheme and so could alternatively have been charged as a single conspiracy.”
• “The indictment need not charge a single overarching conspiracy, provided the separate conspiracies it charges arise from a common plan or scheme and so could alternatively have been charged as a single conspiracy.”

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