United States v. Donald Vincent Callahan

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• letter to the Secret Service offering to kill the President if the Secret Service made proper arrangements at the President’s inauguration constituted a true threat
• “That the letter con- tains certain political and religious statements does not serve to re- move it from the prohibition of the statute.”
• “Alt- hough the carrying out of the threat might have been conditional upon Secret Service aid and agreement, the threat itself was not.”
• “It is essential that Reagan and Bush are assassinated on Inauguration Day_ If [the Secret Service] can arrange for me to get into the act, I will be willing to accept the responsibility.”
• distinguishing Watts v. United States, 394 U.S. 705, 707–08 (1969)
• threat evaluated by reasonable listener considering numerous factors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).