U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1971

United States v. Norman Heinz Melendy

United States v. Norman Heinz Melendy
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · Decided March 5, 1971 · Chambers, Trask, Frey
438 F.2d 531; 1971 U.S. App. LEXIS 11522 (Federal Reporter, Second Series)

United States v. Norman Heinz Melendy

Opinion

PER CURIAM:

The judgment of conviction for a threat on the life of the President of *532 the United States is affirmed. 18 U.S.C. § 871.

The defendant, incarcerated at Lompoc, California, did not have much capacity to carry out his threat, but the threat is the crime.

The defense was that defendant did not have the requisite intent for the crime. That was a question of fact which he lost.

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