United States v. Norman Heinz Melendy
This text of 438 F.2d 531 (United States v. Norman Heinz Melendy) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
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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