Opinion ID: 199606
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Charges and Plea

Text: 13 On April 26, 2000, Nedd was charged with four counts of interstate threats in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875(c) (Counts I-IV) and one count of interstate violation of a restraining order in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2262(a)(1)(Count VI). On July 13, 2000, the district court accepted Nedd's plea of nolo contendere to Counts I-IV and accepted Nedd's plea of guilty to Count VI. The charges to which he pleaded read as follows: 14 COUNT ONE: 18 U.S.C. § 875(c) - Interstate Threats 15 . . . 16 On or about October 14, 1999, at Boston, in the District of Massachusetts, PETER A. NEDD 17 defendant herein, knowingly and willfully transmitted in interstate commerce a communication containing a threat to injure the person of another, to wit: a telephone call originating outside the Commonwealth of Massachusetts placed to a telephone in Boston, Massachusetts which threatened to break the jaw and to blow the brains out of Richard Carpenter. 18 All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 875(c). 19 COUNT TWO: 18 U.S.C. § 875(c) - Interstate Threats 20 . . . 21 On or about November 30, 1999, at Boston, in the District of Massachusetts, PETER A. NEDD 22 defendant herein, knowingly and willfully transmitted in interstate commerce a communication containing a threat to injure the person of another, to wit: a telephone call originating outside the Commonwealth of Massachusetts placed to a telephone in Boston, Massachusetts which threatened to kill Richard Carpenter, Andrea Carpenter, and Chantelle Carpenter. 23 All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 875(c). 24 COUNT THREE: 18 U.S.C. § 875(c) - Interstate Threats 25 . . . 26 On or about December 4, 1999, at Boston, in the District of Massachusetts, PETER A. NEDD 27 defendant herein, knowingly and willfully transmitted in interstate commerce a communication containing a threat to injure the person of another, to wit: a telephone call originating outside the Commonwealth of Massachusetts placed to a telephone in Boston, Massachusetts which threatened to kill Richard Carpenter, and to beat and to forcibly sodomize Chantelle Carpenter. 28 All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 875(c). 29 COUNT FOUR: 18 U.S.C. § 875(c) - Interstate Threats 30 . . . 31 On or about December 6, 1999, at Boston, in the District of Massachusetts, PETER A. NEDD 32 defendant herein, knowingly and willfully transmitted in interstate commerce a communication containing a threat to injure the person of another, to wit: a telephone call originating in New York State placed to a telephone in Boston, Massachusetts which threatened to kill Richard Carpenter, Andrea Carpenter, and Chantelle Carpenter. 33 All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 875(c). 34 . . . 35 COUNT SIX: 18 U.S.C. § 2262(a)(1) - Interstate Violation of a Protective Order 36 . . . 37 On or about October 18, 1999, at Boston, in the District of Massachusetts, PETER A. NEDD 38 defendant herein, traveled across the State line of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with the intent to engage in conduct that violated that portion of the protection order issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Superior Court that involved protection of Richard Carpenter and Chantelle Carpenter against repeated harassment, and the defendant subsequently engaged in repeated harassment in violation of that protective order by repeatedly telephoning the residence of Richard and Chantelle Carpenter on or about October 18 and 19, 1999, and by attempting to visit them at their residence on or about October 18, 1999. 39 All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2262(a)(1). 40 On November 29, 2000, the district court sentenced Nedd to thirty-three months incarceration and three years of supervised release, imposing a number of special conditions including that the defendant continue to take his anti-psychotic medication and that he have no contact with the Carpenters.