Opinion ID: 623947
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Count 1: Petsche

Text: With respect to Count 1, the government demonstrated that White had paid money to locate a large amount of personal information about Petsche, and White so advised Petsche. White, expressing frustration in his relations with Citibank, specifically threatened in an email that White would act if Petsche did not respond quickly, concluding the email by comparing Petsche to Judge Lefkow, whose relatives had been murdered. Any reasonable recipient of this email would have taken it as a threat of violence. See Floyd, 458 F.3d at 849 (holding that the anonymous mailing of a newspaper about Judge Lefkow to judicial officers with words be aware be fair constituted a true threat). Moreover, Petsche, as well as other Citibank employees, security officers, and law enforcement officers took White's email as a serious threat, providing corroborating evidence of how the threat would be taken by a reasonable person. See Roberts, 915 F.2d at 891 (holding the jury's verdict was supported by evidence that both Justice O'Connor's secretary and the Supreme Court police took the letter quite seriously as did the FBI). We conclude that the evidence amply supports White's conviction on Count 1.