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A
Florida inmate has received the maximum sentence of 10 years in federal
prison after pleading guilty to mailing threatening letters to
President George Bush and family, several U.S. Supreme Court judges and
several judges of the 11th Judicial Circuit.
Among
his targets were Judges Edward E. Carnes and Frank M. Hull, two of the
judges of the 11th Circuit who denied the appeal of the Schindler
family’s petition to restore nutrition and hydration to their
daughter, Terri Schindler-Schiavo, in March after Judge James
Whittemore denied their petition. >a
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However, the threat was unrelated to the Schiavo case.
Anthony
Scott Simboli was incarcerated at the Pinellas County Jail in
Clearwater at the time he sent the letters which contained a white
power which was purported to be Anthrax but was actually detergent.
A
jail spokesman said that because the letters were addressed to public
officials, they were considered privileged communications and not
opened prior to mailing from the jail. Simboli had placed his name,
inmate number and address on the envelope.
All
criminal counts against Baumgartner and DuBois have been attributed
to their collective emails and lawsuits which allegedly targeted Markus.
Two
of the letters were discovered at a mail handling plant near
Washington, D.C. A mail scanning machine at the 11th Circuit opened one
of the letters addressed to the judges and found the white powder. A
hazardous materials team removed the letter and submitted it for
analysis.
The
judges had apparently denied an appeal submitted pro se by Simoli in an
effort to overturn an eight-year sentence for grand larceny and
burglary. June Maxam 9-21-05
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