Criminal – Indictment Sufficiency – ‘Interstate Threats’

By Deborah Elkins
Published: September 1, 2008

A Big Stone Gap U.S. District Court says an indictment is “barely” sufficient to charge defendant with transmitting in interstate commerce a communication threatening to injure the person of another in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), with its listing of specific dates but no identities of victims. The modern rule is that all the words ...

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