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Reuters reports:
A retired teacher was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison for threatening in obscenity-filled voicemails to harm a federal judge in Florida who had rejected a challenge to the state’s so-called “don’t say gay” law restricting classroom discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity.
U.S. District Judge William Jung in Tampa sentenced Stephen Thorn, 66, to the maximum sentence possible after he pleaded guilty in May to a single threat charge. The sentence was twice as long as prosecutors had sought.
Thorn’s lawyer did not respond to a request for comment. In a letter filed in court, Thorn apologized, saying he “rashly and angrily” over-reacted after reading a news story about the judge’s ruling.
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U.S. District Judge Wendy Berger, who received the threats, is a Trump appointee and Federalist Society member. U.S. District Judge William Jung, who issued the five year sentence, is Trump appointee.
Last month a literal Nazi who threatened to murder election officials got two years. Earlier this year a hate group employee got two years for death threats to a Maryland Democrat and Human Rights Campaign staffers.
A federal judge sentenced Stephen Thorn, 66, a former teacher, to five years in prison for threatening a Florida judge in an LGBTQ case. Prosecutors said the case was an example, of the rising number of threats against federal judges nationally https://t.co/CI86KhXkaJ pic.twitter.com/wtM2zA3RMD
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