The US District Court docket for the District of Alaska indicted Alaska resident Panos Anastasiou on Wednesday over allegations of sending lethal threats to US Supreme Court docket justices and their kinfolk.
The indictment alleged that Anastasiou despatched threats to Supreme Court docket justices from January 4, 2024, to July 11, 2024, by web messages by the court docket’s publicly accessible web site. The messages included threats to “assault, kidnap, and homicide” six Justices. The indictment additionally alleged the messages to include “violent, racist, and homophobic rhetoric coupled with threats of assassination through torture, hanging, and firearms, and inspired others to take part within the acts of violence.” A few of the threats in direction of the Justices and their kinfolk allegedly additionally included homicide by drowning, strangulation, beheading, and sending “fellow veterans” to shoot a few of their houses.
The indictment alleged felonies of 9 counts of threats in opposition to a federal decide and 13 counts of threats in interstate commerce altogether. If convicted on all counts, Anastasiou faces 9 most sentences of ten years imprisonment with a $250,000 fine and 13 most sentences of 5 years imprisonment with a $250,000 fantastic.
Lawyer Common Merrick B. Garland commented in an Workplace of Public Affairs press release, “Our justice system will depend on the flexibility of judges to make their choices based mostly on the regulation, and never on concern. Our democracy will depend on the flexibility of public officers to do their jobs with out fearing for his or her lives or the protection of their households.”
Source / Picture: jurist.org
