October trial set for woman accused of mailing ricin to Obama

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

October trial set for woman accused of mailing ricin to Obama

Wed Aug 28, 2013 3:57pm EDT

(Reuters) - A Texas woman accused of mailing poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is competent to go to trial, a judge ruled on Wednesday.

Shannon Guess Richardson will face one count of making a threat against the president of the United States and two counts of mailing threatening communications in a trial scheduled to start on October 7.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Caroline Craven in Texarkana, Texas, had earlier ordered a psychological evaluation of Richardson at her attorney's request.

Richardson, 35, of New Boston, Texas, was arrested on June 7 after a federal grand jury accused her in a three-count indictment of mailing letters containing ricin, a highly toxic substance, to Obama, Bloomberg and Mark Glaze, the director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group founded by Bloomberg that lobbies for stricter gun laws.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/28/us-usa-crime-ricin-idUSBRE97R15820130828

[Cha]

1. Wonder if she thinks it was worth it all?

thanks Eugene.

[Scurrilous]

2. Thanks!

K & R