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Leave the poor guy alone, I dont' know anything about the case, but if no one was actually threatened, then no crime was actually committed. And truthfully some of the media stations need to be threatened.

By the way,
I just got this story from the AP and pasted it here. This is not MY writing.
Joe

HeartAches........I agree!

Man sent threatening letters, indictment says
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
06/09/2007

ST. LOUIS — A Villa Ridge man was indicted Friday by a federal grand jury on charges of mailing threatening letters to two St. Louis television stations, federal prosecutors said.
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Prosecutors say David Scott, 28, mailed two threatening letters to KPLR (Channel 11) on April 25 and 28, and one to KTVI (Channel 2) on April 28. At least one of the letters to KPLR was signed with a woman's name, demanding the station pay her $10,000, or she would kill her child, authorities said. The other two letters made similar demands, said Franklin County Sheriff Gary Toelke.

The 29-year-old woman whose signature appeared in the letter was arrested in April on unrelated traffic charges but later released. Detectives found no evidence that she sent the letters, Toelke said.

Scott and the woman are acquaintances, but "she was not a part of the plot," Toelke said. Investigators performed forensic tests on the letters that led them to Scott, who has confessed to sending the letters, Toelke said.

Scott was charged with three counts of mailing threatening communications with intent to extort. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

No doubt the person who wrote the letters is angry. It does blow my mind that a person can get 20 yrs and be fined an amt of $ that is probably impossible to pay, especially in prison, when no one was hurt by the act. I have been threatened and hit and all the person got was an hour or two in jail. So is the moral, its better to actually hurt someone rather than just say your going to? I also dont understand why someone can tell you they are going to burn your home down and nothing happens because "they have to act on it", but in other cases just the expression of it is enough. Shouldnt prison be for those who really do something that causes harm? And why fine if there is no possible hope of actually getting the $? Do we really think that putting an unstable person in an impossible situation is a good idea?

No doubt the person who wrote the letters is angry. It does blow my mind that a person can get 20 yrs and be fined an amt of $ that is probably impossible to pay, especially in prison, when no one was hurt by the act. I have been threatened and hit and all the person got was an hour or two in jail. So is the moral, its better to actually hurt someone rather than just say your going to? I also dont understand why someone can tell you they are going to burn your home down and nothing happens because "they have to act on it", but in other cases just the expression of it is enough. Shouldnt prison be for those who really do something that causes harm? And why fine if there is no possible hope of actually getting the $? Do we really think that putting an unstable person in an impossible situation is a good idea?

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