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081203P.pdf 02/25/2009 United States v. Daniel Cvijanovich
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 08-1203
and No: 08-1204
District of North Dakota - Fargo
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Beam and Benton, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - criminal law. Conduct charged in the indictment was
outside the scope of a previous plea agreement, and the government's
agreement not to charge defendant for threats he made against the
President in 2005 did not bar prosecution for new threats he made in
2006; evidence was sufficient to support conviction for making threats
against the President; no error in admitting journal entries concerning the
2005 threats as the evidence was admissible to provide context for the
charges and to show intent and the seriousness of the threats; any error in
admitting testimony from a Secret Service Agent on defendant's threat
assessment was harmless as the jury was instructed to apply a reasonable
man standard in determining whether the language used was a threat to
the President.