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103526P.pdf 12/02/2011 United States v. William Mabie
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 10-3526
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Melloy and Benton, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. District court did not deny
defendant's right of self-representation when it revoked its order allowing
him to proceed pro se after he was disruptive in pretrial proceedings and
abused the subpoena process; district court did not abuse its discretion
when it quashed 34 of defendant's subpoenas; evidence was sufficient to
support defendant's convictions for making threatening communications;
First Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. Sec. 876(c), which criminalizes
mailing threatening communications, rejected; nor is the statute void for
vagueness; no error in imposing a two-point enhancement under
Guidelines Sec. 3C1.1 based on the court's conclusion that defendant
perjured himself at trial; sentence was not substantively unreasonable.