Post by 427@Bishop on Oct 13, 2008 17:06:00 GMT -5
In 1999, a Spokane man who was already serving time for assault and selling methamphetamine was
sentenced to an additional 8 ½ years for threatening a judge, according to news accounts in
The Spokesman Review. John James Hartz Jr. was convicted of threatening to kill Superior
Court Judge Robert Austin in March 1998 after telling deputies, "The next time I see
[Austin] will be through the cross-hairs of my 10-powered Leopold scope."
(A Leopold scope is used with hunting rifles.)
Hartz's lawyer argued that his client had made an instinctive outburst, not a true threat.
In 1993, when Hartz vowed to kill a judge in Spokane Wa three bulletproof vests were
purchased for its judges. Spokane Court administrator Dick Carlson said the vests
are kept on hand and judges occasionally wear them
February 3, 1999, Washington: Spokane resident John James Hartz, Jr.,
is convicted on charges of threatening to kill a Superior Court Judge in 1998.
Hartz, already serving time for convictions on assault and selling drugs,
receives an 8 ½ year sentence. Hartz, a “constitutionalist,” refused to attend his trial,
claiming that state and federal courts violate “God’s law and natural law
(February 3rd is my birthday).......oh I almost forgot that was my uncle
sentenced to an additional 8 ½ years for threatening a judge, according to news accounts in
The Spokesman Review. John James Hartz Jr. was convicted of threatening to kill Superior
Court Judge Robert Austin in March 1998 after telling deputies, "The next time I see
[Austin] will be through the cross-hairs of my 10-powered Leopold scope."
(A Leopold scope is used with hunting rifles.)
Hartz's lawyer argued that his client had made an instinctive outburst, not a true threat.
In 1993, when Hartz vowed to kill a judge in Spokane Wa three bulletproof vests were
purchased for its judges. Spokane Court administrator Dick Carlson said the vests
are kept on hand and judges occasionally wear them
February 3, 1999, Washington: Spokane resident John James Hartz, Jr.,
is convicted on charges of threatening to kill a Superior Court Judge in 1998.
Hartz, already serving time for convictions on assault and selling drugs,
receives an 8 ½ year sentence. Hartz, a “constitutionalist,” refused to attend his trial,
claiming that state and federal courts violate “God’s law and natural law
(February 3rd is my birthday).......oh I almost forgot that was my uncle
