Prison Justice
Man who threatened Supreme Court docket justices avoids jail time
An Alaska man who despatched lots of of messages threatening the U.S. Supreme Court docket justices was sentenced to a few years of supervised launch, avoiding jail time. (Picture by Alex Wong/Getty Photos)
An Alaska man who despatched lots of of messages threatening the U.S. Supreme Court docket justices was sentenced to a few years of supervised launch, avoiding jail time.
U.S. District Choose Aaron Peterson of the District of Alaska sentenced Panos Anastasiou, 78, Wednesday on the federal courthouse in Anchorage, Alaska.
Anastasiou pleaded responsible earlier this 12 months to threatening to assault and homicide a number of Supreme Court docket justices, together with possessing a firearm as a felon. Prosecutors agreed to not search jail time contemplating Anastasiou’s age, throat most cancers and dementia. Anastasiou can even have a interval of residence confinement as a part of his sentence.
Between 2023 and 2024, Anastasiou despatched greater than 500 messages, a few of which contained racist and homophobic content material, to the Supreme Court docket’s public portal. He additionally referred to as for the assassinations of Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito, in response to a story by Bloomberg Law.
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