Consider Fred Randall Goynes, an inmate who sent letters riddled with threats and signed in blood to a U.S. district judge in Texas as well as a county DA and criminal-defense lawyer. Punishment for the prisoner? In 1995, a trial court upped his sentence level, but now the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals struck the enhancement and sent the case back for resentencing because Goyne's acts are only threats and lack evidence that they will be carried out.
May 17, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Lawyers and judges have to deal with their fair share of freaky incidents
Take, for example, Fred Randall Goynes, an inmate who sent horrific letters to U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson of Amarillo, Potter County District Attorney Rebecca King and Amarillo criminal-defense lawyer Steven McKinzie, according to a May 10 opinion by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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