The admission into evidence of a defendant’s death threats against a government informant in a narcotics and gun case was so prejudicial that a federal appeals court has reversed his conviction.

Defendant Steven Ray Morgan watched from the defense table in 2009 as his one-time girlfriend, Keysha Williams, was allowed to testify he sent her letters from behind bars saying, in substance, “the only way he was going to see the light of day again was if the informant was killed.”