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Article: ROANOKE MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO SENDING THREAT, COPYRIGHT VIOLATION
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 15, 2009
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RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Investigation Richmond Field Office issued the following press release:
After arguing that a blog posting he authored that threatened to kill a San Francisco police officer, his wife and his child was protected speech, a local man has now admitted in Federal Court that his actions were in fact criminal.
Jeffrey Lynn Weaver, 47, of Roanoke, pleaded guilty today to one count of transmitting in interstate commerce a communication containing a threat to injure, specially to injure a San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Officer. Weaver also entered a guilty plea to one count of copyright infringement.
"While every ...