By: Derek Hawkins//February 22, 2017//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: United States of America v. Samuel L. Bradbury
Case No.: 16-1532
Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, and POSNER and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.
On June 8, 2014, Jerad and Amanda Miller, originally of Lafayette, Indiana, shot and killed two police officers and one civilian in Las Vegas. The couple died in an ensuing shootout with police, Amanda committing suicide after Jerad was shot. At approximately 11:15 p.m. on June 19, 2014, Samuel L. Bradbury, a Lafayette resident, placed the following message on his Facebook “wall,” where it was readable by his Facebook “friends,” who could more‐ over take screenshots of the message to convey to others . . . On the basis of these discoveries, and the threats in the Facebook post, Bradbury was indicted on federal charges of threatening to use explosive materials to kill law enforcement officers and state court judges and destroy a court‐ house and police vehicles, all by means of the thermite found in his bedroom—thermite ignitable by the magnesium also found there. But a superseding indictment changed the charges to “willfully mak[ing] any threat” and “maliciously convey[ing] false information.” The jury trial that ensued resulted in Bradbury’s acquittal of the first charge and conviction of the second. The judge sentenced him to 41 months of imprisonment to be followed by two years of supervised release.
Affirmed