Poison Plot Targeted Supremes
Sandra Day O'Connor discloses scheme details in Texas speech
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Poison Plot Targeted Supremes
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Poison Plot Targeted Supremes
NOVEMBER 17--Until former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor recently spilled the beans, federal prosecutors had succeeded in keeping quiet the details of a plot to poison all nine members of the high court as well as two top FBI officials. During a speech at a legal conference in Texas last week, O'Connor made a passing reference to the scheme as she talked about assorted attacks on the judiciary. Barbara Joan March, a 61-year-old Connecticut resident, was sentenced last month to 15 years in prison for mailing letters 'containing either a baked good or a piece of candy laced with rat poison' to the nine justices, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and another bureau official. March's bizarre scheme is detailed in a government sentencing memorandum filed in U.S. District Court, a copy of which you'll find below. According to an indictment, a note to O'Connor (which accompanied the spiked treat) stated, 'We are going to kill you. This is poisoned.' March placed the names of various acquaintances (former classmates, an ex-roommate, a former co-worker, etc.) on the letters she mailed, in an apparent bid to mask her identity. (8 pages)
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