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A Colorado prison inmate was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for making a death threat against a federal magistrate judge.
Derek Barringer, 28, is serving a state prison sentence for assault. He had filed a legal action in federal court that U.S. Magistrate Judge O. Edward Schlatter was handling. Schlatter dismissed the action, which angered Barringer.
The prisoner wrote the judge a letter that said, “…I wish to see you dead and as soon as I get out in 65 days I will see to it.”
He drew a stick figure of a person hanged by a rope and the inmate signed the letter.
As part of the sentencing, the court recommended that Barringer be sentenced to a facility where he could be psychiatrically evaluated.
