Colorado Man’s Three-Year Sentence for Threating Officials Holds

A man who violated his probation by threatening a former CIA officer lost an appeal challenging his post-revocation sentence of three years’ imprisonment.

The defendant failed to show the lower court plainly erred when it didn’t give him a “zero-month” sentence for his original offenses, which also involved threatening government officials, even though he’d initially only gotten probation for them, the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit said Friday.

Malachi Mathias Moon Seals challenged the framework laid out in the Tenth Circuit’s 2022 decision in United States v. Moore, or “Moore I,” but only for ...