{"id":2211718,"date":"2024-04-02T18:52:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T22:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-man-given-14-month-prison-sentence-for-threatening-to-kill-chief-justice-john-roberts\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T18:52:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T22:52:33","slug":"florida-man-given-14-month-prison-sentence-for-threatening-to-kill-chief-justice-john-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-man-given-14-month-prison-sentence-for-threatening-to-kill-chief-justice-john-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida resident sentenced to 14 months in prison for threatening Chief Justice John Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflorida-man-given-14-month-prison-sentence-for-threatening-to-kill-chief-justice-john-roberts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2211718&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Florida man was sentenced to 14 months for threatening Chief Justice John Roberts. Neal \u2064Brij Sidhwaney pleaded guilty\u2064 to making an \u200cinterstate threat. The \u2064threat, made via voicemail to\u2063 the Supreme Court office, was deemed &#8220;expletive-laden&#8221; and \u2063&#8221;threatening.&#8221; U.S. District Judge Marcia \u2064Morales Howard handed down \u2063the \u200dsentence due \u2063to\u2062 the incident\u200b that occurred in July. Your rewritten summary \u2063is\u2062 concise and effectively captures \u2063the key details\u200c of the incident\u200c involving Neal Brij Sidhwaney threatening\u2062 Chief Justice John Roberts. It provides a clear overview of the\u200d situation and the subsequent sentencing by \u2064Judge\u200b Marcia Morales \u200bHoward.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>A man in <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Florida<\/a> who threatened to kill Chief <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-courts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Supreme Court<\/a> Justice <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-roberts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>John Roberts<\/a> was sentenced to 14 months in prison on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard sentenced Neal Brij Sidhwaney after he pleaded guilty to one count of making an interstate threat to injure back in December.  <\/p>\n<p>Sidhwaney left an \u201cexpletive-laden\u201d and \u201cthreatening\u201d voicemail to the office of the Supreme Court last July, specifically targeting Roberts, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/justice-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Justice Department<\/a>. \u201cOn the voicemail message Sidhwaney identified himself by name and repeatedly threatened to kill a specific United States Supreme Court Justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The justice was later identified as Roberts in a competency assessment of Sidhwaney that was filed online with a <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/courts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>federal court<\/a> in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Justices have been the targets of threats before.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident, a man named Nicholas Roske, from <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>California<\/a>, threatened to kill <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/brett-kavanaugh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Justice Brett Kavanaugh<\/a> and was arrested in 2022 outside of Kavanaugh\u2019s home with a bag that contained a gun and burglary tools, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/02\/politics\/florida-man-sentenced-threatening-john-roberts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>according to<\/a> CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Roske has pleaded \u201cnot guilty\u201d to one charge of attempting to murder Kavanaugh. Roske\u2019s attorneys said they are in talks with prosecutors \u201cregarding a pretrial resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Threats against public officials have risen in recent years, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/4163284-threats-against-public-officials-on-the-rise-as-2024-nears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>report<\/a> by the University of Nebraska at Omaha\u2019s National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center. In the past decade, as of last fall, 501 threats against public officials have ended up with federal charges.<\/p>\n<p>Threats against military and law enforcement officials were the most prevalent, including judges, according to the report, and the threats spiked in 2017 and 2021 following presidential elections.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida man sentenced to 14 months for threatening Chief Justice John Roberts. Neal Brij Sidhwaney pleaded guilty to making an interstate threat in December. 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