COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — A man was sentenced to eight years in federal prison for threatening to kill a federal judge and a federal prosecutor.
According to court records, 28-year-old Nathanael Michael West sent the letters from an Idaho state prison while serving out a burglary sentence in 2023.
The first letter was sent in February of 2023 to Assistant U.S. Attorney David Robins, who prosecuted West’s previous criminal cases. The letter contained details about West’s threats to assault, kidnap, torture, mutilate and murder the prosecutor.
In March of that year, West sent another letter to Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye, who sentenced West in October of 2022 for mailing threatening communications to state prosecutors.
West was charged with four counts of mailing threatening communications, threatening to assault, kidnap or murder a federal law enforcement officer with intent to retaliate, and threatening to assault or murder a U.S. Judge with intent to retaliate.
On July 31 of this year, West pleaded guilty to all four counts of the indictment.
West was sentenced to 96 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release. The sentence will be served consecutively to two prior sentences in 2020 and 2022 for similar convictions.
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