Robert Philip Ivers, Threatening a Federal Judge, North Dakota 2024

Robert Ivers

North Dakota Man Convicted of Threatening to Murder a Federal Judge

A federal jury in Saint Paul, Minnesota, has found Robert Philip Ivers, 65, guilty of threatening to murder a federal judge and interstate transmission of a threat to injure. The verdict was handed down today after a jury trial before Judge Robert W. Pratt in the United States District Court in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

The conviction stems from a series of threatening letters and phone calls Ivers made to a federal judge and a court employee in 2017. In January of that year, a United States District Court Judge ruled against Ivers in a lawsuit he had filed. In response, Ivers sent a series of threatening letters to the judge and made threatening phone calls to a court employee.

During a phone consultation with two volunteer lawyers, Ivers became ‘intensely angry’ and made threatening statements, including ‘You don’t know the fifty different ways I planned to kill her.’ After the lawyer reported the threats, two Deputy U.S. Marshals went to Ivers’ residence in West Fargo, North Dakota, to speak with him about the threats. When confronted, Ivers became extremely agitated and screamed at the Deputies.

The case is the result of an investigation conducted by the United States Marshals Service. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Julie E. Allyn and Timothy C. Rank tried the case.

Ivers faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 for each of the two counts. He is scheduled to be sentenced on [insert date] before Judge Robert W. Pratt.

The United States Attorney’s Office, District of Minnesota, thanked the jury for their careful attention to the evidence and their serious deliberation, resulting in a just verdict.

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