Man gets 10 months for threats in voice mail to federal judge
Sentenced by a federal judge in Hawaii to a 27-month prison term for burglary in 2002, followed by more supervised release time, Julius Hudson completed his sentence in 2007. For some time, he apparently stayed out of trouble.
But in February of this year, authorities said, he left a profane voice mail for U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway that not only threatened rape but told her “someone needs to walk in there and blow your (expletive) brains out while you’re sitting there on the bench, (expletive),” Hawaii News Now reported at the time.
Identifying Hudson as a suspect was not difficult. The FBI told Hawaii News Now that he said at one point during the call: “I just threatened a judge, my name is Julius Hudson.”
The result was a new federal prosecution for Hudson, a guilty plea in May in a case accusing him of threatening to assault and murder the judge and a 10-month sentence imposed Tuesday by a federal judge from California. He took over the case after all local judges recused themselves, the Associated Press reports.
With credit for time served, Hudson should be released by the end of the year.
Hudson apologized and a doctor’s report concluded he isn’t dangerous or violent, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said.
