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"<p>\n\tA new sentencing hearing for a Memphis prisoner convicted of sending fake anthrax to a federal judge has been arranged because his previous hearing was conducted via video conference for security reasons.<br />\n\t<br />\n\tMarshall DeWayne Williams was sentenced to five years in prison for admittedly sending a signed letter to U.S. District Court Judge J. Daniel Breen that contained a white powdery substance that Williams claimed was anthrax, according to the Memphis Commercial Appeal.<br />\n\t<br />\n\tThe white substance in the letter tested negative for anthrax and was later determined to be artificial sweetener.<br />\n\t<br />\n\tBreen ruled against Williams in one of the many petitions he filed to appeal his conviction and 109 year prison sentence. Williams is in prison for killing his stepfather with a pipe bomb hidden inside a newspaper vending machine in Mesquite, Texas, in 1984.<br />\n\t<br />\n\tThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently upheld the conviction for sending a threatening communication by mail, but criticized the trial judge, Bernice Donald, for not having Williams physically appear in court two years ago for his sentencing hearing,the Memphis Commercial Appeal reports.<br />\n\t<br />\n\tThe appellate court judges dismissed the trial judge&rsquo;s choice to hold the hearing via video conference despite the advice of U.S. Marshals, who said that Williams had behaved combatively and had threatened to cause a disturbance in the court.<br />\n\t<br />\n\tThe appeals court announced that Williams should have been given a warning before being excluded from the courtroom for the hearing. They further said defendants, with rare exceptions, have a right to be in the courtroom during sentencing.</p>\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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