WORTHINGTON, Minn. (AP) - A man has been sentenced for threatening a judge in southwestern Minnesota with assassination.
Twenty-one-year-old Matthew Lee Johnson pleaded guilty in December to one count of making a terroristic threat against the judge.
Yesterday, Judge David Christensen placed Johnson on five years supervised probation and ordered him to have no contact with the judge he threatened.
Johnson was credited with serving nearly four months in jail.
During a plea hearing last month, Johnson said he sent a threatening letter to the judge to try to scare him into giving Johnson a retrial on his guardianship. Johnson did not want to return to an Atwater facility where he claims employees hit him and smashed his belongings.
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The judge who was threatened is in the Fifth Judicial District and is not the judge who sentenced Johnson.
