Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020 | 3:34 p.m.
A 49-year-old Nevada state prison inmate has been sentenced to over four years in federal prison for threatening to kill a federal judge and members of the judge's family.
David Jerry Paule was sentenced Monday to 51 months in prison after previously pleading guilty to one count of a three-count indictment.
Because the judge who was threatened is assigned to federal courts in Nevada, the case was handled by a federal judge from Washington state and by federal prosecutors from California.
According to court documents, Paule was imprisioned in Nevada when he threatened a judge in three letters in 2017 while demanding that the judge reinstate a lawsuit that had been dismissed by under a 2016 settlement by Paule and other parties.
Paule is serving multiple life terms as an habitual criminal offender at the High Desert State Prison in Clark County.
