Tomah man convicted of threatening President Obama gets three year sentence
MADISON — A judge has sentenced a Wisconsin man to prison for making threats against President Barack Obama last summer.
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Brian Dutcher
U.S. District Judge William Conley sentenced Brian Dutcher on Friday to three years in prison and three years on supervised release.
The 55-year-old Tomah man was accused of writing a Facebook comment in June 2015 saying he would be in La Crosse to fulfill his constitutional duty of assassinating Obama during the president's July 2 visit to the western Wisconsin city. He also told a La Crosse Public Library security guard on July 1 that he was in town to shoot Obama the next day.
A federal jury convicted Dutcher of making threats against the president in January.
Dutcher's attorney, Stephen Meyer, didn't immediately return a voicemail seeking comment on the case.