Man Pleads Guilty to Sending Ricin to Obama

The man was accused of sending poisoned letters to Obama and two other officals

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In this Tuesday April 23, 2013, file photo, James Everett Dutschke stands in the street near his home in Tupelo, Miss.

A Mississippi man pled guilty on Friday to sending letters poisoned with ricin to President Barack Obama and two other public officials, the Associated Press reports.

42-year-old James Everett Dutschke had previously pled not guilty to the charges. He also denied that he had tried to recruit someone else to send a ricin-tainted letter. Dutschke has been jailed since April on charges of sending poisoned letters to Obama, Senator Roger Wicker and a Mississippi judge. The judge was the only one to receive a letter, though she was not harmed. The other two letters were intercepted.

When Dutschke filed his new plea, prosecutors recommended a 25-year-sentence.

[AP]