Did you know sending a threatening email could get you in legal trouble?

This Mississippi Doctor got probation for doing just that.

Here's an excerpt from the Clarion Ledger...

Prosecutors said White apparently used e-mails to lash out at those he felt were behind an investigation by the state attorney general into the hospice deaths.

The profanity-laced e-mails said, among other things, "hit the road and disappear," and threatened to "rip your head off" if the recipient failed to do so.

An e-mail sent to another person said, "You'll never feel the bullet in the back of your head. Maybe a brief flash of light as your brain explodes," according the affidavit.

There were in this case many other serious mitigating circumstances, but cyber stalking using threatening emails were one charge that he was sentenced with.

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