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# Moron of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/moron-of-the-day-2/
- Published: 2024-10-03T17:30:37.000Z
- Updated: 2024-10-03T17:30:36.000Z
- Description: Judge Harding told Richard Sivell the maximum penalty for threatening to kill is seven years imprisonment. Sivell will be sentenced on 07 January.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day, NZ Politics, Law, Crime

Another sovereign citizen finds out his legal theories don’t work:

> A man who made online threats to “string ... up” former [Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/jacinda-ardern/?ref=goodoil.news) and wrote about building gallows presented “legal gobbledygook” in his defence, a judge said.  
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> Richard Trevor Sivell was yesterday convicted at a judge-alone trial of threatening to kill Ardern between November 26, 2021, and January 19, 2022, when she was still Prime Minister.  
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> He was also convicted on two charges of obstructing police by refusing to come out of his caravan when they [raided his Te Puke property in March 2022](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/police-stand-off-with-richard-sivell-who-allegedly-made-death-threats-against-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern/VUJLWAJCY3LWQZBMMIE3ANMBG4/?ref=goodoil.news) and failing to provide the PIN for his seized mobile phone.  
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> The Taupō 42-year-old represented himself when he appeared before Judge Christopher Harding in the [Tauranga](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/tauranga/?ref=goodoil.news) District Court.  
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> NZ Herald

[Read More](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/richard-sivell-convicted-for-making-death-threats-against-jacinda-ardern/HXYZILAHBRDIPGB6NRZAZMCPOI/?ref=goodoil.news)