Keith Judd

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Keith Russell Judd
Keith Russell Judd Mugshot.jpg
Judd’s Mug shot, 2013
Born (1958-05-23) May 23, 1958 (age 66)
Pasadena, California, U.S.
Occupation Perennial candidate
Criminal statusSupervised release
Criminal chargeThreatened extortion
Penalty210 months in federal prison

Keith Russell Judd (born May 23, 1958) is an American convicted criminal, perennial candidate for political office and musician. [1] His nicknames include "Dark Priest" [2] and "Mtr. President". [3] He claims to have run for president of the United States in every election since 1996. In the 2012 Democratic primary in West Virginia, Judd won 41% of the vote against incumbent Barack Obama, then the highest single-state vote share that any of Obama's primary opponents had achieved in 2012.

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Early life

Judd was born May 23, 1958, in Pasadena, California. He is married and has professed to be a Rasta-Christian. [3] Judd has one child, born on September 3, 1990, a son named Marcus Miciah Robertson. [2] Judd has claimed to be a former member of the Federation of Super Heroes. [3]

He has claimed to have run in every United States presidential election since 1996. [3] He ran for mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1993 and 1997 and for the Republican nomination for Governor of New Mexico in 1994. [4]

As of November 1997, Judd was listed as a third-year business student at the University of New Mexico (UNM). [5]

As of 1999, he claimed to be self-employed as a musician and bandleader and to suffer from bipolar disorder. [1]

Outside of his political campaigns and his music career, Judd has also occupied his time with vexatious litigation. At least two of his appeals have been considered by the Supreme Court of the United States. In a per curiam opinion in 1999, the Court noted that he had filed a dozen frivolous petitions for certiorari and extraordinary writs in the federal courts in the span of a few years. [6]

Crime

In November 1992, Judd was arrested after threatening UNM administrators and student newspaper staff with guns and being questioned by the United States Secret Service related to the visit of a Vice Presidential candidate to the school. Judd was expelled from the school, banned from campus, had two guns confiscated and was committed to the UNM Hospital's mental health facility. [5]

In 1999, Judd was convicted of two counts of "mailing a threatening communication with intent to extort money or something of value" [7] and sentenced to 210 months (17½ years) in federal prison. The conviction has been falsely connected to litigation involving UNM [8] which was a civil rights complaint he initiated. [9] His actual crime involved postcards that stated "Send the money back now, Keith Judd, Last Chance or Dead." and a package containing a semen-stained Playboy , a knife inside the magazine, a key chain, and his father's military discharge papers. He also sent letters to jurors after his trial. [10] He has appealed his conviction no fewer than 36 times, but each appeal has been dismissed for various reasons. [11]

Judd was released in June 2013 on a supervised release program. In October, his probation office sought a warrant for his arrest for violating the terms of his supervision. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison, with another 24 months of supervised release. He has since been released a second time under supervision. [12] [13]

Presidential candidacies

As a perennial candidate, Judd has thrice run for president in the Democratic Party's primaries, in 2008, 2012 and 2016. Each time Judd has managed to qualify to be included on the ballot of at least one Democratic Party primary or caucus.

2008 Democratic presidential primary campaign

In the 2008 presidential election he filed to run as a Democrat in 14 states but only appeared on the ballot in Idaho. [8] [14] [15]

Judd finished third in the May 27, 2008, non-binding Idaho Democratic presidential preference primary with 1.7 percent of the vote, behind Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. [16] No delegates to the Democratic National Convention were at stake in the primary as Idaho's delegation was determined at the February 5 Democratic caucus, which Judd unsuccessfully contested. [17]

Below is a table of Judd's performance in the primaries.

Primary results
DateContestVotesPlacePercentDelegatesSource(s)
February 5 Idaho caucus 04th of 40.000 The Green Papers
Total00.000

2012 Democratic presidential primary campaign

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Judd filed to run for president again in the 2012 general election. [18] [19] Running again for the Democratic nomination, Judd only qualified for ballot status in the West Virginia primary. [20] [21] On May 8, 2012, Judd won 41% of the vote against incumbent Barack Obama, a higher percentage of the vote in one state than any other primary opponent of Obama had hitherto achieved in 2012 (a figure later surpassed by John Wolfe, Jr.'s showing in the Arkansas primary). [22] [23] While this showing would normally have entitled Judd to delegates at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, state officials expressed some uncertainty as to whether Judd had completed the required formalities, such as filing a slate of delegates and completing paperwork. [24] Judd, who did not qualify for any other primary ballots, contested the ballot count, alleging that ballot workers suppressed the actual total (which he said showed him in the lead) in an effort to cover up an Obama loss. [25]

Below is a table of Judd's performance in the primaries.

Primary results
DateContestVotesPlacePercentDelegatesSource(s)
March 1 West Virginia primary 73,1372nd of 240.650 The Green Papers
Total73,1373rd0.890

2016 Democratic presidential primary campaign

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Map showing Judd's ballot access in the 2016 Democratic Primaries
  On ballot
  Not on ballot

Judd sent a handwritten note to the FEC announcing his 2016 presidential candidacy as a Democrat on August 16, 2014. [26] He filed his official documents with the FEC in September 2015. [27] As of January 1, 2016, Judd had been officially added to the ballot in the Louisiana, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, and Texas Democratic Primaries. [ citation needed ] On January 12, 2016, Judd's paperwork was filed to be on the primary ballot in West Virginia. [28]

Below is a table of the primaries Judd competed in, and his performance in them.

Primary results
DateContestVotesPlacePercentDelegatesSource(s)
Feb 9 New Hampshire primary 4412th of 280.020 The Green Papers
March 1 Texas primary 2,5696th of 80.180 The Green Papers
Oklahoma primary 4,3864th of 71.310 The Green Papers
March 5 Louisiana primary 1,3577th of 100.440 The Green Papers
March 15 Missouri primary 2888th of 90.050 The Green Papers
May 10 West Virginia primary 4,4504th of 61.850 The Green Papers
June 7 California primary 5,5066th of 70.160 The Green Papers
North Dakota caucus 00.000 The Green Papers
Total20,3057th0.070 The Green Paper

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