Florida prosecutors have withdrawn a plea deal that was "erroneously" extended to a man who made Facebook threats against Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.
Michael Martin Wiseman was arrested in July, just days after a gunman fired shots at the former president at a Pennsylvania rally, for posting that the Republican ticket “should be murdered" and adding that “some people need to be better shots." But Palm Beach County prosecutors say an agreement to resolve the case was a mistake, reported Law & Crime.
“The pretrial intervention program contract must be vacated because the defendant does not meet the criteria,” prosecutors said in a filing. “Only offenders charged with misdemeanors or felonies of the third degree are eligible for pretrial intervention. In this case, the Defendant was charged with a second-degree felony and is not eligible for admission in the pretrial intervention program.”
The 68-year-old Wiseman was charged with sending threats electronically, a second-degree felony, which makes him ineligible for the pretrial intervention program, so prosecutors said the offer to avoid trial was made in error.
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Jupiter police said the suspect reacted to the failed assassination attempt by saying the slain shooter “should get a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor, a stamp, and a national holiday.”
“Why is Trump allowed to be alive?” Wiseman allegedly added.
Wiseman, who was released from jail on $5,000 bond, has been ordered by a judge not to access or post on social media and undergo regular psychiatric care.
