Teen Pleads Guilty To E-Mail Threat

A Florida teenager pleaded guilty in Denver to sending an e-mail message in December threatening to finish what the Columbine High School gunmen started when they killed 12 students and a teacher last spring. Michael Ian Campbell, 18, answered 30 minutes of questions from U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham before the judge accepted his guilty plea to one felony count of communicating a threat across state lines. “If I had pleaded not guilty, I would still have guilt,” Campbell said. Campbell could get five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Prosecutors recommended a lenient sentence. Campbell’s attorney had argued that his client couldn’t tell reality from cyber-reality.