A federal jury has found a Wayzata man who wrote a manifesto in which he threatened to kill a judge guilty on all counts. Robert Phillip Ivers, 73, was found guilty on two counts of mailing threatening communications and one count of threatening murder to a United States District Judge following a four-day trial. Among those targeted by the threats was a federal judge who presided over Ivers’ 2018 criminal trial in which he was found guilty of threatening to murder another federal judge and a witness during the same trial. Ivers was arrested back in 2025, accused of writing and printing multiple copies of a manifesto titled “How to Kill a Federal Judge.” Those who seek to retaliate against witnesses or judges with threats of violence will be held fully accountable,” said United States Attorney Daniel N. Rosen.