Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Pierce Jevon Robinson-Burgess, 30, who has been in the Alachua County Jail since June 2023 for an elaborate stalking scheme and was charged with sending death threats to a judge in December, has now been formally charged with sending a written threat to kill an Assistant State Attorney.

On July 1, a 10-page handwritten letter was received by the Clerk of Court with a return address showing Robinson-Burgess’ name and the address of the jail; the letter began, “I am very very sorry for this, I really am, but this has gone too far.”

The letter accused an Assistant State Attorney of lying to him and said that a public defender of patronized him; the letter stated that if anyone acts this way toward him, “I will kill them. Without hesitation… I will hunt you down, and I will kill you.” The letter said he had a list and would “exercise the absolute f*** out of my 2nd amendment… I’ve never owned a gun; I cannot wait. No one will ever treat me like sh** again… Yea, I’m getting a gun.”

The letter continued, “I will have a resolution to all of my cases within 7 days. I am done. If you all cannot respect my 1st amendment, I have a 2nd… There is a 99.9% chance I do something stupid upon release.”

Later in the letter, it says, “Lol ya’ll realize I will get a phone in prison?… I can orchestrate everything from there. It is done. This is the only place I won’t have a phone.”

Robinson-Burgess was already being held on $8 million bail for the four previous cases, but Judge Kristine Van Vorst ordered him held without bail on the new charge, pending a hearing on a motion from the State Attorney’s Office to hold him without bail until trial. Robinson-Burgess’ public defender has also filed a motion, asking Judge James Colaw to recuse himself from the most recent case because he is the victim in one of the other cases facing Robinson-Burgess.

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