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Court tosses 1 count against Maine man who mailed what he claimed was fatal cyanide

Sidney Kilmartin was charged with sending cyanide to a man in England and for advertising, mailing what he said was cyanide to suicidal people. It was Epsom salt.
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BOSTON — The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a witness tampering charge against a Maine man convicted of mailing fatal cyanide to an Englishman. 

The decision, dated Friday, doesn't change the 25-year prison sentence for Sidney Kilmartin, of Windham. He's serving a separate 25-year sentence for mailing the cyanide, along with several concurrent 20-year sentences on other counts related to the case. 

Kilmartin is currently serving his sentence at a federal detention center in Kentucky. 

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