He got off Ohio's Death Row but Scotsman Kenneth Richey can't stay out of trouble and is back where he began - in Putnam County Jail.

Richey, 47, was to be arraigned today in Putnam County Common Pleas Court for allegedly threatening Judge Randall Basinger, who was an assistant prosecutor in 1987 when he was convicted of murder in charges he threatened a local judge. Richey lives in Mississippi, but did not fight extradition to Ohio.

Richey was sentenced to death for an 1986 apartment fire in Columbus Grove, Ohio, that took the life of Cynthia Collins, 3. However, he got out of prison in 2008 under a plea agreement that he would never return to Ohio and not make contact with any of the parties in the case, including the victim's family, prosecutors and judges. Richey returned to his native Scotland, but almost immediately began getting in scrapes with the law. He eventually returned to the U.S.

The current felony charges of retaliation and breaking a protective order stem from a threatening phone call Richey allegedly made Dec. 31 to the Putnam County Clerk of Courts. Retired Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Dale Crawford has been assigned to hear the case.