Abbott v. State

HOLLANDER, Judge.

Following a trial in October 2008, a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County convicted Walter Carl Abbott, Jr., appellant, of threatening to injure Governor Martin O’Malley, a State official, in violation of Mu. Code (2002, 2008 Supp.), § 3- 708(b) of the Criminal Law Article (“C.L.”). 1 The alleged threat was contained in an e-mail message that appellant sent to a State website in March 2008. The court sentenced appellant to a suspended term of six months’ incarceration and imposed a fine of $500. 2

This appeal followed. Appellant poses four questions, which we have…