Golb v. Attorney General of the State of New York

DENNIS JACOBS, Circuit Judge:'

In the academic debate about who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, petitioner-appellant Raphael Golb (“Golb”) was deeply committed to the side championed by his father Norman Golb. To further his father’s position, Golb wrote several emails impersonating other scholars in an apparent effort to at least embarrass proponents of the rival view and, in some instances, harm their reputations. A Manhattan grand jury charged him with, inter alia, multiple counts of criminal impersonation in the second degree and forgery in the third degree. He was convicted of most of those…