Legal Opinion
Girma Aboye v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided August 6, 2015No. 13-CM-1219PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GLICKMAN, Associate Judge:
Appellant Girma Aboye was convicted of making bias-related threats to do bodily harm after he confronted a gay couple with homophobic slurs and threatened to kill them with his dbg. On appeal, he makes two arguments: first, that the Bias-Related Crime Act does not apply to the offense of threats; and second, that there was insufficient evidence to convict him of that offense. We reject both -contentions and affirm appellant’s conviction.
I
The evidence presented at trial by the government may be summarized as follows. In 2012-2013, Michael Eichler and Zachary Rosen…
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