Farina v. United States

ROGERS, Chief Judge:

Appellants appeal their convictions under D.C.Code § 9-112(b)(5) (1989 Repl.), on two grounds relating to the jury instructions. First, they contend that without a limiting construction requiring that serious disruption is an element of the offense, the statute is unconstitutional as applied to their non-violent protest on the Capitol Grounds, and hence, the trial judge erred by not instructing the jury that to convict it had to find that appellants’ conduct caused a serious disruption. Second, they contend that the trial judge erred by not instructing the jury on its…