United States v. Robert Lorne Salyer

CONTIE, Senior Circuit Judge.

Defendant-Appellant Robert Lome Sal-yer appeals the sentence imposed after being convicted of conspiring to threaten and intimidate Henry and Shirley Griffin in the free exercise or enjoyment of a right secured to them by the Constitution or laws of the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 241. For the following reasons, we affirm the decision of the district court.

I

On the night of September 16-17, 1988, defendant-appellant Salyer and co-eonspirator Pichler burned a wooden cross on a black neighbor’s lawn. Defendant Salyer built the six-foot high wooden cross…