Legal Opinion
United States v. Abu Khatallah
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 26, 2018No. Case No. 14–cr–00141 (CRC)PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHRISTOPHER R. COOPER, United States District Judge
Ahmed Salim Faraj Abu Khatallah was convicted of four charges related to the 2012 attack on a United States diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. He has moved for a judgment of acquittal on one of these offenses: Count Eighteen of the superseding indictment, which charged a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). Abu Khatallah claims that his conviction cannot stand in light of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Sessions v. Dimaya, --- U.S. ----, 138 S.Ct. 1204, 200 L.Ed.2d 549 (2018). The Court will deny his motion.
I. Background
Abu Khatallah…
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