Siamack Zaimi v. United States

SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from affirmance by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals1 of a judgment of the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions2 convicting appellant, Siamack Zaimi, of “bring[ing]” the Shah of Iran “into public disrepute”3 in purported violation of D.C.Code § 22-1115.4 Zaimi contends that that section imposes an unconstitutional restraint on freedom of speech and that the evidence at his trial was insufficient to warrant conviction.5 We conclude that the activities upon which Zaimi’s conviction rested did not *513infringe Section…