United States v. William R. Perl

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

William R. Perl was convicted of willfully attempting to damage property utilized by foreign officials in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 970, of unlawfully receiving a firearm purchased outside the State of Maryland in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(3), and of conspiring with unknown persons to commit these crimes in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371. He was fined $12,000, given a two-year suspended sentence, and placed on three years’ supervised probation. On appeal he urges a number of grounds of reversal, principally that the district court erroneously declined to give an…