Curtis v. United States

KRAMER, Associate Judge:

This appeal arises from an incident that began, as the government’s evidence at trial showed, when thirty-two year-old Jesse Rowe, a patent examiner with an engineering degree, took his roommate’s sixteen year-old brother, Richard Sayoc, to a Kentucy Fried Chicken (“KFC”) to pick up dinner. While inside of the KFC, Rowe rejected the demand of a stranger on. a bicycle (referred to at trial as the “small man”) to give him fifty cents. Shortly thereafter, still inside the KFC, the small man came up and threatened Rowe with a knife, described by Rowe as a folding knife…