Barrows v. United States

THOMPSON, Associate Judge:

A jury convicted appellant David Barrows of engaging in disorderly and disruptive conduct on United States Capitol grounds, in violation of D.C.Code § 10-503.16(b)(4) (2001). 1 The government’s evidence was that, on September 11, 2007, appellant entered a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building and, during the testimony of General David Petraeus, shouted, “You are trying to set a trap for us to bomb the helpless people of Iran. Aren’t 750,000 deaths enough for your blood thirst?”

Appellant raises four issues on appeal, all of…