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ABOYE v. U.S.

No. 13-CM-1219.

121 A.3d 1245 (2015)

Girma ABOYE, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 6, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fletcher P. Thompson , Crownsville, MD, for appellant.

Kristina L. Ament , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Ronald C. Machen Jr. , United States Attorney at the time the brief was filed, and Elizabeth Trosman , Suzanne G. Curt , David Misler , Karen Seifert , and Derrick Williams , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before GLICKMAN and EASTERLY, Associate Judges, and KRAVITZ, Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

Appellant Girma Aboye was convicted of making bias-related threats to do bodily harm after he confronted a gay couple with homophobic slurs and threatened to kill them with his dog. On appeal, he makes two arguments: first, that the Bias-Related Crime Act does not apply to the offense of threats; and second, that there...

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