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THE THREAT MADE BY DEFENDANT WAS PERSONAL IN NATURE AND WAS NOT DIRECTED AT THE CIVILIAN POPULATION WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE TERRORISM STATUTE (PENAL LAW 490.20); THE CONVICTION WAS NOT SUPPORTED BY LEGALLY SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE AND WAS AGAINST THE WEIGHT OF THE EVIDENCE (FIRST DEPT). ​

The First Department, reversing defendant’s “terrorism” conviction, determined the evidence was legally insufficient and the conviction was against the weight of the evidence. The defendant threatened to shoot “you guys,” but the threat was personal in nature and was not directed at a “civilian population:”

The evidence of defendant’s “intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population” (Penal Law § 490.20[1]) was legally insufficient to support the conviction … . We also find that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence in that respect … .

At the end of an altercation, defendant, a Muslim, threatened to shoot “you guys,” referring to several Bangladeshi worshippers at defendant’s mosque. Although there was evidence presented at trial that defendant bore animus toward Bangladeshi people, the threat mentioned no group or population and instead appears to have been based on a personal dispute defendant had with one or more of his fellow worshippers over money or a missing phone. Accordingly, this threat was not directed at a “civilian population” as that term was explained by the Court of Appeals in People v Morales (20 NY3d 240, 247 [2012]). To find that defendant’s act amounted to a terroristic threat would trivialize the definition of terrorism by applying it “loosely in situations that do not match our collective understanding of what constitutes a terrorist act” … . People v DeBlasio, 2021 NY Slip Op 00376, First Dept 1-21-21

 

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