United States v. Zebuel Jackson Hanna

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• holding that judge abused his discretion by per- mitting expert testimony on whether a reasonable person would foresee communication as threatening because laypeo- ple are qualified to analyze the question
• when applying the principle of independent review, the appellate court defers to the trier of fact on matters such as determinations of historical facts and credibility
• “[T]he Court [has] left no doubt that true threats could be criminalized because they are not pro- tected speech.”
• testimony of Secret Service agents on whether a reasonable person in the defendant’s position would foresee that communications would be perceived as threatening the President was not beyond the under- standing of the average layperson

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