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Jurors Struggle with Doggart Deliberation

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Feb 15, 2017
Jurors deciding the case of Robert Doggart, a Tennessee man accused of planning to attack a Muslim community in New York, sent a note to U.S. District Court Judge Curtis Collier yesterday asking for clarification on the defendant's two charges of "threat in interstate commerce," the Times Free Press reports. Federal prosecutors have argued Doggart made two threats over the telephone, and a telephone counts and as instrument of interstate commerce. The defense countered that Doggart was goaded by the government informant he spoke with when he made the threats, and only wanted to conduct “recon” on the town of Islamberg after begin convinced by Fox News broadcasts that its residents wanted to attack New York City.