U.S. v. BURSEY

No. 04-4832.

416 F.3d 301 (2005)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Brett A. BURSEY, Defendant-Appellant. DKT Liberty Project; People for the American Way; National Lawyers' Guild; First Amendment Foundation; People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals; People's Law Office of Chicago, Amici Supporting, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 25, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Jeffrey E. Fogel, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, New York; P. Lewis Pitts, Jr., Advocates for Children's Services, Durham, North Carolina, for Appellant. Christopher Todd Hagins, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: J. Strom Thurmond, Jr., United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee. Susan R. Podolsky, Julie M. Carpenter, Jenner & Block, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae Supporting Appellant.

Before MOTZ and KING, Circuit Judges, and EUGENE E. SILER, JR., Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge KING wrote the opinion, in which Judge MOTZ and Senior Judge SILER joined.

KING, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Brett Bursey was convicted in early 2004—after a bench trial conducted by a magistrate judge in the District of South Carolina—of willfully and knowingly entering and remaining in a posted, cordoned off, or otherwise restricted area where the President was temporarily visiting, in contravention of §...

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