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Criminal Law Keyed to Hoffmann
Darab v. United States
Facts
An Islamic Center in Washington, D.C., held a worship service for the end of Ramadan. The Center was also hosting its reopening after it was closed, due renovations. Thus, the Center was expecting a many attendees. Dr. Samuel Hamoud, the man in charge of security at the Center, hired private security officers to assist at the service. Dr. Adil Al-Aseer, a new imam, was responsible for leading the service. Once service began, the Center’s prior imam, Mohammed Asi, and his followers began a violent argument in the Center, physically attacking Al-Aseer and Hamoud. Thereafter, Hamoud and the manager of the private security team ordered everyone in the Center to leave or the police would arrest them. The Mohammed Asi and his followers did not leave the service, and were, subsequently, convicted of unlawful entry under D.C. Code § 22-3102. Mohammed Asi and his followers appealed the convictions alleging they did not receive the instructions to leave the Center because they could not hear Hamoud and the manager of the private security team, and they thought they were allowed to stay in the Center. Mohammed Asi and his followers belief of the right to remain was founded on an opinion Asi obtained from the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, which stated one may not own a mosque and deny other Muslims entry onto the mosque property.
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