Appellate Division, First Department at 27 Madison Ave. (Photo by David Handschuh/NYLJ)
A state appeals court has reversed a New York man’s conviction of making a terroristic threat against Bangladeshi worshippers at a mosque, writing that allowing his altercation-fueled threat to “shoot ‘you guys’” to stand as a legal terroristic threat “would trivialize the definition of terrorism.”
The man, defendant Phillip DeBlasio, who now has had his four-year prison sentence overturned, is a practicing Muslim who got into a brief fight in 2018 with another man at the Manhattan-based mosque he attended, according to an Appellate Division, First Department opinion and a lawyer familiar with case.
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