Evans v. State

1 Citing case

  1. State v. Parnoff

    329 Conn. 386 (Conn. 2018)   Cited 9 times
    Recognizing that, in current times, "the threat of gun violence is tasteless, shameful, and all too real"

    Indeed, both Lathlean and Lavin testified that they notified the police because, in Lavin's words, the "situation was starting to get out of control," given the defendant's anger and his threat to get a gun.6 To this end, I find instructive the decision by the Georgia Court of Appeals in Evans v. State , 241 Ga. App. 32, 32–33, 525 S.E.2d 780 (1999), which rejected a sufficiency challenge to a disorderly conduct conviction on the basis of fighting words rooted in similar threats to shoot an amusement park security officer, who, like a water company employee or store manager, is expected to interact professionally with members of the public who may be behaving very badly. In Evans , while at Six Flags, a major amusement park, the defendant, Evans, responded to the officer's "questions about ... [stolen] cotton candy by repeatedly saying, ‘[Fuck] that, that does not have [shit] to do with us,’ " and most significantly, that " ‘he was going to go to his vehicle, get his "pop," while pointing his hand at [the officer] like a pistol [and saying] "pop, pop, pop" .... That's when [Evans] started walking [toward] his vehicle.’