Date: Thursday, November 15, 2007
Time: 5:32 PM
Place: Testing Center
This is for my weekly article due in Law 310:
Hartocollis, Anemona. “Manhattan: Charges Dropped.” NY Times 15 Nov. 2007: B6.
In addition to the newspaper article, I found extra information at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/26/nyregion/26billy.html.
William Talen was arrested by police during a rally in Union Square; he was charged with two counts of second degree harassment. At the rally, Talen recited the First Amendment into a megaphone in the direction of the police officers. The cops told him to stop but Talen did not. The Manhattan district attorney purposely let the case drop by not meeting court deadlines. The defendant’s lawyer’s argument is that harassment is defined by the law as doing something that is alarming, annoying, and has no legitimate purpose. The lawyer recalled that if you swear to you wife, then that can serve as a legitimate purpose. The same applied to his client’s case.
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