In Re Wallace

Opinion

MOSK, J.

Petitioners Wallace, Pamperin, and Mintzer were arrested for allegedly causing an obstruction at a county fair by handing out leaflets protesting the effects on farm workers of the automation of agriculture and the involvement of the University of California in that process. They are currently in constructive custody after suffering misdemeanor convictions of trespass in violation of Penal Code section 602, subdivision (j). That statute makes punishable the act of “Entering any lands, whether unenclosed or enclosed by fence, for the purpose of injuring any property or property…