State v. Francis

KAPSNER, Justice.

[¶ 1] Curtis Francis appeals- from a criminal judgment after conditionally pleading guilty to gathering signatures within 100 feet of a polling place. We conclude the electioneering law -he was charged under does not violate the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, and it is a reasonable restriction on the North Dakota' Constitution’s initiated ballot measure provisioii. We also conclude Francis has failed to show he was selectively prosecuted. We affirm the judgment.

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[¶ 2] Francis and another man, Michael Dax, were collecting signatures near the Jamestown Civic…