Legal Opinion
United States v. Hernandez
District Court, D. Puerto Rico
Decided January 4, 2002No. CRIM. 01-635(SEC)PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
CASELLAS, District Judge.
Perhaps the most fundamental of all the guarantees bestowed upon the citizens by the Constitution are those incarnated in the simple and powerful language of the First Amendment. Although much importance is given, and rightly so, to a person’s freedom to speak his/her mind against the ideas of the many, to associate him/herself with whoever he/she pleases, and to hold and practice freely his/her religious beliefs, if any; the First Amendment is most central to the very idea and notion of our juridical order because it protects the most basic of all…
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