Legal Opinion
Diehl v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided October 13, 1982No. [No. 67, September Term, 1981.]PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
Murphy, C. J., and Smith and Rodowsky, JJ., dissent. Rodowsky, J., filed a dissenting opinion at page 480 infra, in which Murphy, C. J., and Smith, J., join.
The question presented in this case is whether it is disorderly conduct for a passenger in a car, which has been stopped by police for a traffic violation, to loudly assert that he has a right to leave the scene (punctuating the assertions with a four letter expletive) after being told by the officer to get back into the car. We summarize the facts as follows.
Vincent Gavin, Chief of Police of the Hancock Police Department, was on routine…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Roth v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Chaplinsky v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Cohen v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Brandenburg v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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3Cited by49 opinions
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- Barnhard v. StateCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1991
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