State v. Reeder

The portion of Ohio’s disorderly conduct statute, R.C. 2917.11, at issue herein provides:

“(A) No person shall recklessly cause inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm to another, by doing any of the following:

“(1) Engaging in fighting, in threatening harm to persons or property, or in violent or turbulent behavior. ” (Emphasis added.)1

In reversing the conviction, the court of appeals stated that it had previously held that “ ‘* * * the term “turbulent behavior” is not sufficiently definite to inform those of common intelligence of the point at which their conduct becomes impermissible and a…