Legal Opinion
State v. Crawley
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided August 8, 2012No. A09-1795PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ANDERSON, G. BARRY, Justice.
The question presented here is whether a Minnesota statute that prohibits knowingly false reports of police misconduct violates the First Amendment because it allows the State to punish some people, but not others, depending on the viewpoint expressed about the police. A jury found Melissa Jean Crawley guilty of violating the challenged law, Minn.Stat. § 609.505, subd. 2 (2010), based on the fact that she informed a police officer that another officer forged her signature, knowing that the information conveyed was false. The court of appeals reversed her…
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