Legal Opinion
Monroe v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 5, 1982No. 38722, 38723PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Gregory, Justice.
Defendants were tried jointly and convicted of “deliberately defacing and defiling the flag of the United States by burning it.” Code Ann. § 26-2803. The case is before us on a constitutional challenge to this code section.
On November 29, 1979 two officers from the City of Atlanta Police Department were dispatched to the federal courthouse on Forsyth Street to observe a demonstration by the Iranian Student Association and the Revolutionary Communist Party “against the United State’s involvement in Iranian affairs.” Trial testimony by these officers indicated that from their…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- United States v. O'BrienSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Connally v. General Construction Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1926
- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School DistrictSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Screws v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Smith v. GoguenSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
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3Cited by26 opinions
- State v. RiggsSupreme Court of Georgia · 2017
- Johnson v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1994
- Bell v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1984
- Diane Monroe v. State Court of Fulton County, James Webb, Solicitor of Fulton County, and Michael Bowers, Attorney General of GeorgiaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1984
- Brinkley v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1984
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