Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Tucci
Texas Supreme Court
Decided June 30, 1993No. D-2809PublishedCited by 114 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DOGGETT, Justice.
We consider the scope of our state constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression. Keith Tucci, Randall Terry, Joseph Slovenic, Patrick Mahoney, Wendy Wright, Flip Benham, and Robert Jewitt were convicted of civil contempt for public protests in which each of them disregarded a provision of a temporary restraining order. As relators, they bring this original habeas corpus proceeding asserting that they have been confined for expression which is protected under article I, section 8 of the Texas Constitution.
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