Legal Opinion
Watts v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 21, 1969No. 1107 MPublishedCited by 878 opinions
1Per curiam
After a jury trial in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, petitioner was convicted of violating a 1917 statute which prohibits any person from “knowingly and willfully . . . [making] any threat to take the life of or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States ....”* The incident *706which led to petitioner’s arrest occurred on August 27, 1966, during a public rally on the Washington Monument grounds. The crowd present broke up into small discussion groups and petitioner joined a gathering scheduled to discuss police brutality. Most of those in the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Linn v. United Plant Guard Workers of America, Local 114Supreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Robert Watts v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1968
- Ragansky v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1918
- Ray Dan Pierce v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1966
3Cited by878 opinions
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- Virginia v. BlackSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
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