Legal Opinion
Jerry Dean McCoy v. Terry Stewart Grant Woods
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 26, 2002No. 15-16549PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge.
We must decide whether words spoken by an admitted former member of a California gang to a group of Arizona gang members could properly be punished by state law or, instead, fell within the protective ambit of the First Amendment.
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Jerry Dean McCoy was indicted in Arizona Superior Court on one count of participating in a criminal street gang in violation of A.R.S. § 13-2308, 1 a class 2 felony. The prosecution alleged that McCoy, formerly a member of a California street gang called “Toonerville,” advised a street gang who called themselves the “Bratz” or “Traviesos”…
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