Legal Opinion
Doe v. Bell
District Court, E.D. Missouri
Decided February 5, 2019No. Case No. 4:15 CV 6 RWSPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
RODNEY W. SIPPEL, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
*969Plaintiff Grand Juror Doe (Juror)2 seeks a declaratory judgment that Missouri laws criminalizing Juror's disclosure of information about her experience as a juror on a State of Missouri grand jury are unconstitutional as applied. Juror alleges that if these Missouri statutes are enforced it will violate her free speech rights under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Defendant St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney has moved to dismiss the complaint on numerous grounds. Because the complaint fails to state a claim I will grant…
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