Legal Opinion

In re T.L.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Decided June 3, 2010No. 06-FS-798PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

GLICKMAN, Associate Judge:

T.L. appeals his juvenile delinquency adjudication for disorderly conduct and for possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute it. His claims require us to construe the term “breach of the peace” in the District’s disorderly conduct statute, D.C.Code § 22-1321 (2001). Sixteen-year-old T.L. was arrested for loudly yelling in protest and calling for his mother, on the street in a residential neighborhood in the middle of the night, after a police officer confiscated his money without permission or right. We hold that T.L.’s loud words, though they may have annoyed…

2Cases cited38 opinions

  1. Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  2. Ornelas v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1996
  3. Cantwell v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
  4. Ward v. Rock Against RacismSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
  5. Chaplinsky v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1942

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3Cited by12 opinions

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