People v. Bull

OPINION OF THE COURT

Judgment of conviction rendered December 12, 2001 affirmed.

The 11 defendants-appellants herein, self-proclaimed anarchists, were convicted after a nonjury trial of loitering (Penal Law § 240.35 [4])1 upon proof, now unchallenged on either sufficiency or weight of the evidence grounds, that they and others gathered next to each other “as a group” and covered their faces with bandanas while shouting epithets and political slogans during a May Day demonstration in Union Square Park.

Defendants’ constitutional challenges to the antimask provisions of Penal Law § 240.35 (4) are…