Legal Opinion
Musselman v. Commonwealth
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided February 27, 1986PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEIBSON, Justice.
The movant challenges the constitutionality of KRS 525.070(l)(b), a paragraph in the Harassment statute.
On April 9, 1982 in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, the movant was stopped for speeding. Apparently he was provoked for being stopped when others were not, and admittedly he directed profane language towards a police officer. In the words of the Court of Appeals’ Opinion, translated “out of good taste,” he called the officer “a little, fat person who had a continuing incestuous relationship with his mother. Unfortunately in doing so he employed a coarse phrase that is the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Kolender v. LawsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Gooding v. WilsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Ashton v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Hatchett v. City of GlasgowCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1960
- United States v. William SturgillCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1977
3Cited by45 opinions
- Commonwealth v. HarrelsonKentucky Supreme Court · 2000
- Samuel Eubanks, M.D. v. Wallace WilkinsonCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1991
- Commonwealth v. FoleyKentucky Supreme Court · 1990
- Diemer v. Commonwealth, Transportation Cabinet, Department of HighwaysKentucky Supreme Court · 1990
- Martin v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2003
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