Legal Opinion
Owens v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided March 8, 1971No. Record 7400 and 7401PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGordon, J.
Defendants William Sylvester Owens and Roy Lee Ferguson, Jr. were members of an unruly crowd in Charlottesville on the night of September 8, 1968 when the police ordered the crowd to disperse. Property had been damaged, apparently by members of the crowd, and the police feared further physical violence. Owens and Ferguson were arrested, tried for the misdemeanor of remaining at the place of an unlawful assembly 1 after having been lawfully warned to disperse, and convicted and sentenced to six months imprisonment. Va. Code Ann. §§ 18.1-254.1 (c),-254.4 (Supp. 1970). 2
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2Cases cited12 opinions
- Cantwell v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. ButtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Thornhill v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- Dombrowski v. PfisterSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Cox v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Bigelow v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Wicks v. City of CharlottesvilleSupreme Court of Virginia · 1974
- State v. AlbersSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1973
- Blackwell v. Virginia, Department of Taxation (In Re Blackwell)United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Virginia · 1990
- Turner v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 2018
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