Legal Opinion
State v. Crawley
Court of Appeals of Minnesota
Decided September 28, 2010No. A09-1795PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MINGE, Judge.
Appellant challenges her conviction of falsely reporting police misconduct, arguing that the statute violates the First Amendment’s prohibition on viewpoint discrimination. Because the statute singles out a limited category of otherwise unprotected statements for criminalization and the limited category does not meet the exceptions to content-based discrimination established by the United States Supreme Court in R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, 505 U.S. 377, 112 S.Ct. 2538, 120 L.Ed.2d 305 (1992), we reverse.
FACTS
In 2008, appellant Melissa Crawley filed a report of police…
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3Cited by3 opinions
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