Bachellar v. Maryland

How courts have described this case

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• concluding, upon “independent examination of the whole record,” that wording on petitioners’ placards was not “fighting words”
• overturning conviction under statute that prohibited \acting in a disorderly manner to the disturbance of the public peace\
• voiding criminal conviction due to possibility that, given court’s instructions, conviction resulted from finding that defendant’s views were merely offensive to bystanders
• noting “petitioners’ convictions could constitutionally have rested on a finding that they sat or lay across a public sidewalk with the intent of fully blocking passage along it”
• finding probable cause based exclusively on plaintiff’s online speech was valid because not all of plaintiff’s Facebook activity was clearly First Amendment-protected expression
• condemning post hoc speculation as to which alternative ground informed jury verdict

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