Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 5/17/1990

Commonwealth v. Williams

Citations

574 A.2d 1161
394 Pa. Super. 90
1990 Pa. Super. LEXIS 945

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holding that wearing underwear in public may be morally offensive, but that act, standing alone, is not physically offensive
concluding that underwear- clad defendant crossing parking lot to break into another’s car did not engage in physically offensive conduct
stating that a “physically offensive condition” includes “assaults on the physical senses of members of the public”
explaining, “hazardous condition” involves danger or risk of potential injury and “physically offensive condition” encompasses direct assaults on physical senses
“A defendant may create such a condition if she sets off a “stink bomb”, strews rotting garbage in public places, or shines blinding lights in the eyes of others.”
“A defendant may create such a [physically offensive] condition if she sets off a ‘stink bomb’, strews rotting garbage in public places, or shines blinding lights in the eyes of others.”

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Judges: Rowley, Beck, Montgomery

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