Edward Sawyer, Jr. v. Jack Sandstrom, as Director, Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Dade County, Florida

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• concluding that an ordinance which prohibited a person from loitering while knowing that a narcotic was being unlawfully possessed violated the First Amendment for “criminaliz[ing] ordinary associational conduct not constituting a breach of the peace”
• holding loitering ordinance unconstitutionally over-broad because it authorized “the punishment of constitutionally protected conduct”
• stating that a petitioner whose 13 F.3d 361, 363 (5th Cir. 2002
• holding that an anti-loitering ordinance unconstitutionally overbroad
• “The objectionable quality of overbreadth .. . does not depend upon absence of fair notice to a criminally accused.... ”
• “[I]f the purpose of the [anti-drug loitering] ordinance is to nip crime in the bud by providing police with the means to arrest all suspicious persons, it is patently unconstitutional.”

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