Mattie Hammond v. The Honorable Richard B. Adkisson, Pulaski County, Arkansas, Circuit Judge, and Monroe Love, Pulaski County, Arkansas, Sheriff

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• \the trier of fact might well conclude ... that there was no likelihood that a [nineteen year old] young woman's words would provoke a violent response from the particular officer involved\
• first amendment requires \determination that the words were used 'under such circumstances' that they were likely to arouse to immediate and violent anger the person to whom the words were addressed\ [emphasis omitted]
• first amendment requires ‘‘determination that the words were used ‘under such circumstances’ that they were likely to arouse to imme- diate and violent anger the person to whom the words were addressed’’ [emphasis omitted]
• first amendment requires ‘determination that the words were used “under such circumstances” that they were likely to arouse to immediate and violent anger the person to whom the words were addressed’ . . .
• “Although the words used may be judicially noted as profane and abusive, a trier of fact might nonetheless find they did not constitute ‘fighting words’ — that is, words likely to incite the addressee to a violent reaction under the circumstances of the case”

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