Meredith Logan Whitehurst v. Town of Sullivan's Island

Syllabus

This is a direct appeal from the circuit court's affirmance of Meredith Logan Whitehurst's municipal court (Trial Court) conviction for violation of the Town of Sullivan's Island's (the Town's) Disorderly Conduct Ordinance (the Ordinance). The Town cited Whitehurst for violation of the Ordinance for loudly berating the driver of her Uber ride (Driver) with profanity and racial and xenophobic epithets at almost 2:00 a.m. After the jury found her guilty, the trial court fined her $1,040. On appeal to this Court, Whitehurst argues (1) the Ordinance violates the First Amendment of the United States Constitution's protection of private speech, and her words were not \fighting words\; (2) the Ordinance is unconstitutionally vague; (3) the trial court erred in denying her motion for the Town to provide a more definite statement or charge a specific subsection of the Ordinance; and (4) the trial court erred in denying her motion to suppress the video from Driver's dash camera (the Uber Video) because the video was not the entire video and the chain of custody was insufficient. We affirm.