Court Opinion

ID: 9744635
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 22:10:58.83518+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:50.642697
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FRIEDLANDER, Judge,
concurring in result.
I concur in the result reached by the majority for the reasons expressed in Price v. State (1993), Ind., 622 N.E.2d 954 and Radford v. State (1994), Ind.App., 627 N.E.2d 1331.
Whittington's speech merely protested the "legality and appropriateness of police conduct." Radford, supra at 1333. His speech was political in nature and "it did not inflict upon a determinant party any harm analogous to that which would sustain tort liability." Id.
I therefore agree that Whittington's conviction should be reversed.