Court Opinion

ID: 8079719
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 13:46:16.368752+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:38:22.480933
License: Public Domain

*518Dissenting Opinion by
Packel, J.:
I dissent because the statute is overbroad.1 Wha,t a person may say or display as to the flag, absent some element of commotion or other public concern, is a matter of free speech.2 An aberration of mind together with its expression, without more, is no crime.

 Goguen v. Smith, 343 F. Supp. 161 (D.C. Mass. 1972).

 Cf. Street v. New York, 394 U.S. 576 (1969) ; dissent in United States v. Crossom, 462 F. 2d 96 (9th Cir. 1972).