Court Opinion

ID: 9671205
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:32:46.256605+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:08.716676
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Danhof and Y. J. Brennan, JJ.
(concurring in part, dissenting in part). We agree with Chief Judge Lesinski that the decision of the special three-judge Federal panel in Detroit Metropolitan Welfare Rights Organization v. Cahalan, Civil No 34006 (ED Mich, May 29, 1970), together with Bachellar v. Maryland (1970), 397 US 564 (90 S Ct 1312, 25 L Ed 2d 570), requires that the instant case be reversed and remanded for a new trial. We cannot agree, however, that all prosecutions under the statute, as amended by the three-judge Federal panel, would require that the activity to be punished must be shown to present a clear and present danger of riot, disorder, interference with traffic, or a threat to public safety. Such definitions are not necessary to the disposition of the case at hand.
Eeversed and remanded.