When it comes to Preacher Paul’s three criminal charges that are against him, two will fail, the other one will likely go through and he will be charged for this. The charge that he will end up being charged for is the violation of a noise ordinance that makes it a crime to yell religious epithets in the downtown area between the hours of noon and 1 PM. Since Paul is in the downtown area from exactly those time frames, and he is yelling about people going to hell in correlation between God hating gay people, then he is yelling religious epithets as well, and key witnesses will attest to this. Therefore, he fits all the criteria needed to be charged successfully for this charge, but if it had been after 1 PM or before noon, he couldn’t be charged. In terms of the trespassing charge, Paul cannot be successfully charged for this. Paul is on an open corner of First …show more content…
Street and Madison in downtown Phoenix, and therefore this is a public sidewalk where people can protest, which is what he is doing. Paul is protected by his First Amendment rights for his freedom of speech and his freedom to protest on a public sidewalk, and therefore is not trespassing. While the speech may be distasteful, his kind of hate speech, like the Westboro Baptist Church issues, is protected by the First Amendment and is practicable without conviction on public property. This same issue goes into play for his third and final charge, which will not be successful, in the charge of disturbing the peace.
Disturbing the peace rules generally tend to affect people protesting during night time hours, and in the state of Arizona, you are technically disturbing the peace if the person is disturbing the peace of a quiet neighborhood, engaging in fighting, creating violent or seriously disruptive behavior, unreasonable noise, abusive or offensive language/gestures that could invoke violence, refusing to obey a law, or using a dangerous weapon. In this case, Paul is not using a dangerous weapon, is not in a neighborhood, is not making unreasonable noise, is not refusing to obey the law, and although there was a punch throw, he was not engaging in fighting or his language was not abusive enough to invoke violence. While Joe Gymrat may have a different argument that the words were offensive, a general court and jury would not hold these works offensive enough for violence, as they would have to be fighting words. Therefore, Paul is not disturbing the peace and cannot be charged for
such. The legal theory that could possibly hold Paul responsible for Joe’s punch is that Paul’s hate speech was a true threat speech, which is punishable and not protected by the First Amendment. It can also be said that this speech invoked violence, but it would not apply and be successful in this scenario. All Paul was saying was that “you all” in a general sense were going to hell, “unless something was to be done with the gays,” which is not invoking threat onto Joe, even if he is gay. Although, if Paul had said “I’m going to make sure all gays die,” or anything that could be threatening to Joe’s life with real true danger that was obvious from what Paul was saying, then the punch would be Paul’s fault, as he brought it on himself. Therefore, Joe would be tried most likely/successfully for assaulting Paul. If Paul were to sue Rachel and her newspaper for reporting on the fact that he used to beat up gay men, which turned out to be a lie, he could sue for libel. His cause of libel would be libel per quod, and Rachel’s defense would be her fair report privilege and her neutral reportage. Although Rachel could have done more investigating, when Ethel Jones had made her statement in court, she was under oath, and therefore her words were to be taken as the truth. Also, when Joe’s attorney was speaking after, he was reinstating what Ethel’s statement was showing, in more plain words for the jury. Since Rachel was reporting on information that is on file on court documents now, and was under oath at the time she reported it, then she is protected by the fair report privilege, as she was reporting off official records that were to be made, and a testimony of a woman under oath, which is assumed to be true. Also, her neutral reportage shows that since Ethel was under oath, he accusation at the time was protected by the First Amendment right when it was reported on. Since Rachel had reported on this before it was found out to be false, she is protected. If Rachel reported on it after finding out is was false, then she would be knowingly publishing false facts, and could be held libel. Otherwise, if this statement was made outside of court and not on record/under oath, it can possibly be held libel without further research from Rachel. Therefore, this suit against Rachel would be unsuccessful. The cause of action that Paul would be trying Ethel “Bubblegum” for would be the cause of action that Bubblegum was partaking in copyright infringement. Paul would say that his face is copyrighted, and therefore Bubblegum cannot use an image of the two of them. If he wanted to dive into it more, he could go into harassment, but that is something he would only pursue if he lost his copyright case, which he also would lose. While he cannot go after the word “Preacher” being on the t-shirt, he could go after that his face is on the t-shirt. He could say that he did not give Bubblegum permission to use his face, but if the picture of the two of them is a picture that was willingly taken together of the two, he does not have a case, as he was willing-fully in the picture. This would be the same case if I took a picture with U2 and put it on a shirt – they took the picture with me willing-fully and cannot have their faces removed from the t-shirt I make of us. Although, if the picture of him that was used was a copyrighted image that was used with photoshop to crop the two of them together for the shirt, he could sue for copyright infringement of her using his picture on the shirt. Although, since Paul does not own copyright on the picture of the two of them, and his copyright is not registered, therefore the picture is in the public domain and can be used for the two of them together on a t-shirt. His case could only be successful if he could prove the picture of them two is protected by a valid copyright, that Paul owns the copyright and that it is registered with the Copyright Office, which none of this applies to. Therefore, Paul loses this too!
In “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather, the story begins with a tense atmosphere as a young 16 year-old boy, named Paul, enters the principal’s office, who seems to have every intention to cause a reaction among his teachers, who made the complaint about Paul’s ongoing bad behavior at school. He entered with an attitude opposite of what he should have when getting questioned by the principal of Pittsburg High School, to account for his various misdemeanors. His demeanor is shown in the following quote:
the court, and for saying “I say-I say – God is dead” (p.115). The day
This caused more anger among the students, and added more people to the rebellion that would otherwise not have become involved. On May 4th 1970, when rallies surfaced again in the commons area, tear gas was used to disperse the crowd. The conflict between students and the National Guard had begun to expand, and the cursing and rock throwing were increasing the tension in the air. The Guard ordered the students to retreat and as the crowds began to break up, it appeared the Guard was also retreating. Then the shots were heard.
California, in 1931, was seen as a violation of the First Amendment after Stromberg was arrested for displaying a red flag as a sign of resistance against the government. This was the first declaration that symbolic speech is protected under the First Amendment (“Timeline of Flag...”). In 1943, the issue of a law requiring people to salute the flag was raised in the West Virginia v. Barnett court case. In this case, the importance of freedom of expression under the First Amendment was highlighted by Justice Jackson (“Supreme Court Cases”). In 1969, Street v New York it was decided that no state is able to convict a person based on verbal comments insulting the flag. Street was arrested after burning the flag and yelling “we don’t need no damn flag” into the crowd. Instead of focusing on the burning of the flag and deciding whether or not it is protected under the First Amendment they focused on Street’s oral remarks (“Timeline of
During a weekly Bible study, witnesses say a white male came into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and opened fire around 9 p.m. On June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof, 21, entered into this church and opened fire. He killed 9 people that day. The church was primarily African American which also caused the nation to go into a panic and think of one explanation: racism. Whichever viewpoint you see this from; everyone can agree it was a tragedy that innocent lives were taken that day. Many speculate different reasons as to why he committed such an act: racism, mental illness, hate, etc. However, when confronted by someone in the church while committing this tragic action, he said “I have to do it. You rape our women and you 're taking over our
In "Paul's Case" by Willa Cather, a young man named Paul is unhappy with his home and school life. He is happiest when he is at Carnegie Hall, where he works as an usher. When he is not physically at Carnegie Hall, his thoughts remain there causing his school work to suffer. When his father finds out about his problems in school he has Paul banned from Carnegie Hall, taken out of school, and put to work. One day, while on his way to make the company's deposit, Paul decides to take some of the money and go to New York to experience the life he feels he was destined for. Unable to cope with the punishment for taking the money he commits suicide. The central idea in this story is that it takes patience and perseverance to accomplish your dreams, and you should not give up on them.
Even though many of the protesters were severely beaten, they still stood their stance and got the message out. What is a Riot? According to Encyclopedia.gov a riot “is a social occasion involving relatively spontaneous collective violence directed at property, persons, or authority.” There are five main
To a significant extent, the statement “Religion is a set of variously organized beliefs concerning the relationships that exist between humanity and the supernatural dimension” represents the lived expression of Christian adherents as it is the principle beliefs and teachings of Christianity that shape the everyday lives of adherents by helping them to maintain right relationships with God and others. Specifically, this response will explore how significant people such as St Paul of Tarsus have shaped Christianity so that adherents focus on the intention rather than the letter of the law, so as to obtain a contemplative outlook. As well as how Christian adherents across the breadth of the tradition respond to their baptismal commitment in daily life, and how adherents honour this commitment to God when responding to issues concerning environmental ethics.
On a Sunday morning, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones attended church at St. George’s Church. Jones was asked by one of the trustees to not kneel during prayer, but Jones asked to wait until the prayer was over. But Jones was not given the chance to finish the prayer, and soon another man came to remove him from the church. Being denied the opportunity to worship, Jones, Allen, and other African American members of the church walked out before the prayer was finished. Allen and Jones had been ejected from the church.
Analysis of Paul's Case by Willa Cather. Willa Cather’s “Paul’s Case” is a story about a young 16 year-old man, Paul, who is motherless and alienated. Paul’s lack of maternal care has led to his alienation. He searches for the aesthetics in life that he doesn’t get from his yellow wallpaper in his house and his detached, overpowering father figure in his life. Paul doesn’t have any interests in school and his only happiness is in working at Carnegie Hall and dreams of one day living the luxurious life in New York City.
Nashville police department received information that a suspect in a car bombing case, as well as some illegal, stolen equipment, could be found in the home of Mary Cooper. A few law enforcement officers were dispatched to her home. The police officers went to Cooper’s home and asked for permission to enter the home, but Cooper refused, without a search warrant. Two officers left and two were still at the resident of Mrs. Cooper. A few hours later, the two police officers returned with more police officers, waving a piece of paper, and broke open the front door. Cooper asked to see the warrant and took it from the officer, putting it her pants. The police officers had a struggle with Cooper and took the piece of paper away from her. They handcuffed for being aggressively
Do all choices have consequences? If you think about it long enough, all choices in a daily life has consequences, those consequences can be good or bad. Thus leading to the other characters who help Paul, Paul’s mother and Erik, they’re very important characters who play a major role in Paul’s life. These characters form Paul Fisher’s life into what it is now. In the book Tangerine created by Edward Bloor(Genre is a novel), the protagonist Paul moves to another home from Lake Windsor to Tangerine only then he meets characters other than his family. In this essay, we’re going to talk about the choices and consequences Erik did to affect Paul’s life.
At the end of part 1 when Paul states " The Heavens have open up to me", which shows a turning point in the novel. Earlier in the story, Paul was kicked out of the soccer team because he had an IEP, which he doesn't need. He can't fix his mom mistake for telling the school that Paul's blind. However, Paul claims that he can see just fine. It was a miracle that he gets a second chance. According to page 94, "I want to go to Tangerine Middle school, I want to go with no IEP." All Paul wanted was to play soccer, and he could never play soccer if the school knows that he has a disability. Paul can now have the opportunity to play soccer, if he transfers school. Paul just wants to prove that he's not some kid with eye problems, and that he can be
In the short story “Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament,” Paul is a troubled high school teen. He was recently kicked out of school and does not have the greatest relationship with his father. As a result, this young man takes his life because he just cannot handle life anymore. Many teens struggle with stress which could result to sleep deprivation. Students can be kept up late at night finishing work, resulting in little sleep.
The beginnings of my life are an interesting jumble, and they highlight the cosmopolitan world that was the Roman Empire. I was born in an Asian city now located on the southern coast of Turkey called Tarsus in about the year 10. My parents were Jewish, presumably strict Pharisees. They were also Roman citizens.