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Free Speech Is Sometimes Expensive
Loaded on Nov. 19, 2019
by Edward Lyon
published in Criminal Legal News
December, 2019, page 40
Filed under:
First Amendment, rights.
Location:
United States of America.
by Ed Lyon
Jon Goldsmith of Montgomery County, Iowa, attended a summer festival last year in adjoining Adams County. He witnessed police misconduct there so outrageous he felt he had to make the public aware of it. Unfortunately for him, the police did not agree with his colorful expressions on ...
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