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Thread ID: 3441 | Posts: 7 | Started: 2002-11-08
2002-11-08 05:44 | User Profile
Nov 7 2002
A woman who spent four days in a northern Michigan jail for making an anti-Hispanic slur has had her conviction overturned by the state Court of Appeals. Janice Barton, now 47, was charged and convicted under Manistee's law against engaging in insulting conduct in public.
In August 1998, Barton heard a Spanish-speaking man ask his wife to make room. Barton, who does not understand Spanish, then said to her mother: "I wish these (expletives) would learn to speak English," authorities say. Off-duty police Officer Carol Benitez followed Barton to her car and reported her to authorities. At Barton's trial, jurors were told they could convict her if they believed the words were "fighting words" intended "to incite violence or an immediate breach of the peace." She was sentenced to 45 days in the Manistee County Jail, though the punishment was later trimmed and she served four days.
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2002-11-08 06:45 | User Profile
The "expletive" deleted was the word for Hispanic that starts with "s" and will come out "Latino" on this forum if you write it out.
At the same time if you use the epithet that the "expletives" use for us natives -- gringo -- it will not be edited.
Yup. They hate us 'cause we're free. ;)
2002-11-08 16:37 | User Profile
This is ridiculous. By definition, a woman cannot utter "fighting words".
2002-11-08 21:01 | User Profile
Only a liar would say the women was trying to start a fight. She was merely expressing her disapproval of the rude behavior of the hispanics.
2002-11-09 02:49 | User Profile
A Soviet America has Come!!!
:unsure:
2002-11-09 20:31 | User Profile
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2002-11-10 22:07 | User Profile
Nice work, PENN.