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DOWNS v. STATE

[No. 27, September Term, 1976.]

278 Md. 610 (1976)

366 A.2d 41

JOHN EDWARD DOWNS v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Certiorari denied June 13, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis M. Henderson, Assistant Public Defender, with whom was Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant.

Gilbert H. Robinette, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and Clarence W. Sharp, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE and ELDRIDGE, JJ.

Certiorari denied, Supreme Court of the United States, June 13, 1977.

MURPHY, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

We granted certiorari to consider whether, in the circumstances of this case, certain vulgar language constituted "fighting" words within the sense contemplated by Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568, 62 S.Ct. 766, 86 L.Ed. 1031 (1942), and its progeny, and were therefore outside of the protection...

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