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COM. v. TATE

495 Pa. 158 (1981)

432 A.2d 1382

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Nancy TATE, Jefferson Vitelli, W. Timothy Laidman, Michael Schlosser, and Barbara Andrews, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided July 14, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald W. Miles, Harry A. Dower, Allentown, for appellants.

William H. Platt, Dist. Atty., Michael E. Moyer, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.

Before O'BRIEN, C.J., and ROBERTS, NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY and KAUFFMAN, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROBERTS, Justice.

On March 27, 1976, appellants were arrested on the campus of Muhlenberg College and charged with the summary offense of defiant trespass, 18 Pa.C.S. § 3503(b), when they refused to discontinue the peaceful distribution of leaflets outside a college building in which Clarence Kelley, then Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was speaking at a public symposium on crime prevention. Appellants were convicted...

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