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PEOPLE v. FLINN

130 Misc.2d 877 (1986)

The People of the State of New York, Plaintiff, v. Michael B. Flinn, Defendant.

County Court, Erie County.

January 13, 1986

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. Arcara, District Attorney (John De Franks and J. Michael Marion of counsel), for plaintiff. David Gerald Jay for respondent. Rose H. Sconiers, John A. Ziegler and Carolyn Connors Ballowitz for Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, Inc., and Richard L. Baumgarten for Civil Liberties Union, amici curiae.

JOSEPH P. McCARTHY, J.

"Our Constitution is designed to maximize individual freedoms within a framework of ordered liberty." (Kolender v Lawson, 461 U.S. 352, 357.) Included among the paramount legal doctrines applicable to the continual attempt to attain this goal is that which requires legislative bodies, in enacting penal statutes or ordinances, to specify the conduct which must be taken or avoided in reasonably...

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