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Fourth Circuit Overturns Conviction Of Retired Air Force Colonel For Using Racial Slur

JonathanTurley

” The language of the statute in my view is unconstitutional due to its sweeping criminalization of any “curse or abuse” that could “provoke a breach of the peace.” New Hampshire , 315 U.S. Bartow was charged under Virginia Code § 18.2-416, Winston , 199 S.E.2d 2d 724, 726 (Va. Button, 371 U.S.

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