Disorderly Conduct R.O.L. Flashcards
Disorderly Conduct R.O.L.
“The cardinal feature of the crime of disorderly conduct is public unruliness which can or does lead to tumult and disorder.
Disorderly Conduct R.O.L.
Fighting words are words that “by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of peace.” The use of such words is not a constitutionally protected right.
Disorderly Conduct R.O.L.
Pennsylvania law defines unreasonable noise as “not fitting or property in respect to the conventional standards of organized society or a legally constituted community”.
Disorderly Conduct R.O.L.
Whether “the average person, applying contemporary community standards” would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest, (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law, and (c)whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
Disorderly Conduct R.O.L.
Although in other circumstances the rule is well-established that to be obscene, the words must carry sexual connotation