Walk It Through: The March To The Statehouse
A permitted rally, masks, an open carry restriction, a disorderly charge and a phone recording.
Organizers plan a rally on public property, and some marchers want to wear masks.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One permitted rally on public property. Permits and noise ordinances, counter-protest buffer rules, arrests at the rally and civil rights claims are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Peeping tomA person who peeps through windows, doors or similar places on or about another's premises to spy on or invade the privacy of the people there, including by using video or audio equipment for that purpose.
- Prior consentAgreement given before a communication is intercepted. A person not acting under color of law may intercept a wire, oral or electronic communication where the person is a party to it, or one of the parties has given prior consent.
- VoyeurismKnowingly viewing, photographing, recording or filming another person without their knowledge and consent, while they are in a place where they would have a reasonable expectation of privacy, to arouse or gratify sexual desire.
- RiotThe crime of participating in a riot by being present, instigating, promoting or aiding it, graded by its purpose and by whether the person carried a weapon, was disguised or urged others to force or violence.
- Conditional dischargeProbation without a judgment of guilt for a first time drug possession charge, ending in dismissal of the proceedings when completed. It is not a conviction, and may happen only once for any person.
- Materially and appreciably impairedThe degree to which a person's faculties to drive must be impaired by alcohol, other drugs or both for driving to be the offense of driving under the influence.
- Public disorderly conductBeing grossly intoxicated or disorderly in a public place, using obscene or profane language in public or near a school or church, or firing a gun near a public road while under the influence, each a misdemeanor.