6 months in prison folowed by 12 months supervised release, too harsh?

TatinG
Sun, 20 Sep 2015 20:36:37 +0000

The same arguments were made when the Nazis wanted to march through Skokie, Illinois, which is a heavily Jewish community that had many Holocaust survivors living there at the time (1977). The city argued that to have Nazis march bearing swastikas would promote hatred and would inflict emotional harm on the Holocaust survivors.

As you may recall, those arguments failed and the courts said the city had to issue a permit to allow the march as offensive to the city’s residents as it was.

This article is by the same law professor, Professor Stone who said that this college kid should not have been charged.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-r-stone/remembering-the-nazis-in_b_188739.html

I don’t know why this student pled guilty. Perhaps he didn’t want a long drawn out court battle, perhaps he couldn’t afford a long drawn out court battle and couldn’t get an organization like the ACLU to take up his case.