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Originally Posted by Dom1
If I remember correctly there was a crowd of people outside the courthouse chanting about how Shepard was guilty, etc.
They were forced to move also because the jurors might hear them. That is freedom of speech and assembly versus rights to a fair trial. That wasn't the issue in from of the Supreme Court though.
Shepard's rights weren't denied. He was granted a new trial and was aquitted.
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They were denied, that is the reason he was granted a new trial.
Its the right of "peaceable assembly" A case can be made that a mob chanting for someone's blood is not peaceable and therefore has no constitution right to assembly