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Obama/Gates/Crowley: Relevant Statutes, Case Law, and Model Code

By Jacob Freeze, Section Diaries
Posted on Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 05:55:29 PM EST
Tags: Barack Obama, James Crowley, Henry Louis Gates Jr. (all tags)
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The first stop on this road is the original police report, and this is the section that directly recounts the arrest.

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There are several critical elements in this account which bring it into conformity with the "definition" of disorderly conduct, which comes in three layers:

  1. Statutes
  2. Case law
  3. Model code

The most important layer is the model code, which is likely to be totally unfamiliar to almost everybody, so we might as well start there.

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