It is illegal to defame a court.
Call a Vermont court a “kangaroo court” or some similar moniker, and you might be looking at a $200 fine.
Call a Vermont court a “kangaroo court” or some similar moniker, and you might be looking at a $200 fine.
Sec. 16-10. Abusive Language. If any person shall, in the presence or hearing of another, curse or abuse such other person, or use any violent abusive language to such person concerning himself or any of his relations, or otherwise use such language, under circumstances reasonably calculated to provoke a breach of the peace, he shall…
Police in the town of 22,000 will be writing tickets bearing fines in that amount to those who foul its public places with profanity after residents voted 183-50 in June 2012 that they were mad as *#%@& and weren’t going to take it anymore.