Assignment Task:
Connie Q'Anon is angry about the 2020 election and she cannot let it go. She's convinced herself, as well as a small group of faithful followers that the election was stolen and that they need to protest to get the true President back in office.
On Saturday, Connie gathers her followers and they march down to the Arizona state capitol in Phoenix. They carry signs, chant their beliefs, and annoy lots of passersby on the sidewalk. But after three hours with not much reaction from state lawmakers, Connie decides she needs to do something more drastic.
"You!" she yells at her trusted second-in-command of this rag-tag group. "Run up to that window and throw a brick through it!" The follower picks up a brick and starts running toward the window at the state capitol, but is tackled by security on the way there, and never actually breaks the window.
Police don't arrest the follower, but they do arrest Connie.
When Connie goes before a judge, she is downright angry. She takes off her jacket and the shirt underneath the jacket has the phrase, "F*** the stolen election!" The judge tells her to put her jacket back on. Connie refuses and the judge asks the prosecutor to charge her with disorderly conduct, based on the offensive language on her shirt.
All of this has created some media attention, which Connie is not happy about. She doesn't trust the "fake news." Connie asks her attorney to close the courtroom from the media for her court appearances.
Connie is awaiting trial at home and enjoying one of her favorite pastimes: naked sunbathing in her back yard. The back yard is surrounded by a 10 foot tall wall, and you can't see anything in her back yard from the outside, unless you climb a neighbor's tree and look over the wall.
Ronnie Reporter decides he wants to get some video of Connie for a news story he's doing on Connie and the election denier movement. He arrives at Connie's house and rings the doorbell. Connie's neighbor is in his front yard. He doesn't like Connie, and gives Ronnie permission to climb the tree in his back yard, which is next to Connie's yard, and provides a clear view of Connie.
Ronnie video-tapes Connie, naked as a Jay-bird, sunbathing. Ronnie uses the video, with Connie's private parts blurred, in his news story. But he also publishes some of the raw video, showing Connie naked, on the internet.
Meantime, the FBI is investigating multi-state criminal activity involving election deniers. Agents wonder whether Ronnie captured anything of value to their investigation the video that he did not publish. They demand that Ronnie hand over the rest of his video.
Q1. If Connie is charged with a crime based on the circumstances leading to her original arrest, what crime would that be and would the prosecution be successful? (Use IRAC)
Q2. Would the disorderly conduct charge against Connie, which is based on the offensive language on her shirt, succeed? (Just explain why or why not. No need for IRAC here.)
Q3. Explain the steps Connie's attorney and the judge would need to go through in order to close the courtroom from media coverage. (No IRAC needed here.)
Q4. What lawsuit would Connie file against Ronnie, and would it succeed? (Use IRAC)
Q5. If prosecutors charge Ronnie with obscenity, due to the video of Connie that he published on the internet, would that prosecution succeed? (Use IRAC)
Q6. Would the FBI agents succeed in compelling Ronnie to hand over his unpublished video? (Use IRAC)