An attorney for an online journalist arrested while filming a 2014 Republican political rally at a pumpkin farm asked the Georgia Court of Appeals Tuesday to reverse her misdemeanor conviction for obstructing a law enforcement officer.

Atlanta attorney Andrew Fleischman contended that videographer Nydia Tisdale’s 2017 misdemeanor conviction also should be remanded with instructions to the trial court to enter a judgment of acquittal. Fleischman argued that Tisdale’s conviction for obstructing an off-duty deputy who stopped her from filming and frog-marched her from the rally should not stand once the jury decided to acquit her of criminal trespassing—the basis for her forcible detention and later arrest.

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