A man arrested and charged with disorderly conduct near the World Trade Center after an angry crowd threatened him for supporting Osama bin Laden will stand trial in late February, despite his free speech claims.
Judge Neil E. Ross of Manhattan Criminal Court found in People v. Harvey, that it was reasonable to infer that William Harvey, 54, of Long Island City, N.Y., consciously disregarded an unjustifiable risk of public inconvenience or alarm when he staged his speech just a few blocks from the destroyed World Trade Center towers.
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