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As a result, the Supreme court granted certiorari.
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Gregory Johnson outside the 1984 Republican National ConventionJohnson was convicted of desecrating a venerated object in violation of a Texas statute and was sentenced in the Dallas County Criminal Court to one year in prison and a fine of $2,000. The intermediate Texas appellate court affirmed the conviction, but the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (the final court of appeals for criminal cases in Texas) reversed the conviction...
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