Man's call for Obama assassination is free speech, not crime, court rules

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"A La Mesa [California] man who posted racial epithets and a call to "shoot" Barack Obama on an Internet chat site was engaging in constitutionally protected free speech, a federal appeals court [U.S. 9th Circuit] ruled Tuesday in overturning his criminal conviction."

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