The Supreme Court issued its ruling in the case Yo Mama v. Tampa Police Department earlier today. The case, which was ruling on the murder of Wilson Jenkins by Alexander Campbell, sided with Mr. Campbell in its 7-2 ruling.
The decision was based upon stare decisis (let the decision stand), following recent precedent established in the case Snyder v Phelps released earlier this year in favor of hateful bigots rioting at funerals of soldiers.
Alexander Campbell committed the murder in question in the fall of 2009, although his memories of the act are, to say the least, murky.
Campbell, who chose to represent himself in court began by stating: “Man, I was so f@$#ed up that night, I don’t remember S#*t.” He does however recall running into old college roommate, the late Wilson Jenkins, at his favorite bar. Campbell arrived under the precedent of drinking away his pain of his wife leaving him earlier that evening for drinking away his pain. The two began a drunken banter arguing over which college team had the hottest cheerleaders, when Jenkins apparently declared that Campbell’s mama was the hottest cheerleader. A provoked Campbell shot back more yo mama insults, until the results became deadly.
That’s where the memory ends, and the following morning Jenkins was discovered pinned to the dartboard of the dive bar, suffocated by peanut shells gathered from the soiled bar floor blocking the air passages in his nose and mouth.
The majority opinion concluded that it would be following the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech. The document declared that:
“It was clearly a case involving the question of free speech. We cannot deny Alexander Campbell the right to exercise his free expression that the founders sought so hard to protect. The murder was an obvious form of symbolic speech by means of Mr. Campbell forcibly expressing his opinion as to the fact that the genes given to him by his mama were clearly more superior and conducive to survival than those of Wilson Jenkins.”
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