Municipal : Disorderly Conduct – Dismissal Of Charge

Where a city challenged the dismissal of a municipal charge of disorderly conduct against the respondent, it was improper to dismiss the information based on the respondent’s claimed justification of defense of property, and the disorderly conduct ordinance as charged was neither vague nor overbroad, and the judgment is reversed and remanded.

Judgment is reversed and remanded.

City of Raymore v. O’Malley (MLW No. 70972/WD80152 – 11 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Mitchell, J.) Appealed from circuit court, Cass County, Olsen, J. (Jonathan Sternberg and Ashlyn Buck Lewis, Kansas City, Missouri, for appellant) (Lyle M. Gregory, Raymore, for respondent).

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