Former ASU Student Appeals Trespass Conviction For Handing Out Copies Of US Constitution
The Liberty Justice Center has filed an appeal on behalf of a former Arizona State University student, who was convicted of trespassing for handing out U.S. Constitutions on campus.
Tim Tizon, a student at Arizona State University, was handing out pamphlets of the U.S. Constitution to students on a campus plaza when university officials ordered him to stop, according to the Center. When Tizon refused to move to an isolated location away from the main campus plaza, university police arrested him. Tizon was then charged with and convicted of criminal trespassing in the third degree, and was sentenced to pay a fine and complete community service—all for handing out copies of one of the nation’s founding documents to other students in a public forum…