The Irvine 11 controversy was a legal saga that followed a protest staged by members of the University of California, Irvine, Muslim Student Union to disrupt and prevent a speech by Israel's ambassador Michael Oren at University of California, Irvine (UCI). The students, and the students' union involved, the Muslim Student Union, were first disciplined by UCI for having disrupted the ambassador's address and were later also prosecuted and convicted of misdemeanor charges. The controversy led to a debate on whether the students' protest was First Amendment-protected free speech and whether filing criminal charges against them was fair after UCI had already disciplined them.[1][2] Critics argued that the students were victims of selective prosecution and that they were targeted by Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas because they were Muslims and supported the Palestinians.[3]
^Chemerinsky 2010: There is simply no 1st Amendment right to go into an auditorium and prevent a speaker from being heard, no matter who the speaker is or how strongly one disagrees with his or her message.
^Wahid 2011: What followed is nothing less than indictment upon America’s claim to free speech, the First Amendment of the US constitution and its system of justice.
^Wiener 2011b: The students and their supporters argued ... that the students were prosecuted because they were Muslims.; Orange County Register 2011: Selective prosecutions have a chilling effect on political speech. The First Amendment is of little value if criminal statutes can be used arbitrarily to quash offensive speakers.;Majeed 2012, p. 390: In the Irvine 11 prosecution, ... the prosecution may have been influenced by bias and prejudice against Muslims.; de La Paz 2011: Some claim the DA’s decision was an act of selective prosecution, citing a similar disruption that went unpunished.
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