also provides that the offense is a Class A misdemeanor. Id. § 42,11(d). 60 . See Tex. Penal Code § 42.09(a)(3) (West 1988), ("A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly desecrates ... a state or national flag.”) 61 . See Smith v. Goguen, 415 U.S. 566, 94 S.Ct. 1242, 39 L.Ed.2d 605 (1974), (United States flag sewn to, the seat of defendant’s trousers); Delorme v. State, 488 S.W.2d 808 (Tex. Crim. App. 1973) (same), 62 . See Tex. Penal Code § 42.09(b) (West 1988) ("For purposes of this section, ‘desecrate’ means deface, damage, or otherwise physically mistreat in a way that the actor knows will seriously offend one or more persons likely to observe or discover his action”) (emphasis added). 63 . See Street v. New York, 394 U.S. 576, 89 S.Ct. 1354, 22 L.Ed.2d 572 (1969) (<HOLDING>). 64 . See People v. Meyers, 23 Ill.App.3d
holding unconstitutional as applied a statute that punished words that cast contempt on the flag of the united states holding the states smv statute as applied to old order amish defendants unconstitutional because the states interest in public safety was not sufficiently compelling to override the right to free exercise protected by the first amendment of the united states constitution holding that the death penalty is unconstitutional as applied to juvenile defendants holding the director of the united states environmental protection agency in contempt for failure to comply with court order holding that the plaintiff must demonstrate that defendants contacts with the united states as a whole support the exercise of jurisdiction consistent with the constitution and laws of the united states