The First Amendment could not save a blogger who broke into a nursing home to take a video of Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran’s wife who was suffering from Alzheimer’s. A judge sentenced Clayton Kelly to two years in prison. (The New York Times, June 15, 2015, by the Associated Press)
Kelly was attempting to prove that the senator was unfaithful to his bed-ridden wife and entered the nursing home to document the wife’s state of health. The judge dismissed any First Amendment claim saying that a person cannot hide behind the amendment to commit a crime, in this case breaking into a private room in a nursing home. (Columbia Journalism Review, June 15, 2015, by Jonathan Peters)