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Peter has a fierce temper and a voice that carries across a hall. At a privately run Christian Bible quiz finals, several close scoring rulings went against Peter's favorite youth team. Peter repeatedly stood on his folding chair, swung a rolled program overhead, and angrily shouted, "Throw the quiz officials out!" The third time he did this, many other spectators also rose from their seats, waved programs, and shouted, "Throw the quiz officials out!" Peter's favorite team lost the match. Although no violence occurred, spectators pressed menacingly around the quiz officials after the event. The officials were able to leave the hall only with the help of a large police escort. For his conduct, Peter was charged with inciting to riot and was convicted in a jury trial in state court. He appealed. The state supreme court reversed the conviction. In its opinion, the court discussed in detail decisions of the United States Supreme Court dealing with the First Amendment Free Speech Clause as incorporated into the Fourteenth Amendment. At the end of that discussion, however, the court stated that it need not decide how those federal cases would resolve Peter's case. Instead, the court stated that it had always interpreted the free-expression guarantee of the state constitution more broadly than the federal guarantee, and that because no riot or other violence occurred, the state constitution did not permit the conviction for incitement to riot to stand. The United States Supreme Court grants a writ of certiorari to review this decision of the state supreme court. In this case, the United States Supreme Court should: