In Coates v. Cincinnati, 402 U.S. 611 (1971), the Court encountered little difficulty in striking down a municipal ordinance making it a criminal offense for "three or more persons to assemble . . . on any of the sidewalks . . . and there conduct themselves in a manner annoying to persons passing by . . . ." Ibid. The Court held the ordinance to be unconstitutionally vague because "it subjected the exercise of the right of assembly to an unascertainable standard, and was unconstitutionally broad because it authorized the punishment of constitutionally protected conduct." Id., at 614. In Coates v. City of Cincinnati, 402 U.S. 611, 614, 91 S.Ct. 1686, 29 L.Ed.2d 214 (1971), the Supreme Court held that a statute under which three or more people meeting together on a sidewalk or street corner, must "conduct themselves so as not to annoy any police officer or other person who should happen to pass by" was "unconstitutionally vague." Coates, 402 U.S. at 614, 91 S.Ct. 1686. The Court stated "the ordinance is vague, not in the sense that it requires a person to conform his conduct to an imprecise but comprehensible normative standard, but rather in the sense that no standard of conduct is specified at all." Coates, 402 U.S. at 614, 91 S.Ct. 1686.