Asheville – Charges against an Asheville couple mark the first use of a 90-year-old North Carolina law on desecration of the American flag since the Vietnam War era, a state court official said Thursday.
Even then, police used the law only two times. Back-to-back U.S. Supreme Court decisions since then make it unconstitutional, civil rights experts said.
“It hasn’t been used in so long, we don’t even keep a statistic on it,” said Dick Ellis, public information officer for the N.C. Administrative Office of the Courts in Raleigh.
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770726111
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Do believe the deputy got a little too worked up over an unconstitutional law.....
ACLU comes to Homeowners' Defense
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