Charges have been dropped against a southeast Missouri man accused of flag desecration.
Misdemeanor charges were filed Friday against 30-year-old Frank Snider III of Cape Girardeau. But prosecutor Morley Swingle told the Southeast Missourian newspaper that he later dropped the charges because of a 1989 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared flag-burning protected under the First Amendment.
Swingle told the newspaper he had been unaware that the case invalidated state flag desecration laws like the one passed in Missouri in 1980. [emphasis added]
Hell, I'm no lawyer and I knew this. If this is a representative example of our public servants....
Be very afraid.
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