Posted on 12/15/2006 5:24:52 AM PST by King of Florida
DAYTONA BEACH - (AP) -- A woman did not break the law when she exposed her breasts to protest laws that bar women from publicly going bare breasted, a judge has ruled.
County Judge David B. Beck said Thursday that Elizabeth Book, 44, of Ormond Beach, did not violate disorderly conduct laws.
Book was arrested by Daytona Beach police July 2, 2005, for disrobing in public.
Her attorney, Lawrence G. Walters, said the city is trying to censor his client.
''I've never seen another city or case where the city has shown so much time and effort to shut down one person's First Amendment right of protected speech,'' Walters said. 'They just can't seem to let it go. They need to stop wasting taxpayers' money.''
Beck and the Seventh Judicial Circuit Court of Appeals previously ruled in favor of Book for a similar incident. She was first arrested for bearing her chest during Bike Week in March 2004.
Deputy City Attorney Marie Hartman said an appeal has been filed for a local court of appeal to reconsider the most recent case.
''We have no problems with her holding up signs, to hold public forums to protest nudity laws, but that does not include the right to go nude,'' Hartman said. ``Any more than you can stand on a podium and snort cocaine to protest cocaine laws.''
I am assuming this lady is hot... LOL!
Not necessarily a good thing.
"the women who are most inclined to bare their breasts in public are always the fugliest ones."
Ha-ha! That's true.
Well from the pictures..... its a flapjack convention.
Yes...except that she would have to use it as a defense at trial, after having been arrested and charged. Practically speaking, this would mean that the police can still arrest women for being topless. If the law is still in place, then it may still be enforced.
"but the consequences are potentially being charged with a violation of the law."
Which then allows you to challenge the law, you can't challenge unless you are charged.
"It is against the law to touch a woman's breasts when such a touching is not welcome. I wonder how far I would get with the argument that I was merely protesting that law by fondling women's breasts on the street?"
You could do that and then challenge the law stating that women are not precluded from touching men's breasts when such touching is not welcome. Don't know how well that would go though due to it being a man claiming that. Just like for a long time that spousal abuse did not protect men, because men were supposed to be the ones doing it not women. Same for the laws again pedofiles, it targeted men because women "didn't do that".
Thanks, that was better than the real ones.
I must say, this is a very "tedious" situation....
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I'm calling BS. Those are no where near 44's.
Also, of all the laws she may or may not have broken, she is unfortunately obeying the law of gravity.
I'm calling BS. Those are no where near 44's.
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44 Longs maybe?
Where did you here THAT? :)
The right to bear bare breasts?
Doesn't that fall somewhere between the 1st and 2nd amendments?
Expose yourself to art
http://www.photographicimage.com/merchant.ihtml?pid=620&step=4
Actually, the picture is that of former mayor of Portland Bud Clark
Yeah --- and her vagina monologues.
**One would think the editor at the Herald would catch these errors at the very least.**
The number of grammatical errors in newspaper articles should be an embarassment to these folks, but I think it is a pretty good indicator of the education level of many journalists.
Where I went to school, journalism students ranked right up there with education majors in terms of functioning gray matter.
She's 44? I think my mother is younger than that.
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Man, do you youngsters pi$$ me off. Just kidding. I work in a company that is 80% female. Let me tell, young man, there are plenty of 44 year old women out there that I would not mind seeing as the woman being discussed here has been seen. My wife would prefer I not, though.
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