[pnews-news] Woman ticketed for anti-Bush message in DeKalb County wins!

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via: Harry Hope <rivrvu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 4/4/06:
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/dekalb/stories/0405ticket.html

"Lewd" bumpersticker case dropped

Woman ticketed for anti-Bush message in DeKalb County

By CHANDLER BROWN

Bush bashing will not cost an Athens woman $100 after all.

Denise Grier, who was cited in DeKalb County for her "I'm Tired of All
The BUSH.." car decal, has had her case thrown out, DeKalb Recorders
Court Chief judge R. Joy Walker said Monday.

"We couldn't prosecute it," Walker said, because Georgia's lewd decal
law was ruled unconstitutional in 1990.

Walker said a letter of dismissal was mailed to Grier's home Friday.

Attempts to reach Grier, a traveling nurse who works at Emory
University and other hospitals, were unsuccessful Monday.

R.S. Caviness, a sergeant based in the department's north precinct,
pulled Grier over on Chamblee-Tucker Road about 9:30 p.m. on March 10,
according to police records obtained under Georgia's Open Records Act.

He issued her a ticket for $100.

Caviness was off work Monday and unavailable for comment, according to
an unidentified woman who answered the phone at the precinct.

Caviness joined the department in 1992, two years after the law
changed, according to DeKalb County police spokesman Herschel
Grangent.

Asked how an experienced sergeant could have made such a mistake,
Grangent declined to comment.

Grier's story appeared in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution last week
and quickly circulated on the Internet, drawing reaction from around
the country.

In an interview last week, Grier, 47, said the case was about her
right to free speech.

"The officer pulled me over because he didn't agree with my politics,"
she said.

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Rightards lose another one.

Harry


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