{"id":3327,"date":"2008-09-18T07:40:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T12:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2008-09-18T07:40:56","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T12:40:56","slug":"judge-pantses-saggy-trouser-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3327","title":{"rendered":"Judge Pantses Saggy Trouser Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida &#8220;saggy pants&#8221; law &#8211; applauded by sartorial moderates and Joe Soucherays around the nation &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5ih6wSuAf-o6eYTSaM0V7IKXhYOQAD938IAT01\">has been tossed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Julius Hart, 17, was charged last week after an officer said he spotted the teenager riding his bicycle with 4 to 5 inches of blue-and-black boxer shorts revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Hart&#8217;s public defender, Carol Bickerstaff, urged a judge Monday to strike down the sagging pants law, telling him: &#8220;Your honor, we now have the fashion police.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Circuit Judge Paul Moyle ruled that the law was unconstitutional based on &#8220;the limited facts&#8221; of the case. Technically, however, the charge hasn&#8217;t been dropped yet: a new arraignment awaits Hart on Oct. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Voters in Riviera Beach approved the law in March. A first offense for sagging pants carries a $150 fine or community service, and habitual offenders face the possibility of jail time.<\/p>\n<p>Bickerstaff said she wants the city to drop the law \u2014 regardless of whether anyone dislikes low-riding pants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good thing it was tossed of course &#8211; it violated the Fourteenth Amendment, unduly burdening stupid people who are slaving followers of moronic fashion.<br \/>\n(Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=33082780&#038;postID=6662949326693729033&#038;pli=1\">Bob at <em>A Democracy<\/em><\/a> blog)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida &#8220;saggy pants&#8221; law &#8211; applauded by sartorial moderates and Joe Soucherays around the nation &#8211; has been tossed: Julius Hart, 17, was charged last week after an officer said he spotted the teenager riding his bicycle with 4 to 5 inches of blue-and-black boxer shorts revealed. Hart&#8217;s public defender, Carol Bickerstaff, urged a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}