xyberman
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 Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:18 pm Post subject: Judge Refuses to Dismiss Absurd Poker Case |
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http://www.onlinepokerwebsite.net/articles/51/1/1094/Judge-Refuses-to-Dismiss-Absurd-Poker-Case-.html
By Josh Snyder
A case currently being tried in South Carolina shows the need for poker law reform around the country. Friday, a judge rejected an argument to throw out charges against participants in a house game that was raided in April of 2006.
Entering with the best of SWAT tactics and with guns drawn, the cops arrested everyone in the house for violating several South Carolina laws which had been on the books for two hundred years. The laws were so antiquated and outdated, they forbid the playing of such popular games as roly-poley, rouge et noir and draughts.
Still, Judge J. Lawrence Duffy Jr. of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, said that the legislature had had ample chances to review the ancient laws and declined the opportunity, indicating they found no problem with the language of the statutes. Defense attorneys estimate the two-year-old case could now continue for two or three more years, an insane use of the time and personnel of the judicial system.
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