A Superior Court judge in California has acquitted two men of charges filed after they were caught by officers reading a Bible aloud near a line of people waiting to enter a state driver’s license office in Hemet, Calif. Attorneys for the defendants said the state was required under state law, Title 13, Section 1860 of the California Administrative Code to show that the defendants were engaged in a “demonstration or gathering.” Ads by Google Want To Be An Expatriate?6 Best Locations for Expatriate Former Congressman Reveals Where Sovereign-Investor Selling Your Timeshare?Learn the Truth About Selling a Timeshare. Get The Real Answers… TimeshareOut But Judge Timothy Freer Judge Freer concluded there was not enough evidence to reach that conclusion. “The prosecution failed to meet its burden of proof that our clients committed a crime when they read the Bible aloud in front [of] a line of people,” said Robert Tyler, general counsel for Advocates for Faith & Freedom, which worked on the case. Read more at wnd/2013/08/verdict-in-for-pastor-charged-with-reading-bible/#dfsgUdxVIbLe1sTP.99
Posted on: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 17:25:26 +0000
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