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Case Against Student Who Wore NRA T-Shirt to School Dismissed
NRA-ILA.org ^ | June 28, 2013 | staff reporter

Posted on 07/01/2013 11:25:52 AM PDT by Daffynition

On June 27th, in a positive resolution to a case which has captured the attention of advocates for First and Second Amendment rights, the case against 14-year-old Logan Middle School Honor Student Jared Marcum of Logan, W.V., was dismissed with prejudice. Marcum had been charged with obstructing an officer following an incident stemming from a Logan Middle School faculty member's reaction to Marcum wearing to school an NRA t-shirt featuring the words "Protect Your Right" and an image of a semiautomatic rifle. The charge against Jared carried a possible sentence of incarceration.

The entire episode started back on April 18th when Marcum was wearing his NRA t-shirt in school and a Logan Middle School band teacher took exception to Marcum's choice of attire. The Logan County Schools' Dress Code, however, had no restriction on clothing featuring firearms. Nevertheless, the teacher demanded that Marcum remove his shirt or turn it inside out. Marcum refused, citing his First Amendment rights, at which point the other Logan County school officials became involved. During the incident, Marcum's classmates were vocal in support of him.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: banglist; firstamendment; guncontrol; secondamendment
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To: qwerty1234
true.. true.. the LEO should have warned the moronic tearcher/school
administrators to handle this (constitutionally) and just walked out.

21 posted on 07/01/2013 12:19:09 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :)
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To: Pontiac

“I am also in favor of single sex schools.”

Once and done? I didn’t even have that?


22 posted on 07/01/2013 12:21:02 PM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: Orangedog
The trouble with a lawsuit of this kind is that the two things are most likely to occur won’t have any impact on the school board.

First the board settles out of court for an with no admission of guilt and a non-disclosure agreement. The board gets little bad press if any and things go on as before.

Second the board fights the suit looses and appeals over and over again. The suit goes on for a decade or more and the press grows tried of covering the matter. It gets spotty coverage until the kid now an adult wins. By this time nearly all of the members of the board have been replaced by natural attrition and the teacher and principal have retired with full pensions.

The only way to really impact the facts on the ground is in the political arena. Change the population of school board and through them the school administration.

23 posted on 07/01/2013 12:27:17 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Fido969
Awesome. Dismissed with prejustice is unusual - That's telling the prosecution "You can not bring this case again."

It's the polite way of the judge telling the prosecution they were effin' morons for ever walking into the courtroom with such charges in hand. We must maintain a certain decorum, you know...;-)

Now, as to the kid going after the morons at the school, I say sic'em, kid!!

24 posted on 07/01/2013 12:34:28 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Orangedog

” there needs to be the mother of all lawsuits. Now we know that the police and school board are special people who cannot be held accountable so what needs to happen is the school district and town need to get hit with a jury award so hideously large that all local taxes have to be doubled or worse.”

I am in complete agreement with you. The only thing that people understand sometimes is when they get hit in the wallet. Large cities are self-insured (i.e., Chicago) and are harder to break, but smaller cities can get hit and have their liability carrier drop them like a piece of day old dog doo-doo. They will DEFINITELY pay attention to this.

We hear all of the time that people don’t have to suffer consequences for their actions anymore. I don’t believe that this is true for ordinary citizens, but only for “protected classes”. If this gets evened out (cops indebted for life to the people whose rights they trampled, for example), these sorts of outrages will quickly disappear.


25 posted on 07/01/2013 12:44:40 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Daffynition

The battle to control thinking rages on.


26 posted on 07/01/2013 12:51:42 PM PDT by I want the USA back (If I Pi$$ed off just one liberal today my mission has been accomplished.)
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To: Daveinyork

You must be one old dude!


27 posted on 07/01/2013 12:56:10 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Orangedog

Can we dontate to this kid’s legal pile?


28 posted on 07/01/2013 12:59:39 PM PDT by polymuser ("We have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!" (HRC))
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To: Daffynition
For his part, Marcum has offered an apology for any perceived disrespect to the officer, and he and his mother agreed to forego any civil action against the City of Logan, its police department, the police officers involved.

Just wait until the police start pulling him over every day after he gets his license.

29 posted on 07/01/2013 1:19:33 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: editor-surveyor

“You must be one old dude!”

I have dirt in my back yard that’s younger than me.


30 posted on 07/01/2013 1:21:10 PM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: catbertz
>>The madness we face is growing.<< Frankly, I can barely keep up with all the insanity.

NEA Vice President: NRA, Second Amendment Supporters "Are Going to Hell"

31 posted on 07/01/2013 1:24:50 PM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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To: Daffynition
The Logan County Schools' Dress Code, however, had no restriction on clothing featuring firearms.

That will be the basis of civil lawsuits that should result against the teacher, the school officials and board, police and prosecutors.

Counter-suits may be the only way to stop the PC crap.
32 posted on 07/01/2013 1:44:20 PM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: Pontiac
Better days. I am all in favor of school uniforms. I am also in favor of single sex schools.

Yes.

33 posted on 07/01/2013 4:47:42 PM PDT by BfloGuy (The imposition of a duty on the importation of a commodity burdens the consumers. --Ludwig Von Mises)
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