Florida Town's Sagging Pants Law Unconstitutional

September 19th, 2008 by Leonard Birdsong


After class discussions last week concerning overbroad criminal statutes that target minority groups, a number of Birdsong’s criminal law students have sent him email news stories regarding the recent arrests of black teenagers in  south Florida for wearing sagging pants.

We now learn that a judge in Riviera Beach, Florida has declared unconsitutional a law banning the wearing of  sagging pants