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
