Woman arrested in protest seeks dismissal of ‘seldom-invoked’ anti-rioting charge
MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) A woman charged under a rarely used federal anti-riot law is scheduled to go on trial next month, but first a judge will have to decide whether to throw the charges out.
A federal grand jury indicted Tia Deyon Pugh in June after Mobile police had arrested her on allegations that she smashed the window of an unoccupied police SUV during a protest in downtown Mobile on May 31.
The defense has argued that “seldom-invoked” statute exceeds the federal government’s authority under the Commerce Clause by intruding on purely local matters that have noting to do with cross-state commerce.
Woman arrested in protest seeks dismissal of seldom-invoked anti-rioting charge
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