A4 + PLUS >> Top-five teacher, Opinion/4A LOCAL CHS FOOTBALL Operation Purple & Gold Round Up game tonight See Page 2A See Page 1B WEEKEND EDITION FRIDAY & SATURDAY, MAY 10 & 11, 2019 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM LAWSUIT PENDING Arrest video Obscenity charge nixed busts on free speech grounds social Saturday Craft beer, wine fest First Amendment media The fourth annual prevails in debate Gateway City Craft Beer over vulgar decal. myths and Wine Festival takes place Saturday, from 2–6 p.m. on the west side of By CARL MCKINNEY By CARL MCKINNEY Lake DeSoto at the inter- [email protected] [email protected] sections of Lake DeSoto Circle and Veterans Street. Prosecutors have The arrest of a Lake Non-alcoholic beverages, declined to file charges City man over a raunchy food, games and live enter- against the 23-year-old bumper stick- tainment will also be on Lake City man arrested Dillon er sparked offer. Advanced tickets are for refusing to remove Webb widespread $25 and $30 on the day of a letter wasn’t social media the event. VIP tickets are from his loud, rude attention, $50, which will provide “I EAT or abusive mostly ridi- 1 p.m. entry, a $10 food ASS” to deputy. cule directed truck voucher and two “full window toward the pour” drink tickets and hors decal, Columbia County Sheriff’s d’oeuvres. For ticket infor- which a COURTESY CCSO Office. mation call 386-752-3690. Webb deputy Dillon Shane Webb, 23, Lake City, is arrested Sunday on an obscenity charge But many have specu- alleged for refusing to remove the decal on the back window of his pickup. lated matter-of-factly that Crafts workshop violated a state obscenity 23-year-old Dillon Shane The Lake City–Columbia law. Prosecutors on Thursday of our United States whether it runs afoul of Webb must have mouthed County Museum, 157 SE Dillon Shane Webb was released a statement Constitution,” wrote community standards, off to the arresting deputy, Hernando Ave., invites you arrested Sunday after- detailing the decision not Third Circuit Assistant one of the criteria for or was somehow argumen- to join its living histori- noon on holding charges to pursue the State Attorney obscenity under state law. tative in order to earn trip to ans, Becky and Becke, on of possession of obscen- case. ‘The Defendant John Durrett. “For every person jail for charges of obscenity Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 ity for the sticker, and a “Having has a valid defense “Given such, a I have that speaks and and resisting arrest. p.m. for the beginning of a charge of resisting arrest evaluated to be raised jury would not states how greatly they That was not the impres- series of crafts workshops. for refusing to alter the the evidence under the First convict under are offended, or how in sion that Assistant Third The event is titled, “A Day sticker so that it would “no through Amendment of these facts.” their opinion it appeals Circuit State Attorney John in May at the Museum.” longer be derogatory,” the prism our United States In a phone to the prurient interest, Durrett got from the one- There will be several according to a Columbia of Supreme Constitution,’ the interview, there is another — at least hour and 25 minute dash- introductory courses, like County Sheriff’s Office Court prec- assistant state Durrett said — that feels it to merely be cam video of the arrest on “Basic Underpinnings.” report. edent it is attorney wrote. he discussed bad humor. Sophomoric. Sunday afternoon. Learn to inexpensively cre- But holding charges are determined the language Childish,” Durrett said. “He was firm in his posi- ate the usually expensive a tentative justification for the Defendant has a valid on the bumper stick- “This is not a situation tion, but I would not char- and unseen part of the his- an arrest, and aren’t the defense to be raised under er with “anybody and torical woman’s wardrobe, same as court charges. the First Amendment everybody” to determine CHARGES continued on 2A VIDEO continued on 3A gauging and period sewing. Plans will be made for the follow-up workshops at this meeting. For more informa- tion, call 386-755-9096 and leave a message. ‘Stamp Out Hunger’ On Saturday, the National Association of Letter Carriers celebrates the 27th annual “Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive,” the largest one-day food drive in the country. 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