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A 12-year old boy attending Stuart’s Spectrum Jr./Sr. High School in Martin County, Florida, was arrested November 4, 2008, by a member of the county Sheriff’s Office, after a teacher said that he had “deliberately passed gas to disrupt the class” and had turned off the computers of his classmates.
He was then criminally charged with “disruption of school function.”
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“The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.”
- Charles Evans Hughes
“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”
- Jonathan Swift, A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind, 1707
