....showing their faces in line at more than one polling location.


Journalist Arrested After Photographing Voting Lines
POSTED: 6:10 AM EST November 1, 2004
UPDATED: 12:47 PM EST November 1, 2004



WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A freelance journalist taking pictures of voters
waiting outside the Palm Beach County elections headquarters was arrested
after ignoring a deputy's orders to stop, sheriff's officials said.




James S. Henry, of Sag Harbor, N.Y., (pictured, left) was charged with
disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence.

Sheriff's Deputy Al Cinque tried to stop Henry as he shot pictures of about
600 people standing in line to vote Sunday afternoon. Henry began running
away, but Cinque tackled him, the Palm Beach Post reported.

The deputy pinned Henry, 54, to the ground, yelling for him to stop moving,
then punched him in the back. Cinque handcuffed Henry's left arm, pulled him
to his feet and punched him again as Henry tried to hand him identification
cards, according to the paper.


Assistant Palm Beach County Attorney Leon St. John said Cinque was enforcing
new rules, enacted Friday by elections chief Theresa LePore, that prohibit
reporters from talking with or photographing voters waiting outside polling
stations.


Other reporters, who witnessed the arrest, had not been aware of the new
restrictions. Miller said he did not know of other journalists being
stopped.

Henry, who is also an attorney and the managing director of strategy
consulting firm Sag Harbor Group, is working on a book about "electoral
democracy," according to his Web site.

He was being held on $500 bond."

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Dn't know about all that other stuff, but "ignorance of the law is no
excuse" is no longer etched in stone. There are multiple precedents that
support the premise that a law must be knowable. Please note he was not
charged with violation of the unknowable regulation. Instead it was the
excuse to setup a situation to arrest him for something else.

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...showing their faces in line at more than one polling location.


Journalist Arrested After Photographing Voting Lines
POSTED: 6:10 AM EST November 1, 2004
UPDATED: 12:47 PM EST November 1, 2004



WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A freelance journalist taking pictures of voters
waiting outside the Palm Beach County elections headquarters was arrested
after ignoring a deputy's orders to stop, sheriff's officials said.




James S. Henry, of Sag Harbor, N.Y., (pictured, left) was charged with
disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence.

Sheriff's Deputy Al Cinque tried to stop Henry as he shot pictures of
about
600 people standing in line to vote Sunday afternoon. Henry began running
away, but Cinque tackled him, the Palm Beach Post reported.

The deputy pinned Henry, 54, to the ground, yelling for him to stop
moving,
then punched him in the back. Cinque handcuffed Henry's left arm, pulled
him
to his feet and punched him again as Henry tried to hand him
identification
cards, according to the paper.


Assistant Palm Beach County Attorney Leon St. John said Cinque was
enforcing
new rules, enacted Friday by elections chief Theresa LePore, that prohibit
reporters from talking with or photographing voters waiting outside
polling
stations.


Other reporters, who witnessed the arrest, had not been aware of the new
restrictions. Miller said he did not know of other journalists being
stopped.

Henry, who is also an attorney and the managing director of strategy
consulting firm Sag Harbor Group, is working on a book about "electoral
democracy," according to his Web site.

He was being held on $500 bond."

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