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November 30, 2004
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News Story
Loiterer likely won't face chargeSaturday, December 4, 2004
Prosecution can't find key witness
By GENE VERNACCHIO
Courier-Post Staff
GLASSBOROCharges are expected to be dropped later this month against a 27-year-old Franklin man whose late-night, fast-food craving landed him in court and garnered the attention of civil libertarians across the country.
Tim Chell, Glassboro's municipal prosecutor, said he intends to drop the case against David String in municipal court on Dec. 13 because he cannot locate a witness to testify in the case.
String is facing charges of public intoxication and obstruction of the administration of law. However, his attorney was expected to argue the borough's loitering law is unconstitutional and that the obstruction charge violates a 1993 U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
String was charged in the early morning hours of July 31 outside a Taco Bell at 332 N. Delsea Drive after allegedly refusing to leave a nearby picnic table with his three tacos and soda. Prosecutors say he remained silent as police officers asked him for his name, age and address.
Acting on the advice of an American Civil Liberties Union card given to him by a friend, String remained silent. He said the police instructed him to take his food and leave the vicinity. Instead, he settled down on a nearby picnic bench outside the restaurant to eat. String said the officers gave him until the count of five to leave and then arrested him.
Attempts to contact String's attorney, Grayson Barber, were unsuccessful Friday.
Chell said he had tried unsuccessfully to subpoena the former Taco Bell employee on duty that evening.
"We tried to find her, but she apparently doesn't work at Taco Bell anymore and gave them a bad address," Chell said. "We just cannot find her. I told (String's) attorney that if I don't have her, I can't prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt, and I'd move to dismiss the case."
String said having the charges dropped is a relief.
"It kind of wears on you knowing that something like this is hanging over you," he said.
However, the borough's loitering ordinance will continue to be enforced against others.
"Because this case didn't go to trial and it won't have an appeal, that law will still be on the books about a police officer in Glassboro being able to ask a citizen to leave, and if that citizen doesn't, it's a crime," said John Longenecker, a civil rights advocate from California who has advised String and created a Web site drawing attention to the case. "You guys are still stuck with that [law] on the books."
String said he still may attempt to alter the borough's loitering ordinance, possibly through litigation.
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