Appeals court judge rules controversial Dallas prostitution ordinance unconstitutional

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In her ruling Thursday, County Criminal Court of Appeals Judge Kristin Wade said that the city’s prohibition on manifesting the purpose of engaging in...

for the considerable leeway it gives police officers in determining the purpose of otherwise-innocuous activities.Advertisement

“Said actor was in a known prostitution area and stopped to engage passers-by in conversation,” police wrote in a complaint. “An ordinance is overbroad when it punishes constitutionally protected conduct as well as illegal activity,” she wrote.Advertisement

 

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