Arrested Poker Players Seek to Challenge SC Gambling Law
According to a recent report, a group of poker players arrested for gambling in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, have asked to be judged by a jury in an attempt to change the state's 200-year-old law that prohibits card games and dice. Of 22 individuals arrested during a police raid on a Texas Hold' em poker game in April, 18 have asked for a jury trial. The other four defendants pleaded guilty and were fined by a local judge $100 each. While the defendants claimed that the game was a friendly get-together, the authorities, which confiscated $6,000 in cash during the raid, were reported as saying that the house operated a high stakes poker facility. No trial date has been scheduled.
Source: Poker777 Staff
Thursday, 01 June 2006
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