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MA - Marzilli argues that charges are unconstitutional

View the article here 01/20/2009 By Andy Metzger Arlington - Jim Marzilli is challenging the constitutionality of several of the charges leveled against him after a June 2008 arrest in Lowell. A former state senator and a longtime state representative before that, Marzilli allegedly made sexual comments to women in Lowell, and then tried to grab one of them, before leading police on a foot chase. Marzilli, 50, of Arlington, was charged with four counts of annoying and accosting a person of the opposite sex, along with three other charges. - So what might these three other charges be? According to Marzilli?s attorney, Terrence Kennedy, those four counts should be thrown out because they violate equal protection for people of different genders, which is supported by the Massachusetts Constitution...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on January 23, 2009 (boomark / email).