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Article published Dec 16, 2003
Flag-burner banned from Statehouse
The state Court
of Appeals ruled Monday that a man convicted of burning a Confederate flag
flying in front of the Statehouse cannot enter the capitol grounds.Emmett Rufus
Eddy was barred from the grounds after pleading guilty to defacing a public
monument.Eddy, who has called himself the Rev. E.X. Slave, climbed a ladder
while wearing a black Santa Claus suit and set the flag on fire in April
2002.Judge James C. Williams suspended Eddy's two-year prison sentence to two
years of probation on the condition Eddy stay away from Statehouse grounds while
on probation.