Moral Monday protesters get charges dropped in trespassing case

RALEIGH -- A Superior Court judge Thursday dismissed trespassing charges against a pair of Moral Monday protesters who were arrested in 2016 while trying to deliver a petition to House Speaker Tim Moore.

The case marked the end of a long legal road for Carol Anderson and Dale Herman, who were taken into custody with 11 other people protesting HB2, the “bathroom bill” partially repealed in 2017.

While the case came to symbolize for some the era of heavy protest and debate over transgender rights, Durham attorney Scott Holmes tailored his case to the right of citizens to instruct their representatives — a principle spelled out in the state Constitution.

But the case never got that far.

Superior Court Judge Keith Gregory dismissed the charges against Anderson and Herman before Holmes presented any of his witnesses.

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