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Judge Steps Down in Flag Desecration Lawsuit   Date: February 2, 2010
   A Nebraska judge has removed himself from a Kansas woman's flag-desecration case because the woman sued the judge. Sarpy County Judge Todd Hutton ordered himself off Shirley Phelps-Roper's criminal case today (TUE). Hutton is one of more than a dozen officials named as defendants in her federal lawsuit. No replacement judge has been named yet. Phelps-Roper was accused in 2007 of letting her then-10-year-old son stand on an American flag during a protest at the funeral of a National Guardsman in Bellevue. Authorities say she wore a flag as a skirt that dragged on the ground. Nebraska's law bars intentionally "casting contempt or ridicule" upon an American flag. Phelps-Roper is challenging the law as unconstitutional.

   
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