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Article: Maryland judge rules mooning not illegal: Act 'disgusting,' 'demeaning,' but not indecent exposure
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 6, 2006
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ROCKVILLE, Md. -- A Montgomery County judge ruled this week that
the act of mooning is not illegal in Maryland, clearing a man accused
of indecent exposure after showing his buttocks to a neighbor during
an argument.
Judge John W. Debelius III said the defendant, Raymond Hugh
McNealy, 44, committed a "disgusting" and "demeaning" act when he
allegedly exposed himself to his neighbor and her 8-year-old daughter
June 7. But the judge overturned a decision by a District Court judge
against McNealy.
"If exposure of half of the buttock constituted indecent exposure,
any woman wearing a thong at the beach at Ocean City would be
guilty," Debelius said, according to a report Wednesday in the ...