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Civil Liberties

Brickbat: Everyone Is a Critic

Charles Oliver | 8.15.2012 6:00 AM

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A Virginia judge sentenced Susan Mortensen to 50 hours of community service for vandalism after her 4-year-old daughter made chalk drawings on rocks in a Richmond park.

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