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| Judge rejects inmate suit over prison display of American flag |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/23/2004 |
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A judge has rejected an inmate's lawsuit claiming the Watertown Correctional Facility in New York improperly displayed the American flag, finding Daniel Miller never showed he was personally injured by the flag display at the state prison in northern New York. State Supreme Court Judge Hugh Gilbert also said the issue was moot since the 45-year-old Miller has been transferred to the Ogdensburg prison 55 miles away. Miller argued that the U.S. flag should properly fly from the center of three flagpoles and higher than the New York state and POW flags on the other poles. Miller, sentenced last July 25 in Ontario County to two to four years in prison for larceny and issuing bad checks, said he was motivated by respect for the American flag and all that it stands for, particularly since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Prison Superintendent Christ T. Mellas kept the American flag on the rightmost flagpole facing out from the prison, the state flag in the center and the POW flag at the left. He cited a section of law that says no other flag or pennant can fly higher or to the right of the American flag. |
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