Judge: Atlanta Eagle defendants ‘not guilty’

Judge: Atlanta Eagle defendants ‘not guilty’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

An Atlanta judge found three defendants in the Atlanta Eagle gay bar case not guilty Thursday, and the prosecutor agreed to dismiss the charges against the other five defendants.

Municipal Judge Crystal Gaines said city police failed to produce evidence proving that men danced naked without permits or that the bar operators were running an unlicensed adult establishment.

The decision comes as defendants and others involved with the Ponce de Leon Avenue bar are countering with a lawsuit in federal court against the city and Atlanta police officers.

“We always thought from the beginning that we were charged for no reason,” bar co-owner Richard Ramey, who was not a defendant, said after the decision. “They had no right to be there,” he said of the police….

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