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Card Players Challenge Law

MOUNT PLEASANT, South Carolina – As reported by the Charleston Post and Courier: "A group of poker enthusiasts is challenging their arrest on gambling charges in an effort to change a South Carolina law that has made outlaws out of card players for two centuries.

"Eighteen of 22 people arrested in April during a police raid at a Glencoe Street home entered not-guilty pleas Tuesday in municipal court and asked for a jury trial to decide their cases.

"…Robert Chimento, who pleaded not- guilty, said the four who pleaded guilty were people who lived outside of town and wanted to put the episode behind them. But he vowed that a core group would forge on to prove that a state gambling law is the real villain in this case. The law bans games with cards or dice, making everything from poker to 'Chutes and Ladders' illegal, he said.

"'The law was basically set in place way back in 1802 because of the morality of the times,' Chimento said. 'imes have changed ... and this law needs to be changed.'

"…The episode attracted attention from across the nation as word of the raid spread in card-playing circles…"

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