'This Is Wrong,' Attorney Says of Matanzas Student's Arrest

'This Is Wrong,' Attorney Says of Matanzas Student's Arrest Over Rap Song Threat, Citing 1st Amendment


Joseph Washington in court on Monday, via Zoom. (© FlaglerLive)
Last Updated: March 10, 3 p.m. p.m.
The State Attorney’s Office has yet to file a charge against Joseph Washington almost seven weeks after the 18-year-old Matanzas High School student’s arrest on an accusation that the rap song Washington composed and posted to SoundCloud was a death threat against a dean at Matanzas. In an unusual disclosure by its own prosecutor on Monday, the State Attorney’s Office also appears indecisive as to whether to file a felony or a misdemeanor charge, an indecision that signals the tenuousness of a case initially cast by the sheriff’s office as a second-degree felony charge, and that quickly lent itself to first amendment implications, as even the prosecutor also acknowledged.

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