Errands of Suppression

St. Marys County Sheriff Richard Voorhaar and Richard Fritz, candidate for St. Marys States Attorney, and a posse of deputies raided newsstands on Election Eve 1998 and removed all available copies of ST. MARYS TODAY to prevent voters from reading news articles critical of them before voting. Civil Rights ruling by United States Court of Appeals 4th Circuit 2003 Rossignol V. Voorhaar was the landmark 1st Amendment was the result.