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...Ora was arrested in June 2005 on charges of open and gross lewdness when Out of Town News employees called the police after seeing Ora dancing naked in the Square pit, protesting the commercialization of Christmas. The charges were originally dropped because the Cambridge District Court ruled that dancing naked is constitutional under “expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment,” according to the ruling...
...Ora, 31, had been charged with breaking a 1784 state law—prohibiting lewd conduct that shocks and alarms an unsuspecting or unwilling public—which the Cambridge District Court then declared unconstitutional on the basis that the law was overbroad...
...felony charges against Ora have been reinstated, and her case will go to trial soon, said Ora’s lawyer Daniel Beck. In order for the state’s case to hold up, the Out of Town News employees who called the police would have to come to court and testify as to being shocked and alarmed by Ora’s nudity, and Beck said he is doubtful that they would do so three years after the incident...
...found guilty, Ora could face up to three years in prison...
...greeted crew members from his Florida Keys salvage boats with the same encouraging cry: "Today's the day!" But for 17 years Fisher, 64, was wrong. The day, the one on which he and his 73-member crew would find the cargo of the legendary Spanish galleon Nuestra Seora de Atocha, never seemed to arrive. Still, Fisher's cheerful shout kept the crew going through the tough, fruitless years when other salvagers gave up the search for the famed and mysterious 17th century mass shipwreck in which eight or nine vessels were lost...