Joseph Caputo of Stamford, Connecticut, is appearing in federal court in the District of Columbia on Monday.
Washington: A man who draped himself in the American flag and jumped over the White House fence on Thanksgiving Day last year is expected to take a plea deal in the case.
Joseph Caputo of Stamford, Connecticut, is appearing in federal court in the District of Columbia on Monday.
Caputo was carrying a binder with -"a rewritten Constitution-" when he scaled the fence. His lawyer argued Caputo's actions were intended to call attention to deficiencies in the Constitution and protected by the First Amendment. A judge disagreed, saying Caputo's arguments -"border on frivolous-" because there's -"no First Amendment right to express one's self in a nonpublic area like the White House.-"
Caputo isn't the only person to scale the fence. Officials now want to increase its height.
