Elvis Rodriguez, 30, flashed Latin Kings hand signals on his MySpace.com page and called himself “King Kamel,” according to his arrest report.
Richard Figueroa-Santiago, 22, used his MySpace page to post pictures of friends making “Eastside” hand gestures, detectives said.
Now, in the first cases of their kind in Florida and in the nation, both Lee County men face five years in state prison for the gang-related content of their Web pages.
Their prosecutions are the first under a state law passed last year that criminalizes the use of electronic media to “promote” gangs.
Attorneys for both are challenging the law as unconstitutional. What do you think?
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