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    Photographer acquitted of charge of interfering with arrest

    Jennifer Koons | Newsgathering | Quicklink | May 15, 2008
    Jennifer Koons
    Quicklink
    May 15, 2008

     A jury acquitted former Galveston County Daily News photographer Nick Adams on Wednesday, more than a year after he was charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly interfering with police by refusing to stop taking pictures of an arrest during the city’s Mardi Gras festivities.

    Adams, now with the Appeal-Democrat [Marysville] in Northern California, was arrested in February 2007 after a League City, Texas, police officer told him to stop taking photographs.