In North Carolina, a jury convicted a 62-year old woman named Gloria Tatum-Wade on seven counts of state income tax evasion. According to news reports of the trial, Ms. Tatum-Wade had filed a document with Guilford County claiming that she was exempt from all taxes because she was a sovereign citizen. Her employer? Until this brush with the law, the self-professed sovereign was a public school teacher at Northeast Guilford High School. Click here for full article.

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