HUNTINGTON – Former Marshall University student-athlete Steward Butler today saw the West Virginia Supreme Court dismiss the two remaining charges against him. Butler was accused of saying an anti-gay slur and striking Zackary Johnson and Casey Williams in their faces moments after they kissed at Fifth Avenue and Ninth Street in Huntington in April of 2015.
In 2016, Cabell County Circuit Judge Paul T. Farrell ruled the charges of felony civil rights violations against Butler should be dismissed, but not the remaining two misdemeanor battery charges. That came from Farrell’s interpretation of the state civil rights laws.