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According to lawyer Jeffrey Wiesner, the clerk-magistrate said that seven of the 17 charges against Fairey could not go forward in court because there wasn't enough proof that the popular street artist committed the acts.

Among the charges are some involving the posting of stickers with Fairey's images on stop signs and guardrails throughout Boston. But Wiesner argues that the stickers are mass-produced, easily accessible, and could have been posted by anyone.

Fairey returns to court today to face 10 other charges of vandalism. Prosecutors say one involves a six-by-eight-foot mural discovered on a condominium building on Massachusetts Avenue on January 24, which took "time and knowledge."

About a dozen residents of Boston neighborhoods that have been plagued by graffiti attended the proceedings yesterday. "We want the judge to know the community is here and wants something to happen, wants for this to be taken seriously," Kathleen Alexander, co-chair of the Graffiti NABBers for the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay, told the Globe.

The residents were also there to see suspected graffiti artist Danielle Bremner, 27, charged with 34 counts of vandalism for spray-painting her alleged tag, "Utah," throughout the Back Bay in 2006 and 2007. She goes on trial in Boston on May 20.