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Ohio Prosecutor threatens more jailtime if people don't stop bashing the Ohioan government
Stop writing and weâll reduce your charges, an Ohio prosecutor has told an editor, in essence now publicly admitting that the criminal charges lodged against the website writer are direct retaliation for his exercise of First Amendment rights. Thatâs illegal. Less than two weeks ago, Daniel Kasaris, special prosecutor against two critics of public officials in northern Ohio, stated publicly that the duoâs website which often levels caustic charges against public officials, especially judges, and focuses on alleged governmental wrongdoing, was not a factor in the arrests of the pair. But now he says if the website editor stops writing for the site, heâll reduce the felony charges he brought against him to a misdemeanor. Sounds like blackmail to us; also seems to establish that he made a false statement. Not only is that a blatant violation of First Amendment rights by an agent of government but outright extortion. It would appear to us that Kasaris is the one who should be criminally charged, attempting to force a citizen to give up his constitutionally guaranteed rights in order to regain his freedom. The constitutional violations keep mounting in this case. Now the government and the editorâs government lawyer, public defender Brad Greene, are allegedly holding hearings without informing the defendant or allowing the defendant to be present. THAT is a blatant violation of rights. The Sixth Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee a defendant an absolute right to be present at any and all material stages of a proceeding. Clearly, a pre-trial hearing is a material stage. Plenty of case law on that issue. Read the rest at link. I am not a lawyer and the language makes my head hurt. But what comes clear through the legalise is that there is blatant violations of law and constitution. Time for the people of Ohio to overthrow their socialist overlords. Posted by: mmurray821 2005-08-01 |
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