OWS Leftist Lawyers threaten to clog NY courts
The OWS leftist attorneys from the National Lawyers Guild have issued a threat to the Manhattan courts… drop all the charges against the OWS protestors, or we will clog the courts.
Lawyers representing about 800 Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested in the past month demand that prosecutors drop the charges.
If not, they say they won’t deal and will insist on going to trial – putting pressure on the already overloaded Manhattan criminal courts.
“I’d like to suggest to the DA’s office the appropriate way to deal with these cases is outright dismissal,” said defense lawyer Martin Stolar.
“The leverage is, we take them all to trial.”
Manhattan’s response? Have at it…
The Manhattan criminal courts deal with about 90,000 cases a year, and prosecutors say they will have little trouble absorbing the extra work load.
Court officials had a different take.
“Is it a strain on the system? Yes,” said courts spokesman David Bookstaver. “But the reality is the judges will deal with it.”
Hey… I’ve got no problem with that. Unless you’re a terrorist, actively waging war against the US, every one has a right to their day in court. But many of the protestors don’t seem to consider resisting arrest as against the law. Case in point… the DA dismissed charges against 1166 people protesting the police shooting of immigrant street vendor, Amadou Diallo, back in 1999.
But are the circumstances the same with the OWS arrestees? Not according to the former DA, Raymond Castello.
The Diallo protesters, he said, were arrested peaceably.
“Their plan was to get arrested, and they did it in a way that was least inconvenient for all parties,” Castello said.
“Resisting arrest makes a difference,” he said.
It certainly does. But the NLG, an overt progressive guild of leftist lawyers, never lets a little thing like laws stand in the way of a legal agenda. Perhaps it’s membership can best be exemplified by Lynne Stewart – the NLG lawyer who not only lost representing Omar “The Blind Sheikh” Abdel-Rahman, but managed to get herself arrested and convicted for helping Abdel-Rahman pass messages to his terrorist followers.
Then again, encouraging lots of court cases, and potential appeals, enriches those evil capitalists, the National Lawyers Guild, doesn’t it? Hardly seems to fit the anti-capitalist narrative that they apparently parrot at every corner.
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