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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 07:39 PM
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The case of Jason Vassell
Motion to dismiss charges.

This is a very long document, but it is worth reading carefully.

http://www.justiceforjason.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/motiontodismiss.pdf


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druidity33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 08:12 PM
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1. yesterday i was in Northampton...
There were about fifty protesters outside the Courthouse with signs and shouts... "Justice for Jason!" Apparently there was a pretrial hearing.

It's a big case around hereabouts.


K&R.

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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 08:28 PM
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2. Mattapan and Milton are also following this case closely
I sincerely hope the charges are dismissed, but this has to go further.

The officer who altered witness statements needs to be prosecuted.
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druidity33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 09:19 PM
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3. The Valley Advocate...
has had a good couple of articles on this case...

it stinks all around.


:(


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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 09:45 PM
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4. The individuals in question
have been a pain in our collective ass for years.

By rights they should have been in jail already.

I feel really bad for the Vassell family.
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druidity33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-09 08:26 AM
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5. just read the document...
The most thorough explanation that could be hoped for. Jason will have excellent grounds for a Civil suit against Lt. Thrasher (could he have a more ridiculous name?) and perhaps the University/Police Dept as a whole.

There was a travesty of inJustice here.

Somehow brings to mind the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell...


Cheers.


Wish this had gotten to the greatest, but i guess it's kinda local.

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TOUCH 106.1 FM Donating Member (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-16-09 08:23 AM
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6. TOUCH 106.1 FM Boston is following with video
Edited on Wed Dec-16-09 08:24 AM by TOUCH 106.1 FM
Good Day to All:

I have telephone Attorney Scheibel's office and of course got no response.

http://touchfmboston.blogspot.com/2009/12/touch-1061-fm-update-back-to-jason.html

Tuesday, December 15, 2009
TOUCH 106.1 FM UPDATE: Back to Jason Vassell and the apparent racial discrimination against black men who defend themselves against racist white men.
See: justiceforjason.org. The Democratic Underground has it all pegged.

Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Thu Feb-19-09 09:45 PM
The individuals in questionhave been a pain in our collective *ss for years.

By rights they should have been in jail already. I feel really bad for the Vassell family.


I understand that a Discovery Conference is pending in the next few days or weeks, potentially before year's end. Here is a link to our prior coverage where the High Court ORDERED production of years of files.

http://touchfmboston.blogspot.com/2009/11/high-court-single-justice-orders.html

Best regards.
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