Two more RNC protesters acquitted

Photo by Mysti Strege
In January, charges against seven other RNC defendants were dismissed at the end of the prosecution's case, with the judge finding that there was not enough evidence to send the case to a jury. No defendants have been convicted after trial.
City Attorney John Choi has decided not to prosecute in the cases of hundreds of those arrested during the RNC, but many misdemeanor cases are still pending and the trial of Sean McCoy on misdemeanor charges of parading without a permit and fleeing a police officer is now going on. Some defendants have pleaded guilty. Attorney Bruce Nestor said that the two people acquitted on Thursday were offered deals for guilty pleas that would have resulted in no penalties, but that they refused to plead guilty.
"In terms of the unlawful assembly, the riots, all of the misdemeanors," said Nestor, "they have a claim to be protesters, just caught up in mass arrests."
Attorneys with the National Lawyers Guild urged St. Paul City Attorney John Choi to dismiss the remaining unlawful assembly charges.















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RNC Human Destruction
Why is it against the law
justice prevails.
Tyranny by law enforcement
Bush-Cheney pushed Police tactics. We must prosecute them!
It is worse than it looks
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