Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Verbatim court reporting

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And lots of people have done that through history. I did it when the Springbok tour was on, and I didn't break any law, and I protested like mad.
In some Ploughshares' cases courts have taken a liberal view.
In July 2006, an Irish jury acquitted a group of criminal damage to property. Five activists had broken into Shannon Airport in County Clare, beating on an American supply plane with hammers and pouring their own blood over it.
The airport's use as a pitstop for American troops in Iraq was largely unknown in Ireland and the five used the case to highlight what they viewed as complicity in the war machine.
They argued their protest was necessary to prevent worse crimes.
The jury essentially agreed that in the circumstances damaging the plane could not be considered a crime



'The state has to have a compelling interest to show why they should take someone's job for not answering questions about intimate sexual details,' said Charles Sciarra, an attorney who filed the initial brief on behalf of one of the troopers, identified only as Trooper No. 1.
The state Attorney General's Office, which oversees the state police, said in court filings that the investigation is necessary to determine if any of the troopers violated departmental regulations governing off-duty conduct, regardless of the lack of criminal charges.
'Public confidence in law enforcement would be eradicated if the public believed that law enforcement was helpless to investigate allegations of wrongdoing by its members,' Deputy Attorney General Dermot O'Grady argued in front of Cooper last month.
Police officers are held to a higher standard of behavior and thus have a reduced expectation of privacy even when they are not working, O'Grady argued in court. He noted that troopers can be punished for abusing alcohol or otherwise behaving 'to the personal discredit of the member or to the discredit of the Division.'
He also raised the possibility that the troopers might have violated a state police regulation that requires them to aid someone who is helpless




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