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ACORN to sue O’Keefe, Giles, Breitbart; fired workers to file criminal complaint in MD today?
Inside Charm City ^ | 9/18/2009

Posted on 09/18/2009 7:21:41 AM PDT by jeffq73

WBAL.com

Former ACORN workers in the city are planning to file a civil complaint against the makers of the video, according to the website Investigative Voice.

City state's attorney Patricia Jessamy said on WBAL's Shari Elicker Show that she could not prosecute based on restrictions for evidence obtained illegally.

Maryland law requires two party consent to be recorded.

Investigative Voice

Former employees of the beleaguered community activist group ACORN are planning to file a criiminal complaint in Baltimore against the creators of the series of videos that have spurred outrage against the organization, knowledgable sources have told Investigative Voice.

The filing could come as soon as Friday afternoon, sources said.

The criminal complaint will allege that recordings of the group’s employees giving advice on how to evade taxes and house underage South American sex workers to journalists posing as a pimp and prostitute were obtained illegally.

The criminal complaint is expected to name both James O’Keefe, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20, along with the owner of the website Breitbart, which initially released the videos.

ACORN is also contemplating a civil suit seeking an injunction aginst O'Keefe and Giles to prevent them from distributing the videos, according to an an email.



TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: acorn; acornwatch; agenda; baltimore; coi; corruption; democrats; hannahgiles; liberalfascism; maryland; okeefe
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To: MizSterious

Especially the phone, email, and other records that led directly back to DC!


221 posted on 09/18/2009 10:48:23 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: RockinRight

I’ll be right behind you with a check.


222 posted on 09/18/2009 10:49:55 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Yep, let’s see this should lead to stories in the MSM everyday starting in about March and going on for months. Leading right into the election exposing all of the dirty dems, beautiful!


223 posted on 09/18/2009 10:50:23 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: usurper
"Now they will have to testify in open court to illegal acts and self incriminate. These are not smart people. "

Without hearing the whole interview, the MD prosecutor is probably referring to the prosecution of the ACORN workers for anything they said on those tapes. Those tapes were obtained illegally - fruit of the poisoned tree - would preclude any incriminating evidence, or other evidence obtained directly from that illegal taping, to be admitted in a court of law.

224 posted on 09/18/2009 10:53:50 AM PDT by OldDeckHand (No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
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To: chris_bdba

If there are a few more sting films, all the better.


225 posted on 09/18/2009 10:58:12 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: staytrue
"I thought prosecutors only had to disallow evidence illegally obtained by the police, not by citizens."

Nope. The doctrine applies to any illegally obtained evidence, irrespective of who obtained it.. This is why law enforcement loathes it when people go poking around their crime scenes, or launch their own private investigations. Mistakes those people make can taint as-yet discovered evidence from being admitted at trial.

226 posted on 09/18/2009 10:58:46 AM PDT by OldDeckHand (No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
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To: OldDeckHand
Interesting, but more than a little unlikely. I reread the statute, and it provides for no such defense. It does shield someone from civil liability if it meets this part of the statue...

I'm not a lawyer so I can only guess that it came out of case law. Please see the link I provided in post 216. Hope it helps.

227 posted on 09/18/2009 11:00:48 AM PDT by freespirited (Liberals are only liberal about sex & drugs. Otherwise, they want to control your life. --DHorowitz)
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To: savedbygrace

Good point. I think you could hear kids running around the office on that tape.


228 posted on 09/18/2009 11:03:07 AM PDT by freespirited (Liberals are only liberal about sex & drugs. Otherwise, they want to control your life. --DHorowitz)
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To: staytrue
Your speculation about my history of job applications is entirely untrue and a totally unwarranted assumption.

In case you care, I make decent money at the job I have now. My professional history includes over 4 years on the staff of a U.S. Congressman. I have seen these types up close and personal.

They are far more concerned with how they appear to DemocRATs back in Washington than they are in trying to actually win a race. They'd rather be nice losers than aggressive winners.

They are only good at one thing, and that is turning winnable campaigns into losing campaigns.

My boss was 2-0 when I worked for him on staff, 2-0 when I managed his campaigns while in the private sector, and 0-1 when he decided to "let the professionals handle it."

Because I don't know you personally, I will dispense with the armchair psychiatry you've so lamely attempted.

229 posted on 09/18/2009 11:39:08 AM PDT by Saab-driving Yuppie
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To: jeffq73; All
I've started a running file on ACORN,
' The Issa Report- ACORN "a criminal enterprise..."'--Click the picture:


230 posted on 09/18/2009 11:55:00 AM PDT by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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To: staytrue

The charges against Tripp were dropped because of numerous immumity agreements that Starr had entered into.

Public place? Not in the ACORN office?


231 posted on 09/18/2009 11:59:16 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy (The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.)
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To: jeffq73

How do private citizens file a criminal complaint, much less when the city’s State’s Attorney (who was anxious to do so) can’t ???


232 posted on 09/18/2009 12:01:11 PM PDT by EDINVA (A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul -- G. B. Shaw)
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To: 444Flyer

Acorn: “We’re going to sue you Breitbat, Big Gov, Big Hwyood, everyone”.

Breitbart, reclining sligtly on couch, says: “bring it!”

Slimes vs Suave :)


233 posted on 09/18/2009 12:05:40 PM PDT by Saoirise (Right the wrong and free SGT. Hutchins, NOW!)
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To: OldDeckHand
"No prosecutor with brains and integrity would pursue this, but that statement excludes Ms Jessamy. "

I must admit, I'm not familiar with Ms Jessamy, but it seems like she's in very familiar company as a member of the Democrat party.

Even in a state where liberal lunacy and corruption run rampant, Ms Jessamy is in a class by herself.

234 posted on 09/18/2009 12:38:37 PM PDT by In Maryland ("Impromptu Obamanomics is getting scarier by the day ..." - Caroline Baum)
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To: Saoirise

ACORNers are so clueless, they have no idea how they are STRENGTHENING our position.

Thank you ACORN. Bring it!


235 posted on 09/18/2009 1:37:19 PM PDT by 444Flyer ( "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."--Mignon McLaughlin)
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To: In Maryland

If they actually go after them, ACORN will be done for good (if they aren’t already.)

So much information will come out in that investigation...not to mention that O’Keefe and Giles will have one HELL of a defense fund.


236 posted on 09/18/2009 1:52:09 PM PDT by RockinRight (9/12/09 - the day the sh*t hit the fan)
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To: Puppage

Don’t laugh. In the UK last year a would-be burglar sued his would-be victim for having a barbed-wire fence too high. He won. The homeowner had to lower it.


237 posted on 09/18/2009 2:26:11 PM PDT by rvoitier ("The law allows what honor forbids." -- C. C. Colton)
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To: rvoitier

I remember that.


238 posted on 09/18/2009 2:30:32 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: jeffq73

if they fired the employees for wrong doing i dont see where they have ANY case at all. Lots of cahones, but no case


239 posted on 09/18/2009 3:10:32 PM PDT by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: OldDeckHand
Those tapes were obtained illegally - fruit of the poisoned tree - would preclude any incriminating evidence, or other evidence obtained directly from that illegal taping, to be admitted in a court of law.

You are correct, but plaintiffs have to admit these tapes as their key piece of evidence in any civil proceeding and will be open to cross examination when in they will have to testify as to what they said. Hence the original evidence that could not be admitted becomes irrelevant as they are on record under oath admitting to criminal acts. Such statement can be admitted as evidence.

240 posted on 09/18/2009 3:29:59 PM PDT by usurper (Spelling or grammatical errors in this post can be attributed to the LA City School System)
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