Posted on 09/18/2009 7:21:41 AM PDT by jeffq73
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.
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 groups 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 OKeefe, 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.
Easy fix - file a countersuit naming Acorn and you open the box.....red
Maxine Waters would be one.
How about filming a soccer game? Or, a football game?
I think the prosecutor may have to disallow the evidence in a criminal case against the Acorn nuts but I don't think the rule was meant to apply in general.
this wasn’t a phone call. so does the law apply to videotaping?
Discovery is going to be a real b***h for these ACORN goons.
Great minds and all that rot!
Beat me by 1 minute as I was composing!
How day do dat?
Yes, do it! Dooooo it!
The two kids need to have the state pay for their legal defense. You know that there will be the absolute best at this craft wanting to take this case. Let ACORN spend millions trying to defend themselves and vilify those who caught them...what an absolute riot. I love it.
I’ve got a C-Note with Giles and O’keefe written on it.....just waiting for the defense fund address to send it to....
I imagine the worst stuff has been shredded already. It's not like those are document locked in the National Archives that they can't get to. (Wait, what?!)
The two kids need to have the state pay for their legal defense. You know that there will be the absolute best at this craft wanting to take this case. Let ACORN spend millions trying to defend themselves and vilify those who caught them...what an absolute riot. I love it.
In that same blog, back in Feb , 2009, a ACORN worker or member was arrested for breaking and entering.
“These tramps and scalawags fear discovery...”
ACORN might. The fired workers are the loose cannons.
If I had tapes of workers in 5 Walmart stores encouraging me to commit crimes as part of their employment and those workers sued me I could not use discovery against Walmart?
Just asking, I don't know.
It will be interesting to see Maryland skews the law to allow an illegal entity to sue anything. Certainly opens the way for the illegals to sue for healthcare, childcare, other entitlements and a free public education.
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