Posted on 07/13/2021 11:40:09 AM PDT by conservative98
The ACLU on Tuesday filed an amicus brief in support of Britney Spears as the pop star attempts to free herself from a 13-year conservatorship she called “abusive” in testimony last month.
The ACLU filed the brief, along with 25 civil and disability organizations, in support of Spears’ wish to choose her own attorney, which is prohibited by the conservatorship. Spears’ court-appointed lawyer, Samuel Ingham III, resigned from the case last week. The brief, filed with the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, also calls for her to be given access to assistance and tools to make her selection for his replacement.
“Britney Spears has said that she wants to pick her own lawyer and the court should respect that wish,” Zoë Brennan-Krohn, staff attorney with the ACLU’s Disability Rights Project, said in a Tuesday statement. “The court should ensure Spears has access to the tools she needs to make that choice meaningfully and to hire someone she trusts to advocate for her stated goal: to get out of her conservatorship. Spears’s right to select an attorney is not only a basic tenet of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, but also consistent with principles of personal autonomy and agency.
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Leave Britney alone!
I think one person asked a good question “ if Britney was not rich but poor, would the government give a damn about her issues”.
ACLU the American Criminal Lunatic Union strikes again.
Her dad should provide proof that the conservatorship should remain in place. Without that, it should be ended.
Britney is cute, talented and makes lots of money. She is also nuts and needs the oversight of sane people to keep her safe from herself. This not a defense of her father.
They don’t care!
I agree!
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