Posted on 08/01/2023 8:38:29 PM PDT by Morgana
The efforts of parents and Nashville community members to stop the release of Covenant School shooter Audrey Hale’s writings, if successful, would be an unprecedented move that could have bigger implications going forward, an open-government expert told The Post.
Tennessee’s victims’ rights statute does not give individuals a “carte blanche” to veto other laws, such as the one that allows people the right to public records, said Deborah Fisher, executive director of the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government.
“There’s nothing really to indicate that there would be this ability for victims to veto the release of otherwise public records and in, and in this case, crime records,” Fisher said Thursday.
Fisher is not a party in the ongoing litigation over whether Hale’s writings — previously described as a “manifesto” — should be released.
But she was asked by an attorney involved to provide her input on the history of the victims’ rights legislation, she said.
“In this case, the perpetrator is dead,” she went on, “but if the shooter had gone to trial, most likely the writings of the shooter would be part of the evidence in the case about motivation.”
“I don’t think that in that situation, the victims could veto those being submitted in a public trial, and I don’t think that they can veto them being released as crime evidence in a case that doesn’t go to trial because the person is dead,” added Fisher, who is also director of the John Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence in First Amendment Studies at Middle Tennessee State University.
Victims do have legally defined rights as it pertains to criminal proceedings, their exposure to an alleged perpetrator and privacy related to sexual assault and victims’ personal information.
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This means they must have seen it.
Since there seem to be so many violent trans peeps out there these days, I’d suggest that they be drafted into the Military, which could only benefit from having more actual warriors.
It’s bad enough when our government sets forth to ruin our lives and limit (or eliminate) our freedoms. But when it becomes fellow citizens, the game is over.
File a lawsuit. Freedom of information act
She blames the parents for something criminally liable is my best guess.
“Why do the parents want this suppressed?”
What about the spouses of the dead adults?
The rest of the Staff?
Parents of surviving kids?
Adults v. kids was 3 v. 3.
And put them all on the front lines, make them cannon fodder!
The freak probably loved President Retard and buddies
That’s why they won’t release it
It must be something that would really make America hate trannies like never before.
What about the toxicology report ?
Why would the parents object to this being revealed ?
You are correct.
I’d guess that the manifesto talks about being groomed by the FBI, CIA and the parents have been warned to fight the release.
Why do parents want to whitewash the killer?
It must be really really bad for the Left. Otherwise, it would have leaked a day or two after the shooting.
I believe if you dug into this...while the ‘kid’ was a student at the high school...various relationships were going on with teachers. The manifesto probably lays out the ‘wrongs’ going on and that various non-partners knew the relationships existed...doing little about it.
Wouldn’t shock me if other members of the community (non-teachers) were listed as well.
At some point, the authorities will hand the document to the parents, and within hours...they will destroy it.
If you will recall you posted an article a few weeks back about the person leading this effort. If I remember he is the ethics leader for the SBC. A leftist scumbag in the mold of Russell Moore.
RELEASE EVERYTHING unredacted for public consumption. Now.
There were plenty of recent news stories about “shocking” details from the school shooter kid manifesto in Michigan. It was brutal, ugly, demonic, evil stuff. It’s out there and the world is still spinning on its axis.
We The People can handle it!!
They’re probably complicit if they supported the freaks transgender BS
Which parents?
Which community members?
And who’s paying for the litigation?
Inquiring minds want to know.
And I bet the answers to those three little questions would explain everything.
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