Posted on 07/19/2005 9:52:08 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
MILWAUKEE (AP) - The trial for five Democratic political workers accused of slashing the tires of vehicles rented by the Republican Party on Election Day last November will start Jan. 9.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Jean W. DiMotto, who has handled the case, authorized switching the case Monday to Judge Michael Brennan because she will move to small claims court duty in August.
Attorney Robin Shellow, who is representing Sowande Omokunde, the son of U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis., had requested that the cases remain with DiMotto, but attorneys for the other defendants had asked that the matter be moved, as court policy dictates.
The trial was supposed to start last week, but the illness of Shellow's mother, who has since died, prompted a postponement.
The defendants are Omokunde, 25; Michael Pratt, 32, the son of former Milwaukee acting mayor Marvin Pratt; Lewis Caldwell, 29; Lavelle Mohammad, 35; and Justin Howell, 20. All are from Milwaukee except Howell, who is from Racine.
The five are charged with criminal property damage, a felony carrying a maximum 3 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
They'll walk. No jury their neighborhoods will convict them.
Is there any doubt that if the parties had been reversed this would be headlines across America?
We would be hearing about how the actions of the mean Republicans disenfranchised all the poor, poor, voters counting on that bus to get them to the polls.
Defendant, Lewis G. Caldwell, who hopes to be the next 'Breck Girl'. (I'm afraid Lewis's life will be filled with 'bad days' if convicted and sent to prison)
They could still be indicted on Fed charges, within the statute of limitations.
You speak of Supreme Solar Allah?
In prison, he would be known as Lewis G. "you got a pretty mouth" Caldwell
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