Posted on 10/11/2005 3:55:46 PM PDT by Alouette
The Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday awarded right-wing extremist Noam Federman tens of thousands of shekels in damages because he was remanded in custody for 46 days and then held in administrative detention and house detention for two years during the hearing of a criminal indictment the state ultimately withdrew.
The damages were awarded for the estimated fees that he paid for legal representation and for the days he was held in jail, and administrative and house detention by the authorities between his arrest and early remand in custody until the abrupt end of the trial more than two years later, on May 11, 2004.
"The prolongation of the judicial proceedings caused injury to his life routine and left him for two years in a state of uncertainty regarding his fate, while he faced the possibility of a harsh indictment which called for punishments of up to 10 years for the first and second charge, and 15 years for the third," wrote the judge, Moshe Drori.
It marked the first time that the court has awarded damages to a defendant. For the time he was held in administrative and house detention Drori estimated that Federman should receive 90 percent of 45 percent of the average daily wage (NIS 282) for the time he spent in administrative detention and ninety percent of 11.25 percent for the time he was held in house detention. He also received 90 percent of $45,000 to compensate him for lawyers' fees.
At one point in the 70-page ruling, Drori referred to the personal hardships that the various restrictions on his freedom had caused Federman.
"[Federman] was caused injury which requires compensation in order to restore the situation to what it was before the restriction of his freedom, both with regard to the money he spent on his lawyers and with regard to the damage to his health (as a result of his harsh incarceration in the Shin Bet facility), his good name and his family," wrote Drori.
"Regarding the latter, [Federman] emphasized the anguish caused him during his daughter's bat-mitzva in his home town of Jerusalem, when he was under police supervision and handcuffed. One must take this humane matter into account."
Federman, who had completed three years of law school, defended himself during the latter part of the proceedings against him.
He was arrested in connection with the Bat Ayin affair, in which a group of right-wing extremists plotted to explode a bomb outside a Palestinian girls' high school in east Jerusalem. Federman was suspected of supplying the conspirators with weapons.
One of the conspirators, Yarden Morag, turned state's witness and accused Federman of being involved in the plot. During the following two years, however, Morag kept changing his version of events during testimony in various trials related to the attempted terrorist act. The prosecution ultimately came to the conclusion that he was not a credible witness and withdrew the case against Federman.
Since Federman had already formally responded to the charges against him, the judge fully acquitted him. The acquittal served as the basis for the damages awarded him.
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Wow, I must be a "right wing extremist" too. Whodathunkit?
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Federman was accused of plotting to blow up a girls' school. Somehow I don't think you would ever be involved in such a thing. (Yes, I know the charges couldn't be proved.) Federman also called for violence to stop the disengagement. Somehow I don't think you'd advocate violence, would you? If you would then maybe you are an extremist. If not then, no, I don't think you are at all the same as Mr. Federman.
Another great failure in the search for the mythical "Jewish Terrorist". Searching for a "Right Wing Terrorist" has proven to be as difficult as trying to find a fossil of a transitional species to prove evolution.
20,000 terrorist attacks against Jews and no terrorism in return.
Hmmm, perhaps the Arabs are the evil ones after all...
Damages of about 22 dollars a day for prison. Gee, I am impressed... NOT.
How about 95% of the Prosicution Lawyers salary instead, he wasn't earning it anyway.
"Federman was accused of plotting to blow up a girls' school. Somehow I don't think you would ever be involved in such a thing."
Sharon had many, many opponents of the expulsion locked up on phony charges of all sorts, and played many other dirty tricks.
"Federman also called for violence to stop the disengagement."
He did no such thing! You're making this up. I can cite sources, can you?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1432488,00.html
Mr Federman insists he is against violence and law-breaking, but adds that he would not prevent or condemn anyone else from stopping the evacuation of the Jewish settlements in Gaza. "The Sharon government is criminal. It has crossed all the red lines. No one should expect their opponents to behave differently. It's not about legality, it's about morality. I follow God's law," he says.
"Somehow I don't think you'd advocate violence, would you? "
That is a stupid, stupid rhetorical question. I can think of several circumstances under which I would advocate violence. For example, I would have no qualms about ventilating someone who broke into my home. If the US were invaded by a foreign military power, I would resist. Men like George Washington advocated violence. However, since you made up the charge of Federman advocating violence against IDF troops kicking Jews from their homes, this is all moot.
"If you would then maybe you are an extremist."
Moot moot moot.
"If not then, no, I don't think you are at all the same as Mr. Federman."
No such highway, not part of my plan, and Dr. Rice has no say as to what Prime Minister Sharon decides. I am quite certain he will never allow such a highway.
I didn't make it up. The article was, in fact, posted on Free Republic. I wish I had time to search and pull it up for you now. After the holiday...
My father fought to create this country in 1948-49. We will never give up Eretz Yisrael no matter how much nonsense you spout to the contrary.
Throw stones all you like from thousands of miles away. Your throwing arm isn't good enough to reach us.
You make a lot of comments about my beliefs and politics which are based on your own imagination, not anything I have said or believed. I am not brainwashed, I am not surrendering, I have arrested noone, and I am not in favor of any further concessions of any sort without, to quote Binyamin Netanyahu, reciprocity.
I have spoken against the Bush administration and condemned it's close ties to the Saudi royal family.
You choose to ignore all that. You choose to demonize me without reading a word I say. I take that back. You may read but you certainly do not comprehend.
"I didn't make it up. The article was, in fact, posted on Free Republic. I wish I had time to search and pull it up for you now. After the holiday..."
You made it up. I did some googling and didn't find any evidence of what you claimed at ALL. He said he did not advocate violence, but would not condemn anyone who tried to stop the expulsion.
BTW, as for the rest of your post.... If there are no situations in that you could imagine yourself in, in which violence is the only solution... then you're either a wimp or you're suicidal.
Go No`am!
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