Posted on 11/21/2007 12:36:18 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
JENA, La. - A judge ruled Wednesday that the public and the news media should have full access to all legal proceedings involving Mychal Bell, one of the teenage defendants in the racially-charged Jena 6 case in Louisiana, whose prosecution had been shrouded in secrecy on orders of the trial judge.
Ruling in a lawsuit brought by the Chicago Tribune and joined by a coalition of major U.S. media companies, Rapides Parish District Judge Thomas Yeager ordered that Bell's upcoming criminal trial, as well as any pre-trial hearings, must be open to the press and the public.
Yeager also ordered that the court record and transcripts of any closed proceedings held so far be made available to the news media, and that attorneys for Bell be released from the trial judge's gag order directing them not to speak about the case.
"The right to an open trial is one that's very important," Yeager said in making his ruling, "so that the public has confidence in what we do."
Yeager's ruling was a rebuke to LaSalle Parish District Judge J.P. Mauffray, who had ordered that all the proceedings in Bell's case should be closed because the youth, who is now 17, is being tried as a juvenile for his alleged part in the beating of a white student at Jena High School last December....."
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"..Ruling in a lawsuit brought by the Chicago Tribune and joined by a coalition of major U.S. media companies, Rapides Parish District Judge Thomas Yeager ordered that Bell's upcoming criminal trial, as well as any pre-trial hearings, must be open to the press and the public.
Yeager also ordered that the court record and transcripts of any closed proceedings held so far be made available to the news media, and that attorneys for Bell be released from the trial judge's gag order directing them not to speak about the case..."[snip]....."
Now we have a shot a finding out what really happened in the court that Judge Mauffray seems so eager to hide.
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Chronological Order of Events Concerning the Jena Six (Updated)
On the other hand, I am afraid you could wind up with a "hand-picked" jury that becomes an OJ-II jury, and we will be hearing the race-baiters and hate-mongers for the next six months, expounding on their plight.
Great! Maybe the media can start reporting the TRUTH regarding this case.
In my dreams.
Let there be JUSTICE.
“Great! Maybe the media can start reporting the TRUTH regarding this case.”
The same can be said of certain FReepers.
“To: wastedyears
Without the nooses the other stuff would not have happened.
You can’t have students screwing around like that.
8 posted on 09/20/2007 10:28:31 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182”
Absolute BS.
I’d be very surprised if it was the white students that hung the nooses. Not the first time that sort of thing had been done to justify whatever happens as a result of that sort of “atrocity”.
White kids hung the nooses. They just had no idea what they were doing. Their intent was not racially based. That’s not me talking, that’s the FBI. None of the kids had any idea of the non-existent racial “historical significance” of the noose.
News media win suit to open Jena 6 case.
Now, that would be the same ‘media’ that is responsible for encouraging and fostering the violence and hate crimes that occurred as a result of the original ‘incident’. The original incident that was fully investigated, and then dropped by the FBI as not meriting any further investigation.
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Thank you for creating this thread. The more details we can get, the better.
Let there be JUSTICE.
That’s right, JUSTICE for JUSTIN, the victim who had NOTHING to do with the noose incident.
Exactly!!!!
The little white boy that got beat senseless by a gang of black youths in Norfolk, Virginia made the news one night and then got dropped off the radar. Justice in the USA is a constant joke.
When are these violent, racist perps going to jail?
I think those of us who are sick and tired of black on white hate crimes....are getting heard (IE:discussion groups like FR), and I am confident that in the future, the media, the court system etc., WILL start taking US SERIOUSLY. There are too many people (average everyday voters) upset and even angry about the hypocrisy... to ignore it forever.
When the self-defense laws become more utilized by potential victims, someone will start listening.
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