Posted on 03/11/2011 4:16:34 PM PST by SJackson
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Eleven Muslim students charged with disrupting a speech by the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. at a California university sought Friday to have the district attorney pulled from the case.
Prosecutors illegally obtained search warrants and focused on the religion of the defendants by dubbing the case the "UCI Muslim case," said Dan Mayfield, one of the students' attorneys.
"We are asking the attorney general of the state of California to step in and take over the case," Mayfield said during a news conference after the students' arraignment was postponed until April 15. The courtroom was packed with supporters.
Orange County Deputy District Attorney Dan Wagner said the allegations were not grounds to pull his office from the case.
The students are each charged with one count of misdemeanour conspiracy to disturb a meeting and one count of misdemeanour disturbance of a meeting.
The students were arrested on Feb. 8, 2010, after shouting in protest at a speech at the University of California, Irvine, on U.S.-Israeli security, forcing Ambassador Michael Oren to halt his remarks for 20 minutes.
The case has stoked an intense debate about freedom of speech.
District Attorney Tony Rackauckas filed the charges last month, prompting a public outcry by Muslim and civil rights advocates who say prosecutors were discriminating against students exercising their right to dissent, just as many other college-goers do without punishment.
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Fatwa next. Of course Muslim students have a First Amendment right to shut down the speach of someone they disagree with, especiall a Jew. First Amendment, Sharia style.
It would seem that the little jihad critters should be defenestrated..
The muzzies can want in one hand and spit in the other and see which gets full first. This is OUR country. Not theirs.
Does Holder consider these “his people”?
“A petition condemning the Irvine 11 charges has been signed by a group of 100 UCI faculty members, including the university’s law school Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional scholar.”
“It would seem that the little jihad critters should be defenestrated..”
Bingo! And bears repeating!
I’d sh*** them, but then I’m a hard ass.
Preferably from the 72nd floor - one floor for each virgin.
Chermerinsky is a local leftist. Hugh has him on. He can shred the Constitution on a moments notice.
send them to Iran or Somalia we don’t need jihadists at home.
What a lame ass charge, I'm guilty of that after a few bean burritos.
How about racism, inciting a riot, disturbance of the peace, who the f is paying their tuition?
We need to use the lefty's tactics against themselves each and every chance we get!
A wonderful idea! Allahu fubar!
Why aren’t they in Egypt helping establish demoncracy (sic)?
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