Posted on 01/21/2010 6:43:00 PM PST by CJBernard
I think you managed to do that all by yourself, Kathy.
Hope Giles and O'Keefe beat this case.
This is a cause well worth donating to. Address?
So is it more illegal to record illegalities, or be responsible for giving out information that leads to and supports criminal behavior???
I’m confused...
You cannot claim (or successfully prove in a court of law) the ACORN office personnel were coerced into providing the counsel or advise on how to get away with setting up a “shop” for illegal activity...They gave it without any reservation, and matter of fact they helped to formulate the process to actually get this done...So they went above and beyond what was being asked...
The fact they were recorded is a moot point except in the states that have a notification of recording statutes in their civil law codes...And even that can be defended, or pled down, based upon the content of the recording...
It may, at most be thrown out (recording), ok, but the other states data has already exposed a prevalent tendency for ACORN employees and volunteers complicite in advising citizens to break the law...
If you are standing in a balcony and you are recording an assault in progress, and that assault results in a murder...Do you think for one second that that tape or recording cannot be used to prosecute that crime???
Oh wait, I forgot to ask the murderer if it was ok to tape them committing this crime...
Toss this lawsuit, and ACORN needs topay the legal fees for our two journalists...
Bump
The kids are safe, and the exposure will further damage the ACORN goons.
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