Judge drops domestic terrorism charges against Atlanta ‘Cop City’ protester | ‘Cop City‘
In the language language, a judge, which is seen as a win for protesters, the Atlanta, known as COP City, rejected internal terrorism charges against a defendant in connection with Vandalism in the future area of the police training center near Georgia.
On Thursday, Gregory Adams, the judge of the DECALB Supreme Court, decided that the defendant Jamie Marsicano had been violated for two -and -a -half years of indictment for the ongoing delays of the state and the indictment of a nearby music festival.
Marsicano’s lawyer Xavier de Janon said, “The judge acknowledged that the state had deliberately delayed, which is what the public is suspected and the activists say.” “The idea that the process is punishment.”
The opposition to the $ 109 million center opened in this spring came from a wide range of local and national organizations and protesters and focused on concerns about police militarization and cleaning forests. The Atlanta police said the center was necessary to attract “first -class” training and new officers.
In the last three years, the state has already corrected internal terrorism charges against the opponents of the training center in DEKALB and RICO conspiracy charges in the neighboring Fulton district, using a regulation allocated for organized crime.
Marsicano has faced charges in both places. At a hearing on decalb delays last week, Janon called on the state’s attempt to regulate the charges in the two districts on the basis of “trying to get Apple’s two bite” based on the same alleged actions. Marsicano will be one of the first of the 61 defendants in the Rico case, the biggest criminal indictment of corruption against a protest or social movement members.
Meanwhile, in the last few years, Marsicano has graduated the Faculty of Law in North Carolina, and only state law auditors have passed the bar to refuse to license for implementation due to unresolved charges. Judge Adams said, “Your personal and professional results [Marsicano] This is a result of this uncertain accusation… they are real prejudice ”.
Marsicano, “Native terrorism emerges in housing and job applications – this is a deep social and political stamping,” he said.
Adams also wrote that John Fowler, the Attorney General of Georgia, said that he used the accusations of DEKALB to “get a tactical advantage”, according to Marsicano. De Janon said that despite the accusations of the same alleged actions in both districts and the deadline for collecting the discovery material in the Rico case, the state continued to collect evidence about Marsicano.
Fowler at the decalb hearing last week, the first time delays have 14 Terabyt evidence – Equivalent to more than 3 million photos and at least twice from the previous number specified by the state. “This means that there is evidence we haven’t seen,” he said to Janon Guardian.
The decision of Thursday, the rejection of the charges for the second time for three years, is that the state is trying to punish dozens of inheritance in connection with its opposition to the police training center.
Last September, Fowler, Rico’da 15 of the 18 numbers underlying money laundering charges or Atlanta Solidarity Fund members against members of the tribute, left the indictment.
De Janon noted this Judges in several hearing He “condemned the state için for behaviors such as missing deadline and privileged lawyer-cultivation information. This shows that with the rejection of the charges, the state’s intense prosecution has begun to disintegrate ”.
