US pipeline protester’s obstruction conviction overturned by appeals court | Climate crisis
The controversial criminal conviction of a peaceful climate activist was overthrown by the Court of Appeal due to the “common” prosecution abuse.
56 -year -old Mylene Vialard was found guilty of an essay on irregularities because of the role he tried to stop the construction of a fossil fuel pipeline through the indigenous region in Minnesota in 2023.
Vialard, in August 2021, a bamboo tower built to block a pumping station in the district of the district of the 25FT, as part of the non-fraudulent domestic leading protests, as part of a pressure opposite the expansion of 3-1,097 miles, 200-1,097 miles according to 200-1,097 miles, 200-1,097 miles, 200-1,097 mile With the tar sand oil line with tar, the sands with 1,097 miles of tar can be midwest through a body more than a body that is more than a body that is more than water than more than water than water.
According to the legal groups representing the activists, Vialard was between more than a thousand arrests by minnesota law enforcement officers – Other agencies reportedly received at least 8.6 million dollars Canadian company from Enbridge behind the third line.
On Monday, conviction was overthrown and ordered by the Court of Minnesota.
Weighing the relevant factors, we concluded that the prosecution accepted by the state was not harmless beyond a reasonable suspicion.
“For this reason, we concluded that the prosecutor could not meet his positive obligation to ensure that Vialard gets a fair trial and instead of seeking conviction at any price. Accordingly, Vialard has a new hearing.”
Vialard and the legal team met the decision.
Vialard told Guardian, “Resisting the tyrants and protecting the only world that can feed and provide people and non -human beings,” he said.
Vialard, “the Court of Appeal, during my hearing and the judge knew that the abuse of abuse and the guilty decision is the best way to accept the best.
“This case contained a terrible, widespread abuse, and Claire Glenn, a lawyer of Vialard’s lawyer of the Climate Defense Project, contained a terrible abuse, and we are pleased that the Court of Appeal accepted that Mylene was robbed in this case.” “This system had to be related to accountability, but often prosecutors are not responsible.”
For the comment, the District Law Office of the district was contacted.
One week trial in August 2021 was fed with delays and legal arguments in the midst of a large number of violations made by the prosecution.
In an incident, a Sheriff deputy issued the sound of Zoom to the public corridors of the courthouse used by the jury members and witnesses in the public corridors-the rules of the Court and the Court’s own pre-trial order prevented the public zoom’s access to the hearing.
In court, the prosecutor incorrectly claimed that Vialard was not an American citizen – he was born in France – and when he was arrested, he was rejected by the judge again as an unauthorized entry charges, but he entered without permission when he was arrested.
However, Vialard was found guilty and faced a 12 -month imprisonment. At that time, he told Guardian that he was “regretted”.
In general, at least 967 criminal offenses were made, including a few people collected as part of the state’s new critical infrastructure protection legislation, approved as part of a wave of law, a right group supported by fossil fuel companies.
This was Jill Ferguson, a 70 -year -old grandmother of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, was found guilty of a legal process (intervention in a peace office), and was sentenced to two days in prison for a protest in Clearwater district in July 2021.
“I’m guilty. He’s guilty of protecting the main coast of the Mississippi River, so this is a badge of honor, Fer Ferguson said to Guardian then.
