So happy ir came out early!
I’ve got some reading to do today!
Here’s a straight link in case anybody wants to do that instead of downloading.
This is a must-read, particularly for those who genuinely struggled with the Franks motions and believed he was being accused wrongly, imprisoned unfairly, treated unconstiitutionally.
It's a very straightforward response and in only a third of the way through it.
For all the noise of the Franks motions, where there wasn't even cause, his attorneys did not raise many of the objections at trial that they're trying to now. There's no basis for appeal on new grounds.
I actually hope this is a calming document and it gives me great comfort for the appellate response down the road.
Despite the circus, RA had a fair trial and was found guilty based on admissible evidence alone.
It is my hope that this case will NOT become a harbinger of the new way to do defense. It's unbecoming. It is an affront to justice. It is beneath officers of the court. Stirring up popular sentiment, publicly disparaging the judge while having full knowledge that your Franks motions don't have any legimitate weight, this just shouldn't be how we do law.
While RA was entitled to a defense, he was never entitled to any or entitled defense. A SODDI defense has to meet certain requirements. Alternate theories, while interesting, don't come before the jury if they're built on inadmissable evidences, unsupported foundations.
I think it's fair to say to these defense attorneys, do better.
As much as I despise RA, he would have been far better served by a level defense.
The State's response provides the legal bases that canceled out the Defense's unfounded, unsubstantiated and sometimes untrue representations.
They succeeded in stirring great angst in real people who believed them, who believed attorneys wouldn't make misrepresentations, and suffered at the thought of an innocent man, held in solitary, in inhumane conditions.
We can put that to bed.
RA was alive to face a jury of his peers, a jury who was provided only admissible evidence, determined the facts and deliberate based on weight given, finding RA guilty of the crimes with which he was charged.
JMO