by Highline | Apr 13, 2012 |
I know and respect two of the officers who were shot in the violent drug warrant service last night.
Deceased Greenland Police Chief Michael Maloney was a very nice person who was always very kind to me when I interacted with him. When Chief Maloney was the police chief in North Hampton, NH and I was a brand new officer, the Chief took time to help me with prosecution of my cases in the Hampton District Court. He didn’t have to, he was just a good guy.
Seriously injured Newmarket and Attorney General’s Drug Task Force Officer Scott Kukesh is quite simply an outstanding human being. I guarantee you that if any of you met him (and didn’t know what he did for work) that you’d like him for sure.
Although I disagree with the violation of the NAP that comes from the enforcement of victimless-crime drug policy, I just wanted to take an opportunity to remind people in the liberty community that although people in law enforcement frequently enforce public policy that we disagree with, it doesn’t make them bad people.
No one, including the people being investigated, needed to die. Violence is not the solution to the drug abuse/addiction problem faced by society.
by Highline | Apr 9, 2012 |
– State’s “Motion In Limine” requesting the court forbid Jason Talley from showing the warning letter from the New Hampshire Attorney General to the jury in his “Effect of Ignorance or Mistake” defense .PDF
The Attorney General’s letter is here.
– State’s “Motion In Limine” and request to strike Adam Mueller (Ademo) as a defense witness .PDF
The ruling on the above motions should be out later this week.
We did not file a written response, but we did make a brief oral argument.
by Garret Ean | Apr 8, 2012 |
From FreeConcord.org:
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement are apparently now operating under a policy of not disclosing information about those that they arrest. Making their arrests and ultimate deportations essentially disappearances, ICE operations have progressively degraded the civil rights of those deemed to be undocumented immigrants. When even the nativist NH newspaper, the Union Leader, criticizes the practices of the federal paramilitary organization, it is worth taking notice.
An unsigned editorial published today wanted to clarify that it was not advocating for the rights of those arrested to not be disappeared. In obedient praise of federal immigration policy, the newspaper so subjectively reported, “We are all for getting illegal bad guys off the street.” Language focused against a targeted demographic couldn’t get more presumptuously loaded than “illegal bad guy”. But while the UL is happy to report the word of the federal government that the immigrants arrested were all dangerous criminals, they will not idly accept news of NH arrests without the most basic unit of information attached: the name of the arrested party. (more…)
