NORTHEAST HARBOR, May 12, 2023 - The disorderly conduct charge against Bar Harbor resident Eli Durand-McDonnell for protesting against dark money operative Leonard Leo last summer has been dismissed, District Attorney Robert Granger informed the Quietside Journal.
This is excellent. Thank you for providing the text of the ruling. All of it useful. The details of the case load serve as backup and insight into the reasons the Leonard Leo protests will continue.
That is the District Attorney's office that made the decision to dump the prosecution, not a Judge. This Complaint never made it to any Judge for adjudication. It is not a "green-light" for other protestors to misbehave (and they should not; dignified picketing in my view is much more effective, not on Leonard Leo [who is beyond hope] but for society's tolerance of Mr. Crow's, and Leonard's, pattern of judicial corruption). At this point, Clarence Thomas has irredeemiably tainted the supreme court, and stripped that Court of the cloth of appearance of judicial impartiality. Leonard Leo and his pals are perfectly happy to turn the USA into Venezuela, a corrupt and authoritarian State controlled by ideologues. Scorn them all.
I totally agree that peaceful protest is ultimately more effective that rioting in the streets. Having covered rioting in the streets as a photojournalist in the 1960s I still have vivid memories of bayonet wounds, teargas burns, etc. and I never saw much good come of it. As to DA Robert Granger's dismissal of the charges against the young man in Northeast Harbor "Good for him!" Let's just hope that avoiding foolish time wasting cases like this will help speed up a glacially slow judicial system that leaves both innocent and guilty parties hanging for years. And for countless people who can't afford bail, that leads to lengthy time behind bars irrespective of guilt or innocence. What ever happened to the "speedy trial" supposedly guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment?
This is excellent. Thank you for providing the text of the ruling. All of it useful. The details of the case load serve as backup and insight into the reasons the Leonard Leo protests will continue.
“One person’s obscenity is another’s lyric” — sounds like a reasonable judge. A well- thought-out, reasoned decision.
That is the District Attorney's office that made the decision to dump the prosecution, not a Judge. This Complaint never made it to any Judge for adjudication. It is not a "green-light" for other protestors to misbehave (and they should not; dignified picketing in my view is much more effective, not on Leonard Leo [who is beyond hope] but for society's tolerance of Mr. Crow's, and Leonard's, pattern of judicial corruption). At this point, Clarence Thomas has irredeemiably tainted the supreme court, and stripped that Court of the cloth of appearance of judicial impartiality. Leonard Leo and his pals are perfectly happy to turn the USA into Venezuela, a corrupt and authoritarian State controlled by ideologues. Scorn them all.
I totally agree that peaceful protest is ultimately more effective that rioting in the streets. Having covered rioting in the streets as a photojournalist in the 1960s I still have vivid memories of bayonet wounds, teargas burns, etc. and I never saw much good come of it. As to DA Robert Granger's dismissal of the charges against the young man in Northeast Harbor "Good for him!" Let's just hope that avoiding foolish time wasting cases like this will help speed up a glacially slow judicial system that leaves both innocent and guilty parties hanging for years. And for countless people who can't afford bail, that leads to lengthy time behind bars irrespective of guilt or innocence. What ever happened to the "speedy trial" supposedly guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment?
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Seems reasonable to me.