[nfbmi-talk] : charges dismissed against blind protester

[Christine Boone]

Very well said Cane!  

> On Aug 24, 2016, at 8:47 AM, Kane Brolin via nfbmi-talk <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> On 8/23/16, William Vandervest via nfbmi-talk <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> if he broke the law, and or was charged with a crime, then he should have
>> gone before a judge reguardless of where the trial was held period!!!
> 
> William, what I hear you saying here seems to be based on faulty
> reasoning.  Unless the President has somehow eliminated all common law
> principles from our American legal system by executive order, we still
> have a principle in this country called "presumption of innocence": in
> other words, a defendant is presumed innocent until proved guilty.
> Whether Joe Harcz broke the law would not be determined until a judge
> and/or a jury heard the case in a fair trial and made a determination.
> I don't think anyone is saying that charges against a blind man should
> be dropped unless the venue were an accessible courthouse.  On the
> other hand, I think it is a highly plausible argument to say that if
> the charges had been maintained, it would have been a reasonable
> request to move the venue to a place where a significant number of Mr.
> Harcz's friends and family and a significant number of blind or
> otherwise disabled persons could be in attendance from the general
> public.
> 
> Clearly, in Joe's case the State must have reconsidered and decided
> that not enough evidence exists to make it worthwhile to attempt to
> prove that Joe broke the law.  So I think the verdict is in.
> 
> -Kane
> 
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