Re:North Georgia newspaper publisher jailed over open record...
by richman777 on Saturday July 02, 2016 @10:29PM
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It's concerning to me that they can be charged out of concern for identity fraud and not actual identity fraud.
I'm not a lawyer in any manner but how is that not prior restraint?
Re:North Georgia newspaper publisher jailed over open record...
by ledude on Sunday July 03, 2016 @04:56PM
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things like this typically fall into either attempt crimes or conspiracy crimes.. wiki has a good explanation of both concepts... links below.
in this particular case, there's an identity theft charge for submitting the invalid subpoena to the bank with the judge's information and an attempted identity theft charge for trying (and not succeeding) to access the judge's banking information.
Re:North Georgia newspaper publisher jailed over open record...
by r00fus on Sunday July 03, 2016 @09:09PM
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How else are they going to prove they don't owe the $16k charged for lawyer fees?
Sounds like a $16k "don't poke around where you're not wanted" punitive charge. The $1.6M lawsuit was pretty offensive, also. None of this smells good.
tl;dr - Court (judge, asst da, baliffs) are alleged using many racial slurs. Journalist asks attorney to open records (using open records act), and his attorney is sued. Suit dropped, but attorney is billed $16k for lawyers fees. To fight back against fees, the attorney subpoena's records of payment.
Looks like the charges are coverups for blatantly racist acts. I could be wrong, but "Weaver said the identify fraud allegations came out of her concern that Thomason would use the banking information on those checks for himself." seems to speak very very defensively and not factually based.