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Justice comes late but large for D.C.'s violations of arrestees during 2000 IMF/World Bank protestors.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Three years ago, I blogged about my criminal court defense of numerous IMF/World Bank protestors during the April 16, 2000, weekend demonstrations, and my revulsion over seeing my nation's capital reduced to looking like a martial law government awaiting a possible repeat of the previous rioting in Seattle against that city's economic globalization meeting. Police and prosecutors over-arrested and over-prosecuted (including seeking unconstitutionally overbroad orders to stay away from the sites of First Amendment-protected demonstrations, merely because the demonstrations were near the IMF and World Bank buildings) that weekend. Included among my clients was a man caught in a dragnet arrest who was not even a demonstrator. I also defended a man charged with possessing a lockbox, and, along with the co-defense attorneys, ultimately got the prosecution dismissed for the absence of any District of Columbia laws outlawing their possession...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on November 23, 2009 (boomark / email).