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Ademo: Caged, Right to a Jury Trial: DeniedCopBlock.orgJul. 12, 2012 |
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 At 10:00AM, July 11, 2012, Ademo Freeman and I, as well as about a dozen other individuals, left the Keene Activity Center and headed for Manchester. Ademo was scheduled to have a hearing at the Manchester District Court at 1:15PM. For those unaware, Ademo recently received a letter stating that he had missed jury selection for an appeal on a resisting arrest charge stemming from the Chalking 8 incident, and that his case had been remanded back to the District Court. Ademo never received the letter notifying him of the date for jury selection. The letter itself had the correct address in the upper left corner, but the envelope displayed an address that according to the return stamp on the envelope, the USPS couldn’t even locate. It should be very clear to those working at the courthouse that the cause of Ademo missing jury selection was a clerical error; he has never missed a court date otherwise and physical proof, the envelope returned by the USPS, is in their possession. Despite undeniable evidence that Ademo never received the incorrectly addressed letter, two different judges denied Ademo's motion for a new trial. Upon arriving in Manchester, we went to the Superior Courthouse where Ademo made copies of both the letter notifying him of jury selection, and the envelope containing it to bring his 1:15PM hearing. Read More |
