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Topic: Canary criminal trial (Updated)
In: Boards ► USA ► Boston
LegalBeagle (Original Poster) (Verified Lawyer) (Cape Groupie)
Posted On Feb 2nd 2011:
Post here about any updates on Canary's trial.
(Update) Trial date set for January 25, 2011.
(Update 01/27/2011) Charged with Attempted Murder with a Parahuman Ability, Sexual Assault with a Parahuman Ability (and many more possible crimes).
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►LegalBeagle (Original Poster) (Verified Lawyer) (Cape Groupie)
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
Early morning here at Canary's trial. Not expecting a lot of change. The defense will probably still fail to do their job. Rumor is that the Birdcage is being bandied around.
Looks like the gov is serious about making sure that human Masters get the book, subscription and library thrown at them if they start to go villain.
►All Seeing Eye (Smug) (Verified Cape) (Apexius)
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
Good morning, all! Please welcome us to Boston!
►Feychick (Cape Groupie)
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
Why is All Seeing Eye here in this thread? We haven't had a cape post in thirty pages.
►All Seeing Eye (Smug) (Verified Cape) (Apexius)
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
We're outside the courthouse right now!
[PIC]
Bastion doesn't look too happy, does he? Probably should not have had tacos last night.
►Dawgsmiles (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
I can confirm that (HOLY SHIT!) New Wave and Apexius showed up outside to start protesting. That's 13 capes?
When was the last time we had capes protesting anything here in Boston?
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
NYC and LA get a lot of protestors, but the Ambassadors don't take kindly to people rocking the boat in Boston. I think we had some show up for when part of NEPEA-5 got struck down a few months ago. A lot more Humanity First people showed though.
I'm hearing that something big is going on in the courthouse itself? Any news, LegalBeagle?
►LegalBeagle (Original Poster) (Verified Lawyer) (Cape Groupie)
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
Uh, yeah. Things are heating up in here. The most prestigious defense law firm of Boston showed up and forced replacing the Defense. And I mean the whole team. This is bigger than The Juice's murder trial in LA.
►Mr. Fabuu
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
Hey guys, there's a new story on the front page of The Boston Globe. Some sort of expose on the judge presiding on the Canary trial. I mean, shit, there's sixteen sub-articles here. Had no idea he was on the chair of the Humanity First for the New England area. They even posted one of his articles from HF's insider newsletter about the fact that parahumans do not deserve Constitutional Rights because they aren't human any more!
►Forgotten Creator
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
Say what? How can he be a judge with views like that?
►All Seeing Eye (Smug) (Verified Cape) (Apexius)
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
That is an _awesome_ question, Forgotten Creator, isn't it?
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►Kriketz
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
{whistles} Whoa, the news articles have records stating that Judge Peter Reagan, Peter David (the ex-Defense lawyer) and Shelton Orleans had a working dinner at Del Frisco's of Boston with a Thomas Sutters of the Justice Department and Amon Desodes of the PRT Legal Dpt. on Jan 15th, over a week before the trial. Isn't that like really legally questionable?
Hell, wish I could afford to eat there. They run $50 to $90 a plate.
►LegalBeagle (Original Poster) (Verified Lawyer) (Cape Groupie)
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
That's not questionable (if true), that's flat out illegal with the defense colluding with the judge and prosecution. That reporter is looking for a Pulitzer prize if this all pans out.
And back in the courthouse, the defense is calling a bunch more people as character witnesses. The first witness just shot down the prosecution's point about her enjoying inflicting pain with Canary hating to even overwork her stage crew. This guy actually said they had to distract her so they could get his people to work harder. Says she was the nicest boss they ever had and loved the good feelings that her concerts always gave.
The prosecution just pulled out the Mastering card, which the defense turned around and demanded they bring unbiased specialists to determine if anyone is still suffering under lingering mastering.
Is it really only 10 o'clock?
►All Seeing Eye (Smug) (Verified Cape) (Apexius)
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
BTW, we've got a Canary Legal Fund donation site.
Feel free to donate anything to the good cause!
►Loyal
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
Is that even allowed on PHO?
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
As long as it's a legit legal fund, I think so. If it isn't, All Seeing Eye gets banned and possibly prosecuted.
►All Seeing Eye (Smug) (Verified Cape) (Apexius)
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
It's a legit fund, checked over by about five lawyers. Sooooo many lawyers. It's being handled by Carol Dallon, aka Brandish and has strict guidelines that 95% of its money has to be used to pay for the legal fees and investigations to help Paige Mcabee, aka Canary!
(Oh, and if it weren't obvious, this is Tattletale of Apexius!)
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Accord tapped his fingers as he studied the screen. He switched the screen to the newspaper and read every article pertaining to the Canary trial. Clumsy, loud and a bit obnoxious.
But the plan seemed likely to work. He started mentally listing pros and cons as part of plan to decide if he should intervene. In just half an hour, he knew that he favored the singer over the PRT. Not really surprising, what with their heavy handedness in pushing through for a conviction.
Right at eleven o'clock, Citrine knocked on his door.
"Enter," he ordered and watched her enter. Perfectly composed, symmetrical and with her pressed dress suit. "Citrine."
"Orders concerning dealing with New Wave and Apexius?" she asked.
"Start moving our contacts to help dig up dirt on the PRT and prosecution. Be aware that Apexius appears to have at least two Thinkers of their own. Tattletale is obvious with Cybernull a likely hacker Thinker. Make sure that real world evidence is found, cataloged and recorded by the proper authorities. This will be your second highest priority over finding out about the latest Butcher's weaknesses." Accord leaned forward to read the title of yet another article. "Have Codex prepare an invitation to Apexius and a message to New Wave that we will not interfere with their operation in my city."
"I have another report of Blasto letting out more of his raptor hunters. He has likely lost yet another experiment into the sewers of Boston. A second time in six months," his second in command noted.
"Contact that person at the Daily Underground to see if any weird stories have surfaced on the street. As normal, the more useful the information, the longer I will ignore that article. Scare her first, but not so much that she will start drinking again. I don't want her finding her courage again at the bottom of a bottle."
"Is that all?" she asked.
"I will expect an update by five o'clock today with Apexius arriving at five-thirty. Have my supper delayed until six o'clock." He tapped his forefingers in identical patterns. "Make sure that all of the Ambassadors are close by and Miyagi is ready to clean up, just in case. The normal retainer fee."
"Yes, sir."
With that, Citrine left to let Accord continue his planning.
Chief Director Rebecca Costa-Brown stared at him from his computer screen. "Director Armstrong. Explain your circus."
"A circus is hardly what I would call this. An unexpected and thorny problem. It appears that some Thinker cottoned on to how badly we were pushing for Canary's conviction. And, in fact, how it now looks like illegal steps were taken to secure that. Judge Reagan is currently under investigation by the Commission of the Judicial Conduct, the governor and the state house of representatives." Armstrong raised a heavy eyebrow at that. "Lancy, my legal council here, tells me that this is literally unprecedented for a judge to be hit all three legal ways to remove him. The DA is going to have to replace Shelton Orleans as the prosecutor and perhaps even sack him. I will be having words with Marie Warton after she is done with her court appearance today."
"And what do you expect to come of that?" Costa-Brown asked.
He gave her a thin smile. "I would suggest you find her replacement on the first flight to Boston by morning so that the PRT has some sensible representation to objectively guide the prosecution."
The chief director frowned and looked away, her long bangs carefully covering one eye and the hidden wounds under it. "I will take it under advisement. When are you getting those Brockton heroes out of Boston?"
"I believe that would be a major mistake to try and do so in any sort of heavy handed manner. I've had to just about sit on Bastion so that he does not insult the rather significant amount of parahumans gathered there." Something popped up on his screen. "One second." He bit back another sigh. "It appears more heroes have arrived to lend support to New Wave and Apexius. Most are third string agitators, but I don't think anyone can call Dragon anything but a dose of legitimacy."
"I doubt she will stay long," Costa-Brown said in a thoughtful tone.
"I would suspect you are right, but she is currently being interviewed on the inhuman treatment that Canary has suffered under. Damn it, Costa-Brown, you said this would not be a huge mess. This is headed to be a bigger mess than Marquis's trial!"
"I doubt that it will become a major riot. I'm going to do everything I can to hopefully keep it from that. Lancy feels that the defense could easily call for a mistrial. And in a clean court, the chances of the heavy handed conviction that PRT Legal had outlined look incredibly unlikely. And the PRT will be covered in shit because of it."
"It can't be that bad," she scoffed through the video-link.
"There are thirty-thousand people protesting Canary right now, when we only had a few hundred at best before this. We are on the top of the national and international news. Most of Europe is decrying the injustice while their leaders try to push for political concessions already."
Costa-Brown grimaced at that. "This may have set us back a year in integrating Mexico into the PRT."
"If we don't clean house, they'll use it as a pretext to try to do their own thing. Which means we'll have the United Gangs of Mexico on our southern border and sparking hot conflicts all along the border."
"We have Alexandria and Eidolon to stomp on that and they'll back off," she countered.
"That doesn't mean they won't try and that people will be hurt or killed."
Costa-Brown nodded. "I need to talk to some people her at PRT Headquarters about our response. You will likely have Warton's replacement tonight. Even if I have to hire Strider to deliver them. Keep me updated and keep a lid on this. We do not need Boston to become ground zero for a major Parahuman riot, Armstrong."
"Yeah, me thoughts exactly. Later." Armstrong hit the disconnect button with the mouse of his computer. The rather level headed director wanted to punch someone. Mostly in the order of how much of this mess they created.
