Vigilante
Diamond Member
- Banned
- #81
The defend people you'd support all the time. It's about rights, not left and right.The ACLU, not what you think: ACLU Defense of Religious Practice and Expression in Public Schools American Civil Liberties Union"North was tried in 1988. He was indicted on 16 felony counts, and on May 4, 1989, he was initially convicted of three: accepting an illegal gratuity, aiding and abetting in the obstruction of a congressional inquiry, and ordering the destruction of documents through his secretary, Fawn Hall. He was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell on July 5, 1989, to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines, and 1,200 hours of community service. North performed some of his community service within Potomac Gardens, a public housing project in Southeast Washington, D.C.[21]Seems North spent time in prison before being let out...did the president when breaking the laws of Congress?
However, on July 20, 1990, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),[22] North’s convictions were vacated, after the appeals court found that witnesses in his trial might have been impermissibly affected by his immunized congressional testimony.[23]
Because North had been granted limited immunity for his congressional testimony, the law prohibited a prosecutor from using that testimony as part of a criminal case against him. To prepare for the expected defense challenge that North’s testimony had been used, the prosecution team had—before North’s congressional testimony had been given—listed and isolated all of its evidence.[citation needed] Further, the individual members of the prosecution team had isolated themselves from news reports and discussion of North’s testimony. While the defense could show no specific instance in which North’s congressional testimony was used in his trial, the Court of Appeals ruled that the trial judge had made an insufficient examination of the issue. Consequently, North’s convictions were reversed. After further hearings on the immunity issue, Judge Gesell dismissed all charges against North on September 16, 1991."
Oliver North - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Your kind of guy...
Using the ACLU for a positive defense...you just have to LOVE the IRONY!!!!
Even THEY have to get one right after awhile, like a stopped clock, correct time twice a day!
Most of the time they have a spewed view of what rights are!