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1
Most confusing preferred pronoun ever.
2
Do you know if he was also offered the 5th amendment-nullifying carrot of "immunity"?
3
The 5th is already nullified with a Grand Jury, that's essentially the point.
4
Expect to see this used on MJ cases in WA and CO since they can't jail us anymore for that.
5
I really feel they should accept the use of "them" for instances in which they are being acted upon by a verb.
6
Yeah, not to focus on the pronoun, but what 5 said. Use whatever pronoun you like, but grammar is still grammar; use the objective case when called for.
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@3 - Your right to trial by Grand Jury is one of the tenants of the 5th Amendment. Your right to not incriminate yourself is another.

I'm not a lawyer, and I don't believe 'pleading the 5th' extends to telling on your friends, granting a person immunity is a shifty way around that right, which is why I was curious if that was the case.
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Word on the street is a Stranger reporter is working with a NLG lawyer to file a request to the 9th circuit for more info on the scope of the GJ. Any leads yet?
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By the way, the results of a FOIA request have shown that this Grand Jury was convened before May Day, and there are other inconsistencies. I don't know that the real motivation has been established. (Besides global hegemony, of course.)
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This is my last post. Re: the 5th, Dougsf is accurate, my statement was "colloquial" in nature. The wikipedia page concerning the 5th amendment is useful. I don't think it really matters, though.
11
I have a feeling that the ungrammatical pronoun is Brendan's mistake. It could be that Maddy doesn't want to be referred to with the objective, but I've never heard of that, and I do know multiple people who use they/them...
plus the FB event page for a rally outside the courthouse this morning refers to Maddy as "them"
12
Wikipedia? P'sha! Real legal expertise only results from countless hours in front of a television. Now, why don't they just badger the witness until someone from the gallery stands up and admits to having done whatever it is they've done. It will totally work.
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I have a feeling that the ungrammatical pronoun is Brendan's mistake. It could be that Maddy doesn't want to be referred to with the objective, but I've never heard of that, and I do know multiple people who use they/them...
plus the FB event page for a rally outside the courthouse this morning refers to Maddy as "them"
(I'm reposting an unregistered comment above that I made -- unable to register that name because i typed my email address wrong. sigh.)
14
It's entirely disingenuous to suggest that there's something amiss in a grand jury investigating anarchists prior to May 1. The vandalism and the riot that fizzled out along with it were planned long in advance, and anyone who was paying any attention at all knew there were Pac-NW anarchist groups planning hijinks in Seattle on May Day.

Law enforcement knew there were plans afoot, too— and they hardly needed a snitch to figure it out, what with all the internet chest-beating and fist-pumping.
15
He's only going cause they let that other one go. Their link between those 2 was enough such that all she had to do was infer that she knew him. Bam. They found the right anarchist documents to know that's the new guy they want. It's just a game of whack a mole, and it's not making anyone safer.
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@15

Oddly enough, there are many, many anarchists in the pacific northwest who have not been subpoenaed for this particular grand jury.

So if they're playing whack-a-mole, it seems they're ignoring a huge number of moles, don't you think? Good heavens, how many anarchists would be under investigation if The PigFeds had just subpoenaed all of Leah-Lynn Plante's co-workers at the Black and Red anti-capitalist coffee shop?
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@5 Grand juries are convened all the time, the fact that this one was put together before May 1st has nothing to do with anything. The article correctly states that it's likely about May Day, but that we can't know for sure.

@15 I don't know what you know, but Maddy got arrested at a noise demo once which is the only reason law enforcement is even aware of this person. Doesn't mean Leah snitched or that police found "the right anarchist documents," whatever that means. You're just spreading nonsense.

Law enforcement has always had a ridiculously skewed and biased view of what anarchism is because they filter it through their fanatical right-wing ideology. FBI reports on anarchists often read like middle school homework assignments. I believe they are probably attempting to discover some kind of hierarchy within the movement, which would be the pinnacle of irony.
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@ 11. You're right. I mistook the pronoun.

@ 8. You're also right. The president of the local chapter of the National Lawyers Guild has filed some motions on behalf of The Stranger to unseal some documents related to the case. I'll let you know how that goes.
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I met Maddy last year at a Dis-Orientation Week event at Evergreen. He was yelling and making a scene, (falsely) accusing one of the people I was with of rape and saying that no one wanted him to participate, even though all of us had no issues with him. For the rest of the year he and his colleagues proceeded to post flyers around campus accusing the same person of being rapist and other lies, and the flyers included his picture. They harassed him constantly. Then when Maddy was suspended for harassment, his colleagues tried to convince people that the decision should be repealed, saying that he had done nothing wrong. Just recently the person that they harassed for no reason committed suicide
So honestly, I don't care that Maddy is in jail. He can stay there. Because he is a dick.

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