State Attorney In Baltimore Who Would Prosecute ACORN Filmmaker Is A Obama Supporting Democrat,Video

hotairpundit ^ | 9/12/09 | talkradio03

[Talkradio03]

State's Attorney Patricia Jessamy says she would prosecute the ACORN undercover filmmaker from the Baltimore video, Tonight, the lid was blown off the story of this woman (Video and Clips)....Anyone who can get this story out, do so, I'm going to bed, it's 4:00a.m.

[nickcarraway]

That will teach anyone to challenge ACORN.

[EDINVA]

pinging self for am .. need to get to bed, too, or won’t make Tea Party tomorrow.

[Just mythoughts]

No surprise here, liberals are rotten to the core.

[yongin]

I don’t Maryland State Attorney will actually prosecute the two people. Instead, the State Attorney will just use the threat of prosecution to get YouTube, Fox, and Talk Radio not to air the anti-Acorn tapes.

[Bad Jack Bauer]

They sure were quick to investigate the filmmaker. Wonder why it is taking so long for these same people to investigate ACORN?

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

We don't need to look for a conflict of interest.

These are not the Obama supporters we are looking for.

Move On.org, Move On.org

[nathanbedford]

I devoutly pray that the state attorney general of Maryland would be so foolish as to prosecute these investigative journalists.

[pepsionice]

Here is the question to pose to the state AG....what state law was violated? I don’t believe he can answer this in a public forum. Unless the state has some law that you can’t pretend to be someone...this is mostly a joke. And if they did have a “pretender” law....how would legit journalists from newspapers function?

The future of ACORN interviews? Zero. They will shut up for several months and refuse any commentary unless it’s just a press release. It’s best to let this episode just fade away.

[x_plus_one]

Here is the Wade Rathke interview by acorncracked.com

[x_plus_one]

Wade Rathke on ACORN presented by acorncracked.com

[backhoe]

Funny, what a search will turn up:

-ACORN Watch: The Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office warped priorities--

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 11, 2009 11:10 PM

The Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office issued a statement tonight indicating that it may prosecute the Big Government undercover team that conducted one of its ACORN/prostitution stings in B’more.

Yes, really.

The young reporters could face up to five years in jail for violating Maryland’s wiretap laws.

Reader John Muraro notes that the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office was responsible for handling the Zachary Sowers murder case, which I blogged about last year. He was pummeled into a coma by a gang of teenage thugs and later died of his massive injuries. Three of the four remorseless attackers were allowed to plea bargain down to eight years each in jail.

John sums up the warped priorities:

So:

· undercover investigation by the conservative reporter = reporters may serve 5 years in jail

· the animalistic beating of a young man by 4 thugs, resulting in 9 months of suffering and his death = plea bargained to 8 years in jail

That’s a rather peculiar sense of justice.

Yes, yes it is.

Baltimore City State’s Attorney Patricia Jessamy can be reached at mail@stattorney.org or (410) 396-4001.

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Allahpundit looks at the statute the ACORN-protecting officials in Maryland want to use and notes:

You’ll find exception after exception provided for law enforcement to shield them from liability when they tape criminals surreptitiously to serve the public interest. Kind of like how O’Keefe did here.

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comments (19) 

[nathanbedford]

I seem to recall from the Linda Tripp affair she was prosecuted by the Maryland authorities for surreptitiously taping her telephone conversations with Monica Lewinsky while Monica was in Maryland. I have no idea whether that law applies also to surreptitious audio or video taping in person.

One wonders whether such a law would withstand constitutional scrutiny in a situation in which the participants have no reasonable expectation of privacy while they conduct public or at least quasi public business.

[OldArmy52]

So, what is wrong with Dems attacking the whistleblowers.
Chavez, Castro, Mugabe, Putin, etc all would have done so.
Why not the Obamaites?

[Pontiac]

Wasn’t it John McCain that had his cell phone conversation taped by Clinton supporters in Florida using an illegal scanner?

Those tapes then given to the Clinton campaign that then illegally gave them to the press.

No one was ever prosecuted.

[pepsionice]

Here, we end up back at the old argument...freedom of speech...and is a fundamental right or is it an imaginary right. I’m guessing in Maryland...it’s an imaginary right. The curious thing is that you’d have to charge the ACORN guys with something if you charged the video crew with capturing the moment. If you avoid putting a charge on ACORN...what good is state law then?

[nathanbedford]

Are you thinking of the telephone interception by the Florida "couple" who just happened to have a scanner in their car of a conversation between Gingrich and DeLay over Republican strategy which was released to the press by Rep. McDermott, an arch lefty, of Washington state?

I think DeLay presently has a civil action pending against him and recently won a motion permitting the matter to proceed to trial.

All this is the weakest of recollections and not to be relied upon.

[American Constitutionalist]

The Fox guarding the hen house,, gee, what a surprise Sarcasm

[nathanbedford]

You are right about the politicization of justice in a place like Maryland which is a little bit like Prussia. Prussia was an army in search of a nation and Maryland is a public service union in search of a state.

I suppose a state prosecutor could exercise his discretion and declare that the tapes show that the employees of acorn were entrapped and therefore he will not prosecute.

[Pontiac]

This is the last I could find on the subject dated October 30, 2004

It seems “Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, sued McDermott in 1998 for turning over a transcript of the conversation to reporters. McDermott received the transcript from a Florida couple who intercepted the signal as Boehner was parked in a Waffle House restaurant in northern Florida.” and it was Newt Gingerich and not McCain .

McDermott's allies line up to help him pay damages