Friday, August 27, 2010
Chicagoland Videographer Convicted in Commies vs. Humanists Trial
Posted by Deanna Isaacs on 08.27.10 at 07:09 PM
A Cook County jury has found Gregory Koger guilty of criminal trespass, resisting arrest, and simple battery in the aftermath of an incident at the Ethical Humanist Society last fall. As we reported, Koger had been videotaping Communist activist Sunsara Taylor as she made a statement protesting the cancellation of a speech she'd been planning to give there. After the jury verdict Thursday, Koger's bond was revoked; he's been jailed pending sentencing September 8. Koger's attorney, Scott Frankel, said today, "We're disappointed in the verdict. We think it was incorrect. We will appeal."
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I question the defense counsel's decision to put the freedom of an ex-con (11 years for armed violence) and alleged communist in the hands of a Chicago jury.
-- MrJM
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The jury trial was critical to getting the Judge/prosecutor team to amass the appealable irregularities. It was anything but a standard trial.
I question the continued existence of McCarthyist ideology in society, but, for some reason, MrJM, it still persists.
Any fault that someone finds in the defense is completely missing the point. I am a personal friend of Gregory, and I can say definitively that he is completely rehabilitated. He was maced and arrested for videotaping a speech at a public event and is now doing three years. The cops lied and the judge was unbending. This is enraging and must not be accepted, all fault lies within the assholes who put him where he is.
Don't get me wrong, this is some grade-A bullshit.
But I wouldn't expect Mr Koger to get any justice from a Chicago jury pool.
-- MrJM
