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Show
Cause
Hearing
for
David
Borden
and
David
Guard's
Civil
Disobedience
to
Take
Place
This
Morning
4/2/04
At 9:00am this morning (Friday,
April 2), DRCNet executive director David Borden and DRCNet associate director
David Guard have a hearing in the courtroom of DC Chief Judge Rufus G.
King III (yes, the son of the late, drug reform great Rufus King Jr.),
related to our civil disobedience action of refusing to report for jury
service in protest of the drug laws and the corroded state of the criminal
justice system. Borden and Guard took this action partly in response
to experiencing that their views and employer effectively exclude them
from getting selected for juries.
Those of you in the Washington,
DC area can tune in to WPFW 89.3 FM, at 9:40am, to hear an interview with
Borden and Guard -- if our hearing is over and we haven't been taken into
custody for contempt of court. If we are unavailable, WPFW will instead
interview Eric Sterling, president of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
and member of DRCNet's advisory board, who will serve as our spokesperson
if that is the situation.
We will let you know how
it turns out, and whether the effort succeeds in drawing the attention
of additional media to the issue. If you're not already familiar
with the action, you can learn about it by reading Borden's open letter
to Judge King at https://stopthedrugwar.org/openletter/
as well as the November 14 Drug War Chronicle report providing further
discussion at https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/311/honchos.shtml
online.
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Issue #331, 4/2/04
Show Cause Hearing for David Borden and David Guard's Civil Disobedience to Take Place This Morning |
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