Thursday, January 27, 2011

GRAND JURY CONVENED FOR IRVINE 11 CASE, FELONY CONSPIRACY CHARGES POSSIBLE « Occupy UCI!

GRAND JURY CONVENED FOR IRVINE 11 CASE, FELONY CONSPIRACY CHARGES POSSIBLE « Occupy UCI!

GRAND JURY CONVENED FOR IRVINE 11 CASE, FELONY CONSPIRACY CHARGES POSSIBLE

If you have been indicted, subpoenaed, or contacted by the Orange County DA regarding this case, call the National Lawyers Guild Hotline at 415-285-1041 and the Los Angeles NLG Chapter at 323-653-4510.

Have yet to receive independent confirmation, but OC Weekly reports:

Radio station KPCC 89.3 reported today the Orange County district attorney’s office has convened a grand jury to look into the possibility of filing conspiracy charges against a group of Muslim students busted at the UC Irvine campus in 2010 for disrupting the speech of U.S. Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren.

The information was reported during Larry Mantle’s morning show, Air Talk, which then opened the phones to callers expressing incredulity that a grand jury was convened for what they feel is essentially a free-speech issue. There were also those who theorized that a politically motivated Tony Rackauckas is strategically appeasing conservative Jewish Orange County constituents. Orange County DA’s office