Attorney General Tom Reilly and Leominster mom Mary Jean each filed last minute briefs in anticipation of tomorrow’s hearing on whether Ms. Jean is within her rights to post a baby-cam video to her Web site of police swarming a man’s house without a search warrant.
Ronald F. Kehoe for the Commonwealth filed this brief on April 3, basically laying out aspects of Ms. Jean’s deposition. Attorney Dan Shea filed this brief the same day to clarify the case law underlying Ms. Jean’s right to publish material embarrassing to the State Police but of major public significance.
In another development, ADA Harold Johnson of Worcester District Attorney John Conte’s office is demanding that Paul Pechonis turn over the original baby-cam video at the heart of this controversy. According to a report posted to Ms. Jean’s Web site, Pechonis’s attorney, Paul Padula told Judge William Hadley that, âthe tape was currently being shown on the internet. So that could not be accomplished.â
What is up with all this? Why are Conte and Reilly getting their briefs in a twist about this video? They should be busy investigating the State Police for conducting a warantless search, not harassing a Web site operator. Their tactics should send a chill down the spine of anyone who cares about preserving the Internet as a forum for Free Speech.
This is a waste of good space on your Blog.
your comment makes no sense. What are you talking about – this isn’t your post.
But in any case we now actually have three comments. My error, your clarification of my error, and my apology for being careless in the nomenclature of bloggism.
Question is: Who cares about this post?
Answer: Maybe Cynthia McKinney
Please start your own blog if you don’t like this one. Honestly, why I am even writing to this person (wonders to himself).
the rest of the readers are just speechless at the bone headedness of Reilly for even bothering to go after Mary Jean. The whole thing would just go away if his office hadn’t started sending out blustering letters threatening dire consequences for exercising rights protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. Then his people keep filing briefs. This would be funny if the underlying threat to freedom of expression weren’t so frightening. The old guard clearly feels threatened by the Internet. That doesn’t mean they should set out to smush ordinary citizens who are seeking to use it to level (even a little bit) the playing field.
is it the number of responses that make a post worthy? In case anyone is keeping score you(rightmiddleleft) have at least three of your own with no comments. Take the hit dude, your lucky WJC is not tying it to the phone call to Conte mess….oooops.
Cynthia McKinney, and why would she have any interest in this post?