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Dear friends,<br><br>
Below you will find recent updates on the situation of Scott DeMuth as
well as Carrie Feldman, along with some ways you can help us get them
justice and secure their freedom.<br><br>
Mark your calendar for the first week of May, especially if you live in
the Quad Cities area or nearby parts of Iowa, Chicago, Madison or
Minneapolis. Scott's trial starts on May 3rd. We are gearing up for a
week of court solidarity, as well as teach-ins and workshops. Hope to see
you there! More information on that coming up soon. Please contact us if
you are interested in organizing with us.<br><br>
As always, be sure to check out our website for updates on events such as
last week's talk by Professor David Pellow and Attorney Stu Sugarman on
Grand Juries, State Repression, and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism
Act.<br><br>
Thank you for all your continued support!<br>
<br>
Scholars for Academic Justice<br>
<a href="http://scholarsforacademicjustice.org">
http://scholarsforacademicjustice.org</a><br>
<a href="mailto:scholarsforacademicjustice@gmail.com">
scholarsforacademicjustice@gmail.com</a><br><br>
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Scott and Carrie Support Comittee Update 2/28<br>
In this email:<br>
1. Court orders Carrie's court docket unsealed with redactions, denies
petition<br>
for re-hearing<br>
2. Scott's motions denied (mostly)<br>
3. Update on Carrie's custody status<br>
4. Donations, please!<br>
5. ACTION ITEM: Call MN congresspeople to demand Carrie’s release<br>
6. March 19: Come dine with us!<br>
7. Call-out for Local Minneapolis Artists! Seeking donations for Scott,
Carrie<br>
and Eric McDavid benefit<br>
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1. Court orders Carrie's court docket unsealed with redactions, denies
petition<br>
for re-hearing<br><br>
In a partial victory for reporter Sheila Regan, Carrie and the SCSC, the
court<br>
has ordered Carrie's court docket unsealed but has given the government
21 days<br>
to propose redactions to the unsealed documents. See Regan's article,
here:<br>
<a href="http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2010/02/26/tcdps-sheila-regan-gets-court-records-opened">
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2010/02/26/tcdps-sheila-regan-gets-court-records-opened</a>
,<br>
for more information on the ruling.<br>
<br>
Along with this bit of good news, however, comes a big disappointment:
Carrie's<br>
petition for a re-hearing has been denied. She and her attorneys are
currently<br>
discussing next legal steps.<br>
<br>
2. Scott's motions denied (mostly)<br><br>
Judges Shields and Jarvey have issued orders on recent motions argued in
Scott's case at his February 23rd hearing. Shields set a deadline of
March 15 for the government to designate expert witnesses and disclose
their written reports; the defense hasuntil April 5th to do the same. The
court also ordered the government to "to give notice of its intent
to introduce any evidence of other crimes, wrongs or bad acts" at
least 21 days in advance of trial. All other discovery requests by the
defense were denied, some without prejudice. Jarvey denied the motions to
dismiss the original indictment "as moot without prejudice to
refile," and issued an official trial order setting the trial start
date for May 3 and outlining trial procedures. All three orders are
viewable here:
<a href="http://davenportgrandjury.wordpress.com/resources/legal-documents/scotts-case/">
http://davenportgrandjury.wordpress.com/resources/legal-documents/scotts-case/</a>
<br>
<br>
3. Update on Carrie's custody status<br><br>
As mentioned previously, Carrie is being held in the disciplinary block
at<br>
Dubuque County Jail in Iowa. We've confirmed that she's being held
there<br>
because of the incident at Washington County, where two visitors ran up
to her<br>
cell window from the parking lot, and for which she was in no way
responsible.<br>
Because of Dubuque's visiting policies, Carrie will now only be able to
get<br>
visits from immediate family members. In light of her increased isolation
and<br>
the recent denial of her petition for a re-hearing, we want to
encourage<br>
everyone to take a few minutes to write her and make sure she feels as
much<br>
support from the outside as possible. You can write to her at:<br><br>
Carolyn Feldman<br>
770 Iowa St.<br>
Dubuque, IA 52001<br>
<br>
4. Donations, please!<br><br>
As always, we want to remind supporters that the financial burden of
defending<br>
Carrie and Scott is quite high. In addition to the cost of a good
legal<br>
defense, the SCSC is also trying to cover the cost of travel whenever
necessary<br>
to ensure that Scott and Carrie get as much support in Iowa as possible.
Please<br>
consider donating! Info about how to do so is available here:<br>
<a href="http://davenportgrandjury.wordpress.com/what-you-can-do/">
http://davenportgrandjury.wordpress.com/what-you-can-do/</a><br>
<br>
5. ACTION ITEM!: Call MN congress people and demand Carrie's
release.<br><br>
Carrie's mom has written a letter to Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) and
Senators Al<br>
Franken and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) explaining Carrie's case and asking that
they work for her release. Read it here:<br>
<a href="http://davenportgrandjury.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/carriesletter.pdf">
http://davenportgrandjury.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/carriesletter.pdf</a>
, and<br>
call them to voice your support for Carrie and her release:<br>
Keith Ellison: 612-522-1212 (in MN) or 202-225-4755 (in DC)<br>
Al Franken: 651-221-1016 (in MN) or 202-224-5641 (in DC)<br>
Amy Klobuchar: 612-727-5220 (in MN) or 202-224-3244 (in DC)<br>
<br>
6. March 19: Come dine with us!<br><br>
March 19th from 6:30-8pm the Scott and Carrie Support Committee is
offering a<br>
FREE COMMUNITY MEAL at the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association
building: 821 East 35th street in Minneapolis.<br>
<br>
7. Feb.23 Press Statement following Scott's Motions Hearing<br><br>
Davenport, IA -- This morning, over a dozen supporters from Minneapolis
and the Quad Cities joined Scott in the Federal Courthouse in Davenport
for his arraignment for the new indictment that was issued last week.
There was also a hearing on numerous discovery-related motions for his
upcoming trial. Scott’s attorney, Michael Deutsch, argued that the
prosecution has failed to produce the discovery that the defense is
entitled to under the rules. Judge Shields took the arguments under
advisement and is expected to issue a ruling within the next few
days.<br>
<br>
As we’ve shared with you before, Scott’s defense team filed a motion to
dismiss the original indictment, arguing that it failed to meet the basic
requirements for an indictment. The indictment gave no indication as to
what the prosecution alleges Scott actually did, and provided an overly
vague time frame for the alleged crime. In an apparent affirmation of
this defense argument, US Attorney Cliff Cronk filed a superseding
indictment last week.<br>
<br>
The new indictment, however, appears to be fatally flawed in itself—it
still fails to provide any indication as to what Scott is alleged to have
done to conspire under the AETA.<br>
<br>
Responding to defense motions, Cronk backpedaled on an earlier strategy
to prosecute Scott for his constitutionally protected free speech and
associations: “This case has nothing to do with political association …
this conspiracy continues as long as alf [sic] continues to break into
labs and free animals across the country,” Cronk said in open court.<br>
<br>
Seeing that the statute of limitations has expired for the Spence Lab
break-in specifically, the prosecution appears to now justify Scott’s
charges by arguing that the scope of the crime in question extends
indefinitely, as long as activists claim actions under the banner of
Animal Liberation Front.<br>
<br>
8. Call-out for Local Minneapolis Artists! Seeking donations for Scott,
Carrie<br>
and Eric McDavid benefit<br><br>
Explosive Expressions Minneapolis: Supporting Earth Warriors Through
Art<br>
Purity Bakery Building Art Gallery<br>
Saturday April 24th, 2010<br>
6PM to 10PM<br>
*Auction starts at 6 PM and ends at 9 PM<br><br>
Calling all painters, shanty-makers, photographers, sculptors, people who
make<br>
art out of condom wrappers/newspapers/lipstick/bicycle tubes oh my!,
knitters,<br>
sewers, welders, metal-workers, and artists of all other flavors! The
Scott and<br>
Carrie Support Committee is asking all local Minneapolis artists who
support<br>
the fight for justice to DONATE works of art to a night of Explosive<br>
Expressions Minneapolis: Supporting Earth Warriors Through Art.<br>
<br>
On Saturday April 24th, at the Purity Bakery Building Art Gallery, we
will be<br>
having an Art Exhibition and Auction to help support our comrades
Carrie<br>
Feldman and Scott DeMuth, two Minneapolis activists who were unjustly
taken<br>
hostage by the state in November 2009, and Eric McDavid, who has
been<br>
imprisoned since 2006 and is currently facing almost 20 years in prison
for a<br>
crime that never happened.<br>
<br>
Help be part of the creative resistance against state repression and
send<br>
questions and/or the following details to<br>
<a href="mailto:explosiveexpressionsmpls@riseup.net">
explosiveexpressionsmpls@riseup.net</a> by April 1st, 2010:<br>
-Name<br>
-Contact information<br>
-Starting bid on the auction item<br>
-A description of the piece you are donating<br>
-When the item can be picked up or dropped off<br>
<br>
*Any items being dropped off or mailed can be sent to this address:<br>
Explosive Expressions Mpls. c/o Leigh<br>
1909 Elliot Avenue<br>
Minneapolis, MN 55405<br>
<br>
For more information on Scott's and Carrie's cases and to find out other
ways<br>
of supporting them, please visit:
<a href="http://davenportgrandjury.wordpress.com">
http://davenportgrandjury.wordpress.com</a>.<br>
For more information on Eric's case and ways to support him, please
visit:<br>
<a href="http://www.supporteric.org">http://www.supporteric.org</a>.<br>
<br>
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