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« Groups plan to protest governor's immigration order | Today | R.I. Supreme Court upholds stomping-murder conviction » April 3, 2008Smoke-shop case: Jury waits while judge, lawyers talk
Judge Susan E. McGuirl then came out, again gave the jurors instructions and urged them to listen and talk to each other, saying, "You need to keep your minds open." The jury, which has deliberated for two days coming into today, did not return to their task until after the judge and lawyers met in chambers. Late yesterday afternoon, the judge received a note from the jury, moments after she clarified its question about self-defense. “Go home. Clear your heads,” McGuirl told jurors yesterday. “You’re in the best place to make a decision that anyone can be.” McGuirl, when asked through her clerk, would not say whether the jury was deadlocked. She did tell jurors that she would give them further instructions this morning. -- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney, with reports from Journal staff writer Katie Mulvaney The panel of seven men and five women, plus three alternates, heard testimony from 25 witnesses over 16 days in Providence County Superior Court before beginning deliberations around 11 a.m. Tuesday. They are weighing 17 misdemeanor counts lodged against seven Narragansett Indians arrested when the state police raided a tax-free smoke shop the tribe opened on tribal land in Charlestown in July 2003. Posted by Mike McKinney CommentsJ. Dupre | April 3, 2008 2:54 PM link This case will determine weather or not justice prevails or is this Rhode Island Justice. If you know Indian Law then this case should not even be heard in state courts. Article 1, Sec. 8 congress and Indian Tribes. This is a federal matter for a federally recognized tribe. D Monroe | April 3, 2008 3:05 PM link Post a commentPlease be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published. Name and email are required; email address will not publish. |
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I use to live in RI and moved because of the corruption that is in every city and town in that little state. The land that the smoke shop is located on is TRIBAL land, and is off limits to the state. But once again the state muscles its way into what ever they want. That’s why the state pushed so hard to stop the casino from going through, the politicians would not be able to get there hands on the money. Lets look back, In December 1998, former Governor DiPrete pleaded guilty to state charges of bribery, extortion, and racketeering and was sentenced to a year in prison after he admitted accepting $250,000 in exchange for state contracts during his term as Governor. Buddy Cianci 1974 narrowly beat then-mayor Joseph Doorley on an anti-corruption campaign. Cianci was indicted in April 2001 on federal criminal charges of racketeering, conspiracy, extortion, witness tampering, and mail fraud. And then State Senator John Celona admitted to ten ethics violations and was fined $130,000 by the Rhode Island Ethics Commission, a record penalty.
Ill stop here but as you can see there is a reason the state wants to get and keep the TRIBES money, is because they are thieves.
The stated police did the job they were assigned. I blame the politicians