Acting Morton County State’s Attorney Ladd Erickson after he filed a motion to hold many Water Protectors liable to repay the state for their court appointed lawyers, while belittling and calling the Water Protectors “props” and their movement a “protracted manufactured spectacular.” The narrative he uses is just a pack of lies.
In the motion for State of North Dakota -vs- Decker, et al. (11 defendants), Erickson tells the (state) court to view “Daniel Sheehan Interview on the Dakota Access Pipeline”. By all means, do see noted civil rights attorney Sheehan who’s been at this work five decades as he speaks in all six videos currently up on YouTube!
Then also please donate to the Water Protector Legal Collective (WPLC), an initiative of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG).
WPLC Calls for Morton County Prosecutor Resignation and Permission for Out-of-State Lawyers to Represent Water Protectors
Posted on December 16, 2016 by Communications Director
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 16, 2016
Contact: Brandy Toelupe, WPLC President: (720) 876-8300 | Btoelupe@tildentoelupe.com Tasha Moro, NLG Communications Director (212) 679-5100, ext. 15 | communications@nlg.org
...[...]… In an ironic twist, local media have reported that the shortage of public defenders has also been worsened by the large increase in lucrative oil company legal work, driving many lawyers away from public criminal defense. ...[...]…
read more here www.nlg.org/…
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The Water Protector Legal Collective is the National Lawyers Guild legal support team for those engaged in resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. It maintains a 24/7 presence on-site at the Oceti Sakowin camp near Cannon Ball, North Dakota.
read more at: Water Protector Legal Collective (formerly Red Owl) National Lawyers Guild class action filed 11-28 For updates, visit waterprotectorlegal.org, and follow the WPLC at Facebook.com/... and Twitter @WaterProtectUs
Thursday, December 15, 2016, the North Dakota Supreme Court issued an order calling for public comments on a petition filed by the WPLC. The deadline for comments is set for 4 PM on Friday, December 30th. At stake are Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment issues.
Petitioners request that the Supreme Court make a determination that there exists an emergency affecting the South Central Judicial District sufficient to warrant temporary practice in North Dakota by qualified attorneys who are admitted in other jurisdictions. This Court should order a temporary amendment to the Admission to Practice Rules pursuant to N.D.R. Proc. R. § 3. Such amendment would allow criminal defendants whose arrest arose out of the Dakota Access Pipeline (“DAPL”) dispute to be fully represented by qualified attorneys, while still enjoying their right to a speedy trial.
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On a different issue, Standing Rock Incident Report Form can be filed online at Electronic Frontier Foundation (EEF), collecting incident reports on communication interference at the DAPL protests. You can include Photos/Videos -- Files must be less than 2 MB. Allowed file types: gif jpg jpeg png bmp txt rtf html pdf doc docx xls xlsx avi mov mp3 ogg wav.
These incident reports are becoming ever more crucial because interference impedes medical and civil rights.
“EFF sent technologists and lawyers to North Dakota to investigate. We collected anecdotal evidence from water protectors about suspicious cell phone behavior, including uncharacteristically fast battery drainage, applications freezing, and phones crashing completely. … (Possibly in use are) cell-site simulators (“CSSs,” also known colloquially as Stingrays) and malware, it’s been very difficult to pinpoint the true cause or causes.” …[ read more here ]…