Maddening prosecutorial abuse

Maddening prosecutorial abuse

Posted on December 11th, 2010 by Dooley Womack

LA Weekly has a story about a Special Ed student, Jeremy Marks, who appears to be being railroaded by the legal system in the City of Angels. Jeremy Marks appears to be facing a seven year prison sentence for little more than being a witness to an incident between a high school campus police officer and a student. Either through what appears to be mistaken identity caused by the chaos of the situation or willful malice, Marks has been held for seven months in county jail. If, after reading the above you’re as horrified as I am, Katherine Russ (the writer of the article) informs me that the Congress of Racial Equality of California (Core-CA) is accepting donations for legal defense and/or bail.

Glenn Reynolds often talks about the Army of Davids. I feel that, in situations like these, that concept can go a long way towards ameliorating injustice. Marks’ bail is $155,000, which would mean he would typically have to come up with 10% of that amount. That’s 1,550 $10 donations. District Attorney Steve Cooley’s office declined to comment to Ms. Russ for the article, but if you want you can contact the LA D.A.’s office at webmail@da.lacounty.gov, or maybe it would be helpful to express your thoughts about the case to Steve Cooley’s Attorney General of California campaign at info@stevecooley.com.