Earlier this week the air conditioning was out at the courthouse … now the Rome News Tribune is reporting that the judge for the Gordon Lee trial, set to begin today in Rome, Ga., is out sick:
The trial for Rome comic book store owner Gordon Lee, which was scheduled to begin today, has been postponed. Judge Larry Salmon, who is presiding over the case, is sick.
A new start date for the trial has not been set.
Maybe this is a sign that they should just throw the case out and call it a day.
The main site has the latest press release from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund that went out today on the case.
August 15th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
At some point, don’t all of these delays infringe upon his Constitutional right to a speedy trial?
August 15th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Good grief! This would be funny, except that it’s not!
After all the f*ck-ups by the prosecution — overcharging Gordon, relying on police reports rather than interviewing the complainants and their children, filing an indictment with a factual error — I think it’s time for them to admit they’ve f*cked up and just drop this case.
August 15th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Wow, once all this is over, these guys better get ready for a huge lawsuit.
August 15th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Man! By now I would have snapped. This is insanity.
August 15th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
What’s the statute of limitations on the “crime”? We must be nearly there by now.
August 15th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
I believe the statute of limitations only applies to the time between when the crime occurs and the time a defendant is arrested/charged for the crime. Since Lee’s already been charged, the statute doesn’t apply anymore.
August 15th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Actually his lawyers can argue that it constitutes “cruel and unusual punishment” by having delayed this all so long. What I have to wonder is where the Rome taxpayers are on all of this? If this was how my tax money was being spent and especially in this length of a case which is surely by now in the millions of dollars I’d be waring the DA’s office that my vote is going somewhere else.
August 15th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Why can’t they just drop the case, he made an innocent (harmless) mistake and Christian/conservative right are going after him to prove their ridiculous ideas about nudity and sex. So glad I live in the UK so nothing this stupid could happen.
August 15th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
In fairness, we know nothing about the religious/political leanings of the complainants or the DA in this case. In my experience, liberals are just as prone to advocate censorship as conservatives. This isn’t a liberal/conservative issue but instead a free speech issue.
August 15th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Forgive me — as soon as I made my last post I realized the POLITICAL leanings of the DA probably aren’t a big secret. She’s a public official. Whoops.
That said, I still don’t think this is a liberal vs. conservative thing. I know too many liberals who are just as likely to support censorship as conservatives.
August 15th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Regardless of censorship, it seems it was an accident with very little to no harm done. In fact, harm wasn’t even possible, really.
And yet he has to go to trial and possibly face jail time??