a little good news

[mellowtigger]

The Legal Rights Center does intake interviews only 2 hours each week. I went this morning. This native American "RESIST" poster was in the waiting room. I think I'm in the right place. :) The lawyer with whom I spoke said they also represented many people during the Occupy camp downtown.

There's nothing he can do at the moment. It's too early. When the courts mail me a court date, then I should contact him again with court document numbers. Until then, I just wait. He confirmed what the guys in jail told me, that charges in court could come months or even a year later. I don't know at what point the "window of opportunity" expires for formal proceedings on my arrest. I won't recount my version of events that morning at the homeless camp until my jeopardy has expired.  I did look up the law I was charged with violating, and it appears that my charges could result in maximum of 90 days in jail and/or $1000 fine.

But, at least for now, I have no worries. And my Day 10 nasal swab test came back negative for COVID-19. So that's some good news. :)

In a semi-related concern, if you were hyperventilating about the 80% kill rate of mice in that SARS-CoV-2 experiment in Boston, don't worry. With some added context from this excellent article, the original Wuhan virus killed 100% of those mice. I don't know what biological feature those mice were bred for, but we're not on the verge of a complete societal collapse for that reason, at least.  Take the good news where you can get it.  ;)

Comments

[mtbc]

Thank you for the update. I always felt that the right to a speedy trial is rather disappointingly disregarded.

[mellowtigger]

Yeah, that bothers me too. :( Like so many of our other systems, there are significant problems. I really want to tell my perspective of that morning, so this delay is frustrating for more than one reason. I never responded to any of the well wishes from my "out of jail" post, because anything I wanted to say tended easily to stray into territory of stuff that I just shouldn't say. So silence it is, then. :/

[mellowtigger]

Oh... and this Twitter thread just showed up. There sure are a lot of pointless arrests?
"*In 2021, 86% of all felony charges in NY were ultimately dismissed.* Read on for why this matters."

[mtbc]

Gah, yes. I remember being annoyed at a state university stating that students who had been arrested in a particular incident would be suspended, thinking, innocent until what?

[kathmandu]

Felicitations on testing negative!