Four Found Guilty in Attempted Citizen's Arrest of Karl Rove

[struggle4progress]

Amy Lorentzen
The Associated Press
November 24, 2008

A jury on Friday returned guilty verdicts against .... retired Methodist minister Chet Guinn, two members of the social welfare group Des Moines Catholic Worker Community, Edward Bloomer and Mona Shaw, and former group member Kirk Brown.

The four were cited after attempting a citizen's arrest of Rove on July 25 at the Wakonda County Club in Des Moines, where he spoke at a Republican fundraiser. They were stopped at the country club's entry gate.

Shaw said she was disappointed by the verdict, especially since the judge instructed the jury that a citizen's arrest was justification for being on the grounds if jurors thought the defendants had reasonable cause to believe that there was someone there who had committed a felony.

"I'm surprised that there are six people in the United States who don't believe Karl Rove should be suspected of committing felonies," Shaw told The Associated Press after the verdict ...

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202426219680

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Those 4 people are heroes in my book

[Stellabella]

2. That's one of the most insane things I have EVER heard of.

WTF is wrong with that 'jury'?

[TahitiNut]

5. Defense attorney failed to challenge for cause all jurors who watched Fox News.

Dumb defense attorney. :dunce:

[Stellabella]

6. No kidding.

n/t

[liberalmuse]

3. So, does this mean...

when Gomer shouted, 'Citizen's Arreyest! Citizen's Arreyest!' on 'The Andy Griffith Show', that we were essentially lied to???
:mad:

[wildbilln864]

7. Man that scene cracked me up...

when I first saw it as a kid. Don Knots was hilarious.

But back on point, these people are true patriots in my book too. :hi:

[Sal Minella]

4. Congressional Medals of Honor would be appropriate, imnsho.

Distinguished Citizen awards of some sort is what they deserve.

[femrap]

8. I wonder how much money or

how many threats the jurists rec'd????

[Joe Chi Minh]

9. Now, there's a question.

[lib_wit_it]

11. I wondered the same thing.

[intheflow]

10. Catholicism at its finest!

:loveya:

[lib_wit_it]

12. Wow, this is so admirable! I wish they'd not done it on private property though, so there could be

no trespassing charges. What do you think would have happened in that case?

[Initech]

13. Awesome! Goebbels, er, Rove must be brought to justice.

[KakistocracyHater]

14. this is what happens when we try to do

something, rather than just passively vote; truly taking American values & applying them gets you arrested, the wealthy rule us while they're above the law. I doubt Obama will restore the rule of law now...