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Cork Circuit Court overturns convictions against Fintan Lane for anti-war postering
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Thursday June 23, 2005 16:54 by Cork Anti-War Campaign
Attempt to undermine CAWC defeated At Cork Circuit Court this morning, two District Court convictions against Fintan Lane for allegedly ‘directing’ the erection of anti-war posters near Glanmire in County Cork were quashed by the judge. The case relates to the putting up on ESB poles of cardboard A2 posters by members of the Cork Anti-War Campaign (CAWC) advertising the first of two 4,000-strong marches that occurred in Cork city in March 2003. Nobody was seen erecting the posters in question at Glanmire, but as Fintan Lane was the publicly identified chairperson and spokesperson for the campaign, Cork County Council moved to bring charges against him. However, they were unable to successfully serve summonses on him and waited until he was serving a two-month sentence in Limerick Prison for his part in a mass trespass at Shannon airport. In December 2003, two summonses were served on him while he was in prison. |
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Jump To Comment: 2 1The County Council took the case not the gardai or government as such. That said, it's obviously part of a strategy to tie people up with legal cases and convictions in the hope that they'll go away and give up postering. In this case it clearly didn't work and the Council have ended up wasting taxpayers money on a vindictive prosecution. Bet you, though, they'll be slower to do it again!
Well done to all concerned! The attempt to stop the Left and others from postering needs to be stood up to like this.
This is an important victory. Is there any chance though that a case can be taken against the DPP for malicious prosecution? This is part of how activists can be diverted and neutralized by the state: tie them up in legal business. There should be some way of making it hard for a government to pursue such a strategy.