Judge Joseph Peone has vacated the two convictions state prosecutors managed to snag SCHI founder Rabbi Osher Eisemann on.
The judge determined that evidence withheld by prosecutors during the original trial may have influenced the jury into convicting Rabbi Eisemann, whereas had the evidence been allowed, it may have resulted in finding him innocent.
Rabbi Eisemann’s lawyer, Lee Vartan, made a compelling case to Judge Peone last Friday, arguing that the prosecution’s hiding the evidence was cause for the SCHI founder’s convictions to be tossed. Judge Peone agreed.
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No-doubt the prosecution who withheld key evidence was a loony evil democrat denying democracy
Why is the prosecution permitted to fool the court? Why isn’t that called contempt – it is after all quite contemptuous!
I would rather dwell on giving thanks To Hashem for all the Chasodim we get .
Last night I wrote the Ohel of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Since today is the 13th of Tammuz, the day that the Frierdiker Rebbe was freed and since the Rebbe had spoken many times about how both the underground system of chadorim were saved in the then USSR as well as how budding Chinuch efforts were saved in America, to please bless R’ Osher Frumet with cheirus on this very day. Am so glad (and honestly not shocked after seeing the Rebbe’s brochos) that this came true in its entirety. Tzadik Gozer VaHaKodosh Boruch Hu MeKayem. May this also be a liberation for the tzadik Reb Osher Eisemann.
147: not necessarily. out of control prosecutors are very common. If he was also a shtikel anti-semitic, then this could be the real reason.
The problem is that there are no consequences for these types of prosecutors who break the law by withholding these types of things.