we know how you feel about it anyway: https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/hundr...sks-for-u-s-led-intervention-in-cuba/2492603/
Show us where the law makes that distinction. Show us where the false imprisonment laws make those exceptions. Your legal opinion is meaningless here, and in a court. What's silly is them trying to use a law that was never intended for that purpose. Of course, you have no problems with that off-label use being it's being used against BLM.
GQP (aka GWB): "It's good we can use our 5k lb machines as deadly weapons against protesters" Also GQP: "Throw the book at them, we're defenselessly imprisoned here!"
Don't listen to journalist clowns, or their followers, or ball washers of their followers. @gwb-trading @ipatent The correct charge ... what most protestors are charged with: https://www.lawinsider.com/dictiona... of Traffic means the,of vehicles on the Road.
We will see what the court says starting with the initial pre-trial conference on May 6, 2022. As noted by the DA -- the law is very clear on this matter -- deliberately blocking someone on the road for hours is a felony. It's not like these protestors had a parade permit, road construction permit, or any other legal document which allowed them to block traffic for hours thus falsely imprisoning people by refusing to let them go by. If the protestors actually allowed cars to pass -- thus not falsely imprisoning people -- then they would not be indicted on felony charges Now if the drivers actually drove over the protestors (who are in the middle of committing the felony of false imprisonment) then you would be moaning loudly what terrible people the drivers are and how they need to be indicted for doing nothing more than freeing themselves from being falsely imprisoned by felonious criminals.
You can drive through protesters at 2-5 mph. No one wants to file the insurance claim however and would rather catch a manslaughter charge
As long as it fits the language of the statute and scienter exists, they don't need case law to charge them.
You still haven't answered my questions. The DA overcharged. That violation is typically obstruction of traffic; disturbing the order/peace; etc; and NOT A FELONY charge of false imprisonment. Nor is it proper to upgrade his charges; while the past practice and case law is to NOT charge a felony. Any true believer in our democracy knows this is wrong, even racially biased citizens like yourself.