White Teen Pleads Guilty to Racist Emails Under Threat of Double Jeopardy from Feds

[Black Plague]

http://columbian.com/article/20090331/NEWS02/903309975

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2219090/posts


For weeks, the case involving racist e-mails sent to a Battle Ground city councilman was put on hold, pending word from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle.

The e-mails were from Battle Ground teenager Christopher Reinhold, who used the name "battleground anonymous." They were sent to Councilman Paul Zandamela, an African-born man from Mozambique who had been sworn into his position the night before the first e-mail was sent, on Jan. 8, 2008.

Lawyers at the U.S. Attorney's Office became interested in the case and on Friday wrote to Reinhold's defense attorney, Jon McMullen, that they would let the case rest if Reinhold changed his plea.

Reinhold had pleaded not guilty to a cyberstalking charge, which is a gross misdemeanor. On Monday morning, Reinhold changed his plea to guilty in District Court Judge Darvin Zimmerman's courtroom.

"Basically, they said, 'If you fight it down here, win lose or draw, we'll charge in federal court,' " McMullen said.

Blatant violation of the Constitution, all to make niggers happy

[Chimpocide]

Anybody know what law this guy was charged under?

[White_Is_Right]

Anybody know what law this guy was charged under?

From the second link that BP posted:


Reinhold had pleaded not guilty to a cyberstalking charge, which is a gross misdemeanor. On Monday morning, Reinhold changed his plea to guilty in District Court Judge Darvin Zimmerman's courtroom.

"Basically, they said, 'If you fight it down here, win lose or draw, we'll charge in federal court,' " McMullen said.

[Chimpocide]

I'd like to see the law and exacly what elements of that law this guy supposedly violated.

That article didn't cite the specific law. I am going to dig to find it. Maybe its written similarly to other "stalking" laws. Perhaps if you ask someone to stop sending you emails...and they continue - they they are guilty of "cyberstalking"?

Does this now mean that every spammer is guilty (if you tell them to stop) of the same law?

[Dwight Mansburden]

Races in Battle Ground, Washington:

* White Non-Hispanic (91.8%)
* Hispanic (4.1%)
* Two or more races (2.3%)
* Other race (1.7%)
* American Indian (1.7%)

Only a town like Battle Ground (13,000 pop.), which has essentially no niggers, would elect one of the very, very few around, and a Goddamned African immigrant to boot, to the city council.

Those :hippies probably feel really good about themselves, especially now that the white kid harassing their pet nigger is being prosecuted for exercising free speech.

[Chimpocide]

There is something very wrong here.

This law is probably unconstitutional.

I think the kid is making a mistake by not fighting it. This should probably go to the Supreme Court under the 1st Amendment.

[White_Is_Right]

I think the kid is making a mistake by not fighting it. This should probably go to the Supreme Court under the 1st Amendment.

I agree.

However, I think fear is what made him give in.

[Chimpocide]

I agree.

However, I think fear is what made him give in.

Freedom isn't free.

You have to fight for it.

I have a feeling that law needs to be taken off the books.

[Melinda]

I found this definition:

Cyberstalking is a crime in which the attacker harasses a victim using electronic communication, such as e-mail or instant messaging (IM), or messages posted to a Web site or a discussion group. A cyberstalker relies upon the anonymity afforded by the Internet to allow them to stalk their victim without being detected. Cyberstalking messages differ from ordinary spam in that a cyberstalker targets a specific victim with often threatening messages, while the spammer targets a multitude of recipients with simply annoying messages

This looks open to interpretation to me.
If I call someone a nigger on UTUBE, does that make me a cyberstalker?

I dont think he should have pled guilty.

[Icollectniggerlips]

I wonder how in the fuck did this stinkin' black afreekoon get elected in the town of no niggers in the first place? WTF is this world coming to?

-nigbongo :dance :hippie

[LaCharles Muhdikins]

Unless threats of violence were concerned this is complete bullshit. If I emailed my Representative everyday over an unsafe pothole in my community would I it be called stalking? No. Can someone please get more info on the nature of these e-mails. If it is just "rayciss" speech then he should fight this and yes even in this society he will win if it is acts of violence then he would lose though.
:down :down :down :down

[Chimpocide]

I found this definition:

Cyberstalking is a crime in which the attacker harasses a victim using electronic communication, such as e-mail or instant messaging (IM), or messages posted to a Web site or a discussion group. A cyberstalker relies upon the anonymity afforded by the Internet to allow them to stalk their victim without being detected. Cyberstalking messages differ from ordinary spam in that a cyberstalker targets a specific victim with often threatening messages, while the spammer targets a multitude of recipients with simply annoying messages

This looks open to interpretation to me.
If I call someone a nigger on UTUBE, does that make me a cyberstalker?

I dont think he should have pled guilty.


That is a bad law.

And I'd bet that it's unconstitutional.

It needs to be challenged.

That kid probably didn't have a good lawyer.

The ACLU should have jumped in to defend him.

It's a 1st amendment issue.

If there were no threats involved...and I'm sure there weren't because they would have said "threatening emails.." and they didn't - this kid probably didn't do anything wrong under the US constitution.

Laws like this are bad law. But they have to be challenged.

The kid probably just plead guilty because its only a misdemeanor and there was probably no jail time involed. Also, it would cost money to defend this. But thats where organizations like the ACLU should have come in to provide legal aid. There are probably many lawyers out there who would defend this case for free on principle.

The kid got bad advice.

Not only that, but under the law you have to have something called "standing" to challenge something like this. Meaning you have to have been personally afffected by it. That kid was the only one personally affected by it.

[niggers_suck]

The e-mails were from Battle Ground teenager Christopher Reinhold, who used the name "battleground anonymous."

/b/ FAIL

[homeyh8r]

Why isn't the ACLU coming to this kid's defense? Oh yeah, he's not a nigger looking for some :gibs

[357Magnum]

And no one, not even his parents, bothered to get him a fucking lawyer?! :wtf I smell jaboonery!!!! :think