AUGUSTA, Maine — Jurors in Kennebec County Superior Court are deliberating a criminal trespass case against five members of Occupy Augusta who staged a protest last November on the governor’s mansion property.
The Kennebec Journal in Augusta says the jury is expected to return individual verdicts against each of the defendants. Deliberations started Wednesday afternoon.
Those charged are part of a group of nine who are accused of defying police orders to leave the Blaine House grounds on Nov. 27 in a protest launched from their Capitol Park encampment. Gov. Paul LePage was not home at the time.
They were protesting against police demands that they get a permit to continue their encampment.
Two others who had been charged in the protest were found guilty of criminal trespass and have been fined.
They broke the law……….Shame on them.
It’s not the governor’s lawn, its the people of Maine’s lawn.
Try that at the White House and see where you wind up.
This Maine “people” wants them incarcerated for breaking the law.
That’s illegal too.
throw they in Jail!!!!!!!
So is their any place in the USA left were people can speak out? or is it mainly just in your own living room.
All over the place. You just can’t trespass to do it.
Get a permit and speak to your hearts content. There is nothing new about getting a permit you know. Its been done that way for a long time and is not unconstitutional or anything like that.
You have no right to block traffic for instance without letting the police know. You can’t set a bon-fire of tires on a public street without permission and you can’t hop over a fence into an prohibited area. Common sense Man.
The people of Maine own Baxter State Park. If you reserved a camping spot and were sleeping in a tent with your family, how would feel about someone protesting just outside the zipped door? Don’t tell me it’s different because it isn’t.