Thursday, November 8, 2007

In re Gault:40 years later

I was up set at the fact someone can be arrested and not have their rights read to them even though they didn't have enough money to pay for it. I was applaud by the fact he was held against his will and never knew what the charges were. He did not have an attorney present and they did not appoint one to him. What the government did was accuse him of something and never investigated the issue.Then 39 years later a case that was something like what the Gault case was like but it was on different charges. This case was about a girl who used her Freedom of speech and talked about her Vice Principle on a myspace she had "allegedly" made and she "allegedly" said some threatening comments on the "alleged Myspace page". But the whole thing was meant out to be a joke. The same thing that happened to Gault happened to the girl was not read her rights. She was not officially arrested they gave her mom paper work and did not explain what the paper work was. Basically it was saying she waved her daughters right to council But those document was an unconstitutional document because only the accuser can wave their rights to council. The case went on and she eventually was put out of the Fact program and soon she will not have a record.