Jammie Thomas May Face RIAA Trial Alone

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "With her trial coming up on June 15th, Jammie Thomas has received a motion by her lawyer to withdraw from the highly publicized case, Capitol Records v. Thomas. Ms. Thomas said in a written declaration (PDF) obtained from her by her lawyer that she was not opposed to the lawyer's withdrawal, and waived any hearing on the matter. The court papers submitted by the lawyer (PDF) also indicated that the RIAA was not opposed to the withdrawal — i.e. it graciously consented to Ms. Thomas having no legal representation — but was opposed to any continuance (i.e. the RIAA wants to make sure that Ms. Thomas does not have sufficient time to find other legal representation, or to prepare to handle the trial herself, or to enable new counsel to prepare to handle the trial). Nice of them."

Comments

Re:When your lawyer withdraws, you're probably gui

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Lots of poor kids sit in jail for years (and get convicted of inflated, harsher crimes) for something a good lawyer makes "probation" for somebody with even a little bit of money.

Think of the children...

Bah... If they do the crime, they do the time. "fair" sentencing is a farce.

Sure, lets let the criminals back into society where they can rape, pillage, and murder again. ~