Re: Dennis Daniel - Why Not?

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Why didn't Counsel.net erase this one too?

On 12/26/06, Hardy Parkerson, Atty. - Lake Charles, LA
wrote:
> Dennis Daniel Was Done Wrong!
>
> Poor old Dennis Daniel waited in jail for over six
> months for a trial; and then during the week of his
> scheduled trial, the court did not even call a jury to the
> courthouse so that he could have his day in court. So poor
> old Dennis Daniel still languishes in jail, unable to make
> bond and awaiting a trial which never seems to come. I do
> not think it mattered that Dennis Daniel is Black. The
> White guys did not get a trial either.
>
> During the Jury Week of March 29, 2004, 68 felony
> and capital cases were fixed for jury trial before one
> judge in Calcasieu Parish, and the court did not even call
> a jury to the courthouse.
>
> Dennis Daniel was done wrong!
>
> If the courts want to hold a defendant in jail on
> a bond which he is unable to make, that's fine; but at
> least give him a trial within a reasonable amount of time;
> don't make him wait in jail for many months, or even
> years, awaiting his constitutional right to a speedy and
> public trial.
>
> The Bill of Rights wasn't worth a dime to Dennis
> Daniel.
>
> Lake Charles, Louisiana, this 31st day of March,
> 2004.
>
> Hardy M. Parkerson