16% of the people voted in the election yesterday - citizens... the
people who are and read realNEO... hate these politicians all the way
back to Stokes - I say we go after the Stokes legacy and start rippin
the heart out of party politics here completely - FUCK ALL STOKES
EVER WHO WALKED THIS EARTH INCLUDING THIS PSYCHO BITCH.

Guy isn't the one on trial - the worst that happens to him is Catania
doesn't go to jail - Guy already won.

Let's destroy Stokes - RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

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Then you must just be "Entourage"... expect no respect

Of course Scene and the PD totally played this down and treated guy like psycho white trash to benefit da gangsta Catania. Will Stokes care if Catania fired a gun in Tremont - attacked an old guy - does drugs - would she care if a psycho gun shooting mafioso Catania attacked a poor disabled old black person in the park... riot time then... empty that courtroom... Jeff Johnson would have her head on a platter.... where are the advocates for disabled veterans on this?!?!

I bet Scene in particular bent over to the Tremont Mafia - probably threatened to pull their ads from Scene... Catania has lots of friends fat off him in Tremont small business and the media and the media controls politicians to a great degree - judges especially named Stokes are clearly politicians

Gee I hope the Tremont Mafia doesn't pull its ads off realNEO... oh yeah.. we aren't sell-outs to the Mob.

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Lilly,

I was contacted by the gentlemen that attended Catania's pretrial September 1st. Evidently they have also been threatened with more than bodily harm by Catania.

"Unfortunately we did not think of using their cellphone cameras to 'trap Cantania's cowardly crap!'

WE thought, correctly, that our collective testimony regarding Catania's prior bad acts... based on our backgrounds... would enlighten the Judge."

One of the gentlemen indicated he had contacted Chris Garland
of TWDC with a "heads up on Catania" the weekend before the indictment even came down. 

It says, vaguelly,  in the docket why Judge MICHELLE DENISE EARLEY recused herself.  It says:  "JOURNAL ENTRY NOTE: RECUSAL COURT KNOWS PARTIES." 

I see some comments going after Judge Stokes.  But she's just the new judge that's been assigned after Judge Earley recused herself, right?   Did Judge Earley recuse herself because she knows Catania? 

Judge Stokes is kind of a piece of work (and obviously got elected by her last name) who runs her courtroom in a very strange fashion.  But I wouldn't start attacking her handling of this case until we actually see how she handles it.  I'm not sure if the strange things I've heard about Judge Stokes will be something to worry about here or not.  Judge Stokes is mostly disliked by defense attorneys, though my understanding is that the bar is concerned enough about her that they have sent observers to her courtroom to take notes on what's going on.  We also have to be concerned because Catania is "connected", and we al know how dirty the local government is.  

Anyway, criminal defense attorneys dislike Stokes so much that they will often decline clients just because they were assigned to her courtroom, and if they do take on those cases they will sometimes charge a client significantly more money just because they drew Stokes.  This is because she runs her courtroom very inefficiently and strangely, and it becomes a burden on an attorney's schedule.  She's hostile to plea bargaining, she makes people come to court many more times and sit there all day.  Stuff like that.  Also, she's gotten criticized for bringing religion into the proceedings in an arguably imporoper/unconstitutional manner (leading defendants in prayer), and for treating people sitting in her courtroom unfairly (tossing them out if they cough, or getting paranoid about, and hostile to,  who is observing the proceedings in what should be a public courtroom). 

But I've only observed her courtroom once.  It seemed true that she does things inefficiently (lots of angry people wondering why they were told to be there at 9am when she didn't get to them till late afternoon and they had to miss a whole day of work as a result), but that's not necessarily reason to worry here.  I mean, she could argue that she's trying not to treat cases as routine, that she takes more of an active interest in things than other judges.  I can't go by much on one day of observation, but she did seem to care more about her cases than some of the other judges I've seen.  But, again, I've talked to criminal defense lawyers who go into huge rants about her, saying she is a judge from Mars. I don't know how prosecutors feel about her.

My advice is to not do anything "funny" in the court room.  You have every right to be there.  It's supposed to be an open court that citizens can observe.  Don't give them any arguable basis to throw people out or anything like that.  Dress right, don't do anything disruptive, and be polite.  If they still toss you, then that's something we need to make a stink about.

I've already posted my feelings on that Scene article, which I found annoying and angering enough that it caused me to take some interest in this case.  I also saw the PD's online article (and I suspect either Catania or someone close to him was the anonymous commenter under that article who was worried about how much play the PD would give this assault case against a public figure). I, too, thought the PD was trying to paint Mr. Black as a nut.  I don't like people being mistreated, bullied, regarded as second class, threatened, or assaulted.  The prosecutor needs to keep his/her eye on the ball.  If they do, IMO,  Catania should at least be convicted of the menacing charge.  But it is troubling that some of you are saying that the prosecutor is treating Mr. Black like he's the one who has done something wrong.  Put that with what you guys seemed to be saying before, that they were strangely slow to file the charges, and we have reason to be concerned that they're not respecting Mr. Black as an equal citizen under the law.  They had to file the charges in the end, because guys stayed on them and the video shows what it shows, but their delay in doing so was troubling. 

Sorry I went too long here!  I'm too tired to edit it down, so whatever!  :)

all dressed for court. Maybe, I'll bring some friends.