50 Water Protectors continue to face charges relating to their resistance to Enbridge Inc.’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline.
In total, the remaining 50 defendants face a total of six felonies, 28 gross misdemeanors and 115 misdemeanors, according to aDefense attorneys are now raising alarm about delays in the Water Protector cases in Aitkin.that “in the past three months Water Protector cases have just totally stalled.” Some defendants have been waiting for hearings since June and July.
In the hearing, assistant prosecutor Sarah Winge told the court that the day’s hearing was being canceled due to county attorney Ratz’s then-upcoming “contested” election campaign. “We know that [Aitkin County Attorney] Ratz didn’t want to litigate these cases when there was an election pending, whatever the reason, and has just refused to respond to the clerks’ emails to schedule hearings,” Glenn toldthat the clerk informed her in early December that the County Attorney’s Office “finally” responded to the court’s questions about their schedule. But that doesn’t explain why the court clerks are not consulting defense attorneys and prosecutors equally.
Along with the apparent preferential treatment given to prosecutors when scheduling cases, attorneys representing Water Protectors in Aitkin County are facing the specter of their own criminal prosecution for pursuing subpoenas.
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