The Indiana Supreme Court appointed judge for the Dan Brewington case drove in fromDecatur County this morning. Judge John Westhafer, came into Dearborn County Superior Court II at 11:20 AM with Prosecutor Aaron Negangard and announced that Brewington's public defender, John Watson, was on his way to a hospital in Batesville, where his son was being taken from his school.
Judge Westhafer said he would get together with the attorneys and prosecutor to arrange another pretrial date as soon as possible.
Judge Westhafer advised Brewington that he had no counsel available and asked if he had any questions. Brewington's Cincinnati attorney, Robert Kelley, shook his head to Brewington, and Brewington answered, "No."
Brewington was taken back to the Dearborn County jail and his family and friends left at 11:30 AM. Earlier, people entering the courtroom were advised to sit on the left side and told that they were not to converse with Brewington.
No news media was present.
Christine Brauer Mueller
Larenceburg Township
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HOW CONVENIENT!
For those of you who may not be familiar with this case, a reasonably concise summary can be found at http://danbrewington.blogspot.com/2011/04/dans-letter-to-indiana-aclu.html
While not I am not privy to all of the particulars, this certainly seems to be an abuse of prosecutorial authority by Aaron Negangard, aided and abetted by other elements of our system of justice subject to his influence, all intended to punish the exercise of first amendment rights to free speech and the rights of a citizen to obtain redress for grievances.
It is difficult to judge whether this is just exceedingly poor judgment or the product of personal vendetta on the part of our public servants.
This episode is something the Voters of Dearborn County should keep in mind the next time the polls are open.
For those of you who may not be familiar with this case, a reasonably concise summary can be found at http://danbrewington.blogspot.com/2011/04/dans-letter-to-indiana-aclu.html
While I am not privy to all of the particulars, this certainly seems to be an abuse of prosecutorial authority by Aaron Negangard, aided and abetted by other elements of our system of justice subject to his influence, all intended to punish the exercise of first amendment rights to free speech and the rights of a citizen to obtain redress for grievances.
It is difficult to judge whether this is just exceedingly poor judgment or the product of personal vendetta on the part of our public servants.
This episode and the behavior of the officials involved is something the Voters of Dearborn County should keep in mind the next time the polls are open.
In dearborn county, will the tyranny of a repressive judicial system, smothering the asperations of fatherhood only be vanquished by what was necessary in Tunisia. In Tunisa, a law abiding citizen found his only means for change to functional democracy was to self-emulate. We as Americans and millions around the world, who stand for basic human rights and fight tyranny where ever it exists, were empowered by the self emulation of Mr. Bovazizi. He protetested the tyranny of a repressive gov'tstealing his cart. Imagine what he would have done had he lost his children to the tyrants. As Americans we must cast the sunshine on all tyranny not only in Tunisia and Egypt but also in Dearborn County Indiana. When we do nothing to cease the inhumane treatment of our citizens and the tyranical gov't theft of our children, we as Americans are sorely in need of lessons in democracy from those who take democracy as a responsibilty like the citizens in Egypt and Tuunisia. Please do all you can to prevent further degridation of our democracy in dearborn county indiana. The tyrannyin indiana must be eliminated just like the KKK. Let us hope for tomorrow. Let not dearborn county become the crucible of strife which could spread like a virus throughout our democracy.
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