Friday, March 30, 2012

Will Florida Prosecute Eric Holder's Shock Troops?

The New Black Panthers have issued an illegal "Wanted Dead or Alive" posters for George Zimmerman. Eric Holder has already granted the Panther immunity from voter intimidation laws. And the New Black Panthers were given their own page on Barack Obama's campaign website back in 2008. Will Florida have the courage to stand up to the New Black Panthers?
So what crimes may have the New Black Panthers committed in Florida with their threats toward George Zimmerman?

Let's start with solicitation to kidnap.  In announcing a reward for the seizure of Zimmerman, the New Black Panthers may have violated Florida Code 787.01.  It makes it a felony to "by threat, confining or abducting, or imprisoning another person against his . . .  will without lawful authority with intent to . .  . terrorize."

Merely soliciting someone else to do this is also a felony in Florida under Florida Code 777.04.  "A person who solicits another to commit an offense prohibited by law and in the course of such solicitation commands, encourages, hires, or requests another person to engage in specific conduct which would constitute such offense or an attempt to commit such offense commits the offense of criminal solicitation."
And this:
The solicitation and threat to seize Zimmerman may also constitute a crime under Florida Code 876.35.  The felony of "combination against part of the people of the state" occurs when someone is unlawfully seized by a mob, or at the behest of a mob.   Think of a small town jail 100 years ago and an angry crowd, armed with rope, demanding a particular inmate.  Sound familiar?

Florida Code 876.35 defines the crime: "to remove them forcibly out of this state, or to remove them from their habitations to any other part of the state by force, or [when people] shall assemble for that purpose."  Remember, solicitation to commit a crime is in itself a crime.

Florida Code 876.34 even makes it a felony to "interfere forcibly in the administration of the government."

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