One year later, UMass protesters see injustice in stabbing case

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February 3, 2009

AMHERST -- About 100 students and faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst rallied today to support a former student charged in a stabbing that galvanized and divided the university last year, sparking debate over campus security, race relations, and political correctness.

To supporters, Jason Vassell, who is black, is a victim of a hate crime and a wrongful prosecution who was forced to defend himself against two white non-students in an unprovoked, racially motivated attack.

To government lawyers, Vassell used excessive force when he stabbed both men multiple times with a pocketknife outside his dormitory. The lawyers warn against a rush to judgment before all the facts emerge at next month's trial.

"It is an outrage, outrage, I tell you, that outsiders can come to this campus, can punch through a window of a dormitory to attack a student, and either are not charged at all or are charged with trivial crimes while the victim of this crime is somehow charged with enough to put him in jail for decades," Randall Phillis, a biology professor told the crowd. "We need to clarify justice in our community now."

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/02/umass_protestor_1.html

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[ManiacJoe]

2. I am guessing that you were hoping for

more replies even though it is a minor holiday weekend?

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3. You guess right.

Injustice does not take a Holiday.

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4. Here is the motion to dismiss

It is an eye opener...


http://www.justiceforjason.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/motiontodismiss.pdf