Frame fail

A little while back I posted about Amelia Nicol, a young lady who the Denver Police were attempting to put in prison for some 90 years on trumped-up charges. Their claim was that she threw a Molotov cocktail or explosive device at a couple of cops, attempting to murder them. It was a lie, of course. What really happened was that somebody in a crowd of protesters — might have been Ms. Nicol, don't know and don't care — threw a firecracker in the general direction of a police car, within which two officers sat. Hardly the same thing.

Well, it turns out that the judge in charge of Ms. Nicol's pretrial hearing isn't nearly as stupid as the Denver Police thinks the rest of us are. From Denver Anarchist Black Cross:

Amelia had a pretrial hearing today, on June 9. A pretrial hearing allows for a judge to hear the evidence, and decide whether there is sufficient evidence for a defendant to stand trial for the charges that have been filed. In this case, as detailed below, the judge made some pretty strong rulings in favor of Amelia.

As of the writing of this reportback, the judge in the case, Judge Andrew S. Armatas, has thrown out nearly all of the felonies that Amelia was facing, including both charges of attempted first degree murder, the charge of arson, the charge of inciting a riot, an amended charge of participating in a riot, and a charge of felony criminal mischief. Amelia is left facing a single felony charge of possession of an explosive, and three misdemeanor charges: one count of resisting arrest and two counts of attempted assault on a police officer.

I'm not really surprised. Though if it weren't for the toll it would've taken on Ms. Nicol, I would have really enjoyed seeing Denver's District Attorney attempt to run the original horseshit charges past a jury.