{"id":160,"date":"2012-10-11T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/?p=160"},"modified":"2020-02-27T23:04:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T23:04:42","slug":"harlem-activist-escapes-bullsht-felony-charges-for-broken-knife-novelty-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/2012\/10\/11\/harlem-activist-escapes-bullsht-felony-charges-for-broken-knife-novelty-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"Harlem Activist Escapes \u201cBullsh*t\u201d Felony Charges For Broken Knife, Novelty Bat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2012\/10\/11\/harlem_activist_escapes_felony_char.php\">Gothamist<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Last December, Joseph \u201cJazz\u201d Hayden, a 71-year-old Harlem\n resident who has extensively documented the NYPD\u2019s law enforcement \nactivity in his neighborhood, was pulled over by two officers he had \nfilmed before. The officers claimed he had a broken taillight, but \nHayden wasn\u2019t charged with a traffic offense. Instead he faced up to 2-7\n years in prison on felony weapons charges for a rusted, broken \nswitchblade knife and a novelty-sized baseball bat. Today, the Manhattan\n DA\u2019s office offered Hayden an ACD and five days community service in \nlieu of the felony charges. \u201cJust think about the amount of public \nresources spent on trying to prosecute me for a broken knife,\u201d Hayden \nsaid in a phone interview. \u201cI\u2019m talking the police, the vehicles, the \nthree days I spent in jail, the lawyers, the court appearances. In these\n economic times, this money was wasted on absolute bullshit. That\u2019s what\n you have to call it.\u201d<\/p><p>Gideon Oliver, one of three attorneys on a team defending Hayden that\n included Sarah Kunstler and Rebecca Heinegg, said that for a defendant \nto arrive at an ACD after beginning with felony charges was very \nunusual.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>To read more, click<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2012\/10\/11\/harlem_activist_escapes_felony_char.php\">here<\/a> <\/em>for the original article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Gothamist: Last December, Joseph \u201cJazz\u201d Hayden, a 71-year-old Harlem resident who has extensively documented the NYPD\u2019s law enforcement activity&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}