{"id":54994,"date":"2014-09-05T06:59:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T10:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54994"},"modified":"2014-09-05T08:20:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T12:20:02","slug":"decepticon-cop-is-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54994","title":{"rendered":"Decepticon cop is free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=54524\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54524\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Decepticon-Cop-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"Decepticon Cop\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Decepticon-Cop-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Decepticon-Cop-500x224.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Decepticon-Cop.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mymassachusettsdefenselawyer.com\/impersonating-police-officer-decorating-car\/\">Lawyer Russell Matson<\/a>, the defense attorney of the fellow who was arrested for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54523\">driving a Decepticon Police car<\/a> in Massachusetts writes to tell us that charges against his client have been dropped;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Update Sept 4th: The case was dismissed at a clerk magistrate\u2019s hearing!<\/p>\n<p>The police prosecutor wanted the charge to go forward, and argued strenuously that my client was a legitimate threat to public safety, and had criminal intent.<\/p>\n<p>I argued that my client did absolutely nothing wrong, and certainly did nothing that met the criminal statute.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the clerk magistrate did not accept the argument of the police officer prosecuting the case, and also did not think that decorating your Maserati in a fashion similar to a police car met the statute for impersonation of a police officer. Dress up is not impersonation.<\/p>\n<p>This is the best possible outcome for the client. A case dropped at a clerk magistrate\u2019s hearing (a show cause hearing) means that no criminal complaint was ever formally issued, and the client will have no record.<\/p>\n<p>And this is a victory for common sense over police authority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer Russell Matson, the defense attorney of the fellow who was arrested for driving a Decepticon &hellip; <a title=\"Decepticon cop is free\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54994\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Decepticon cop is free<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}