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OPINION: POWER TO SPEAK
Private Criminal Prosecution
Contracting our constitutional due process rights to the ultra-wealthy By Paul Cook udge Loretta Preska sentenced environmentalist lawyer, Steven Donziger, to six months of imprisonment for a criminal contempt misdemeanor for withholding confidential information. Donziger has already served 787 days under house arrest. The United Nations Human Rights Council declared that the house arrest violated international human rights law. Judge Preska ignored the decree. Chevron began its campaign to war against Donziger after he obtained an $18 billion judgment against Chevron for dumping toxic waste in the rivers of the Amazon rainforest. The dumping harmed at least five indigenous communities whose livelihoods depended on this water. After the judgment, Chevron filed a racketeering suit (a type of charge generally reserved for mobsters). Without a jury, the court found against Donziger. Then, the New York Bar revoked Donziger’s license to practice law. The court ordered confidential communication
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to be released. For refusing, the court ordered one of the longest house arrests in American history. To find Donziger guilty of criminal charges without a jury trial, the court appointed a private law firm, which previously profited from Chevron, to criminally prosecute Donziger. Although it appears that numerous legal errors were committed here, the purpose of this opinion is to stress the hidden, illegal and trending unconstitutional practice of contracting out criminal
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