Slaughterhouse Trial Moved and Delayed

[harvey007]

Source: Associated Press

Slaughterhouse trial moved to Sioux Falls, SD and delayed.

Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ivsT63YSCDSYATMHBQGlOOLZOjqwD9AELJ681

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More background info on this case can be found in the following Des Moines Register report:

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090831/NEWS/908310318/1001/NEWS

[burrowowl]

1. Will he be convicted

in SD, I hope so!

[Sal Minella]

2. Unfortunately, if I understand correctly, the undocumented people

who are to be witnesses are without financial support at present, and are being cared for by local churches. (Families were ripped apart and some family members deported after high-speed one-day trials, ten workers at a time shackled together, in front of several judges set up in jury-rigged "courtrooms" at a local livestock grounds. It was a monstrous demonstration of government efficiency.)

If these workers are expected to testify at a trial in Sioux Falls, who will pay their travel expenses and lodging expenses in a strange city?

The financial abuses heaped on these people were terrible. Record keeping was so sloppy some workers received only a few dollars for a whole week's work. Under-age children were working in physically dangerous jobs, etc.

If these owners don't get sent to jail, it will be a terrible miscarriage of justice, imo.