According to CT Defense Lawyer website, if found guilty, McGowan could be sentenced to 1 to 20 years in prison and fined up to 15,000 dollars.
From reading the highly sexually explicit and disturbing police affidavit, reading the "documents" McGowan filed with the court clerk, to watching Big(o)T's former sidekick's bizarre action at the trial, I'm still taking everything in...in fact, I'm at a loss for words over everything I've seen in the last 24 hours.
I'll give everyone the play by play of what happened at the Litchfield Courthouse yesterday, as well as where I spotted McGowan at AFTER the court case, later today. tomorrow morning.
Prepare to be stunned, shocked, and totally disgusted.
UPDATE: Welcome to those who have found their way to this site from the Register-Citizen's write-up on the McGowan case.
Here's some related material on McGowan:
From the immigration march of 2005, here's McGowan in action harassing marchers and desecrating a Mexican Flag during a immigration march.
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On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
The amended complaint states that plaintiffs sought to remedy the continued discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against the Latino residents of the City of Danbury by Danbury's mayor and its police department.
Plaintiffs allege that the arrests violated their Fourth Amendment rights and the Connecticut Constitution because defendants conducted the arrests without valid warrants, in the absence of exigent circumstances, and without probable cause to believe that plaintiffs were engaged in unlawful activity. In addition, plaintiffs allege that defendants improperly stopped, detained, investigated, searched and arrested plaintiffs. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when they intentionally targeted plaintiffs, and arrested and detained them on the basis of their race, ethnicity and perceived national origin. Plaintiffs raise First Amendment, Due Process and tort claims.
Plaintiffs request declaratory relief, damages and attorneys fees.
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
