- A Cleveland woman, manhandled by police
and charged with two felonies for trying to display anti-Bush posters,
was jailed in a Cuyahoga County psych unit last week in what her attorney
called a "highly unusual and outrageous" decision.
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- Carol Fisher, 53, was ordered by state
court Judge Timothy McGinty to undergo a psychological examination as a
part of her pre-sentencing investigation in the anti-Bush poster incident.
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- From the onset of the case, Judge McGinty
openly claimed Fisher suffered from "mental problems" for resisting
a brutal encounter on Jan. 28 when Cleveland Heights police manhandled
and arrested her even after complying with orders to not display the anti-Bush
posters on a downtown Cleveland Heights street.
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- And during a last minute May 9 hearing,
Judge McGinty said Fischer's opposition to the Bush administration makes
her "delusional."
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- In response, Terry Gilbert, one of Fisher's
attorney, said in more than 30 years of practicing law, he has never seen
"anything remotely like this," adding legal challenges are ongoing,
including a writ of habeas corpus.
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- "This is gulag stuff," said
Gilbert. "Is this the kind of country you want to live in when dissidents
are determined to be crazy?"
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- In a phone call after being put in the
psych ward, Fisher said her eyeglasses were taken, she was put on suicide
watch and if she doesn't comply with the psych examination, she will be
sent to the North Coast Mental Institute for a 20 day evaluation.
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- During the hearing, Judge McGinty made
other strange requests baffling attorneys, asking defense counsel to openly
read a lengthy message on Fisher's t-shirt, saying:
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