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ATOT lawyers - question for you regrding press release by DA

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Lifted

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My home address was mentioned in a press release by the local DA as the home of a person who was charged with committing a crime. I've received mail in this persons name, so they may have lived here at some point in the past.

My question: What possible good could come from giving an exact home address for a person merely charged with a crime?

In my case the only harm has been news reporters stalking my home, inside my apartment building with locked front doors and no trespassing signs, hiding in the stair wells waiting to pounce. What if the crime was something heinous? I could have psychos trying to exact some sort of vigilante justice on this alleged criminal who the DA announced lives in my home!

Am I nuts or is this just not a good idea?

Doesn't say much for the DA's office that they don't even have the guys address correct after they've been hunting this person for years.
 
Wow, that bites. Hopefully it will blow over. The address might have been mentioned in the paper during the original incident, in the police blotter or some other local news section, so perhaps it was already public.
 
Start giving interviews like you're said person (and come up with some outrageous excuses), and then make them all out to be fools a week later. 😉
 
Tech_Greek said:
Start giving interviews like you're said person (and come up with some outrageous excuses), and then make them all out to be fools a week later. 😉
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just say u did it and they'll never prove it.
then manical laugh. then say you'll never go back alive.

of course while having a gun on hip and hand on top of gun.
 
Tech_Greek said:
Start giving interviews like you're said person (and come up with some outrageous excuses), and then make them all out to be fools a week later. 😉
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Lol the right kind of mind could have so much fun with this and all of the outrage that it would generate. Please OP, do this and update thread 😀
 
I think I'd call the DA's office with the demand that they immediately issue a retraction of the address, else I would report to the reporters in the stairwells of my building how incompetent the DA is that he can't even get basic facts correct. "There are reporters outside my building. I'll invite them into my apartment - the very apartment you claim the suspect of this case resides, and ask them, 'how well do you think the DA is at judging evidence, when he can't even get the address correct? How much incompetence does that indicate on his part and that of his staff that they're unable to verify even the most basic of evidence?"

Or, for the sake of a follow-up thread, do as others suggested. Grant an exclusive "tell-all" interview with the press.

Or, option three. You're terrified for you life. There are strange people around, waiting for you in the stairwells, as a result of the DA's incompetence. Unfortunately, though, I don't think option three works, because as I understand it, the DA would have immunity from a lawsuit.
 
I would have thought that this is a pretty clear cut case of harassment by the DA.

Now, while DAs have quite significant legal immunity, it is not complete immunity, and clear cut negligence might just fall outside it.

The far less risky option is just to take advantage of all the reporters and sell your story about how you've been reduced to a quivering agoraphobic, are fearing for your life, can't go outside, are getting paranoid about stalkers, etc.
 
NetWareHead said:
Lol the right kind of mind could have so much fun with this and all of the outrage that it would generate. Please OP, do this and update thread 😀
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Yes you could pretty much negotiate whatever you wanted after that mishap.

Just wear a brown bag over your head for the interviews. 😀
 
I called the DA's office yesterday but there was nobody around who could handle the issue due to it being a weekend, so the person answering calls took a message. I did receive a call back within 15 minutes, but they said the same thing - wait until Monday and we'll get back to you.

After that I submitted a letter to de Blasio's office stating my concern for this policy (due to my safety) and level of incompetence (as Dr. Pizza noted above). de Blasio is already on my bad side with the squeegee guys appearing around the city for the first time since shortly after Giuliani took office back in the 90's. Surely he owes me.
 
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I'll stop picking now. You're doing the right thing and if they refuse to correct their actions I would then go to the news about this little incident after consulting with your lawyer as news stations love these types of stories.
 
Lifted said:
de Blasio is already on my bad side with the squeegee guys appearing around the city for the first time since shortly after Giuliani took office back in the 90's. Surely he owes me.
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what policy did nyc's new mayor change since Giuliani's time?
ended the "broken window on abandoned house" crime initiative?

and since he's a Dem and there hasn't been a Dem in office for over a decade, is he spending $$$ like it's 1999?
 
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