I urge ANYONE who comes across this website and still feels in doubt as to the facts of this case to read that document. While it must be understood that it comes from the defendant’s council, if the items presented within it are facts I have faith that the case will be overturned.

I have faith that Jason Vassell will be released of all criminal charges based on this document. The men who assaulted him should be in prison soon, I would hope.

Dear Justice for Jason site managers,

Please post a link to the Motion to Dismiss front and center on your site, and label it something like “The Latest, Most Thorough Summary of the Case”. As great as all the info on the site is, the Motion is the most thorough and convincing summary that I have seen.

http://www.justiceforjason.org/wpcontent/uploads/2009/01/motiontodismiss.pdf

It provides new information and is extremely convincing that the charges are racist and that Jason was acting in self-defense against drunk, crazed, men with a history of violence and racism. One astounding new bit of info: the same day as the attack, the Milton, Mass police department faxed police records of the two white men over to the arresting cops. These records show a pattern of violent, drunk, and racist assaults since high school. The cops ignored and suppressed this information and treated the white men as if they were innocent victims, and law-abiding Jason as the dangerous one–ordering him to stay away from the two attackers and putting him on house arrest, while allowing the two violent men to go free.

Louise, would it be possible to post the Motion or a link to it right at the top of this page? I think it’s the single most informative article anybody could read about the case. I’ve been following this case since the very beginning, and I am predisposed to believe that the arrest of Jason and not the white men was racist. I’ve been reading the Justice for Jason site and almost every news and web or blog article. But since I knew that a lot of details wouldn’t come out until the video was shown at the trial, I kept the tiniest bit of openness to the possibility that something would come out that would portray the fight as a brawl among three equally-culpable men. Reading the Motion to Dismiss has removed my last shred of doubt that these unbalanced charges are the result of racist law enforcement, and that Jason was acting in self-defense. (Yes, as people point out ad nauseum, if he had run off and hidden in somebody else’s room, he wouldn’t have been attacked. But, first of all, not predicting an attack doesn’t make you responsible for it; second of all, he was attacked in his own home by intruders; and third of all, why should anyone know exactly what strategy would be best for dealing with a home-invading lynch mob of two and a corrupt, racist local “justice” system? It’s not like this kind of thing happens to most of us ever.)

Dear Justice for Jason site managers,

Please post a link to the Motion to Dismiss front and center on your site, and label it something like “The Latest, Most Thorough Summary of the Case”. As great as all the info on the site is, the Motion is the most thorough and convincing summary that I have seen.

The Motion to Dismiss provides a lot of new information that is extremely convincing, not only that Jason was clearly acting in self-defense and that the white men were crazed attackers, but that the head cop was obviously racist. New info includes that the seargent referred to Jason as a “donkey” and assumed he was a drug dealer with absolutely no evidence of that. I think from now on the media efforts of Justice for Jason and all of Jason’s supporters should focus on getting this Motion to Dismiss out into the public eye as much as possible.

However, this document has totally changed my understanding of the case, from the moment Lieutenant Thrasher entered the picture. (He is first mentioned for his drug deal “theory”.) Even if he is not put on trial, I think it is clear to any sane citizen that he is unfit to serve as a police officer.