Canton Coverup Part 452: Witness Intimidation Charges Against Stoughton Business Owner For “Colin Did It” Rubber Duckies Dismissed By Judge 

 

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Supporters of the First Amendment had a huge victory in Stoughton District Court today as local business owner Rich Schiffer had 2 felony witness intimidation charges and 2 criminal harassment charges thrown out by Judge Brian Walsh due to a lack of probable cause. Schiffer was charged in October after a 6 month, multiple police department investigation into rubber duckies and play money with the words “Colin did it” on them was spearheaded by Canton Police Officer Tim Taylor. The investigation centered around the hurt feelings of Selectman Chris Albert and his hardo son Colin Albert, who claimed to experience emotional harm despite the fact that Schiffer never had any direct or indirect contact with either of them. You can begin to watch the proceedings at the 51:30 mark of the Glarer’s stream:

Turns out the Internet lawyers who spend every waking minute of their lives protecting John O’Keefe’s murderers, don’t really understand how the First Amendment works.

As I sat in court I was embarrassed for the ADA who got stuck with this case and had to repeat the word “rubber duckies” while maintaining a serious face in court, in order to make it seem like she wasn’t humiliated to be forced to take part in this.

The serious felony charges were dismissed, but the 6 charges of littering still remain. I have never heard of anyone in Canton ever being charged with littering by the police, including Jim Farris who has thrown hundreds, if not thousands of cigarette butts on the Washington Street sidewalk in front of D&E Pizza. If the Commonwealth has any sort of humility or a desire to stop embarrassing themselves it would be in their best interest to drop those charges and end their failed prosecution of an innocent grandfather and business owner who only seeks justice for John O’Keefe. The pantsing that I witnessed in court today would bring great shame to any normal person, but since Michael Morrissey is completely shameless that will be harder to do for him.

As Bradl pointed out, the 6 month, multi-jurisdictional investigation into Mr. Schiffer did not yield a single documented threat aimed at any witnesses. No one was placed in fear as a result of his actions, and any “emotional harm” they experienced is irrelevant because the First Amendment trumps unconstitutional state statutes.

The ADA argued that the statute says that “whoever willfully or maliciously engages in a knowing pattern of conduct that seriously alarms or could cause a reasonable person to suffer emotional distress.” But the problems with that include:

1. Chris and Colin Albert did not suffer any emotional distress, no matter what they told police in a failed attempt to weaponize the unconstitutional statute
2. The First Amendment rights of citizens do not cease to exist simply because a person like Chris Albert says he’s experiencing emotional distress
3. No reasonable person could say with a straight face that a rubber ducky caused them emotional distress

I knew this case was gonna be dismissed the second the judge asked the ADA how far away the duckies were dropped, knowing the answer was 200 yards. Any normal police department would be ashamed to bring this in front of a judge, but not this guy:

Tim the Toolbag Taylor dedicated 6 months of his life obtaining surveillance videos, going through Schiffer’s trash, obtaining warrants to obtain his car data, contacting the President of makestickers.com, sending preservation orders to Facebook, reviewing Schiffer’s old Facebook posts, accusing Schiffer of distributing “propaganda,” and watching the Young Jurks.

And it didn’t even make it to the discovery phase. It was literally dismissed at the first possible time, and the judge didn’t even bother taking it under advisement. He was embarrassed to have it heard in his courtroom in the first place and couldn’t get rid of it fast enough.

Judge Walsh is the same judge who denied an order for Jen McCabe when she applied for one against me in May of 2023.

In Judge Walsh’s decision he mocks the Canton Police Department by quoting Make Way for Ducklings, putting conspiracy theorists in quotations (as if it’s absurd to think that only a conspiracy theorist could think that John O’Keefe wasn’t hit by a car), pointing out the fact that they had a confidential informant tasked with collecting rubber ducks, and putting “impossible” in quotations while citing Taylor’s report which stated as a fact that it was impossible for anyone but Karen Read to have killed John O’Keefe. Walsh also makes it clear that all of Schiffer’s speech is protected by the First Amendment.

by quoting Make Way for Ducklings

As Attorney Bradl said on the steps of the courthouse after the victory, this case should never have been charged.

This was a major victory for Turtleboy as well, as for the second time in a week the courts have thrown out criminal complaints for witness intimidation filed by police against Free Karen Read supporters. Last week the “Bukkake Bunch,” who were the subject of extensive months long investigations by disgraced State Police Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik, were not charged after a clerk magistrate found there was no probable cause for doing so. The police have weaponized this statute in an attempt to stifle criticism of the government for protecting John O’Keefe’s killers, but the Constitution remains undefeated and so too will I.