Comments on: The Walls Belong to Alan Ket http://www.bleedingneon.com/vegasinsight/2007/11/06/the-walls-belong-to-alan-ket/ Alternative news, commentary and culture from Las Vegas Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:38:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.11 By: Walsh, Esq. http://www.bleedingneon.com/vegasinsight/2007/11/06/the-walls-belong-to-alan-ket/comment-page-1/#comment-317 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:38:57 +0000 http://www.vegasinsight.net/?p=39#comment-317 Ah, yes, of course. And it would help if the Racket site offered hyperlinks to certain articles in a particular issue: like the days of yore… But, fair enough. Just making sure your blog entry was credible and factually accurate 😉

P.S.- Isn’t it slightly paradoxical to hold the event in SoHo? So much for the inner city/urban youth arts movement. I guess we all cash in our chips for the higher power of currency, and attorney’s fees.

]]> By: Pzilla http://www.bleedingneon.com/vegasinsight/2007/11/06/the-walls-belong-to-alan-ket/comment-page-1/#comment-316 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:34:15 +0000 http://www.vegasinsight.net/?p=39#comment-316 Uh yeah. I didn’t get into all the legal details because I already did that in the last issue of Racket. Just wanted to sum it. Thanks for the expansion. It makes up for my having to copy and paste the entire Racket story here now. 😉

]]> By: Walsh, Esq. http://www.bleedingneon.com/vegasinsight/2007/11/06/the-walls-belong-to-alan-ket/comment-page-1/#comment-315 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:28:19 +0000 http://www.vegasinsight.net/?p=39#comment-315 Actually, the $3k is only for the Brooklyn plea bargain– remember, they sent him through the trifecta-Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn- and instead of pleading out separate felony charges, the plea bargain reached between the D.A. and Kuby threw all three locations into one.

KET is technically paying over $12K if you take into account all three areas, and is spared prison time (even though the D.A. initially charged him with illegal possession of marijuana upon NYPD searching his home. But if that was not included in the search warrant- i.e. no illegal substances search mentioned in warrant when it was signed by a judge- then they cannot keep it as a charge due to the 4th Amendment and subsequent Supreme Court rulings).

NYPD Special Investigations Unit has been tracking him for some time and tossed 2004-06 graffiti into the charges. Granted, they didn’t catch him “in the act” when he was arrested, but the D.A. had enough circumstantial evidence to warrant a plea agreement. One would presume that KET’s colleagues would assist directly- from their pocketbooks- in a legal defense fund as opposed to holding a public forum (Ecko, Atari, MTV, etc.), but such is life.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00EEDA1330F936A35753C1A9619C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

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