Published May 13, 2016 Associated Press
ded in a list set to be released of people involved in the 2013 lane closures in New Jersey near the George Washington Bridge asked a judge late Thursday to intervene anonymously to block its release, arguing it would unfairly brand them a criminal.
The court motion asks a federal judge to let the person identified as John Doe intervene to stop the release of a list of unindicted co-conspirators the government has been ordered to release by Friday at noon after a media request from organizations including The Associated Press.
The motion says the man will be "publicly branded a felon without due process of law, causing him immediate and irreparable reputational harm."
"That sacred right — the right not to be branded a criminal without due process of law — will never be diminished, no matter how much media attention the Bridgegate fiasco attracts," wrote attorney Jenny Kramer, of the high-profile New York firm Chadbourne and Parke.
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