Friday, January 16, 2015
O'Hara Files Motion to Vacate in Illegal Voting Case
Posted on 9:18 AM by ram
Legendary woman suffrage advocate Susan B. Anthony and attorney John O'Hara, a Bay Ridge native, share the absurd misfortune of having been the only two Americans ever criminally prosecuted for the act of voting.
Anthony was prosecuted for voting while female, and fined. O'Hara? Well, it was a lot more complicated, and frankly, the long, thickly-encrusted fact pattern would try the
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