Ivy Walker drove in New Hampshire for over a year without registering her vehicle or having it inspected, and subsequently turned a trial for such run-of-the-mill charges into a major headache for the State.
After being stopped numerous times for such victimless offenses, and finally arrested, instead of making a deal with the prosecutor at arraignment for a reduced fine, as most people would do, she demanded a trial and dragged the proceedings out over a period of three months, filing lengthy motions on the Right to Travel, demanding the charges be dismissed for technical defects, accusing cops on the stand of violating their oaths of office, subpoenaing numerous bureaucrats to testify in her favor, and otherwise turning run-of-the-mill charges into a major headache for the State.
She plans to demand a trial de novo at Superior Court if found guilty for any of the charges at District Court.
She attempted to file criminal complaints with the court against the arresting officers, and when they refused to take them, citing a Supreme Court case that disallows private citizens from bringing private prosecutions against the State, she instead decided to take the case herself before a grand jury herself and demand they launch an investigation and press criminal charges.
When she was arrested at her Manchester trial for an outstanding warrant in Merrimack, she refused to pay any bail fees and told her supporters in the courtroom not to, either. The police subsequently released her an hour later without demanding payment.
In the Merrimack trial, she outright told the prosecutor that she did not believe in paying fines for victimless crimes anymore; she subsequently only took the plea deal because she had already agreed to do so a year prior, and only if they offered her community service in lieu of paying the fine. Otherwise, she was prepared to go to jail rather than pay the fine.
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