20 Occupy Sacramento Cases Dismissed - Funny Dec 12 Hearing Transcript
Channel: wikiworldorder
Date: 08/01/2012

http://WikiWorldOrder.org/video/Occupy/WWO-OccSac-Dec12-Court_Transcript.divx

http://WikiWorldOrder.org/dox/Occupy_Sac-Transcript_12.12.11_Hearing.pdf

Nine Occupy Sacramento defendants with 20 curfew (civil disobedience) cases were dismissed on December 12th, the day before our first round of trials were supposed to begin. But the City Attorney's Office can evidently not handle the volume of our cases, and has dismissed dozens, including those related to my first two arrests.

I just received a copy of the hearing transcript. I feel bad here for the city's attorney, Mr. Lindsey, scolded by the judge for the office's lack of preparation. He did not order the unconstitutional arrests in the first place, and likely did not make the decision to prosecute.

In the end he explains how they will try to slap us with $100 administrative fees anyway, even though the charges are being dropped. Our lawyers explained they could have gone that route earlier instead of bringing the charges to court, but it is way too late for that. We are in the process of appealing those fees.

My understanding is also that the resolutions the city was hoping to get but didn't, were the $100 deals we were each offered in the weeks before. None of us took the offered deals, we wanted jury trials. The city could not handle this.

Five days before this hearing, Occupy Sacramento held an action resulting in 20 more arrests, putting us past the mark of 100 arrests in two months. That night of December 7th was my third arrest. It has not been resolved yet (unlike the two resolved in this transcript), and I am due back in court for that on Feb 10th.

Recorded and edited by Morgan Lesko for Wiki World Order, We Are Change, and Occupations everywhere. 

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