{"id":1033,"date":"2013-06-03T02:44:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T02:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2013-07-04T19:43:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T19:43:36","slug":"judge-to-rule-on-motion-for-new-trial-friday-in-false-arrest-by-two-mayors-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/judge-to-rule-on-motion-for-new-trial-friday-in-false-arrest-by-two-mayors-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge to Rule on Motion for New Trial Friday in False Arrest by Two Mayors Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

NOTE BY NORSE:\u00a0 The Santa Cruz City Council’s slow but steady cutback of public comment time, public accessibility, and public accountability is something I’ve recently written about (and filed a formal Brown Act complaint against–see Mayor Cuts Off Comment in Consent Agenda Crackdown; Brown Act Complaint Rejected <\/strong>at http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2013\/06\/01\/18737797.php<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a> ).<\/p>\n

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This deterioration of even the semblance of democracy has profound effects on the entire community, not just homeless people, but it became noticeable to me as a homeless advocate when the Council used extreme measures eleven years ago to have me arrested for making a brief silent “don’t act like fascists” salute after a speaker was censored and threatened with arrest.Rather than apologize or change its rules (perhaps compromising its authoritarian power in some small degree), successive City Councils chose to funnel over $100,000 to the\u00a0 City\u00a0 Attorney’s office to fight this case in court.I was never charged with disrupting a Public Meeting (though that was what I was arrested and excluded for).\u00a0\u00a0 The D.A. knew a phony case (at least in this instance) when he saw one.<\/p>\n
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Motion for New Trial in Mock-Nazi Salute Case<\/strong><\/div>\n
by Robert Norse
\nMonday Jun 3rd, 2013 6:59 AM <\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The False Arrest civil trial of two former Santa Cruz Mayors, Tim Fitzmaurice and Christopher Krohn, ended in verdicts in their favor late last year in a federal courtroom in San Jose. My attorneys–David Beauvais and Kate Wells–have now moved for a new trial, claiming the jury verdict should be thrown out because it is against the overwhelming weight of the evidence and for other reasons. City attorney Kovocevitch disputes this in a shorter brief. The case will be heard Friday June 7th 9 AM in Federal Court. For those following the case , here is the transcript of last year’s trial and the motions pro and con for a new trial.<\/p>\n

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