Tuesday, May 6, 2008

TODAY'S PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE

It appears as though the District Attorney will, at least for now, play a bit of hardball.

After meeting with both of our lawyers for about 30 minutes this afternoon, we were informed that most of us were offered a conditional discharge only if we plead guilty to a Class A Misdemeanor (for most it was obstructing a governmental administrator). If we were to accept this offer we would avoid a trial but have a permanent criminal record, a huge fine, an admission of guilt and likely be unable to pursue any legal action against the police department.

Two who were offered Disorderly Conduct charges with 40 hours of community service. Another got an ACD for DisCon and is, barring some community service, pretty much off the hook.

Not much is likely to happen until a second pre-trial conference at sometime during the summer, after our lawyers finally get their hands on our police records, videos and radio transcripts. Any trial probably won't happen until the fall semester.

We'll keep everyone updated. This will be a fight after all....

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