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NEWS RELEASE
18 July 2008
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MAGISTRATE COURT ALLOWS
22 SPECTATORS INSIDE PLUS PICKETING OUTSIDE

The Honorable Judge Pat Casados this week told Defendant Marcus Page that supporters at Page's trial next month will be limited to 22, since that's all the extra chairs in the room. The Jury will be six local volunteers in Los Alamos, with court starting around 10:00am on August 18. Casados says that picketing outside will have to be a minimum of 100 feet from the courthouse. The Los Alamos Police Dept. is trying to work out a plea bargain with Page, who is representing himself. If a plea bargain cannot be reached, then Page's support committee currently believes his opponent, Officer Paige Early will be getting the D.A. to represent her case instead. As it is, Officer Early will represent herself and the State. The last time a Catholic Worker was prosecuted in this magistrate court by the police department was in the mid-1990s. Vince Eirene was convicted and spent 6 months in jail.
Page says he will ask for more policing of LANL, to encourage more abolitionist actions by LANL employees.
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