CINDY SHEEHAN WINS IN U.S. COURT OF APPEALS/OTHER PROTESTERS OPTIMISTIC WITH THEIR APPEAL

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CINDY SHEEHAN WINS IN U.S. COURT OF APPEALS/OTHER PROTESTERS OPTIMISTIC WITH THEIR APPEAL
Submitted by davidswanson on Sun, 2008-01-27 19:50. Cindy Sheehan | Nonviolent Resistance

WHO: The National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance (NCNR) was formed for individuals willing to engage in nonviolent civil resistance to protest the war in Iraq and pressure Congress to withdraw all troops. NCNR organized a demonstration on the Pennsylvania Ave. sidewalk outside the White House on Sept. 26, 2005 and three hundred and seventy one activists were arrested and charged with demonstrating without a permit. Cindy Sheehan and others from around the country exercised their First Amendment right to petition the government by placing the names of the dead from Iraq on the White House fence in an attempt to convince George W. Bush to end the Iraq War. It is believed that this was the largest number of arrests in U.S. Park Police history. The government then conducted four trials in U.S. District Court in order to deal with all of the arrests.

WHAT: Sheehan and forty-one others appeared for the first trial on Nov. 16, 2005 before Judge Alan Kay. Assistant U.S. Attorney Catherine Hartzenbusch was the prosecutor. Sheehan, one of several defense witnesses, was represented by Jon W. Norris. Prior to trial, the government dismissed a few of the cases.

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1. WHEN: January 11, 2008

It appears the judge, over two weeks ago, ordered a new trial because the previous one was unfair (evidently, because of an objection by the prosecution that the judge sustained). He did not agree with Sheehan that the regulations for protesting were unconstitutional.