In a front-page story from the Keene Sentinel, as well as a small article in today’s Union Leader, the legal saga of Keene’s Robin Hood is documented.
Spending seven hours in a courthouse is seldom entertaining, but during the Robin Hood of Keene trial which occupied the entirety of Monday, the proceedings maintained general lighthearted hilarity. Attorney Jon Meyer represented five of the six accused of filling meters as part of a conspiracy theory hatched by Prince John and Jester Mullins. Despite fairly condemning affidavits filed by parking enforcement officers alleging harassment, the one full and one partial testimony from parking enforcers honestly relayed that Robin Hooders’ interactions with them are fairly innocuous. For example, all enforcer affidavits claim Robin Hooders invade the personal space of enforcers, yet when asked on the stand if anyone present in the courtroom had bumped into or initiated unprivileged physical contact, parking enforcer Linda affirmed one incident and identified a member of the courtroom audience who was not even named in the lawsuit.
It is certainly appreciated that so far, enforcer testimony has been quite accurate. I did take exception to one point made by enforcer Linda on the stand, when asked if I had expressed desire to shut down the parking enforcement division of the Keene police, she hesitated before affirming. Granted, this was after she had already offered that she had chosen not to engage any Robin Hooders in conversation, and acknowledged that her requests were respected for the most part.
There was very visible lawyering going on by the city’s hired-gun attorney Charles Bauer, who over the course of her testimony, was able to persuade Linda to shrink the amount of space from her person that she originally believed Robin Hooders would generally film from. Just before 10:30am, Linda had testified that participants with videocameras would get “not that close”, estimating 8-10 feet of space. Five minutes later, random distances are thrown out and asked. “Could it be 50 feet? How about 30 feet? How about five? Maybe three sometimes?,” Bauer suggested, as he slowly inched himself closer to the witness stand to demonstrate what crowding a person looks like. An hour later, the 8-10 feet of general distance became 4-5 feet.
Testimony related to Pete Eyre was expedited as he will be out of the country in the coming months. It never was clear why he was affiliated with the case in the first place, and after hearing the evidence against him at the end of the day, the city’s attorneys were given ten days to respond to Pete’s motion to strike his name from the lawsuit. Pete was also representing himself, which allowed him the opportunity to ask his own questions of witnesses as well as participate in bench conferences with the myriad of attorneys from the city along with defense counsel Jon Meyer.
Though proceedings inside of the court house went well, outside of the lobby, during the lunch break, an impatient custodian sprayed water on peaceful chalkers who sat to preserve their art. One would think that it would be illegal to water someone without their consent. See the video embedded below.
The evidentiary hearing is scheduled to resume some time next month. Stay tuned for full video from the day’s proceedings coming from Free Keene.
Thanks for posting this Pete!
Its important to remember exactly what these people are capable of and remember that no matter the hearings and the pretty words spoken in DC, the people who murdered children by burning them alive walk the streets of America as free citizens.
Charles Manson never gave the order to burn children alive.
Janet Reno DID give the order to burn children alive.
Ben
the gubmint (FBI) also shot at people who were running out, and then after that they charged the survivors with assult on gubmint officials or something like that. and gave the survivors like ten year prison sentences The FBI probably would do the same to my anarhcist village if it ever gets built. Theyll come and try to destroy it
Until they opened fire on them, the Branch Davidians were very easy to find. They traveled into town often and arresting them (if uncle sham had any real evidence of someone actually being harmed by their actions) would have been easy.
President Clinton: Who can we openly murder on t.v. and get away with it, because we're the government and people will believe our side of events?
Janet Reno: Let's find out just who, it's not like I actually have a conscience or anything.
Oh, it wasn't random.
See, the Branch Davidians were stockpiling parts to make AR-15's. Seems they had some sort of insane idea that Clinton would try to create an "assault weapons ban," and that they could get rich by building a stockpile pre-ban rifles.
All perfectly legal, but embarrassing for the administration. So they invented a story about them building machineguns (not the semi-auto rifles they were actually building), and got a judge to sign a warrant based solely upon the fabricated story they presented.
First off, my actual viewpoint on the issue isn't that neutral. However, my goal was to simply present as much pure information as possible along with some balanced viewpoints so that people could make up their own minds. Its pretty difficult to find unbiased information on this issue, and I'm usually suspicious of a source even if it supports my own viewpoint. Also, for anyone going into more depth, all of my references to "Stuart" were actually references to Stuart Wright. I meant to use his last name, not his first, but mistakes happen in the wee hours of the… Read more »
Branch Davidians are an awry sect of the Christian Protestant and Sabbath-keeping international major denomination, Seventh Day Adventists. My mom and I converted to SDA members when I was 10 years old, but I've been non-practicing on and off for several years. During the Waco compound siege I was 19 and living in the Mid-South (U.S.) Our local pastor at that time wrote a editoral letter, which was published in the local newspaper, to explain and proclaim our denomination's disassociation from David Koresh's off-shoot sect. David Koresh's real name was Vernon Howell and had been an S.D.A. before he became… Read more »
SEE!…THIS is what KPD needs that armored vehicle for! How can Keene, NH, EVER have it's very own WACO, if we don't even have an armored vehicle…???… No-knock raid? NO PROBLEM!…a couple rounds from that Mk19 grenade launcher mounted on tha Lenco Bearcat, and we here in Keene, NH, can have our very own WACO… Shit, we'll be lucky if we can get another Thomas Ball… Ya think Waco being right near Crawford, TX, had anything to do with it…???…. Ya think…???… There is SO*LITTLE of any real importance happening today, that it's good to dredge up this stuff from… Read more »
Back in the day, the government questioned the need for the BATF. It was argued that it should be disbanded, and their various functions parceled out to other agencies (FBI, DEA, FDA, and so on). In response to this, the BATF would annually seek out a "flashy bust" that they could use to justify their existence. In 1992, this was Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge. The resulting standoff and debacle resulted in civil charges against the US government and monetary damages awarded to Randy and others involved. In 1993, this was Waco and the Branch Davidians. After these two debacles,… Read more »