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Defense attorney admits to BALCO transcripts
leak,
agrees to plead guilty
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By Julia Cheever, Bay City News Service
February 15, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - A former lawyer for a Bay Area
Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) executive admitted in federal
court papers yesterday that he leaked grand jury transcripts of
testimony by Barry Bonds and other athletes to two San Francisco
Chronicle reporters.
Attorney Troy Ellerman, 44, of Woodland, Colo., made the admission
in a proposed plea agreement filed in federal court in San Francisco.
The pact calls for Ellerman to plead guilty to four felony counts
related to the leaking of confidential grand jury testimony in
the BALCO sports steroids case to reporters Lance Williams and
Mark Fainaru-Wada in 2004. No date has been set for the guilty
plea.
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Falun Gong loses legal challenge
of San Francisco discrimination
Photo(s) by
Luke Thomas
By Brent Begin, Bay City News Service
February 15, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - A spiritual group banned in China
lost a legal battle to march in San Francisco's Chinese New Year
Parade after a Superior Court judge stuck with a tentative ruling
Wednesday that invalidates their lawsuit.
Members of Falun Gong had been pursuing legal channels to either
force the Chinese Chamber of Commerce to allow them in the annual
parade or to get the city to stop funding the parade with taxpayer
dollars.
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Wolf attorney hopeful of mediation resolution
Attorney Dan Siegel
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Luke Thomas
By Julia Cheever, Bay City News Service
February 14, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - A lawyer for a freelance
San Francisco journalist who has been in prison for more than
five months said today he's hopeful that a federal judge's mediation
order will lead to his client's release.
At the same time, defense attorney Dan Siegel
said videographer Josh Wolf "is not going to change his
position" of refusing to give a federal grand jury a videotape
of a 2005 demonstration in San Francisco.
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San Francisco courtroom cleared
in 1971 cop-killing arraignment
Photo(s) by
Luke Thomas
By Brent Begin, Bay City News Service
February 14, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - A judge cleared
a San Francisco courtroom this morning after the audience cheered
four men accused of conspiracy and murder in a Black Liberation
Army attack on the city's police over 35 years ago.
The onlookers, some in wheelchairs and many walking
with canes, jammed the courtroom and erupted in applause against
Superior Court Judge Donna Alyson Little's orders. Bailiffs
escorted the defiant crowd outside the courtroom where they
began to chant, "No justice, no peace."
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Event:
Nader, activists, to press Pelosi for end to
war
and for accountability to constituents
Ralph Nader
Photo(s) by
Luke Thomas
What: Nader Press Conference & Visit
to Pelosi's Office
When: Thursday, February 15, 2007, 11:00
a.m.
Where: Phillip Burton Federal Building
Plaza, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco
Ralph Nader along with constituents of Speaker
of the House Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's district will hold
a press conference and then visit Pelosi's office. Nader will
be pressing Pelosi to use her position as Speaker to end the
funding for the war. He will also be announcing the formation
of a Pelosi watchdog group.
Details, click
here.
FCJ Quote of the Day
"You know, I hate gay people, so I let it be known.
I don't like gay people and I don't like to be around gay people"
- Tim Hardaway, 2/14/7
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