FBI on Trial: Bari Jury Deliberations Continue Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit The Judi Bari Website URL: http://www.monitor.net/~bari/#Jury Jury Watch Update updated 5/24/02 at 7:30 PM JURY DELIBERATION WILL CONTINUE INTO 8TH WEEK OF TRIAL Friday, May 24 -- The jury ended their sixth day of deliberations today at 1:30 p.m. without reaching a verdict. Jurors left the courthouse while the Judi Bari Day rally was in progress outside. They will resume deliberations Tuesday, May 28, from 8:30 a.m to 3 p.m. That day will begin with an open court session to deal with the FBI's motion filed today to dismiss the suit. FBI FILES MOTION TO DISMISS SUIT, DISCIPLINE ATTORNEYS FOR RALLY SPEECH Friday, May 24 -- In apparent desperation at their losing situation in the case, less than two hours after our annual bombing anniversary rally ended, the FBI lawyers filed a motion asking the court to dismiss our suit with prejudice (meaning it could not be re-filed) and discipline our legal team "for gross misconduct affecting the jury." The FBI motion said jurors left the courthouse just as Tony Serra, using a P.A. system "loudly exclaimed that the assembled crowd ought to 'say a prayer for the jury' so that they would be 'objective' in their deliberations, and also noted that the evidence at trial indicated a deliberate plan by the FBI and the OPD to violate the plaintiffs' constitutional rights. Several jurors slowed and listened to Mr. Serra's presentation." The FBI motion continues: "Plaintiffs' counsel's actions were not accidental, and amount to an effort to influence the jury during their deliberations." KPFA News reporter Bob Stern said he watched the jurors leaving the courthouse, and that they did not slow and listen but promptly left the area as they had been instructed by the judge. There is a back exit on the opposite side of the courthouse from the rally site. HUNDREDS ATTEND "FIDDLE DOWN THE FBI" RALLY Several hundred people gathered for the annual noon rally in the courtyard of the Oakland Federal Building today marking the 12th anniversary of the car-bombing of Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney. It was also a celebration of the first annual Judi Bari Day, honoring the late environmental, labor and social justice organizer. This year's rally also celebrated the end of seven weeks of trial in Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney's landmark federal civil rights suit against the FBI. Members of our legal team spoke, including Dennis Cunningham, Tony Serra, Bob Bloom, Bill Simpich, Ben Rosenfeld and Alicia Littletree. Folksinger Utah Phillips and fiddler Morgan Fichter hosted the "Fiddle Down the FBI," which refers to the FBI seizing Judi's childhood fiddle as evidence and never giving it back. ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytenv-05.27.02-04:42:55-14966