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<nettime> DAMN: 11-JAN-1999: San Francisco Pie Throwers Go To Trial |
Title: San Francisco Pie Throwers Go To Trial Date: 11 January, 1999 Author: Whispered Media <whisper@jps.net> Source: Whispered media <whisper@jps.net> (by way of Jay <jay@tao.ca>) Style: Update Reference: Story, photos, links to video and other news coverage of the Willie Brown pieing event: DAMN: November 7: BBB pies San Francisco Mayor at 'Great Sweep' (and other pie-related information) http://archive.damn.tao.ca/9811/msg00005.html (San Francisco, January 11, 1999) PIE TRIAL BEGINS: DEFENSE MOVES TO DISQUALIFY HALLINAN The trial of the "Cherry Pie Three" will begin on Monday, January 11, 1999, 9:00 a.m., for the pieing of Mayor Willie Brown. Outside the courthouse (at 400 McAllister, where the trial is scheduled to take place in Department 206) at 11a.m. the Biotic Baking Brigade will hold a press conference and support rally, and will where the trial is scheduled to take place serve pie and coffee to homeless San Franciscans. "Let pie and justice be served" announced Special Agent Cobbler of the BBB. The Biotic Baking Brigade pied Willie Brown on November 7 at the kickoff of his "Great Sweep III" event to expose the event for what it really was, the start of the "Great Homeless Sweep." Since that day, Brown's "San Francisco Cares" program has swept homeless San Franciscans from key tourist and commercial districts. An escalating homeless and housing crisis left a record 157 homeless people dead on the streets of San Francisco in the last year. Mayor Brown's response to this rising death toll has been to continue former Mayor Jordan's "Matrix" program -- harassing and criminalizing the homeless people of San Francisco. The three defendants, Rahula Janowski, Justin Gross, and Gerard Livernois, each face one year in jail if convicted. "The aggressive way that Hallinan is prosecuting this case is unprecedented and clearly politically motivated," said defense attorney Katya Komisaruk. "The District Attorney's normal response to protesters is to require them to do community service in exchange for dropping the charges, but in this case, Hallinan is seeking serious convictions and jail time." However the BBB is confident that a jury of San Franciscans would never consign them to jail for a year, just for pieing Brown. Defense attorneys have filed a motion a motion to disqualify San Francisco District Attorney Terrence Hallinan and his office from prosecuting this case. " Terrence Hallinan's close involvement with Willie Brown makes it impossible for him to be impartial in this case," said defense attorney Kim Malcheski. Hallinan's involvement with Brown began thirty five years ago when he spent two years as Volunteer Coordinator of Youth for Brown, campaigning for Brown's first bid for State Assembly. The BBB uses its particular brand of delicious mischief to identify and hold accountable some of the world's most powerful people. Previous recipients of these taste wake up calls include Maxxam CEO and Headwaters liqidator Charles Hurwitz, Neo-liberal economist and former advisor to Chilean Dictator Pinochet, Milton Friedman, Robert Shapiro, CEO Monsanto, the folks that brought us Agent Orange, PCBs, and toxic herbicide RoundUp, and Renato Ruggiero, Director General of the World Trade Organization. ### For Immediate Release January 8,1999 Contact: Kim Malcheski (415) 267-5976 PIE THROWERS MOVE TO DISQUALIFY DISTRICT ATTORNEY San Francisco -- Attorneys for the Cherry Pie Three, charged with the November 7, 1998 pieing of San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, have filed a motion to disqualify District Attorney Terence Hallinan - and his entire office - from prosecuting their case. This is based on Hallinan's political ties to Brown. Terence Hallinan has had a close personal and political relationship with Willie Brown for 35 years. This relationship began when Hallinan was the volunteer coordinator for "Youth For Assemblyman Brown" during Brown's first run for State Assembly of California in 1964. Brown, who is the alleged victim in this case, has endorsed Hallinan For District Attorney and was recently the star speaker at a fund-raiser for Hallinan. Hallinan has succumbed to political pressure in calling for jail time for the pie throwers who engaged in an act of political theater. Hallinan has forced the Cherry Pie Three to go to trial, at great cost to the tax payers of San Francisco, when they are more than willing to do community service. They have offered several times to serve hundreds of free pies to San Francisco's homeless and hungry people. Just as in the recent Tran case, which Hallinan and his office were disqualified from prosecuting, Hallinan has allowed his personal relationship with Willie Brown to cloud his judgment, leading to over-aggressive prosecution. The Biotic Baking Brigade and their attorneys call upon Hallinan to allow the pie throwers to perform community service, like thousands of other arrested political activists have in San Francisco in the past. Copies of the motion, filed on Wednesday, January 6, will be available at the BBB press conference at the new civil courthouse, 400 MacAllister Street, on Monday, January 11, at 11:00 am. Attorneys will also be available for questions. For more information on the Biotic Baking Brigade, including previous BBB press releases and communiques, e-mail bbb_apple@hotmail.com For information on political pie-throwing, consult the following: http://www.cinenet.net/users/jaybab/noel.html Website of Belgian pieman Noel Godin, Links to Bill Gates Pie Incident http://www.pieman.org Comprehensive History of American Pie-slinging http://www.bud.com/98/07/tkles/24.aldeck.pie/ Describes the Hurwitz Pie Incident http://www.sfweekly.com/archives/1998/102198/bayview2.html Describes the Friedman Pie Incident http://www.ens-news.com/ens/oct98/1998-10-28-05.html Describes the Shapiro Pie Incident http://www.undercurrents.org Photos of the Ruggiero Pie Incident Contact: Whispered Media PO Box 40130 San Francisco, CA 94140 whisper@jps.net This is the DAMN News Email list http://damn.tao.ca To unsubscribe, send an email to majordomo@tao.ca Asking to: unsubscribe damn ***DAMN DISCLAIMER - IMPORTANT PLEASE NOTE*** DAMN receives many unsolicited reports and tries but can not verify all information contained within. 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