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DESCRIPTION:This is a court hearing to determine if Ed Frey should be immediately 
 returned to jail or allowed to appeal further.\n\nSupporters are encouraged 
 to attend.  Letters to the Sentinel, Good Times, SC Patch, San Jose Mercury 
 News, etc. are welcome as well. \n\nAttorney Ed Frey (pronounced "Fry") 
 faces a six month jail term tomorrow as his appeal of the 647e conviction 
 was refused by the District Court of Appeals.\n\nPC 647e is the catch-all 
 "anti-lodging" law used to frighten and shut down peaceful protests at 
 public buildings such as the Occupy movement here and elsewhere.  \n\nFrey 
 was an early victim of this law for initiating, sustaining, and defending 
 PeaceCamp2010 summer before last.  \n\nConvicted in the court of John "Grim 
 Gavel" Gallagher last year, he was held in contempt for wearing informal 
 clothing in solidarity with his client, "Ground Zero" Gary Johnson,''  That 
 issue was subsequently resolved through an explanation and apology. 
 \n\nJohnson was also convicted of "falling asleep" (with a protest sign) 
 outside the County Building to protest the laws against homeless people 
 sleeping at night.  Johnson will appear before Gallagher on August 24 at 
 8:30 AM to face the same sentence.\n\nGallagher is accused of manipulative 
 and contradictory rulings that prejudiced the defense in last year's trial 
 (refusing to define the term "lodging" which both were accused of doing for 
 being asleep at a protest during the trial and then suddenly defining it as 
 "including sleeping" when it went to the jury).  \n\nThe jury also had no 
 knowledge that the two men faced 6 months in jail and 400 hours of 
 community service for a peaceful protest.\n\nAfter serving several weeks in 
 jail for the sentence, both men were temporarily released on appeal.  
 Attorney Peter Leeming advised the grudge-burdened judge that the $50,000 
 bail he'd set was considerably higher than that suggested by the bail 
 schedule: under $200.\n\nA story on an early stage of the appeal:  
 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/06/05/18714834.php\n\nFrey hopes to 
 gather enough prestigious legal "friend-of-the-court" support to persuade 
 Gallagher to hold off on re-jailing him until he can file a habeas corpus 
 brief with the California Supreme Court.  He discusses this on air at 
 http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb120722.mp3  (about 4 hours and 45 minutes 
 into the audio file).\n\nPrevious legal papers in the case can be found at 
 Frey's website: www.fullspectrumdemocracy.org \n\nActivist Becky Johnson 
 (herself facing 7 years in prison for being present at an Occupy Santa Cruz 
 peaceful protest) has written about this latest hearing:  
 http://www.beckyjohnsononewomantalking.blogspot.com/2012/07/six-months-in-jail-for-sleeping-is-this.html 
 \n\nThe history of the historic PeaceCamp2010 protest can be found at 
 http://www.peacecamp2010.blogspot.com/ .\n\nGary Johnson, Frey's 
 co-defendant and client, who faces 2 1/2 years in jail, has a blog 
 athttp://peacecamp2010insider.blog spot.com/ .\n\nEd Frey has acted as 
 counsel for Occupy Santa Cruz and provided legal aid and comfort.  \n\nThe 
 recent history of OSC--which has faced the same 647e charges as Frey is 
 documented in a recent set of videos by documentarian and community 
 activist Brent Adams (who also faces 7 years in prison as one of the  Santa 
 Cruz Eleven):  http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/07/17/18717690.php 
 \n\nLinda Lemaster, who faces a jury trial in October for 647e charges at 
 the same protest as Ed Frey and Gary Johnson has written about the issue.  
 Her latest story is at 
 http://hearthbylinda.blogspot.com/2012/07/lemaster-lodging-trial-date-set-october.html\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/07/23/18718074.php
SUMMARY:Jailing an Attorney for Six Months for Providing Support to Homeless Sleepers
LOCATION:701 Ocean St.  County Courthouse,  Dept.2
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/07/23/18718074.php
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