Judge Wilken has postponed closing arguments in the Bari v. FBI case until Thursday, in order to consider motions to drop defendants Hemje, Conway, and Buck from the case, and to determine jury instructions. The defense would prefer that the jury consider the "mistakes" that "reasonable men could reasonably make" in deciding whether the FBI and OPD violated Bari and Cherney's civil rights. Meanwhile the plaintiffs have filed a motion that the jury be allowed to see the COINTELPRO evidence which had previously been ruled out-of-bounds.

After years of appeals and a campaign of disinformation by the FBI and Oakland Police Department, the lawsuit filed against those agencies by Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney finally opened 4/8 in an Oakland Federal Courthouse. The plaintiffs are suing the FBI and Oakland Police under the 1st, 4th, and 5th amendments for conspiracy, false arrest, unlawful search and seizure, interfering with their right to organize politically, and denying equal protection of the law in allowing the real assassins to go free. See collections of photos, audio, and video as well as daily updates on the Judi Bari v. FBI feature page.