SF8 - Court Update Thursday, June 21

A very brief hearing was held Thursday morning in the case of the SF
8. What is at issue are documents filed by the prosecution that
contain statements that are prejudicial to defense arguments to lower
bail. Some of these various documents are under court seal already
and others are being asked to be sealed because they are highly
challengeable and inaccurate and may not be admissible later as
evidence. The sealing of documents also precludes public access
through searching court records.

All issues to date have been taken under advisement by Judge Moscone.
He has yet to make any decisions on any issues of substance. The
judge is also going on vacation and the next court date was set for
Monday, August 6 at 9 am in the San Francisco Courthouse. This is a
major delay in attempting to set an attainable bail for some of these
brothers.

Some of Judge Moscone's comments indicate that the case may be heard
in Department 23, the judge's normal courtroom, rather than
Department 21 - the high security courtroom where all of this week's
proceedings were held.

Court shackling issues will also be scheduled for early August.

When asked, the judge did have Sherrifs partially unshackle the
brothers so they could take notes during proceedings. Moscone
indicated that they had rights to more room in which to work with
their attorneys. If this is any indication of the judge's attitude,
courtroom conditions could well improve instead of the current waist
chains, hands cuffed to waist chains and legs cuffed to leg chains.
The current conditions are the prosecutor's dream.

The first matters to be taken up in August are the continued bail
reduction testimony and motions for Ray Boudreaux and Richard O'Neal.

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