Friday, July 30, 2010

Weyhrauch Hearing Vacates September Trial Date

U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska
Court Calendar for Friday, July 30, 2010
8:00 AM 3:07-cr-00056-02-JWS Judge Sedwick ANCHORAGE COURTROOM 3
USA vs. BRUCE WEYHRAUCH*
(Karen Loeffler) (Douglas Pope)
(Kevin Feldis) (Ray R. Brown)
(James M. Trusty)
(Kevin R. Gingras)
(M. Kendall Day
(Marc Elliot Levin)



(Peter M. Koski)
STATUS CONFERENCE

8:02 am 

Opened.

Judge Sedwick:  Has SC mandate been issued?  When due?  What do you think 9th circuit to rule?

Kendall Day (Prosecutor):  [Began explaining the issues and was interrupted by Judge
Sedwick, "I just asked if you knew when, not the issues.  And Day said he didn't know.]

Douglas Pope (Weyhrauch's attorney):  A couple of months, minimum.  Who knows but 2 months minimum and then there could be a petition for rehearing.

Sedwick:  I think minimum of 6 weeks, plus. . .  I don't know that we can meet in September.  Not worth meeting until 9th Circuit rules.


Day:  The court will be  able to proceed more expeditiously if some of the ancillary issues are resolved before.

Sedwick:  I'm sure you can work things out beforehand.  My order for this morning is Sept. 13th date is vacated and will set a date as soon as possible.



The courtroom was pretty much empty.  There were three other media folks, Rick Smith's attorney (or so I was told but I didn't recognize him), and then a man and a woman who turned out to be FBI agents who sat with the Prosecutor.  I was trying to match the names on the court list - I knew Karen Loefler wasn't there - with the people at the Prosecutor's table and couldn't.  So after I went up to the man and woman who'd been sitting with the prosecutor and introduced myself as a blogger and asked who they each were.  The man responded with mild derision in his voice, "I'm not telling a blogger who I am.  Ask the attorney."

I introduced myself to the attorney who identified himself, very politely, as Kendall Day and the other two as FBI agents.  I normally wouldn't put this sort of trivia down. On the surface, it wasn't a big deal, but it seems to me that FBI agents should treat people politely, as individuals not as members of a class, until they have justification to act otherwise.

Maybe we should create a new term here:  media profiling. 

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