-- At 08:49 AM 12/17/2000 -0500, John Young wrote:
According to the court docket, Jim Bell was arraigned on Nov 29 and pled not guilty to two charges of nterstate stalking.
A jury trial is set to begin on Jan 22, 2001. Pretrial motions cutoff is Dec 20. Jim remanded.
Entries on Dec 11 show something is up: a motion was made for a Dec 22 closed hearing on the topic of defense counsel, and Jim has sent a letter to the judge, re: counsel."
In politically sensitive cases, government likes to choose the council, and frequently chooses council that makes the defendant extremely unhappy. Probably Jim Bell is broke, but he has not been soliciting assistance for his council --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG i6LIpurz+lmqKE2ZaPdnR1CeMBS2wzpnNUmMLZMk 4+HBUQif8SGqFY207ZitYJ7c9RNEtaCnYmPBdoWmZ