Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 20:36:51 -0800 (PST)
From: { brad brace } <bbrace-AT-ncal.verio.com>
Subject: DAMN: 11-JAN-1999: San Francisco Pie Throwers Go To Trial (fwd)



Title: San Francisco Pie Throwers Go To Trial
Date:  11 January, 1999
Author:  Whispered Media <whisper-AT-jps.net>
Source:  Whispered media <whisper-AT-jps.net> (by way of Jay <jay-AT-tao.ca>)
Style:  Update
Reference: Story, photos, links to video and other news coverage of the
Willie Brown pieing event: DAMN: November 7: BBB pies San Francisco
Mayor at 'Great Sweep' (and other pie-related information)
http://archive.damn.tao.ca/9811/msg00005.html


(San Francisco, January 11, 1999)


PIE TRIAL BEGINS:  DEFENSE MOVES TO DISQUALIFY HALLINAN

The trial of the "Cherry Pie Three" will begin on Monday, January 11,
1999, 9:00 a.m., for the pieing of Mayor Willie Brown.  Outside the
courthouse (at 400 McAllister, where the trial is scheduled to take place
in Department 206) at 11a.m. the Biotic Baking Brigade will hold a press
conference and support rally, and will where the trial is scheduled to
take place serve pie and coffee to homeless San Franciscans.  "Let pie and
justice be served" announced Special Agent Cobbler of the BBB.

The Biotic Baking Brigade pied Willie Brown on November 7 at the kickoff
of his "Great Sweep III" event to expose the event for what it really was,
the start of the "Great Homeless Sweep." Since that day, Brown's "San
Francisco Cares" program has swept homeless San Franciscans from key
tourist and commercial districts. An escalating homeless and housing
crisis left a record 157 homeless people dead on the streets of San
Francisco in the last year. Mayor Brown's response to this rising death
toll has been to continue former Mayor Jordan's "Matrix" program --
harassing and criminalizing the homeless people of San Francisco.

The three defendants, Rahula Janowski, Justin Gross, and Gerard Livernois,
each face one year in jail if convicted. "The aggressive way that Hallinan
is prosecuting this case is unprecedented and clearly politically
motivated," said defense attorney Katya Komisaruk. "The District
Attorney's normal response to protesters is to require them to do
community service in exchange for dropping the charges, but in this case,
Hallinan is seeking serious convictions and jail time." However the BBB is
confident that a jury of San Franciscans would never consign them to jail
for a year, just for pieing Brown.

Defense attorneys have filed a motion a motion to disqualify San Francisco
District Attorney Terrence Hallinan and his office from prosecuting this
case. " Terrence Hallinan's close involvement with Willie Brown makes it
impossible for him to be impartial in this case," said defense attorney
Kim Malcheski. Hallinan's involvement with Brown began thirty five years
ago when he spent two years as Volunteer Coordinator of Youth for Brown,
campaigning for Brown's first bid for State Assembly.

The BBB uses its particular brand of delicious mischief to identify and
hold accountable some of the world's most powerful people. Previous
recipients of these taste wake up calls include Maxxam CEO and Headwaters
liqidator Charles Hurwitz, Neo-liberal economist and former advisor to
Chilean Dictator Pinochet, Milton Friedman, Robert Shapiro, CEO Monsanto,
the folks that brought us Agent Orange, PCBs, and toxic herbicide RoundUp,
and Renato Ruggiero, Director General of the World Trade Organization.

###

For Immediate Release January 8,1999 Contact: Kim Malcheski (415) 267-5976


PIE THROWERS MOVE TO DISQUALIFY DISTRICT ATTORNEY

San Francisco -- Attorneys for the Cherry Pie Three, charged with the
November 7, 1998 pieing of San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, have filed a
motion to disqualify District Attorney Terence Hallinan - and his entire
office - from prosecuting their case.  This is based on Hallinan's
political ties to Brown.

Terence Hallinan has had a close personal and political relationship with
Willie Brown for 35 years. This relationship began when Hallinan was the
volunteer coordinator for "Youth For Assemblyman Brown" during Brown's
first run for State Assembly of California in 1964.  Brown, who is the
alleged victim in this case, has endorsed Hallinan For District Attorney
and was recently the star speaker at a fund-raiser for Hallinan.

Hallinan has succumbed to political pressure in calling for jail time for
the pie throwers who engaged in an act of political theater. Hallinan has
forced the Cherry Pie Three to go to trial, at great cost to the tax
payers of San Francisco, when they are more than willing to do community
service.  They have offered several times to serve hundreds of free pies
to San Francisco's homeless and hungry people.

Just as in the recent Tran case, which Hallinan and his office were
disqualified from prosecuting, Hallinan has allowed his personal
relationship with Willie Brown to cloud his judgment, leading to
over-aggressive prosecution. The Biotic Baking Brigade and their attorneys
call upon Hallinan to allow the pie throwers to perform community service,
like thousands of other arrested political activists have in San Francisco
in the past.

Copies of the motion, filed on Wednesday, January 6, will be available at
the BBB press conference at the new civil courthouse, 400 MacAllister
Street, on Monday, January 11, at 11:00 am. Attorneys will also be
available for questions.


For more information on the Biotic Baking Brigade, including previous BBB
press releases and communiques, e-mail bbb_apple-AT-hotmail.com

For information on political pie-throwing, consult the following:
http://www.cinenet.net/users/jaybab/noel.html
                Website of Belgian pieman Noel Godin, Links to Bill
Gates Pie Incident
http://www.pieman.org
                Comprehensive History of American Pie-slinging
http://www.bud.com/98/07/tkles/24.aldeck.pie/
                Describes the Hurwitz Pie Incident
http://www.sfweekly.com/archives/1998/102198/bayview2.html
                Describes the Friedman Pie Incident
http://www.ens-news.com/ens/oct98/1998-10-28-05.html
                Describes the Shapiro Pie Incident
http://www.undercurrents.org
                Photos of the Ruggiero Pie Incident

Contact:
Whispered Media
PO Box 40130
San Francisco, CA  94140
whisper-AT-jps.net

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