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alledan
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Berkeley, California-AP -- How about some sugar and cream with that coffee? Or maybe you'd like some "P-C" coffee instead?
Some folks in Berkeley, California, are calling for only "politically correct coffee" to be sold inside the city limits.
Attorney Rick Young has turned in three-thousand signatures at City Hall. They support an initiative allowing coffee brewed for sale to be made only from organic, shade-grown or Fair Trade certified beans.
To qualify the measure for the November ballot, just over two-thousand of those signatures must be valid.
If the measure makes it to the ballot and is approved -- retailers will have three months to comply. Violators could be punished by up to six months in jail and a 100-dollar fine.
Never ask why but only the value of.
Some folks in Berkeley, California, are calling for only "politically correct coffee" to be sold inside the city limits.
Attorney Rick Young has turned in three-thousand signatures at City Hall. They support an initiative allowing coffee brewed for sale to be made only from organic, shade-grown or Fair Trade certified beans.
To qualify the measure for the November ballot, just over two-thousand of those signatures must be valid.
If the measure makes it to the ballot and is approved -- retailers will have three months to comply. Violators could be punished by up to six months in jail and a 100-dollar fine.
Never ask why but only the value of.
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Judge Allegedly Pulled a Gun on Her Roommate
Santa Barbara County jurist was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving after
leaving her home following dispute with domestic partner.
By William Overend
Times Staff Writer
January 4 2003
A Santa Barbara County judge has been arrested on suspicion of drunk driving and
could face additional charges after allegedly brandishing a pistol during an
argument with her roommate at their house near Solvang, officials said Friday.
Superior Court Judge Diana R. Hall, assigned to the county's Lompoc courthouse,
was arrested Dec. 21 after sheriff's deputies received an emergency call from
her domestic partner, Deidra Dykeman, officials said.
Sgt. Phil Willis, a Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department spokesman, said
laboratory tests Thursday showed that Hall's blood-alcohol content was .18 at
the time of her arrest, more than twice California's legal limit of .08. She was
arrested at gunpoint and handcuffed, Willis said. After being held for four
hours at the department's Santa Ynez Valley station, she was released to her
attorney, he said.
Assistant Dist. Atty. Christie Stanley said Friday that the laboratory tests
support a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol. Whether any
additional charges are filed will depend on completion of an investigation that
is still underway, she said. Arraignment is set for Jan. 22.
Hall, 52, was appointed a Municipal Court judge in 1990 and was elevated to the
Superior Court in 1998 when the two judicial systems were consolidated. She
previously had served as a prosecutor in Shasta County for three years and as a
deputy district attorney in Santa Barbara County for a decade.
According to court documents, Hall and Dykeman bought their Santa Ynez Valley
home together and had been in a domestic partner relationship for about four
years.
An application for a restraining order, sought by Dykeman to prevent the judge
from returning to the house, said the two got into an argument during which Hall
allegedly grabbed a .38-caliber handgun from a bedroom drawer and threatened to
shoot one of the couple's two dogs.
Dykeman said Hall also broke a telephone when she first tried calling 911,
pulled her hair and tried to follow her into their garage as she fled from the
judge. Dykeman then ran from the house and Hall drove away a short time later,
according to the restaining order request. The judge did not take the gun with
her in the car, officials said.
Santa Barbara attorney William Gamble, who is representing Hall, said Friday
that Hall is distraught over the situation and prepared to plead guilty to drunk
driving to put a quick end to the issue. If additional charges are filed, she
will contest them, he said.
"Judge Hall's 52 and she's never done anything wrong in her life," Gamble said.
"She doesn't remember threatening to shoot one of the dogs, and she absolutely
wouldn't have done something like that. She is a very gentle person. I think she
has the gun for self-protection."
Gamble said that Hall has no record of alcohol-related trouble or legal problems
of any kind. He said she had been feeling a lot of pressure in recent months
because defense lawyers in the Lompoc area viewed her as too tough. "She is very
strait-laced," he said.
If prosecutors decide to file only a drunk driving charge, Gamble said, a
typical first-offense sentence in Santa Barbara County would be a fine of about
$1,500, referral to a driving under the influence school and probation of up to
three years. Pending resolution of the case, he said, the judge has been
transferred from criminal work in Lompoc to civil duties in Santa Maria.
Hall was reelected to her position last year with 86% of the vote after a
challenge from Santa Barbara County prosecutor Charles Biely, whose campaign to
unseat her collapsed after the discovery of pornography on his workplace
computer. Biely resigned from the district attorney's office and officially
withdrew as a candidate, but could not get his name off the ballot.
At the time, Hall criticized Biely for embarassing the courts, commenting: "It's
things like this that makes the public lose faith in the criminal justice
system."
quote:received an emergency call from
her domestic partner, Deidra Dykeman
quote:"She is very
strait-laced," he said.
strait-laced???????
Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem.Semper Fidelis
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
The more I hear about that state the more I DON'T ever want to visit!!
PC coffee? What will they think of next?
Gun Control Disarms Victims, NOT Criminals
muley
**I love the smell of Hoppes #9 in the morning**
I can't understand why such a beautiful place can harbor such sh#tty people.
Never ask why but only the value of.
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
That is the biggest load of pig crap I have ever heard. P-C coffee...
Death to Tyrants!!!
-Gunphreak
This may be a constitutional matter dealing with "free interprise"!
Get rid of the university of california at berkely and a lot of bull will stop-JMHO
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
lets all be responsible! shoot a criminal! Remember 0% of firearms pull there own trigger!
**I love the smell of Hoppes #9 in the morning**
I think diffusion across a semi-permable menbrane would be a more likely explaination for the spread of Adam Henrys.
"If you ain't got pictures, I wasn't there."
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
**I love the smell of Hoppes #9 in the morning**