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<H1><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Lewiston Tribune,
March 22, 2012</FONT></FONT></H1>
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face=Verdana><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Foes of megaloads face the music
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">By David Johnson of the Tribune | Posted: Thursday,
March 22, 2012 12:00 am </FONT></FONT></STRONG></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">MOSCOW - The last
megaloads have reportedly passed through downtown here, leaving behind 11
misdemeanor court cases against people who protested shipment of infrastructure
equipment to Canadian oil fields.</FONT></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">Last to plead innocent to
two allegations was Helen Yost, 54, of Moscow. Yost, spokeswoman for Wild Idaho
Rising Tide and an organizer of the months-long protests, appeared in Latah
County Court here Wednesday morning.</FONT></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">She is charged with two
misdemeanors for allegedly throwing a sign at a megaload and attempted battery
of a Moscow police officer. She and two other demonstrators, Cass Davis, 47, and
James Prall, 67, both of Moscow, have pretrial conferences set for April 3,
according to court records.</FONT></FONT></P></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">Davis and Prall were
arrested March 4 during a protest and charged with resisting, or obstructing
police for allegedly refusing to stay out of the roadway when oversize loads
were moving through town on Washington Street. Yost received citations for her
actions two nights later, after she publicly admitted that she threw a sign and
"air-kicked the transports and their police escorts out of
town."</FONT></FONT></P></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">Davis and Prall are
represented by Dana M. Johnson of Idaho Legal Aid Service Inc., and the Northern
Rockies Justice Center. Latah County Public Defender Charles Kovis has been
assigned to represent Yost.</FONT></FONT></P></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">It remains unclear
whether any of the three cases are destined for trial. Yost said a test case,
during which the issue of continued oil consumption could be aired, might be a
goal of the demonstrators.</FONT></FONT></P></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">Eight other Moscow
residents who were arrested and charged in connection with the protests pleaded
guilty to reduced charges and paid fines, according to court records. They
include Mitchell Day, 40, Gregory Freistadt, 27, William A. French, 55, Brett
Haverstick, 38, Zachary Johnson, 33, Aaron Malgren, 23, Vincent Murray, 62, and
David Willard, 53.</FONT></FONT></P></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">Malgren and Johnson were
arrested Oct. 6 and charged with resisting or delaying officers by riding their
bicycles on the roadway. They pleaded guilty to reduced charges of failure to
yield to an emergency vehicle and were fined $56.50, according to court
records.</FONT></FONT></P></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">Day, Freistadt,
Haverstick, Murray and Willard were initially charged with disturbing the peace
and refusing to obey police orders to disperse on Aug. 26, when a number of
protesters sat down, joined arms and attempted to stop passage of the megaloads
through town. They all pleaded guilty to reduced charges of failure to comply
with a police officer's traffic directions and were fined $240, according to
court records.</FONT></FONT></P></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">French pleaded guilty to
a reduced charge of failure to obey a police order and entered a no-contest plea
to a charge of malicious injury to property. In addition to joining attempts to
block passage of the megaloads in the streets, French was charged with kicking
the window out of a police van after being arrested, according to records. He
was ordered to pay a total of $1,039 in fines and restitution, according to
records. He was granted a withheld judgment, given a suspended jail sentence of
30 days and placed on unsupervised probation until May, 3, 2012, according to
records.</FONT></FONT></P></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">The ExxonMobil megaloads,
through subsidiary Imperial Oil, continue to be transported via several routes
to the Kearl oil sands in Alberta, Canada.</FONT></FONT></P></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">Johnson may be contacted
at </FONT></FONT></EM><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt"><A
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face="Times New Roman">djohnson@lmtribune.com</FONT></FONT></A></FONT><EM><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt"> or (208)
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