[SpamCop-Social] Re: Girls who delivered cookies will not have to pay fines

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"Frog Prince" <devnull at spamcop.net> wrote in
news:cud82a$fl4$1 at news.spamcop.net: 

>| And none of those reporters were in the courtroom for the trial.
>| Newspapers don't send reporters to cover small-claims cases. Those
>| stories are one-sided--the judge can't talk, the plaintiff isn't
>| talking. It's all from the girls' and their parents' points of view.
> 
> There is no court record?  In every SCC I've been involved with there
> is at least a tape of the proceedings that is public record.  As to te
> plaintiff not talking is she under a gag order?

it is standard practice in Colorado small claims for the judge to ask the 
parties if they are willing to waive the keeping of a record.  That 
precludes appeal. I was strictly warned by an attorney once never to waive 
the keeping of a record. however, these girls may have been naive enough to 
not anticipate that the judge was as nutty as the plaintiff.

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