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Journalist Cleared of All Charges!
Posted by FoM on June 21, 1999 at 14:36:27 PT
Brady was victorious!
Source: The Kubby Files
CHICO, CA Pete Brady, the High Times journalist who was arrested after interviewing Steve Kubby, refused to give into intense pressure from police and won his freedom.
Brady was victorious, even though he was forced to act as his own attorney after his public defender told him his case was hopeless. According to a news report published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, all charges have been dropped by the Butte County District Attorney.  Brady's visit to the Kubbys triggered a SWAT raid after Placer County deputies, peering through windows, thought they saw Brady buying pot from Kubby. Deputies claim a license check on Brady's van showed him to be a Jamaican drug smuggler. Although Brady hardly looks Jamaican, nor has he even been to Jamaica, this was considered probable cause to arrest the journalist and the Kubbys. After he had been arrested, Brady was told by police that unless he could provide incriminating information on the Kubbys, Brady would be going to prison for a "long, long time." Although shaken by the encounter, Brady stood up for his First Amendment rights as a journalist and refused to be intimidated by the police. Brady then went on to write several published accounts of his raid telling his readers, "The main purpose of my arrest was to pressure me into implicating Kubby in an alleged conspiracy. But the candidate and I engaged in no criminal activity, unless journalism itself is a crime."  Once Brady had a chance to appear before a judge, he explained what happened and showed the court that he had published two articles about his interview with Steve Kubby Brady showed he had engaged in lawful First Amendment activity and was simply trimming Kubby's legal medical marijuana plants for pictures which were published in Cannabis Culture magazine. All charges were dropped.According to a news report published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, all charges have been dropped by the Butte County District Attorney. http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n603.a05.htmlInterview With Steve Kubby:http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n609.a01.htmlCannabis Culture Magazine:http://www.cannabisculture.com/
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