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To: LindyBill who wrote (199460)	3/17/2007 6:57:26 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793958

Good. These deputies went way over the line trying to serve civil papers. I hope they got their asses kicked bad. heraldtribune.com Homeowner had 'a right to resist' Judge acquits John Coffin on 5 felony charges; Coffin gets time served on 6th. By TODD RUGER todd.ruger@heraldtribune.com SARASOTA -- John Coffin won't spend any more time in jail for beating up two sheriff's deputies inside his house, striking one in the head with a Taser gun he took from the other. Circuit Judge Rick De Furia said at Coffin's trial Tuesday that he doesn't condone the violence against the deputies. But Coffin, 56, had a right to defend his family and property because the deputies had no right to be in Coffin's house in the first place, De Furia said. "Law enforcement was responsible for the chain of events here," De Furia said. "I think in situations like this, officers become so frustrated they go beyond what the law allows them to do." The fight started when Coffin heard his wife screaming in pain, went into the garage and saw two deputies arresting her on the floor. The deputies were trying to serve Coffin with civil papers that had been given five days earlier. They had entered the garage even though they did not have a search warrant or arrest warrant. And they arrested Coffin's wife, Cynthia, 50, on obstruction charges even though she had no obligation to follow their orders to bring her husband outside. "The most critical is the fact the officers broke the law by stopping the garage door from going down," and then entering the garage, De Furia said. A jury was picked for the trial Monday. But the judge granted a motion by Coffin's attorneys, Derek Byrd and Brett McIntosh, and acquitted John Coffin on five of six felony charges Tuesday morning. Coffin pleaded no contest to the remaining charge of taking a Taser gun from one of the deputies during the fight. Before handing down the sentence, De Furia asked how long Coffin spent in jail after his initial arrest. "You spent eight days in the Sarasota County jail," De Furia said. "That's your sentence. No probation." Relatives applauded, and Coffin walked out of the courthouse with only a $358 bill for court costs. The sentence surprised even defense attorneys, who had suggested De Furia sentence Coffin to probation. Prosecutors had asked for more than a year of prison time because of "the totality of the case" and the injuries to deputies James Lutz and Stacy Ferris, whose name is now Stacy Brandau. The two deputies testified about their injuries Tuesday -- three blows to the head with the butt of the Taser gun knocked Lutz unconscious. "I just ask that he doesn't get away with this," Brandau told the judge. Assistant State Attorney Jeff Young told the judge the case "could have been over in five seconds" if the Coffins "had simply come out and cooperated." "That is a man who took it upon himself to beat up two police officers," Young said. De Furia said that while he believed the deputies' mistakes were not intentional, the Coffins had every right to lock doors, try to close their garage door and not cooperate. "What took place in the house was unfortunate," De Furia said, "but Mr. Coffin ... had a right to resist." Last modified: March 14. 2007 5:36AM

To: LindyBill who wrote (199460)	3/17/2007 8:42:47 AM
From: unclewest	Respond to of 793958

Everybody is guessing. That is not accurate. Strategy Page is guessing.

To: LindyBill who wrote (199460)	3/17/2007 8:50:34 AM
From: unclewest	Respond to of 793958

The first says they have got sick or dead from the commercial stuff transported. The second says there is no evidence that the Military Russian stuff has be stolen. I served a year as the deputy NAICO (Nuclear accident incident control officer) for the southwest US). Commercial transport of nuclear material has always followed strict guidelines even in Russia. Believe me we had plenty of folks around the USSR as it was breaking up and I never saw a single report of any radiation sickness in legal transport workers. That paragraph was referring to dirty bombs. That is terrorist related stuff and illegal transport. I have seen the reports of those workers getting sick from the radiation. This is what Strategy Page reported... As for dirty bombs, it's dangerous transporting nuclear material, and several couriers of that stuff have ended up dead, or very, very sick.

To: LindyBill who wrote (199460)	3/17/2007 8:55:59 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

The second says there is no evidence that the Military Russian stuff has be stolen. I understand strategy page reported that. And that is BS too. Read the below report. I have dozens more similar links. It is from research I did during and after writing my book.... the U.S. intelligence community confirmed to Congress that “weapons-grade and weapons-usable nuclear materials have been stolen from some Russian institutes. We assess that undetected smuggling has occurred, although we do not know the extent or magnitude of such thefts.”3 According to Viktor Yerastov, who heads the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy’s Nuclear Materials Accounting and Control Department, “quite sufficient material to produce an atomic bomb” was stolen from the Chelyabinsk region in 1998. armscontrol.org