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September 17, 2010

Appeals Court Overturns Conviction of Environmental Activist
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And a federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of an
environmental activist for her alleged role in a 2001 arson at the
University of Washington. Briana Waters was sentenced to six years in
prison and ordered to pay $6 million in restitution in March 2008. But
this week a three-judge panel of the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals
ruled the judge in the case had made numerous errors that undermined
Waters’s right to a fair trial. Waters’s attorney has asked for her
release on bail ahead of her new trial.



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