Report from the Hemet front. My lawyer was a bit busy this morning, so I was out running errands for him. One of the errands was to pick up a tape from the DA's of what the "victims" had said to Tony Greer I popped into the DA's office right across the street from the court. The poor front office people were not the least bit happy to see me. Sandra Burges (She would only give me her first name, but had a name plate on top of her credenza in full view) argued with me (sounding really stressed) that it was policy that they could only give these tapes to an attorney and not a defendant. I told her I was his agent today, and could they give it to an agent? No. Ok, what would they do if I were in pro se? That stopped her for a second, and she said in that case the DA would have to give me the tape. There was a lawyer from San Diego who was getting a tape himself watching these exchanges in amazement. I put him on the phone with Jim Harr and he offered to take the tape and give it to Jim Harr because Jim's office was on his way back to San Diego. No dice. But they would let me pay for it. While Vera Passa was filling out the receipt, I collected the names of the three women in the front. Gina Walters had the right cube, Vera had the left, and Sandra Berges was behind Gina. Just after I collected the names all three women they turned their nameplates over on their faces. Now if someone webs this little report, these folks can ego surf and find their names. <Grin> See, being on the net is not so painful. If the DA were to take a fall, it is not likely for you to get caught in the gears. This happened a little before noon. Just after noon Jim's secretary.. Assistant (I don't know what term is politically correct lately) came over to pick the tape up for Jim. In spite of the tape being right next to the window and all they had to do was hand it to her, they sent her away because the office was closed. Later she went back and got the tape. This evening I listened to 2/5ths (so far). It confirms my viewpoint of the purpose of the whole exercise. I won't go into more details right now, but you who have been following know exactly what I mean. These people *definitely* don't have their TR's in. If the tape get's played in court I am going to have to leave because there is no way I could keep a straight face while these people ramble about free floating fears from ICBMs to grenades. After the serious defeat Tuesday where we lost an attempt to get Frank Oliver in as an expert witness and his qualifications made part of the court's record, Jim and I had a strategy session. We wanted this stuff in as part of the appeal record (should things go that badly) and it seemed a really good idea to educate the judge about some of the nasty non-religious aspects of the cult. We could have done the record preserving with a less complicated mechanism called an offer of proof. But instead, we made it into a motion to reconsider with a declaration from Frank about having been in the court during the Clearwater 13 trial and heard one of their security people define me (and the rest of us) as "enemy" and "suppressive persons" and attached Franks qualifications to the motion as an exhibit. If the motion is rejected by the judge in the morning as a motion, we could still make it part of the record by asking for it to be filed for the appeal record as an offer of proof. We hadn't covered all possibilities though because the judge could reject our offer of proof, though this is something not commonly done. (And the clams could also prevent it from being part of the record by getting the DA to drop the case before court opens in the morning.) Talking to Graham later in the evening, he told us how we can make it part of the court's record in *any* situation except the DA dropping the case, namely file a writ with the appeals court. Ordinarily writs are a poor investment of time since about 95 percent or more of them are rejected. But given that filing a writ also gets the material filed with a court, even a five percent chance of it working is worthwhile. I have a bunch of supplemental material related to Section 132 and 182 I can file with it which might raise the chances to good or better. So by mid to late afternoon (a bunch of my time was taken up talking to law enforcement agents who are looking into *other* aspects of this whole business) we took the filing over to the DA's office. Sarah had papered over her last name on her nameplate, Vera had nameplate back up and Gina's was still face down. After filing with the DA, we walked over to the courthouse. The court clerk took our filings away and was gone so long that she must have talked to the Judge. She accepted them, but only as "received" rather than filed. So bright and early in the morning Judge Wallerstein gets to either accept them for filing one way or another, or we file the papers in the Appeals court asking for a writ. Any way you slice it, Rosen and Abelson taunting us as we walked out of the courthouse has come back to haunt them, and those shit eating grins have turned to a mouthful of ...... I am delaying the posting of this note until it is too late for it to affect anything in the court. My lawyer has come to the extremely odd place for a defense lawyer where he may not always agree with me, but he understands and backs me up on the larger scale concern that drives me in ways that are not obviously, and merely in my personal selfish interest. The DA made an offer today to reduce the charge to almost nothing, and, again, I turned the offer down flat. He should not be surprised. Some time ago he described me to my face as a person of integrity. With that kind of a reputation to uphold, how could he expect me to take a plea bargain? Keith Henson