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From <@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu:millerb@fr*.sc*.fs*.ed*> Sat Oct 7 00:54:14 1995
From: Barry Miller <millerb@fr*.sc*.fs*.ed*>
To: "Cave Divers List" <cavers@co*.ci*.uf*.ed*>
Subject: A Day In Court
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 95 0:49:20 18000
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I just got home from a day, and night til 9pm, of court. As George
pointed out J.J. and I were in court to help with an injunction(sp?)
to stop a Wakulla County Developer from putting a gas station across
the street from Wakulla Springs. Data collected and video taken by the
WKPP divers under the property owned by Ken Kirtin(developer) was used
to help show that it was a really BAD place for another gas station.
The proceidings reminded me of my dog Sookie chasing his tail in
circles. With lawyers doing "their thing" no wonder the courts take so
long. Kirtin surved subpoenas on a lot of people who opposed him on
the rezoning, including our on George. He had no intention of calling
them as a witness, only to make them show up and sit there all day.
The highlight of the day came around 7pm when the judge called
Kirtin's bluff and pointed out that he believed Kirtin missused the
subpoena power just to piss-off these people. The tounge-lashing the
judge give Kirtin for doing this made all the boring lawyer stuff
worth sitting through. Kirtin also undermined his own case by pulling
such a stunt and I am happy to say that the missuse of such power will
not go unpunished. The judge is going to take his time in deciding
such an important case and did not make a decission tonight, but would
concider all the information carfully and decide in a week.
I hope that all the work the WKPP has done helps the State win this
case. It would be very rewarding to all us involved in the project,
aand to the cave diving community that the diving we do and the data we
collect can be used in a positive way to help protect OUR ground water
resources.
Barry Miller
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