-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- Dave Hartley http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave -----Original Message----- From: spiker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 9:33 PM To: Dave Subject: Gag Order Repeated In Gritz Trial Greetings Dave, Have you been keeping up with what the State of Connecticut is trying to do to Bo Gritz? Here is a recent newspaper article. The suppressed Massameno Report will knock your socks off!! Gag Order Repeated In Gritz Trial http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll?render=y&eetype=Article&eeid=1707 435&ck=&ver=hb1.2.20 By LARRY SMITH The Hartford Courant http://www.ctnow.com/ February 24, 2000 ENFIELD - If it had not been clear earlier that information considered confidential in the trial of James G. ``Bo'' Gritz should not be publicly discussed or distributed, Enfield Superior Court Judge Nicola E. Rubinow made it so Wednesday. After being told that a sealed court document had been made available to the media and posted on the Internet, and that Gritz had published the names and occupations of the jurors in a newsletter, Rubinow issued two orders prohibiting any more such behavior. Massameno Report http://members.tripod.com/~larryschultz/massameno.htm Copies of a 79-page report by Senior Assistant State's Attorney John M. Massameno - in which he outlines his investigation into allegations by Linda Wiegand that her children were sexually abused by her former husband - were mailed to local newspapers and posted on the Internet. Assistant State's Attorney John Malone said he was made aware by reporters that the Massameno report had been released - despite a court order from Rubinow forbidding anyone from publicly revealing information in the sealed report. Gritz also published the names and occupations of the six jurors and three alternates who will decide the outcome of his trial on attempted kidnapping charges in the January issue of a newsletter he publishes. Malone said the information could be used by others to try to contact and influence the jurors. Rubinow said state statutes require that any information about jurors be kept confidential until the trial has ended and a verdict rendered. Malone said he was also made aware that Gritz had circumvented Rubinow's order by telling people on his radio show that although he can't discuss the Massameno report, a copy of it can be found at a particular Web site. Malone said he reviewed the Web site and verified that it contains a word-for-word copy of the main 79- page section of the report. Rubinow ordered the prosecutors, defense attorneys and defendants not to discuss, publish, broadcast, give information to others to distribute or make reference to where that information can be found on the Internet. ``That should be, if it wasn't last week, abundantly clear,'' Rubinow said. Any penalties or sanctions against those who leaked the report will not be considered until after a verdict has been rendered. Gritz and Sheldon Robinson are accused of conspiring with Wiegand to kidnap her eldest son from the parking lot of a Suffield middle school. Wiegand's two sons live in Suffield with her ex-husband, Thomas Wilkinson. Although Wiegand has for years claimed that the boys were sexually abused by Wilkinson, no court has ever upheld her allegations, which are central to Gritz's trial because they are the reason Gritz became involved in Wiegand's effort to regain custody of her children. Gritz's attorney David Kritzman said he and his client have not made available any information contained in the report. While he has not heard his client revealing the information on the radio, Kritzman said he doesn't believe that telling where the Web site is violates Rubinow's order. Kritzman said he would be willing to call to the stand everyone who had contact with the document to find out how it was leaked. ``I suspect the document was made available to Ms. Wiegand long before it became relevant or newsworthy,'' Kritzman said. A woman claiming to be Wiegand called the Hartford Courant Wednesday and said she doesn't know who made the report available. ``I got an anonymous package sent to me today. I haven't read the report yet,'' Wiegand said. ``I don't have a computer. I haven't seen the Web site and I don't know who put it there.'' Robinson's attorney, Wendy Doolittle, said neither she nor her client distributed or discussed the information. Robinson has only seen the document once, when it was given to the defense attorneys on Feb. 1. Malone said the distribution of the Massameno report is unfair to its subjects. And, he said, making the report available on the Internet subjects the two boys to the possibility that others - both locally and across the country - have access to very private information. ``I don't know who in her or his right mind would put that information in the stream of commerce,'' Malone said. ``These allegations are left in cyberspace without response.'' Sincerely, David E. 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