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>DA refuses to press charges in death of anti-logging activist
> Friday, December 18, 1998
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>(12-18) 01:23 EST EUREKA, Calif. (AP) -- No criminal charges will be
>filed in the death of an anti-logging activist crushed to death by a
>redwood tree, Humboldt County District Attorney Terry Farmer said.
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>David Chain, 24, was killed Sept. 17 as he and other Earth First!
>activists protested the logging of old-growth trees near Grizzly Creek
>Redwoods State Park.
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>Activists claimed Pacific Lumber Co. logger A.E. Ammons knew the
>protesters were in the area and was felling trees in their direction.
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>A district attorney's report said protesters videotaped a confrontation
>that showed Ammons chasing the activists and threatening to get a gun.
>The tape ends before Ammons cut the tree that killed Chain.
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>Still, prosecutors concluded that Chain's death was an accident.
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>``Mr. Ammons just didn't know Mr. Chain was there,'' Farmer said.
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>Chain's mother, Cindy Allsbrooks of Coldspring, Texas, said earlier that
>a sheriff's investigator told her he would recommend manslaughter
>charges be filed against the Earth First! members who were with Chain.
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>``I just really feel such bias coming from the Humboldt County
>officials,'' Ms. Allsbrooks said.
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>Earth First! spokesman Jeff Davis argued that there is enough evidence
>for a trial. He did not say whether a civil lawsuit would be filed
>against Ammons or Pacific Lumber.
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