On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 00:24:26 -0500, "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >2000-11-03 > >If I'm not mistaken, the date set for Steven Thoburn trial is 2000-11-09, Nov 7, I believe. >which is less then a week away. What can we expect to happen on the first >day? Would this be a one day court case, 5 minutes, more likely! It will probably be a case of 'how do you plead?' - 'Not guilty'; then the case gets postponed for several weeks before it really gets going. >Also, as the date approaches, are there any rumblings in the press, or is >everyone waiting for the 9-th to fire their ammo? As I said earlier, even the meeting on Oct 17 went unreported in the national press, with only minor local coverage (the Sunderland Echo Web site has nothing later than the news that he was being taken to court). The Chancellor will be making a major speech on the budget that day, so I doubt if it will get much coverage. -- Chris KEENAN UK Metrication: http://www.metric.org.uk/ UK Correspondent, US Metric Association
