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Criminal

Jul. 17, 2018

Judge bans press 3 times from oil spill trial

Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge James Herman has three times barred the press from his courtroom in an oil spill criminal negligence trial.

Judge bans press 3 times from oil spill trial
Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge James Herman has banned the press three times in two days from the criminal negligence trial of an oil pipeline company.

SANTA BARBARA -- A superior court judge has three times barred the press and public from hearings in the criminal negligence trial of Plains All American Pipeline.

Judge James Herman ordered all non-lawyers out of the courtroom twice on Monday, and also last Friday, when he told a journalist not to report on anything he had heard up until that point. The hearings the judge has banned the press from have lasted about 15 minutes each....

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