The big day will arrive on Wednesday.
Where: Associate Circuit Court, Division 32; Judge Robert L Trout at the Independence Courthouse.
When: Sometime after 1:30 PM.
What's going on?

The arraignment hearing of a Jackson County citizen (Bob WitbolsFeugen) regarding his arrest as a protestor of governmental business and as someone who had filed a complaint of the harassment against certain Legislators.

Deputies arrested the suspect and accused him of assault. The deputy was restraining the citizen and threatening to arrest him if he rentered the legislative meeting. The arresting officer claimed that the citizen violated Legislative policy because he dispalyed a 8 1/2 x 11 inch sign during one of the committee meetings. The protestor voluntarily left the meeting when the deputies said they wanted to talk to him but they claim he resisted arrest went they would not allow him to reenter to room.

The officer filed a complaint with JCSD and prosecutor Jim Kanatzar was also told by Dan Tarwater that he and Legislator Henry Rizzo had witnessed the citizen "shove the deputy as they were walking out of legislative chambers".

The Deputy County Countselor made the final decision but it is not known which statement was basis for arrest and incarceration. After two hours on the ground floor holding cel and kept in handcuffs the entire time, l the protester was taken to county lock up. Bail was set at $4,000 and if convicted he could face up to two years in jail.

Although the protestor did make bail later that day, there were a series of suspicious “clerical errors”, which made posting of bail unusually difficult.

Come and witness for yourselves the workings of a judicial system in Jackson County. Determine first-hand whether politics will influence the proceedings or outcome.