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  • Man Jailed Over Web Posting; Case Draws Free-Speech Advocates

    06/19/2002 10:49:29 PM PDT · by TheOtherOne · 5 replies
    Associated Press ^ | AP-ES-06-20-02 0117EDT | By Gene Johnson Associated Press Writer
    SEATTLE (AP) - Soon after moving into a retirement home, Paul Trummel began complaining that his neighbors fell asleep with their TVs blaring or flushed their toilets during quiet hours. Then he really turned up the heat by starting a Web site accusing tenants and staff members of housing-law violations and conspiracies. The Web site landed him in jail for 3 1/2 months and made the 68-year-old an unlikely hero to free-speech advocates in a positively bizarre First Amendment case. Trummel was locked up Feb. 27 by Superior Court Judge James Doerty after refusing to remove from his Web...