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| 'Gastankgate' back in court, Womack case postponedThis article was originally published in the the Amador Ledger Dispatch on March 10, 2000, and is reproduced here with its permission. JACKSON—One part of the Womack "gastankgate" legal marathon may creep forward in court today when motions will be heard in the case of Mark Sherrill. However, the Robert Womack case will again be postponed. Womack and Sherrill are facing charges of conspiring to commit a crime in conjunction with the alleged illegal removal of a gas tank in May 1998. District Attorney Todd Riebe filed a writ with the State of California Third District Appellate Court in Sacramento after Judge John F. Cruikshank ruled that documents seized in a search of Womack's home in October, 1998, could not be used as evidence. The writ, filed in September, 1999, requested that Cruikshank's ruling be overturned. Hearings on the Womack case have been postponed from November, to January, and again until March as the necessary decision of the Appellate Court has not been forthcoming. When asked about the extraordinary amount of time the decision has taken, Darlene Warnock, supervisor at the court's clerks office said "It is with the court. It hasn't fallen through the cracks, but it hasn't been decided." Copyright © 2000 Amador Ledger Dispatch |
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