By JON LENDER
Courant Staff Writer
www.courant.com
January 30 2007
Political activist and freelance journalist Kenneth Krayeske entered a not-guilty plea, requested a jury trial and saw his case continued until March 2 in Hartford Superior Court Tuesday -- as a new witness surfaced to dispute the Hartford police account of events that led to his controversial Jan. 3 arrest after he took pictures at Gov. M. Jodi Rell's inauguration parade to post on his commentary website.
"This man did not rush into the parade at Rell as the Hartford police have said," witness Marge Nichols of Lebanon said in a written statement that was handed to reporters at the courthouse by Krayeske's lawyer, Norman Pattis, before his client's appearance on charges of breach of peace and interfering with police.
Pattis requested, and was granted, a pre-trial conference with a prosecutor supervised by a judge March 2 to discuss possible resolutions of the case. The defense lawyer told reporters the prosecution was less than cooperative. He said a prosecutor did not even want to read Nichols' statement during a short conference behind closed doors Tuesday morning.
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