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“This office has never shied away from prosecuting difficult cases, including those where defendants present self-defense claims.”

“And numerous UC faculty and staff have submitted declarations describing how defendants’ actions have already chilled speech throughout the UC system.”

The defendants all pleaded not guilty and four co-defendants had reached a plea deal with Willis’s office.

He said the complexity was that there had been a collision between the defendants car and a taxi but that a third vehicle had then also collided into the vehicles.

“Once the defendant testifies, all bets are off,” he said.