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Occupy Honolulu protester Madori Rumpungworn
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A state judge sentenced (de)Occupy Honolulu protester Madori Rumpungworn to 30 days in jail Friday for getting in the way of city crews enforcing the stored-property ordinance at Thomas Square last year.
She essentially began serving the sentence Thursday after a jury found her guilty of obstructing government operations. After the jurors rendered their guilty verdict, Circuit Judge Patrick Border increased Rumpungworn’s cash-only bail to $1,000 and ordered her into custody when she couldn’t post it. Rumpungworn, a third-year Windward Community College student, had been free on $100 bail.
She is the first of three (de)Occupy Honolulu protesters to stand trial for actions they took to oppose the city’s stored-property ordinance. Honolulu police arrested her at Thomas Square on May 3, 2012.
Catherine C. Russell and Blade Michael Walsh are scheduled to stand trial later this month.
Obstructing government operations is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail and a $2,000 fine.
The stored-property ordinance allows the city to seize personal items from parks and other public property after giving 24 hours notice. The sidewalk nuisance ordinance allows the city to immediately seize items left on sidewalks.
Russell and other (de)Occupy Honolulu protesters are challenging the constitutionality of both ordinances in federal court.
