NEWPORT, Vt. (AP) The editor of a Vermont weekly newspaper is promising to fight the criminal trespass charge filed against him while he was covering a protest against a wind power project being built on Lowell Mountain. Chris Braithwaite, the publisher of The Chronicle of Barton, says he is willing to take his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The 67-year-old Braithwaite was charged with trespassing in December while covering a protest against the construction of the Lowell project. Six protesters were arrested as well. Braithwaite had tried to argue that since he was a reporter covering a news event he should have been exempted from trespassing laws, but Judge Robert Gerety Jr., ruled Braithwaite's role as a journalist did not allow him to go onto private land without permission.
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They moved on to direct action, and quickly found themselves at odds with the law.
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