[a href="vny!://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Florida_activist_candidate_charged_with_felony_1017.html"][font bgcolor="#FFFFFF" color="#990000" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="6"][font color="#000000"]Florida activist, candidate charged with felony wiretapping[/font][/font][/a] [/p]Miriam Raftery
[font color="#990000" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"][font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="1"]Published: Tuesday October 17, 2006[/font][/font] [/p][form id="frm_print_me" method="post" action="vny!://www.rawstory.com/printstory.php?story=3573"][input name="ottp" value="foo" type="hidden"][/form][a href="vny!://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Florida_activist_candidate_charged_with_felony_1017.html"][img]vny!://www.rawstory.com/images/new/charlesgrapski.jpg" align="right" border="1" hspace="5" vspace="5"][/a] The State of Florida has filed felony wiretapping charges against election reform activist Charles Grapski for audiotaping his efforts to obtain public records related to his investigation of alleged election fraud, [a href="vny!://rawstory.com/"][font color="#ff0000"]RAW STORY[/font][/a] has learned. He faces arraignment Tuesday, October 17th. "The State has held charges over my head since May 1st, six months," Grapski told [a href="vny!://rawstory.com/"][font color="#ff0000"]RAW STORY[/font][/a]. "I have not been allowed until now the right of subpoena power to do discovery in my own defense. Now the State is saying I must choose between two rights: the right to a speedy trial, and my right to a fair trial."[/p] [a href="vny!://rawstory.com/"][font color="#ff0000"]RAW STORY[/font][/a] has [a href="vny!://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Florida_House_candidate_to_face_litany_0612.html"]previously reported[/a] on officials' attempts to suppress Grapski's investigation and that Grapski was later [a href="vny!://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Florida_House_Candidate_Banned_from_City_0718.html"]banned by a judge[/a] from campaigning in the City of Alachua.[/p][a href="vny!://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Florida_activist_candidate_charged_with_felony_1017.html"]Click Here to read rest of article[/a]
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