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Subject: Curtis Johnson

  • After Three Tries, Homeless Advocate Gets His Day In Court -- And Loses

    It was the trial of the century! Well, err, maybe not ... but to Nick Cooper it felt like it took that long to finally get the right to fight a traffic ticket in Houston's municipal court.In early May 2007, Cooper was handing out apples to a group of homeless people in an alley near the 2000 block of Crawford in Downtown. Suddenly, the cops showed up and began telling the homeless folks to move along. Cooper, a musician, blogger and journalist for www.indymedia.org, began taking pictures of the

    June 2, 2009