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Dinius Trial Starts July 7

Judge J. Michael Byrne ruled yesterday that the manslaughter trial of Bismarck Dinius will continue, with jury selection beginning on July 7. Dinius’ attorney Victor Haltom had argued that the Lake County District Attorney Office should be recused from prosecuting the case because of apparent improprieties in the handling of the case. Judge Byrne said there was sufficient evidence for the case to continue and not enough to bring the Attorney General’s Office into the matter. Though Jerry Brown noted on his Facebook page recently that he was "looking into the case," there has been no official word from his camp on the case. Jury selection is slated to begin July 7. Read more on the Lake County Bee’s website and check out Dan Noyes’ ‘tweets’ from the courtroom.

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Twenty-five Doo Dah boats raft up at the Rusty Porthole and adjacent Boyd’s Harbor on Monday.