Anti-War Up-4 Stryker Protesters Plead Not Guilty

Updated at 11:27 a.m., Friday, October 31, 2003 Honolulu Advertiser

4 Stryker Protesters Plead Not Guilty

By William Cole

and Vicki Viotti

Advertiser Staff Writers

MAKAHA - Army signs and charts explaining the military's planned Stryker
brigade were on one side of the room. Protest signs denouncing it were on
the other. And in between, supporters of both met largely peacefully over
the issue for the first night out of the past three.In an about-face, the
Army last night allowed in the same anti-Stryker placards that kept some
protesters out of public comment meetings Tuesday and Wednesday night, and
led to the arrest of seven individuals on trespassing charges.Today, four of
the seven were arraigned in District Court on charges that were reduced from
second-degree criminal trespass, a petty misdemeanor, to simple trespass, a
violation with no jail time. The four pleaded not guilty. A Dec. 16 trial
date was set for the four - Kyle Kajihiro, Steve Tayama, Gwendolyn Niheu
(also known as Gwendolyn Kim) and Bok Dong Yoon.