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Stolen from the password-protected Superior Court of Santa Barbara press info site: yes, parking will cost $250.00 a space. Furthermore, the indemnification waiver will undoubtedly assert that members of the press can be clubbed over the heads on the way to their cars and it wouldn't be the County's fault. Now we can only hope that Michael Jackson's trial will be as outlandish as the parking arrangements.

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