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A decision on whether or not to charge 84 Crestwood Midstream protestors is still pending. After a court hearing Tuesday, the Town of Reading Judge reserved his right to rule on the charges until a later date.

Last March, Schuyler County District Attorney Joseph Fazzary made a verbal agreement with the protesters. The agreement said if those arrested don't purposely get re-arrested, at least a hundred of their cases would be dropped. "Well on April 22nd, approximately 19 new protesters were arrested and from the prosecutions point of view, that negated the agreement having to do with our position on the interest of justice motion," said Assistant District Attorney John Tunney.

Even though the 19 new protestors we not a part of the

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