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‘Burning Man Barrister’ Offers Free Legal Advice to Festival Revelers

Source: ABA Journal Top Stories
In response to complaints about overzealous law enforcement agents at the annual Burning Man art and music festival in the Nevada dessert, a Palo Alto, Calif., attorney has formed Lawyers for Burners, a legal defense team to aid festival revelers in their brushes with the law. David Levin, aka the Burning Man Barrister, accused federal officers of destroying a peaceful counterculture celebration in the Black Rock Desert, reports the Associated Press. “It’s a police state out there,” Levin said of the presence of undercover agents at dances and drug-sniffing dogs that roam the camps, according to the newspaper. “There’s very…
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