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In the latest episode of Humboldt Last Week (123)
Photography by Shi
A private investigator downplays the “Murder Mountain” angle of her upcoming speaking engagement, a grand juror who reviewed the Lawson case spoke to media anonymously, a staff and volunteer exodus at KHSU, Guy Fieri made a tequila with a rockstar, Sara Bareilles talks Humboldt edible experience on late-night TV, bong and beer miles, a teenager will screen his second and award-winning feature-length film in Fortuna, an ex-HSUer was blindsided by the axing of a new pro football league, repeated vandalism at the Republican headquarters in Eureka makes gets national coverage, and other stories currently being discussed throughout the county.
Note: A previous version of this episode referenced someone who on April 9 wrote they “started a long-term project” involving the topic of addiction in Humboldt, assigned last year by Rolling Stone. The person who posted that on Instagram is now saying that project, at least for Rolling Stone, has been cancelled. -MC
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Hello, My name is Justin Maxon. I am the photographer referenced in the story regarding the Rolling Stone Magazine. I am not sure where you are getting this information from but it’s completely inaccurate and it’s causing me a tremendous amount of backlash in the community. Can you please redact the statement that I am writing a piece about “Addiction” in the Rolling Stone. The story that I worked on for the Rolling Stone as the photographer (with a reporter) last year was canceled and won’t be published. There is no new story being written for the Rolling Story that I am part of. Please respond ASAP.
Hi Justin! Strange that you would post about this on Instagram as recently as April 9 (image attached in case you try to remove or edit the post)… why did you call it a “long-term” project assigned by Rolling Stone? Why did you not indicate that the project had been cancelled?
Despite trying to be supportive about something you publicly posted, yes, when I get to a place where I’m able I would be thrilled to remove any mention of you.
Hello Myles, I know we have been emailing each other. I wanted to apologize here for my tone in the first post I made. I should have approached you with more kindness and understanding. We spoke about the backstory to my reaction, which does not excuse the tone of my reaction. I wanted to thank you for your warm approach to resolving this misunderstanding. We live in a small and insular community. I know we can resolve any conflict with an open heart and the capacity to listen with compassion while also speaking ones truth. I’m grateful for your commitment to our community! I look forward to listening to your future podcasts!
Warmest Regards, Justin
Thanks, Justin! In a world full of social media bickering and ego-driven stubbornness I’m happy we were able to briefly chat and quickly get past our misunderstanding. It’s a minimal-effort approach with tremendously beneficial possibilities. It’s my hope the same kind of resolve can be made between those passionate about bettering the complicated status of addiction in our community. I’ll be keeping an eye out for updates on your future projects.
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Thanks to your program, I learned about the interview with anonymous member of the grand jury. So I ended up watching the interview on KRCRTV. A very angry member who started out with saying that they had let the guy who stabbed Lawson running around unpunished. I’m not sure that this was something to thank anyone about. My eyes have not stopped rolling in my head since. Not because of his accusations but because the whole deliberation seemed as irrational as the comment section of RHBB.
What the bottom line was that about most felt that Zoellner did the stabbing. When asked for whether it was self defense, more than half voted it was. And they were instructed that they could not indict if they decided it was self defense. So they came back without an indictment. After that the person interviewed said that result was rushed through without enough debate and he was angry. He felt bullied by the “biggest, loudest” member of the grand jury into a rushed decision.
This, this is the result of conducting a trial in the public starting with dragging race into it from the start. There are too many extraneous issues clouding the issues that are necessary to evaluate,making it impossible to conduct a trial here. I hope that the DA gets the State to come in to conduct the case because she’s right about it. But in the end, I don’t think the State allows the prosecutor to change the venue of the trial itself so unless this case drops off the radar and emotions settle down, the trial would be here and the same inability to be objective by any selection of jurors would happen. It would either be a hung jury or an acquital. The DA is so right. Unless she can knock enough heads together for people to understand that they don’t need to decide what they want to happen on national issues but only whether the evidence proves what happened.