Report: No Charges Yet For Hardcore Band SET IT STRAIGHT

November 21, 2006

Lauren Brooks of Redding.com reports that Shasta County District Attorney Jerry Benito declined Monday (Nov. 20) to issue a complaint against seven people arrested at Caldwell Park in Redding, California five weeks ago — including members of the Redding, California hardcore band SET IT STRAIGHT — after parents of young soccer players complained about loud, vulgar music.

But Benito said later Monday that doesn't mean the SET IT STRAIGHT band case is over. He noted that he has a year from the date of the arrests to file criminal charges.

Benito plans to set up a meeting with Redding police, the two band members and others who were arrested and their attorney, so they can figure out a "creative" way to settle the matter, he said.

Redding Attorney Dugan Barr is representing the seven people who were arrested and doubts that Benito will file criminal charges. He wrote a letter to Benito explaining that the group didn't leave after the concert because they wanted police to tell them why they were being made to leave a public park where they had a permit to play, he said.

"They had the right to be there doing what they were doing," Barr said.

The seven, including lead singer Harry Petty, 21, and bass guitar player Benjamin Paulsen, 19, refused to leave the park after the band's concert and were arrested Oct. 14 on suspicion of refusing to disperse an unlawful assembly. The two band members were also arrested on suspicion of resisting arrest, police said.

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