California State Law requires that anyone who is arrested be arraigned within 48 hours of their trial. In order to meet this law within the court operation hours, the 3 farmers should have been arraigned by 4:30pm Tuesday afternoon.

But the DA claimed that she still needed to file the charges against them, and stalled their arraignment.

However, they cannot be legally arraigned after 4:30 pm yesterday anyway, meaning they should have been released and sent home around 5:00pm.

The DA, however, claiming her desire to (illegally) arraign them *after* the 48 hour window, had the 3 of them sent to Santa Rita prison.

[link to www.indybay.org]