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respondent all documents that he would use at trial for 1991 by
April 3, 1997, and for 1992 by April 17, 1997. Petitioner agreed
to provide any additional documents requested by respondent
within 7 days. Petitioner also agreed that if he did not give
respondent the documents by the agreed dates, he would concede
all issues for which he did not provide substantiation or would
rely solely on oral testimony to substantiate. On the basis of
the parties' pretrial agreement, we granted their motion.
Petitioner did not give any documents to respondent pursuant to
his agreement at any time before trial.
On the second day of the Reno session, petitioner filed a
second motion to continue on the grounds that he had hired an
accountant, Robert Ruchti, to assist him in these cases, and he
could not get his records ready for trial because he had been
physically assaulted on April 3 and May 3, 1997, by a resident of
his building. Petitioner attached to his motion to continue a
copy of the May 3, 1997, newsletter petitioner published for the
residents of his building in which he described the May 3 assault
on himself. Petitioner attached to his motion a copy of a police
citation he received on May 4, 1997, in which he was charged with
misdemeanor battery for unlawfully spraying in the face with
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