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pepper spray an individual who lived in his building. We denied
petitioner's motion.
At trial, petitioner sought to introduce into evidence
canceled checks and receipts and a real property closing
statement that he had not exchanged as required by the Court's
standing pretrial order served on him on October 22, 1996, and as
he had agreed to do in the agreement he and respondent submitted
to the Court on March 24, 1997. We did not admit the documents
into evidence. Petitioner testified at trial but called no other
witnesses.
OPINION
A. Petitioner's Motion To Continue
Petitioner contends that we should have granted his second
motion to continue. We disagree. We granted the parties' joint
motion to continue this case from the Court's Las Vegas session
on March 24, 1997, and to calendar these cases for trial at our
session in Reno. The purpose of that continuance was to give
petitioner more time to organize his records and to present them
to respondent.
Petitioner has given no good reason for his total failure to
comply with his March 24 agreement with respondent. Petitioner
contends that he did not give documents to respondent because he
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