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The very next day, April 23, 2004, petitioner moved the
Court to withdraw any agreement that she had made as to the
stipulation, portions of which she had initialed but not signed,
as well as to oral stipulations she had made to the Court during
the pretrial hearings on April 19 and 22, 2004. At a pretrial
hearing on April 26, 2004, the rescheduled date of the trial,
petitioner filed a written motion to be relieved of all of the
stipulations reached during the pretrial hearings and the
weeklong meetings with respondent. Petitioner stated that she
had reviewed the stipulation and supplemental stipulations I and
II. She refused to sign any of them because, she asserted, she
lacked “personal knowledge” of the documents. She alleged
further that she had been under “duress” when she had expressed
any agreement that she had made.
Respondent spent the remainder of the Court’s time on
April 26, 2004, attempting to move into evidence approximately
106 public and business records which petitioner refused to
stipulate. Nearly all of the exhibits were admitted into
evidence by the Court in the course of a 4-hour hearing. During
this hearing, petitioner was given another opportunity to
stipulate some or all of the documents. She refused. As a
result of petitioner’s intransigence, the trial was continued to
a special trial session of the Court on September 20, 2004. At
the conclusion of the hearing, the Court ordered both parties to
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