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Trial begins for ousted Sebastian council members May 18, 2021 at 6:01 PM EDT - Updated May 18 at 8:31 PM The first witnesses took the stand Tuesday in the trial for former city of Sebastian councilmembers Damien Gilliams and Pamela Parris. The former council members, who were removed from office following a special election last fall, are charged with violating the sunshine law and perjury. Gilliams, Parris, and a third council member, Charles Mauti, who took a plea deal agreeing to cooperate in this trial, are accused of holding an illegal meeting where they voted to fire the city manager, city clerk, city attorney and remove the mayor. ....
Given an unusual second chance to convince a judge a 12-year prison sentence for stealing tires was excessive, Indian River County’s former assistant fire-rescue chief flamed out. “It can happen to any one of us or one of our family members in the blink of an eye. It was just a bad decision,” Brian Burkeen said in court last week of his almost four-year spree of using a county account to order tires, pick them up, sell them on the black market and pocket the money. Your honor, I m not a bad person,” Burkeen said as part of statement focused on his travails, not those of his victims or of a system he took advantage of. “I’m a bad decision maker.” ....