Jump to full article: The Olympian (WA), 2008-05-13
Author: KERI BRENNER
Intro: A judge delayed a hearing today on whether tavern owner Frank Schnarrs should be held in contempt of court for violating the state smoking ban until June 9 in order to give Thurston County more time to gather evidence.
Superior Court Judge Richard Hicks, the sixth judge since April 2006 to be assigned in the case, said he saw probable cause to issue a search warrant for Frankie's Sports Bar & Grill on Pacific Avenue Southeast.
The warrant, Hicks said, was in order since county health inspectors were turned away by Schnarrs Friday night.
That was following Schnarrs' move Friday afternoon to change his second-floor smoking room into a private, members-only club in an attempt to meet a provision of state law that exempts a "private workplace inside a public place" from the smoking ban.
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