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Commissioner Peter Smiley has ruled that the group cannot use climate change, coal or freedom of speech as legal defenses.
One of the defendants, Bob Burr, says the ruling has left them with no other way to defend themselves in court.
Burr says if they can't present their defense, the jury will never know the motivation behind what they did.
He says the commissioner agreed that climate change was real, but told the group that they haven't exhausted all other possibilities for a defense.
