CHARGES DROPPED

UPDATE:

The AP details:

"Lt. Dan Choi and James Pietrangelo, a gay army captain honorably discharged for disclosing his sexual orientation, were in court Wednesday on charges of failure to obey police orders during the March and April protests. All charges were dropped against them. Choi and his attorney had subpoenaed President Barack Obama to appear, but an attorney for the prosecution said the subpoena wasn't served. Prosecutor Christine Chang declined to comment on why the government dropped the case. Choi said he believes Obama administration officials didn't want to draw attention to the policy.

Lt. Dan Choi tweets:

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Charges have been dropped in the trial of Captain Jim Pietrangelo and Lt. Dan Choi.

Right before the trial was to commence, arresting officers and Secret Service readied themselves  to proceed then someone surfaced and intervened.

The two have been well documented chaining themselves to the White House fence in protesting DADT thus the charges of "failure to obey a lawful order."  

Story developing.....

AmericaBlog offered this quote from Paul Yandura about what happened in court: "It's clear that they were embarrassed that we were going to expose the fiction that repeal is finished or imminent. They were embarrassed that we subpoenaed the President and were going to use his words. It's clear that civil disobedience was the winner today."