The members of the Occupy Tulsa group that were arrested and cited for curfew violations reject a plea agreement with the City of Tulsa and push for a trial.

The protestors were arrested over a period of days beginning last November for violating curfew in a city park. 

Some were arrested and some were given citations. 

At that same time, five were arrested for resisting arrest.

There were roughly 40 cases scheduled today in Tulsa municipal court related to those arrests.

Many of those individuals are represented by attorney Ollie Arbogast.

“In person, the people I represent showed up and were offered plea agreements by the city of Tulsa to take basically fines, costs, no jail time, and convictions on violation of curfew and rejected them unanimously,” says Arbogast.

He says there are something like 40 different cases involving 62 different counts broken down: 42 arrested for park curfew, 15 cited for park curfew and five arrested for resisting arrest.

“It’s our position that violation of a park curfew law is not of the same level as the first amendment right to freedom of speech and freedom to assemble and that issue is probably going to be taken up first,” says Arbogast.

Besides motions in these cases, Arbogast says it looks like trials are set for April.