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The first trial of protesters accused of violating a court injunction at Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project ended Monday with guilty verdicts for the nine accused.

The protesters, arrested March 17 at the Burnaby work site, had pleaded not guilty to criminal contempt of court at the outset of their trial last week in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver.

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During the trial, prosecutors showed video evidence of the protesters — some of whom had strapped themselves to an entry gate at the site — being taken into custody by RCMP.

Lawyers for the accused argued that the police had no grounds to make the arrests but B.C. Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Affleck, the trial judge, did not agree with that argument.

The judge noted the injunction was read by a police officer in a loud voice and that the protesters, who were initially relatively quiet but later began to chant and sing, would have heard it.