And a federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of an environmental activist for her alleged role in a 2001 arson at the University of Washington. Briana Waters was sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to pay $6 million in restitution in March 2008. But this week a three-judge panel of the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the judge in the case had made numerous errors that undermined Waters’s right to a fair trial. Waters’s attorney has asked for her release on bail ahead of her new trial.