News from the liberterrain...
Julian Heicklen is apparently being held at Riker's Island without bail until his scheduled court appearance on June 8th.
An earlier "update" indicated that Heicklen had been released on bail, but there seems to be differing definitions of the term "Bail & Bond: Remanded."
Julian Heicklen (photo by
George Donnelly)
Some sources use the term "remanded on bail" to mean that the accused has posted bail and has been released.
But "remanded" in general means kept or sent back into custody.
An officer of the Manhattan Libertarian Party known to the libertarian community as "Bile" reports on his site, "Blog of Bile," that Julian Heicklen has been "remanded into custody under the charges of "Disorderly Conduct" and "Resisting Arrest A Misdemeanor."
Bile, who witnessed and reported Heicklen's arrest, points out in his latest update that Heicklen "at no time actively resisted arrest" while Bile was watching, and that his disposition was passive, like "someone who was paralyzed or unconscious."
This would lead legal novices to wonder if "Disorderly Conduct" might mean "failure to eagerly participate in one's own illegal arrest" and that "Resisting Arrest" means "not moving."
Bile has more information and speculation on his site, Blog of Bile.
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Comments
Which makes all the staff at Riker's "enemy combatants" along with the kidnapping cops.
Thanks again for covering this.
would like more info on why he got arrested
Thanks for this update; I suspected he was remanded "in" not "out". Was there a warrant at the courthouse site of his arrest? If so, this was arranged in advance and the "Disorderly" could refer to one or more previous instances...they might simply have waited for him to show where they knew he would be based on reading it at the many online sites where his schedule has been posted. This all seems to be a co-ordinated effort by some fed cops who don't like the message---as such, it's content based discrimination leading to more transgressions against some individuals involved in peaceful, protected core political speech activities. Has anyone updated the ACLU in NY which has handled the Muscemi (case)? They'd want to know about this as it directly impacts the filing they made for injunctive relief in the earlier case (I think blogofbile is the person they represented on that?) Again, thanks for the update.
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