Julian Heicklen: just another day at the office.

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Quotes from Julian Heicklen's Progress Report after distributing Fully Informed Jury Association pamphlets:

Baltimore MD, Monday, August 23, 2010 – "At 12:00 PM a police woman approached me and told me that I was OK where I was."

"I distributed about 25 pamphlets with my insert."

Alexandria VA, Tuesday, August 24, 2010 – "At 8:01 AM a courthouse security officer told me that I had to move across the street. I declined his request."

"At 9:20 AM a person exited the courthouse, identified himself as a defense attorney, and said: 'good stuff.'"

Washington DC, Tuesday, August 24, 2010 – At 11:29 AM Court Security Officer Rodriguez asked me to move across the street. I declined."

"At 11:31, his Supervising Officer Anderson took a pamphlet with my insert and told me that I had to move. I declined again. He left."

"At 12:13 PM, a person who took a pamphlet looked at it. Then he asked me to autograph it, which I did."

Newark NJ, Wednesday, August 25, 2010 – "Officer Kirsch informed me that I could not distribute literature in front of the courthouse and asked me to move."

"Several more times he asked me to leave, but I did not respond."

"Then he placed me under arrest and reached for my JURY INFO sign. I fell to the wet sidewalk and did not move a muscle or make another sound. The officers called the Emergency Medical Service Ambulance 1108."

"On the way to the hospital, the ambulance attendants took my blood pressure and tried to make me talk. Finally one of the attendants rubbed my rib cage as hard as he could. This was extremely painful, and I moaned in pain."

"When I got to the hospital, the procedure was repeated."

"One of the officers then gave me three citations."

"Then he said that I no longer was under arrest. I immediately sat up, demanded my belongings, and said that I was leaving."

"I stopped by the bathroom and left the hospital at 1:30 PM."

"On the way back to the courthouse where my car was parked, I passed a demonstration at city hall protesting civil service layoffs. I did not necessarily agree with them, but I hate to pass up a urinal or a demonstration. Since all the demonstrators were black, I felt it necessary to integrate the demonstration and joined them."

Read the entire Progress Report at Blog of Bile.

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