“The sight of a shabby old man distributing his silly leaflets from the sidewalk outside of a courthouse … is, at its worst, an inconvenience or an annoyance.”
According to the Associated Press report on a hearing yesterday in the federal “jury tampering” prosecution of Julian Heicklen for handing out pamphlets about “jury nullification” to passerby outside the federal courthouse in Manhattan, Julian’s own standby federal public defenders wrote the above about him in papers filed in the case.
WTF?
Part of the reason I’m flabbergasted is that I’ve had the opportunity to read (and reread since reading the Associated Press’ story) the 36-page Memorandum of Law these federal public defenders filed on Julian’s behalf, and that Memorandum was excellent and contained nothing like what’s quoted above. Evidently the quote must come from some other papers they’ve filed. I can only further assume that the quote is taken out of context.
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