Showing posts with label Jerry Koch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jerry Koch. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Endless Contempt


"I refused to testify at that time based on the assertion of my First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment rights, as I will be doing again for the duration of this grand jury." -Jerry Koch

"After being held two hundred and forty-one days in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correction Center without being charged with a crime, Judge John Keenan decided to answer a motion filed by [Jerry Koch's] lawyers last month and release Koch on the grounds that the state would not be able to coerce him into cooperating with a federal grand jury… The judge issued a 20-page decision granting his release pursuant to a Grumbles Motion, so-called after the grand jury resister who first successfully employed the argument that since they would never agree to testify, their incarceration had become punitive, in violation of their rights." -Shawn Carrié, The New School Free Press

Photograph via Jerry Resists