Libertarian activist Mark Schmidter is out of jail and “scrounging” money for an appeal hearing after recently spending three days in jail. On July 26, Schmidter was found guilty of “indirect criminal contempt” by Judge Belvin Perry for violating two administrative orders passed by Perry this year. For violating the order which bars disseminating...
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Mark Schmidter, the 64 year-old libertarian activist who has appeared in our blogs several times since last October, was sentenced today to 151 days in jail on charges of indirect criminal contempt for purposefully violating two administrative orders passed by Ninth Judicial Circuit Court Chief Judge Belvin Perry this year. The first order, signed...
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First things first: John Kurtz, the libertarian ringleader of the newly reformed police watchdog group Copwatch, was convicted yesterday on charges of resisting a law enforcement officer without violence for a tussle with Orlando Police Department officer Adam Gruler which occurred early in the morning on New Years Day. Kurtz was sentenced to 30...
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After we watched Central Florida News 13 prattle on about Judge Belvin Perry’s blinking habits, we were intrigued to see how many other “body language experts” were raking in cash off of Perry’s eyelids, Casey Anthony’s quivering lip, and/or Jose Baez’s outstretched arm. But when we typed in “casey anthony body language” into our...
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Throughout January, the 50-something rogue activist and solar roofer Mark Schmidter handed out pamphlets to summoned jurors outside the downtown Orange County courthouse. The pamphlets, which bore the logo of the Fully Informed Jury Association, urged jurors to “nullify” unjust laws by intentionally voting for acquittal. This irked Ninth Circuit Court Judge Belvin Perry,...
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Lawrence Walters, the Altamonte Springs attorney perhaps most familiar with the anti-obscenity crusade of Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd (“Church and State,” Feb. 24), has thrown his hat into the ring in yet another First Amendment battle. Yesterday Walters and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a petition in the Fifth District Court of...
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