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Man Arrested for Twittering Goes to Court, EFF Has the Documents
Over the past day, Everyone has been reporting about the arrest last month of Elliot Madison for twittering about police movements to protesters during the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, PA.
The reason this is being reported on now is because on last Thursday, the FBI also raided Mr. Madison's home in Queens, NY, followed on Friday by Mr. Madison's filing of a motion in the Eastern District of New York federal court in Brooklyn for the return of his seized property.
In reviewing all the stories, we saw lots of quotes from Mr. Madison's legal filings and from the Pennsylvania state criminal complaint against him, but no links to the legal papers themselves. As a resource to journalists and interested readers, we are posting Mr. Madison's motion and his lawyer's supporting declaration; attached to the declaration are copies of the search warrant, an inventory of the seized items, and the original criminal complaint.
In reviewing all the stories, we saw lots of quotes from Mr. Madison's legal filings and from the Pennsylvania state criminal complaint against him, but no links to the legal papers themselves. As a resource to journalists and interested readers, we are posting Mr. Madison's motion and his lawyer's supporting declaration; attached to the declaration are copies of the search warrant, an inventory of the seized items, and the original criminal complaint.
For more information:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/10/man-a...
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I can't see this flying in the end. how on earth are they going to distinguish between live reporting and "hindering prosecution" or whatever they are charging him with? this has trampling on first amendment rights written all over it -- and issues of "author intent" can never be fully conclusive, leading to an overly broad attack on speech that I think the courts will reject
but, it will sure make a lot of folks think twice in the future before reporting on live events at demos
and the FBI just loves to go no fishing expeditions and poke around in radical activists computers. you know they save a ton of data after they inevitably return most of it -- email addresses and other connections they can establish...
but, it will sure make a lot of folks think twice in the future before reporting on live events at demos
and the FBI just loves to go no fishing expeditions and poke around in radical activists computers. you know they save a ton of data after they inevitably return most of it -- email addresses and other connections they can establish...
Does this relate to the concept of 'conspiracy' to commit a crime? I heard that police are familiar with the law that proof of conspiring to do a crime ahead of time rather than impulsively doing it on the spot raises it to the level of a felony - for example, taped phone calls to plan stealing something or even jaywalking is conspiracy.
Yet.. this was one-way communication and all his twitter's are public. He never recommends that anyone break the law.
Yet.. this was one-way communication and all his twitter's are public. He never recommends that anyone break the law.
This makes me wonder how free we really are in the US.
Carefull there, John.
Don't jump to any rash conclusions!
Don't jump to any rash conclusions!
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