May 5th, 2013
Resisting the NYC Grand Jury
NYC anarchist and legal activist Jerry Koch has been subpoenaed for the second time to appear before a grand jury. As part of the new witch hunt against anarchists, he can be imprisoned for up to 18 months without being charged or convicted of a crime. We will be discussing his case and grand juries in general, as well as filming one of his favorite films.
"My name is Gerald Koch and I have been subpoenaed to a federal grand jury based in the Southern District of New York regarding the 2008 Times Square Military Recruitment Center bombing. This is my second subpoena concerning this matter; I was also subpoenaed in June of 2009. 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. During the first grand jury, the government informed my lawyers that it was believed that I was at a bar in 2008 or 2009 where a patron indicated knowledge of who had committed the bombing. When I was first subpoenaed to the grand jury in 2009 I had no recollection of any such incident— a fact that I expressed publically. Now, almost 4 years later, I still do not recall the alleged situation."
More info at JerryResists.org