Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.d From: nobody@nately.ucsd.edu (Anonymous) Subject: Feds Seek Baker Indictment Comments: This message did not originate from the above address. It was automatically remailed by an anonymous mail service. Please report inappropriate use to Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 18:10:33 +0000 Message-ID: <9502141810.AA00763@nately.UCSD.EDU> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Lines: 109 PROSECUTORS PUSH BAKER INDICTMENT By Josh White The Michigan DAILY 2/14/95 LSA sophomore Jake Baker may face a grand jury indictment before Friday's probable cause hearing, said U.S. Attorney Ken Chadwell. Chadwell said he is working toward an early indictment in order to get to trial as early as possible. Baker, who is charged with violating Title 18 U.S. Code sec. 865(c) by sending threatening e-mail messages over the Internet, sits in the Wayne County Jail as a federal prisoner. Defense Attorney Douglas Mullkoff said he is preparing briefs to appeal the decision to detain Baker. Mullkoff said he is "working diligently" on Baker's second appeal, which will be considered by the 6th Circuit Court in Cincinnati. "The decision to hold Mr. Baker without bail will be taken up with the 6th Circuit Court in Cincinnati as soon as possible," Mullkoff said from his Ann Arbor office. "We should get their decision within 10 days." Mullkoff expects that the appeal will be granted, but said the next step after Cincinnati would be the U.S. Supreme Court. "We will present the court with the same release conditions we suggested in the detainment hearing," Mullkoff said. "I don't expect to lose in the 6th Circuit." Mullkoff presented a set of release conditions to Magistrate Judge Thomas A. Carlson and Judge Bernard A. Friedman. Under the conditions, Baker would live with his mother, Vilma Baker, in Boardman, Ohio; have a curfew; meet with Pre-trial services regularly; and undergo psychological evaluations. Baker told Department of Public Safety officers late last month that he did not want to be examined by psychiatrists, who he called "the shamans of our age," said FBI Special Agent Greg Stejskal. In denying Baker's bond Friday, Carlson called Baker a "ticking bomb waiting to go off,"and Friedman described him as "too dangerous for society." Chadwell said that if a grand jury indictment is reached by Friday, the scheduled hearing will be bypassed. Should Friday's probable cause hearing take place, an indictment would still be required for the case to go to trial. Chadwell declined comment on the grand jury proceedings as "they are secret." FBI Special Agent Dawn Moritz said the FBI has contacted the Ontario Provincial Police in the investigation of an Ontario man Baker had e-mailed in the last few months. According to the FBI, the e-mail correspondence included plans to abduct, rape, torture and murder women. "The OPP has been notified of the case," Moritz said. "The matter has been referred to them and they are trying to identify (Arthur Gonda) over in Canada." But Ontario police said they had not heard of the case other than from local newspaper and television reports. "The the criminal investigation and the anti-racket branches of the OPP have not been contacted in regards to the investigation," said Staff Sgt. Terry Blace of the Toronto branch of the OPP. "Those two department would receive an official request for assistance, but neither has reported knowing ofthe case. However, the FBI may have made a request and it may have been redirected to another agency." "I am not saying that the FBI didn't contact the OPP, just that a request may have been sent elsewhere," Blace said. Blace said the Ontario police's search for Arthur Gonda would not be in connection to Baker, but for crimes that Gonda may have committed in Canada. "Mr. Baker's investigation in Ontario would be done by the FBI because his alleged criminal activity originated in the U.S.," he said. "If Gonda is involved in criminal charges in Canada, that is when we would get involved." While Blace declined comment on Baker's case individually, he said Canada's laws regarding the import of pornographic material or hate literature are fairly strict. "I cannot say exactly how this would apply to Mr. Baker's case, but hate mail and pornography in Canada does not require any action, just the movement of material," he said. "I am not sure how the OPP would deal with the Baker and Gonda's cases." Moritz declined further comment on Baker's case because an FBI investigation is pending. Mullkoff says he hopes Baker's is not the first of many Internet cases the FBI tries to prosecute. "I hope that it is unlikely that other prosecutions of this type would be coming in the future. I think that the FBI must have a lot of time on their hands to be poking around on college campuses looking for fiction writers," Mullkoff asserted.