From: micshi@pipeline.com (Michael Shields)
Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories
Subject: Baker: 'Danger to Society'
Date: 14 Feb 1995 21:18:53 -0500
Organization: The Pipeline
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In alt.sex.stories nobody@nately.ucsd.edu (Anonymous) said: 
 
 
>BAKER DENIED BOND; 
>HEARING DATE SET 
 
>STUDENT JUDGED 'TOO DANGEROUS' 
>TO BE RELEASED 
 
>By Josh White 
>The Michigan DAILY 
>2/13/95 
 
>One federal judge deemed 20-year-old Jake A. Baker "too >dangerous for
society" and another called him "a ticking bomb >waiting to go off" last
Friday in denying him bail bond and ordering >him to be detained in jail
until pre-trial motions, which are >scheduled for this Friday. 
 
>Baker, an LSA sophomore, is accused under Title 18 U.S. Code, >section
865(c) of transmitting threats of kidnap, torture, rape and >murder across
state lines via the Internet, and both Judge Bernard >A. Friedman and
Magistrate Judge Thomas A. Carlson considered >those threats dangerous to a
University student mentioned in >Baker's posting and to the community at
large. 
 
>"I would not want my daughter on the streets of Ann Arbor or Ohio >with a
man in the condition I believe he is in right now," Friedman >said in an
appeal bond hearing Friday afternoon. 
 
>The charges stem from stories Baker, a Boardman, Ohio native, >posted on
the Internet newsgroup "alt.sex.stories" and several >e-mail messages he
sent to a man known as Arthur Gonda in >Ontario. 
 
>Baker's attorney, Douglas Mullkoff, said the detention of his client >is
unwarranted. 
 
>"The court is presuming that he is guilty," Mullkoff said.  "I
>respectfully disagree with every word the judge said.  Mr Baker >was
writing fiction in a fiction area of the Internet." 
 
 
In Detroit, Bernard A. Friedman has the well-deserved reputation of being a
rubber stamp for the U.S. Attorney's Office. The selection of a judge is
supposed to be by blind draw, but don't think the government doesn't get
the judge it wants in cases like this. 
 
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