Hutaree Militia Staying In Jail: Court Issues Emergency Order

Court halts release of jailed militia members

By ED WHITE (AP) – 46 minutes ago

DETROIT — A federal appeals court on Thursday issued an emergency stay blocking, at least temporarily, the release of nine jailed Michigan militia members accused of conspiring to overthrow the U.S. government.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati issued the stay shortly after the U.S. attorney's office in Detroit filed a motion seeking the order. Defense attorneys had until 5 p.m. to respond.

The nine had been returned to U.S. District Court in Detroit to be processed for release until trial, but the appeals court halted those proceedings.

"They're bad losers," defense attorney Mark Satawa told reporters after the hearing, referring to the government. "I fully expect that the 6th Circuit will resolve this quickly."

In a ruling late Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts said she would not further suspend her Monday order that releases the militia members with strict rules, including electronic monitoring and curfews.

"We don't think the conditions are satisfactory," U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade told The Associated Press. "We think the defendants pose a danger to the public and to law enforcement in particular. It's my duty to protect the safety of the public."

Roberts had ordered the militia members released Monday, then suspended her decision while prosecutors decided whether to appeal. They will appeal, but she was not persuaded to freeze the order any longer.

"Defendants are presumed innocent of all charges against them. ... This presumption of innocence is part and parcel of why, 'In our society liberty is the norm, and detention prior to trial or without trial is the carefully limited exception,'" Roberts wrote, quoting a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court decision.

The members of the southern Michigan militia, called Hutaree, are charged with conspiracy to commit sedition, or rebellion, against the government and the attempted use of weapons of mass destruction. They have been in custody without bond since late March.

Prosecutors claim the suspects are too dangerous to be released from jail. But Roberts set many restrictions and appointed third-party custodians, mostly family members, to keep watch.

Many were at the courthouse Thursday waiting for their relatives to be released.

"One hundred miles for nothing," said Tina Stone's father, 64-year-old Tim Kelley of North Adams, Mich., referring to his drive from Hillsdale County.

Stone, 44, the wife of militia leader David Stone, 44, of Clayton, Mich., has been ordered to stay with her father when she is released.

"It's frustrating, to be sure. She thought she was going home," her attorney, Michael Rataj, said of the delay.

Since the series of raids and arrests about six weeks ago, Hutaree members have been portrayed by the government as homegrown extremists out to strike at authorities.

Roberts found that the secret recordings of militia members by an undercover agent contained "offensive and hate-filled speech," but nothing that signaled a conspiracy to levy war against the government.

"The defendants laugh, make sounds and appear to talk over one another," Roberts said, referring to a Feb. 20 recording. "There is also a discussion of strippers."

Prosecutors have said allowing the militia members to go free pending trial would endanger the public.

"If the defendants were to flee or to cause even a fraction of the harm they have repeatedly and fervently spoken of and planned for, no ruling by the 6th Circuit could undo that damage," Assistant U.S. Attorney Ronald Waterstreet said in a court filing Wednesday.

Associated Press Writer Jeff Karoub contributed to this report.

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"They're bad losers," defense attorney Mark Satawa...

“Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.”

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