On Dec. 29, the town sheriff, the town clerk and two magistrates presented the Remonstrance to Stuyvesant's colonial government, and were promptly arrested (and shortly thereafter, released).
The magistrate judge present at the bedside arraignment later advised Mr Tsarnaev of his rights and of the charges against him.
Prison officials said only an executioner, physician and magistrate were present at today's hanging.
Summoning a jury from their number – which was legal because two North Carolina magistrates were present – the colonists selected random prisoners and charged them with crimes ranging from theft to arson to murder.
The strip also confuses federal with magistrate courts and presents a courtroom scenario that would never occur in real life.
"Alois Brunner must be considered the true organiser of the deportation of Jews from France between June 1943 and August 1944," said the investigating magistrate Hervé Stephan, who presented the case to the court.
When, near the end of David Copperfield, the protagonist is given a tour of a new model prison by his former schoolmaster Creakle (now transmogrified into a Middlesex magistrate), he is presented with the two most exemplary prisoners, in adjacent cells.
"There has been a sealed complaint filed," said Gary Wente, circuit executive for the U.S. Courts for the First Circuit, who said a magistrate judge was present when Tsarnaev was charged at his bed in Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston.
'If the fact and results of such a surveillance had been appropriately presented to the magistrate, this would, of course, present an entirely different case.' 378 U.S., at 109, n. 1, 84 S.Ct. at 1511.
Officer Strickland merely testified that 'we wanted to set up surveillance on the house.' If the fact and results of such a surveillance had been appropriately presented to the magistrate, this would, of course, present an entirely different case.
