Last Wednesday, Federal Magistrate Judge Joan G. Margolis detained Doug Perlitz ‘92 after his lawyers withdrew their argument against his detainment.
William F. Dow III, Perlitz’s lead attorney, asked for the right to continue the matter at a later date if the defense should choose to. The government’s petition for detainment was granted without prejudice. Dow said that the defense had not yet met the conditions that Margolis had set forth for his release, but that ultimately, he will ask for Perlitz to be released once he secures the finances.
“It’s an extraordinary bond requirement,” said Dow after the hearing. “It involves a bunch of moving parts, like playing three-level chess.”
But the day before, the lawyers for Doug Perlitz ‘92, filed a new motion, which submitted a new proposal for Perlitz’s release. Margolis seemed to indicate that she would accept a bond in the $4-5 million range along with increased third-party custodians during the first portion of the hearing, which took place 20 days beforehand.
The new proposal included 19 other people to raise bail money along with 12 more third-party back-up custodians. Dow said that motion was just an outline of a package and that it is a ”dynamic one, not a static one, pieces have to be filled in.”
That motion was followed by a rebuttal by the government. The government also attached “Exhibit A,” which stated that after a very preliminary investigation by an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent, Perlitz’s computer was found to contain over 100 images of nude black males performing sex acts along with numerous URLs to various sex Web sites.
“We haven’t seen any information about what they are alleging with the computer,” said Dow. “There is nothing illegal about any of the conduct the government described.”
The hearing was also attended by 12 Haitians from New York City, led by the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network, who want to give the Haitian children a voice in the courtroom after the first hearing was packed with Perlitz supporters.
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Why does he have ‘92 after his name?
‘92 is the year he graduated from Fairfield.
But is it part of his legal name? I’ve never seen that before.
No, it’s just a naming convention that Fairfield uses. Students and alumni have the year appended to their name. Lucas Stag ‘42 etc…
For a much fuller description of what was on Perlitz’s computer right before his arrest, see
http://www.connpost.com/breakingnews/ci_13658998
Quote: The delay in Perlitz’s attempt to post bond came hours after a federal prosecutor advised the judge that the accused was trolling Internet sites shortly before his Sept. 16 arrest in Colorado, “conducting Google searches” for “gay boys black” “Colorado Haitians” and “africa boyz” and Yahoo searches for “gay black boys,” according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Krishna Patel.
“Moreover, the initial findings indicate that Perlitz’s activities on the computer included access to forum pages which included places where people could post personals, arrange for meetings and identify cruising places,” the prosecutor said.
So, it remains an open question whether nothing illegal occurred regarding Perlitz’s computer use. His request was for boys, not men.
Being released on bond should be unthinkable for him.
OK. The ‘92 is probably just a strange detail in a very strange case. It’s hard to image the courtroom with Perlitz supporters vs. 15 Haitians. I know that most prominent pedophiles have a legion of supporters, but this one is way over the top. How can anyone publicly support a man who googles for gay black boys, no matter what crime he’s accused of? And one has to ask, is this courtroom spectacle taking place in the Diocese of Bridgeport, soon to unleash 12,000 pedophile documents which will shock the nation? What is going on in Connecticut? Why are they drawing attention to themselves in such damaging ways? Why are they taking up against the poor of Haiti, just to save one man who is clearly a pedophile?
What do you mean strange detail in some strange case. I made this perfectly clear before. Read:
The ‘92 at the end of the name of Fairfield students or graduates is the year the person graduated. It is something Fairfield does. It’s not rocket science.
The comment section below the last article about Perlitz’s effort to post bond is instructive for an understanding of the university’s position, and related critiques of it.
See http://fairfieldmirror.com/2009/10/28/perlitz-detained-without-prejudice-defense-plans-to-eventually-ask-for-release/