Trial of men accused of illegal filming inside Franklin County Jail begins in Greenfield | masslive.com

Trial of men accused of illegal filming inside Franklin County Jail begins in Greenfield | masslive.com

A large group of supporters were on hand Monday at the Franklin County Courthouse, where Pete Eyre and Adam Mueller are on trial in Greenfield District Court for an incident last summer at the Franklin County Jail & House of Correction. Eyre and Mueller, founders of the police watchdog organization Cop Block, are accused of illegally filming their encounter with law enforcement officials at the county jail on July 1, 2010. The pair were arrested by Greenfield police after allegedly failing to comply with officers' request to stop filming at the facility. On Monday, several dozen supporters flocked to the Greenfield courthouse to offer support to the duo and to protest what they view as an unnecessary and illegal arrest.

GREENFIELD -- Jury selection got under way Monday morning in the trialof two New Hampshire men accused of illegally filming their encounter with law enforcement officials at the Franklin County Jail & House of Correction last summer.

Pete Eyre and Adam Mueller, founder of the "pro-police accountability" organization Cop Block -- which advocates filming or photographing police and posting those images online -- were arrested July 1, 2010, outside the Greenfield jail when they refused to stop filming on the premises.

The men, who had gone to the facility to bail out two friends being held on drug and weapons charges, claim there were no signs indicating they could not film at the jail. They continued to record the encounter against officers' orders, leading to their arrest by Greenfield police.

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