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| Hunger-striking inmate given medical furlough |
| By Joplin Globe |
| Published: 11/24/2004 |
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Robert Joos, a self-professed white supremacist who was jailed in connection with his contention that the state's requirement that drivers be licensed is unconstitutional, was furloughed Tuesday from custody after going on a hunger strike. Jeff Conway, a Joos neighbor who had visited him in the McDonald County (Mo.) Jail, said Joos had not eaten in nine days and had drunk little over the past seven days. Associate Circuit Judge John LePage on Tuesday authorized a six-hour furlough for Joos to be seen by a doctor. Barring hospitalization, Joos was to return to the jail within the six hours, which commenced at noon. A jailer said about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday that it was his understanding that Joos had been admitted under a 96-hour arrangement at Joplin hospital. Joos, in a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed Friday, claimed that he was being held unlawfully and vowed that he would not eat until a hearing on the petition was held. "Wherefore, having no other recourse and time being of the essence (as I lose both unrecoverable time and possibly my health as I have eaten nothing and drunk but one liter of water since noon, 14 Nov. 04, and will eat nothing until heard on this petition)," Joos wrote. Joos leads the Sacerdotal Church of David on a 200-acre farm near the community of Cyclone between Powell and Pineville on Big Sugar Creek. Joos was jailed Nov. 14 after a Missouri State Highway Patrol Trooper saw him driving a vehicle on a county road. The trooper said he pursued Joos for 16 minutes before he finally stopped at the church. He was charged two felony counts - driving without a license and resisting arrest by fleeing - and was held on $10,000 bond. |
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