The facts of this case are as follows:
- Aaron-Hassan Johnson-Bey is currently incarcerated at the Northeast Correctional Center in Bowling Green, Missouri
- He pled guilty to First Degree Robbery, Armed Criminal Action, and First Degree Tampering with a Motor Vehicle
- He failed to appear for sentencing and a warrant had to be issued for his arrest
- He was sentenced to 15 years
- In October 2021, he filed a petition (filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, Northern Division) regarding his view that he is entitled to release from confinement for two reasons: (1) he is “a lawful Man and Natural Person being held in dishonor,” and (2) he is “a Lawful man being held as the Bail and Surety”
- His petition included 25 pages of attachments filled with typical sovereign citizen lingo such as a “Notice of Birthright and Right of Soil;” petitioner appears to allege the Court lacks jurisdiction over him because he is “not a ‘port of entry’ for any newly birthed ‘legal entity’ to be entered into the fictional, or fractional, corporate marketplace as bond, surety, equity, futures, chattel, stock, or trade material”
- As the court notes, sovereign citizen arguments have been “summarily rejected as frivolous by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals and other federal courts”
- As you might expect, the case was dismissed (decided Oct 28, 2021)