April 24, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n A man facing two drugs charges today questioned the jurisdiction of Kingaroy Magistrates Court to hear the matter.<\/p>\n Jason Perkins is charged with possessing dangerous drugs, possessing instructions for producing dangerous drugs, and contravening a police direction.<\/p>\n Appearing unrepresented, Perkins was asked by Magistrate Barry Barrett if he was “Jason Perkins”.<\/p>\n “I don’t know that it is,” he replied. “Is Mr Jason Perkins a corporation? I am a man and I have been forced to perform under duress as Jason Perkins.”<\/p>\n Magistrate Barrett noted the “contravene police direction” charge related to Perkins allegedly refusing to supply his name and address to police.<\/p>\n The Magistrate then read out the charges and asked Perkins if he understood them.<\/p>\n “I seek a legal determination to what ‘understand’ means,” Perkins replied.<\/p>\n Perkins then added he was not “entering into any agreements” with the court but asked that the magistrate receive a document from him and read it.<\/p>\n Mr Barrett said he would attach the document to Perkins’ court records.<\/p>\n He adjourned the matter to May 29 and enlarged Perkins’ bail.<\/p>\n Perkins again reiterated he would not enter into any agreements, at which point Police Prosecutor Pepe Gangemi said that if Perkins refused to enter into a bail agreement, he should be held in custody.<\/p>\n However Mr Barrett said he had already enlarged the bail and said Perkins was free to leave.<\/p>\n “I have seen it all before,” Mr Barrett commented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A man facing two drugs charges today questioned the jurisdiction of Kingaroy Magistrates Court to hear the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":201131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24],"tags":[1132],"yoast_head":"\n