Pollard to appeal court ruling on parole requirements
After federal judge upholds restrictions, lawyer of former Israeli spy to
ask court to void probation terms that include government monitoring, curfew
By JTA August 24, 2016, 7:25 pm
http://www.timesofisrael.com/pollard-to-appeal-court-ruling-on-parole-requirements/

Jonathan Pollard’s attorney announced plans to appeal a federal court’s
ruling not to lift the restrictive parole conditions on the convicted spy
for Israel.

On Tuesday, Eliot Lauer said he would file a notice of appeal over the
August 12 decision in Manhattan District Court, The Jerusalem Post reported.

In his appeal, according to the Post, Lauer plans to argue that the parole
requirements are arbitrary and Pollard poses no security risk, since he has
not had access to classified government information for more than three
decades.

The parole terms issued upon Pollard’s release from a federal prison last
November after serving 30 years of a life sentence require him to stay in
his New York home from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., to submit any computer he uses for
inspection, and to wear a GPS-monitoring device at all times. The device
means that Pollard, who is Orthodox, is forced to violate Shabbat
observance, his lawyer said. He also must remain in the United States for
five years, despite his desire to move to Israel.

In her ruling, Judge Katherine Forrest ruled that the US Parole Commission
had a rational basis for imposing the stringent parole conditions, noting
Pollard’s expressed desire to leave the United States for Israel, where his
wife lives and where he was granted citizenship while in prison.

She also noted that the commission also had reviewed a letter from the US
director of national intelligence, James Clapper, stating that documents
Pollard had compromised remain classified at the levels of “top secret” and
“secret.”

Pollard, 62, pleaded guilty in 1986 to conspiracy to commit espionage in
connection with providing Israeli contacts with hundreds of classified
documents he had obtained as a civilian intelligence specialist for the US
Navy.