#8- The courts decision about the preventative measure.

Prosecutor Wiesniakowski decided to pursue the case against me. I guess the subtleties of the teeth or the lack of witnesses or the obviousness of the lies meant nothing to him. Or perhapos he simply decided to support Zaremba for a piece of the pie. In any case, he decided to persue the case at this point.
I made a statement before a judge, declared I was not guilty, and was told that I would be detained in the jail for a period of three months. They called this a temporary arrest. I got a little upset and asked if they would allow for bail. The judge agreed and placed the amount at 4000 zlotys, about $1000. I was not happy about this, but I was not in jail and as far as I knew, I was free to go back to Belarus.
However, this was not meant to be because after I left, the court changed its decision to the following:

17 may, 2002 The court decides to change the decision from the date 17 may about the arrest of Adam Goodman. The new decision will be that the passport will be taken away and he cannot leave the country. The court made the decision about the arrest, but because the accused wanted to pay and he doesn't have anyone in Poland whom can pay this for him. The court decides not to consider complaints. And it decides to hold the decision.(Note)
Explanation:
In the opinion of the court regent made to the accused the decision about preventative measure that is keeping the passport and the ban of leaving Poland are enough to insure the right manor of conducting court business. Making this, the hardest preventative measure, temporary arrest would be not adequate to the sort of things that Mr. Goodman is accused of.