Finally, someone arranged to have Bladasaro's hat stolen from him while he was sleeping in his jail cell. But they underestimated Baldasaro's determination. The next day, Michael Baldasaro appeared in court wearing his underwear on his head . As punishment for Baldasaro's irreverent reverncy of God, the court denied him a bail hearing for thirty days, and then postponed his release from prison, on bail, for another four months while he continued awaiting trial. Despite the obvious attacks on church members in the lower courts, Reverends Baldasaro and Tucker refused to be embittered.
Many people working in the court system are on our side.
In 1994, REverend Baldasaro's six month sentence at the hands of Justice Borkovich was reduced to seven weeks, time served, and Baldasaro was released. During the appeal, one of the members of the three member board of Justices, the learned Justice Martin, concluded that charges under the Narcotics Control Act do not even constitute criminal charges, as such charges are the jurisdiction of the Minister of Health. Justice Martin's argument caused furor in the legal community. In 1996, Reverend Baldasaro's other trafficking conviction at the hand of Justice Borkovich was reduced from three years to only one. In sentencing, the Appeal Court judges stated that they didn't even care if Baldasaro's one year sentence was allowed to expire without him seeing a single day behind bars.