NJ animal rights activists case has S.C. potential

"A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld the convictions of six activists, including a Hamilton resident, found guilty of using their internet website to incite threats and harassment against a company that tests products on animals.

Employees of Huntingdon Life Sciences found themselves besieged with attacks by animal rights activists after the postings. One Montgomery woman, Carol Auletta, who worked at the company’s offices in Franklin Township, had testified the harassment continued for at least a year, from 2002 to 2003, at her home and in downtown Princeton Borough.

Robert Obler, a Lawrenceville attorney representing former Hamilton resident Darius Fulmer, said the ruling will be appealed.

'I’m fairly sure we will wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court,' he said. 'We knew all along we would.'

Convicted in a 2006 trial were Fullmer, Conroy, Joshua Harper of Seattle, Andrew Stepanian of Huntington, N.Y., and Lauren Gazzola and Kevin Kjonaas, who lived with Conroy in Pinole, Calif."