Arutz Sheva spoke with Jonathan Pollard's attorney, Eliot Lauer, on Monday, just days after Pollard was released from US prison.
"The feeling was one of tremendous elation - particularly for Jonathan and Esther to be together for the first time, and to be able to prepare for the first Shabbat together," Lauer began. "Of course, there are issues with the parole commission we need to work out, conditions we are challenging, so there is a degree of reservation."
Lauer added that Pollard and his legal team "are not looking for mass demonstrations" or other public outcries against the restrictions, however, in respect for the Pollard family's privacy.
He did speak, however, about the federal petition Pollard's team filed on Friday, calling the restrictions on Pollard's movement and internet usage "unreasonable, unlawful, arbitrary, and serve no legitimate purpose." The team hopes to see the issue addressed this coming week.
"The law is very clear that, while there are certain standard restrictions in any parole context, the restrictions above and beyond the ordinary - which are checking in on a periodic basis, agreeing to do drug testing when necessary, but beyond that - the extraordinary conditions which might be set for [...] someone with a tendency to be violent, those stringencies must be connected to the original crime."
"In Jonathan's case, none of these make any sense, and therefore they are unlawful."