Two of the 284 people arrested yesterday appeared in arraignment court this morning. Jiro Kanno and Stephen Matthew Goodman stood in Ramsey County District Court on misdemeanor charges. Judge J. Thomas Mott said paperwork on six others facing misdemeanor charges wasn’t complete.

Another group of at least 10 who have refused to give police their names were due in court this morning, but Mott said they might appear in the afternoon instead, along with more demonstrators who are facing felony charges.

Ramsey County Sheriff’s spokesperson Holly Drinkwine said that overnight, most people charged with misdemeanors who gave names and had identification were tagged and released. She added that authorities had made no further arrests.

Both men who appeared this morning live out of state but accepted court dates for September 16. Goodman faces three misdemeanor charges stemming for what the St. Paul City Attorney’s office termed “fighting with police” at 9th and Wacouta streets yesterday: obstructing the legal process, disorderly conduct and disrupting traffic.

Goodman’s attorney, Howard Carp of the National Lawyers Guild, said police seized his client’s identification and then detained him because he didn’t have ID. After Mott set bail at $750, Carp said Goodman, of New York, had only $50 in cash and didn’t know what had happened to his possessions, including his credit card, after his arrest.

Mott, referring to pre-RNC planning that had dealt with this scenario, said items such as credit cards that could be needed for posting bail were supposed to have been bagged separately and asked the sheriff’s office to make Goodman’s available to him.

Kanno, through ACLU attorney Howard Bass, asked to postpone his arraignment proceeding. Mott set bail for Kanno at $600. The St. Paul City Attorney’s office asked for $1,000 bail on a charge of disorderly conduct, saying Kanno was part of a large group on East 7th Street that was throwing items and doing damage and when asked by police to leave, did not. Kanno was carrying two bottles at the time of his arrest: one marked “LAW” and the other marked “acid/water.”

Bass said Mott is a junior at Northeastern University studying biology who came to St. Paul as a street medic and did not engage in disorderly conduct. The liquid in the bottles was for flushing the eyes of people struck with chemical irritants, he said.

Outside the courtroom, protest group observers said that LAW stands for “liquid antacid-water” — basically Maalox and water.

The six other named individuals on the court calendar for this morning who did not appear because police reports had not been prepared for them are: Nathaniel Andrew Runals, Joseph Luis Sanchez, Brandon David Bowser, Timothy John Clifford, Hannibal Cameron Cook and Brian Christopher Brown.