Update, 6:00 p.m.: Prosecutor says Mueller swung an arm as he was being taken into custody, triggering a resisting-arrest charge.

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GREENFIELD -- Jury selection got under way Monday morning in the trial of two New Hampshire men accused of illegally filming their encounter with law enforcement officials at the Franklin County Jail & House of Correction last summer.

Pete Eyre and Adam Mueller, founder of the "pro-police accountability" organization Cop Block -- which advocates filming or photographing police and posting those images online -- were arrested July 1, 2010, outside the Greenfield jail when they refused to stop filming on the premises.

The men, who had gone to the facility to bail out two friends being held on drug and weapons charges, claim there were no signs indicating they could not film at the jail. They continued to record the encounter against officers' orders, leading to their arrest by Greenfield police.

On Monday morning, Eyre and Mueller and about 60 supporters gathered outside the Franklin County Courthouse with placards protesting police tactics that they believe tread on their natural freedoms. Eyre and Mueller are so-called voluntaryists who adhere to the principles of a stateless society based on natural law, not a formal system of rules and regulations with law enforcers such as police and other agents of the state.

As of 10 a.m., the legal proceeding had not resulted in any conflagrations inside or outside the courthouse. At a previous court appearance, however, supporters of Eyre and Mueller caused a minor disturbance at the conclusion of that proceeding, which prompted extra security precautions Monday.

In an effort to control the crowd and avoid any disruptions, court guards sealed off a hallway abutting the Superior Court courtroom. The trial is being held in that courtroom even though it is a District Court case.

Picking a jury can take hours or days in some cases, depending on the nature of a case and how much media exposure it has received. In Eyre and Mueller's case, the duo launched a media blitz in advance of Monday's trial, though the effectiveness of that campaign was not immediately evident. There were no TV or radio reporters on hand for the trial, which attracted only a handful of print-media reporters but numerous Eyre-Mueller supporters wearing CopBlock.org or LibertyOnTour.com T-shirts and items bearing other pro-liberty, anti-government slogans

Any chance of reaching a last-minute plea deal with the defendants before the start of the trial apparently was not an option: Mueller was wearing a T-shirt with nevertakeaplea.org emblazoned across the back, making it clear that he and Eyre planned to fight the charges.

District Court Judge William F. Mazanec III is presiding over the trial, which could last a couple of days. The case is being prosecuted by Northwestern Assistant District Attorney Jeffrey Bengston.

Eyre and Mueller are representing themselves, though a pair of court-appointed attorneys were seated at the defense table. One of those attorneys was ween whispering to the defendants' at several points during pretrial motions.

Eyre and Mueller's black-and-gold "Liberty on Tour" mobile home -- dubbed MARV, which stands for Mobile Authority Resistance Vehicle -- was parked outside the courthouse. Despite their current legal woes, the men are touring the nation this summer to espouse their views on a voluntary society and promoting the practice of publicly challenging law enforcement officials by filming and photographing them. .