OAKLAND — A 72-year-old man has been released from jail while he fights charges of killing a man who was allegedly squatting at the defendant’s dead mother’s home, court records show.

John Cvar, of Oakland, was charged in August with murdering Aknico Heidengren, a 33-year-old man who went by “Justice.” Cvar was being held with no bail until last month, when his lawyer filed motion referring to Heidengren as one of many “vagrants and drug users” that Cvar’s younger brother had allowed to stay at the brothers’ deceased mother’s residence, leading to a conflict between Heidengren and one of Cvar’s two brothers.

“I am a sovereign citizen,” Heidengren allegedly yelled at John Cvar and his brother when they told Heidengren to leave the residence. Cvar would later tell police that he and his br

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