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Prohibition From Identifying Children


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Prohibition From Identifying Children

Increase Transparency In The Family Courts

The Court of Appeal has decided that the prohibition from identifying children which section 97 of the Children Act 1989provides only applies whilst the proceedings relating to the child in question are in progress. Once the proceedings have concluded, the protection given by the Act comes to an end, the entitlement to anonymity thereafter being dependent upon an exercise in balancing the Convention rights of those involved.

Although statistics are published about cases that pass through the courts, these in their nature cannot answer claims that abuses of the system are not identified and that there are effectively no quality controls.

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SIR JAMES MUNBY : Hearing date : 27 June 2013 On an Application by : local authority (Staffordshire County Council)

This case raises…

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Class complaint against WA Bar Association for RICO| CORRUPT WA


Class complaint against WA Bar Association

for RICO

Class complaint against WA Bar Association for RICO

Racketeer Influenced And Corrupt Organization Act

Class complaint against WA Bar Association for RICO

Class complaint against WA Bar Association for RICO

This is a “live web page” which means it will be updated as fast as I’m able to write, program, and publish content.

In drafting this Class Action Complaint against WA State, all your ideas and recommendations are needed to make it the best pleading ever filed against WA State for the misconduct by the “legal establishment” — i.e., The WA State Bar Association and how their members have commandeered our government.

As the illustration shows, when the legislature, circa 1933, decided to create an agency of the state in the WA State Bar, the legislature failed to institute the critical controls required for an agency as powerful as the WA State Bar. This oversight not only renders the WA State Bar unconstitutional, but provides a breeding ground for mass delusional behavior inherent in entities being a power without accountability. Their only ‘reference point’ by which to judge their ideals is themselves. If Bar Associates believe themselves ‘superior beings’ who can tell them otherwise?

WA State Government Structure PRE WA State Gov chart

You can submit your suggestions, criticisms, ideas, … either publicly as ‘comments’ or to me privately at billscheidler@outlook.com

This complaint must be so well written and tight, WE MAKE HISTORY! I’d like to get this filed within 3-years.

 

Superior [Federal District(?)] Court of Washington for Kitsap County
William Scheidler, individually; et al.
Plaintiffs
v.
State of Washington, and
WA State Bar Associations and its associates Jane and John Doe’s with Bar numbers 1-50,000 in their individual and official capacities
Defendants		   Case No.
CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT RCW 9A.82 [and or RICO]; COMPLAINT PER RCW 7.56; RCW 4.92; RCW 4.96 AND MORE TOO NUMEROUS TO LIST.

JURY DEMANDED

JURY DEMANDED

The issues raised herein concern the unlawful conduct of WA State, its officers, agencies and agents. The statutory term “Conduct,” and what ‘conduct’ is consistent with WA governments’ “just powers,” See WA Art. 1, sec 1, constitute factual questions; and this claim seeks monetary damages in addition to other remedies. A Jury is Demanded. In WA, the right to a jury is a constitutional right, see Art 1, sec 21, and by statute, RCW 9A.82.100(15) in matters of corrupt influence, a jury is by right. Furthermore, issues of FACT and for monetary damages are for a JURY to determine. See RCW 4.40.060-070 , and RCW 4.44.090 (full citations incorporated by reference)
Furthermore, Article 4, SECTION 16 CHARGING JURIES. Judges shall not charge juries with respect to matters of fact, nor comment thereon, but shall declare the law. Clearly, when read together, Article 1, Section 1 by its words, Article 1, Section 21 by its words, Article 4, Section 16, by its words, and statutes RCW 4.40.060-070, RCW 4.44.090, and RCW 9A.82.100(15) unambiguously state a JURY is an essential element in this complaint and a due process right in seeking an impartial remedy.

PARTIES AND RELATIONSHIPS

The Plaintiffs for their Complaint against the Defendants state as follows:

  • Plaintiffs: [omitted]
  • Defendants:[omitted]

JURISDICTION

This Court has jurisdiction over this claims for relief under 18 U.S.C. sec. 1964(a) and 1964(c); and 28 U.S.C. sec. 1331.

PERSONAL JURISDICTION AND VENUE

Personal jurisdiction and venue are predicated upon 18 U.S.C. sec. 1965(a) and (b) and 28 U.S.C. sec. 1391(b) since the Defendants are residents of, have an agent or agents, or transact their affairs in the District of Washington, and the acts and occurrences in furtherance of the claims alleged herein arose in the District of Washington, and because the ends of justice require that other parties residing in other districts be brought before the court.

COMPLAINT–CLASS ACTION

This action is brought by plaintiffs as a class action, on their own behalf and on behalf of all others similarly situated, under the provisions of Rules 23(a) and Rule 23(b)(2) and/or 23(b)(3) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, for damages, injunctive and declaratory relief, and relief incident and subordinate thereto, including costs and attorneys’ fees. This action is divided into six counts, as follows:
[paragraphs relating to technical class action allegations, omitted]

COUNT I is brought by all plaintiffs as a class action against all defendants.

CLASS ACTION UNDER THE RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS ACT (18 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1962(a),(b),(c), and (d))/and or under RCW 9A.82.100(15); ……….. For the routine, pervasive, and blatant violation of the following laws and constitutional provisions:

      RCW 4.04.010 – The Common law shall be the rule in the courts or as modified by the people;
      RCW 2.28.030 – Disqualification of Judge for direct interest;
      RCW 2.32.050 – Powers and Duties of Clerks;
      RCW 2.48.210 – Lawyers Oath of Office – never seek to mislead, take cases of the oppressed, uphold the highest standards of truth and honor.
      RCW 2.48.180 – Misconduct by a lawyer is any violation of his duties as noted in RCW 18.130.180 Unprofessional Conduct.
      RCW 2.48.230 – Code of Ethics
      RCW 42.20 – Official Misconduct
      RCW 9A.72 – Perjury and Interference with Official proceedings
      RCW 9A.80 – Abuse of office
      Article 1, Section 1 – “just powers”
      Article 1, Section 4 – Right of Petition
      Article 1, Section 10 – Administration of justice
      Article 1, Section 21 – Trial by Jury
      RCW 4.40 – Trial by Jury
      RCW 4.44 – Trial by Jury
      Article 1, Section 25 – Prosecution by information
      RCW 7.56 – Who may prosecute by information and against whom.
      Article 2, Section 1 – The “legislature is vested with law making” or “the people”.
      Article 2, Section 28 – The prohibition in enacting special laws “limiting civil or criminal” cases and “legalizing the unauthorized or invalid act of any officer”
    Article 4, Section 28 – Oath of Judges; etc.

INTRODUCTION

This is an extremely complicated case to unwind how WA State Bar Associates (lawyers and or the “Enterprise”), by occupying various positions and offices within government, both elected and appointed – such as:

  • legislative elective office;
  • judicial office
  • executive elective office;
  • attorney general and prosecutorial office,

on committees, for example, the

  • Senate committee of Law and Justice;
  • House Judiciary committee,

and on various boards, for example the

  • Board of Tax Appeals;
  • WSBA Disciplinary Board,

and on various commissions such as the

  • Commission on Judicial Conduct;

and in agencies such as the

  • Office of Risk Management, etc.,

use their government positions, and with the aid of their associates outside government, the purposes of profiting the ‘enterprise’. Furthermore, their government positions assure the enterprise maintains and increases their power and wealth for the benefit of all their willing associates. This commandeering of our government by this racketeering enterprise provides them a clear pathway to ‘exempt’ themselves from a citizen oversight. For example these “enterprise public servants” despite the people’s initiative establishing the WA State Public Records act, give themselves “absolute immunity” from citizen lawsuits, notwithstanding WA constitutional prohibition, Art. 2, sec 28, limiting ‘civil and criminal actions; and declared themselves out of reach of WA State’s Auditor. See respectively Nast v. Michels, 107 Wn.2d 300, 730 P.2d 54 (1986), Scheidler v CJC and Bar 14-2-00042-3; and GRAHAM v. BAR ASSOCIATION 86 Wn.2d 624, 548 P.2d 310

Legislative history:

The Washington State Bar Association existed as a voluntary professional association between 1888 and 1933. [GRAHAM at 626] When, circa 1933, the WA State Bar Act and the Association of Superior Court Judges were passed by the legislature, codified as RCW 2.48 and RCW 2.16 respectively, and considered in relation to Article 2, Sect 17 that limits eligibility for judgeship’s to those admitted to practice – it becomes clear, only Bar members may be judges and thereby only Bar members will compose the Superior Court Judges Association. Before the 1933 legislation, judges could come from outside the Bar’s control.

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(A)   SCHEME TO INFILTRATE AND CONTROL WA STATE GOVERNMENT
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(B) WA STATE BAR DISCIPLINARY SCHEME
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(D) COURT RULES SCHEME
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(C) COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL CONDUCT DISCIPLINARY SCHEME
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(E) STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION SCHEME

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(F) VOTER FRAUD SCHEME

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(G) SECRECY SCHEME – PUBLIC RECORDS ACT
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(H)    SCHEME BY EUPHEMISMS
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(I) LACK OF JURISDICTION SCHEME

  • Oath if Office scheme:

While all non-enterprise government officials and or office holders subscribe to and take an oath to uphold the laws of the US and WA, their “go to” person is generally a member of the “Enterprise – a lawyer.” This lawyer often misdirects, intimidates, or otherwise influences the official to either disregard, ignore or do such other act so as to protect the “Enterprise” and not perform the officials duties as prescribed or proscribed by the laws they have sworn to uphold.

Furthermore, the government enterprise lawyers all sit in judgement of their oath of office. This ‘conflict in being both bound by law and adjudicators of fact and law by which they are bound, is contrary to RCW 2.28.030, Rules of Professional Conduct 1.7 through 1.13 and Canon 2.

Violations of statutory and regulatory duties established for the profession is a misdemeanor. See RCW 2.48.180(6), RCW 18.130.180(7) and RCW 42.20.080.

Offer of proof: See Appendix A.

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(I) ENTERPRISE
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(J) PATTERN OF UNLAWFUL RACKETEERING ACTIVITY

  • All of the predicate acts of racketeering activity are directly related to the WSBA’s schemes to become a defacto government.
  • All of the predicate acts of racketeering activity are part of the nexus of the affairs and functions of the racketeering enterprise.
  • The defendants were enabled to commit the predicate offenses by virtue of their position in the enterprise or involvement in or control over the affairs of the enterprise.
  • All of the predicate acts of racketeering activity occurred after the effective date of 18 U.S.C. Section 1961 et. seq.
  • The predicate acts of racketeering activity began on or about 1933.
  • The pattern of racketeering activity is currently ongoing and open ended, and threatens to continue indefinitely unless this Court enjoins the racketeering activity.
  • Numerous schemes have been completed involving repeated criminal conduct that by its nature projects into the future with a threat of repetition.
  • The predicate acts have the same or similar purposes, results, participants, victims, and methods of commission.

(K) CHASE YOUR TAIL SCHEME

In defiance of the law, RCW 2.04.190, that mandates courts to establishes rules of procedure for the simplification of the system of pleading, practice and procedure in said courts to promote the speedy determination of litigation on the merits, these courts, through their judges have established rules that delay, frustrate, deny and manipulate the process for the benefit and profit of the ‘enterprise.’ Said another way, the longer and more difficult it is to resolve case, the more money the enterprise extracts in fees and penalties.

(L) TOO BIG TO FAIL (BLACKMAIL) SCHEME
This scheme is based in the quid pro quo the Enterprise has with agencies and individuals within government. As each corrupt act adds to the ultimate liability of the state for each other’s corrupt acts, the Enterprise establishes a house of cards that cannot be dismantled without the total collapse of the entire government — they protect themselves by the “too big to fail” concept first instituted by the Federal Government with respect to the housing bubble caused by faulty loan procedures in the quest of ever increasing ‘profits’ and the ultimate collapse in home prices when the chickens came home to roost.

(M) SANCTIONS SCHEME – an illegal tax.

As declared by the WA State Supreme Court, the Bar received no money from the state, is not a state agency. (GAHRAM) Yet provides service to the “judicial branch”. Bar members, who serve as judges reward the Bar members for the services they provide to the judicial branch by imposing “sanctions” under their own determinations, based in their own created court rule authority.

(N) SUMMARY OF EACH PLAINTIFFS INJURY TO BUSINESS OR PROPERTY

  1. FACTS

COUNT II: CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

COUNT III: COMMON LAW FRAUD AND DECEIT

  • b. USE OF SURROGATE TERMS SCHEME

COUNT IV: TORTIOUS CONDUCT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENTITIES

  • Negligence: The justices of the WA State Supreme Court failed to establish procedural safeguards to protect citizens from a corrupt Bar. The WA State Supreme Court justices themselves claim the following authority and obligations.

    “When a lawyer discipline decision by the Board is appealed, this court has “plenary authority” on review. In re Disciplinary Proceeding Against Whitt, 149 Wn.2d 707, 716, 72 P.3d 173 (2003). While we “do[ ] not lightly depart from the Board’s recommendation,” we are “not bound by it.” In re Disciplinary Proceeding Against Tasker, 141 Wn.2d 557, 565, 9 P.3d 822 (2000). The court reviews conclusions of law de novo. Whitt, 149 Wn.2d at 716-17. We have “the inherent power to promulgate rules of discipline, to interpret them, and to enforce them.” In re Disciplinary Proceeding Against Stroh, 97 Wn.2d 289, 294, 644 P.2d 1161 (1982) (emphasis added); see also ELC 2.1 (recognizing this court’s “inherent power to maintain appropriate standards of professional conduct”). Jan. 2006 In re Disciplinary Proceeding Against Haley 333
    156 Wn.2d 324

    The Court has negligently failed to establish rules to review “dismissed cases” by the same logic it established rules to review prosecuted cases by the WA State Bar. This one-sided scheme allows the enterprise to run without regulation.

    COUNT V: OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT

    COUNT VI: OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

    a. Plaintiffs repeat and reallege the allegations contained in COUNTS 1 to 5 of this complaint as fully as if set forth here.

    PRAYER FOR RELIEF

    WHEREFORE the Plaintiffs pray on behalf of themselves and all similarly situated persons for judgment against defendant as follows, in general:
    1. Issuing an Order certifying the Classes as set forth herein and designating the plaintiffs and their counsel as the representatives thereof;
    2. Compensatory damages, for a sum duly trebled, plus interest;
    3. Punitive damages;
    4. Declaratory and injunctive relief;
    5. Reasonable attorney’s fees;

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“NOBODIES SAVE AMERICA”| “LAWLESS AMERICA,” BILL WINDSOR (VIDEO)


“NOBODIES SAVE AMERICA”

“LAWLESS AMERICA,” BILL WINDSOR (VIDEO)

Proposed Legislation from Lawless America

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hI31XbW1Qn8

Source:  Lawless America Radio, TV, Music, and Pictures Radio,  Proposed Legislation by Lawless America, Presented to the United States Congress, William/ “Bill” M. Windsor, January 30, 2013, updated February 17, 2013, http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1302:proposed-legislation-from-lawless-america&catid=133:lawless-america-the-movie&Itemid=105

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(4)  Author of this blog and post hereby claims her First Amendment constitutional right, privilege, freedom, and “immunity” to freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of association, and the freedom to peaceably assemble through this blog and post.

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MISUSE OF PUBLIC FUNDS FOR “ACCESS” AND “VISITATION” IN TEXAS FOR RESPONSIBLE ABUSERS


RE-POST, RE-POST, RE-POST

 

 MISUSE OF PUBLIC FUNDS FOR “ACCESS”

AND “VISITATION” IN TEXAS FOR

RESPONSIBLE ABUSERS

money.public money private agenda

 Click on the link below to read more.

 JPittard.TX Sunset Testimony

 

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  • (1)  This post is made in GOOD FAITH and for deterrent purposes against child abusers, alleged child abusers, and those who would maternally alienate fit, loving mothers and children from one another.
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Advice for Parents Considering or Involved in a Custody Dispute: The Chaos of Courts, Lawyers, and Psychologists Exposed


California Coalition for Families and Children, PBC

Phoenix program cover thumbnailFrom California Coalition’s litigation library this week we bring you the inside word on custody evaluations from judges, lawyers, and evaluators themselves.  When is a custody evaluation legal? When is it appropriate? When should it be ordered? What is the policy of courts in making these decisions?

Three Los Angeles Family Court practitioners explain their policies and practices at the 2012 10th Symposium on Child Custody Evaluations in Phoenix. The audio is linked below.

If you’ve been told or otherwise believe child custody evaluations are well-studied, regular processes–like an operation or physical therapy–what you’re about to learn will amaze you.

[More at WeightierMatter.com ….]

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MORE on DIRTY DA’S IN HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS (HOUSTON)


 

 CORRUPTION ON STEROIDS: THE HARRIS COUNTY DA’S OFFICE HAS ITS OWN BRAND OF SECRET JUSTICE

BY EMPACTEXAS

REMOVED FROM THE INTERNET AND THIS SITE–HIJACKED

JUSTICE.CORRUPT.JUDGE TAKNING MONEY HANDCUFF

http://www.empactexas.org/2012/03/corruption-on-steroids-the-harris-county-das-office-has-its-own-brand-of-secret-justice/

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The Fix is In…Harris County Family Court Rooms, 310th (Houston,TX)


Judicial candidate returns illegal campaign donations …

You Guessed it, Folks….for $20,000.00  You, Too Can Have Your Way, I Mean “Day in Court“(but then  the $20,000 fee was not a guess, but rather the ole’ “Damon 10,000 Screw” According to former FBI Agent Terminology)

$20,000 from couples exceeded state limits

By Kiah Collier

The Houston Chronicle

 Updated: February 18, 2014 10:45pm

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/houston/article/Judicial-candidate-returns-illegal-campaign-5246748.php

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Coincidence?  I think not!

 “Woe unto you Pharisees and Scribes!” (Matthew 23:23)

Lisa Millard.Comment on bribe.petition to remove.06.24.14 001

http://www.jonisaloom.wordpress.com/category/judge-lisa-millard-20000-bribe-to-kidnap-7-year-old-girl/

http://www.jonisaloom.wordpress.com/category/kids-for-cash-film-demonstrative-exhibit-filed-with-united-states-district-court (Kids for Cash Scandal, Video)

http://www.jonisaloom.wordpress.com/category/warning-signs-for-bribery-of-the-family-court-judge-in-a-custody-case/

http://www.jonisaloom.wordpress.com/category/family-court-fraud/cps-judge-looks-out-for-kids-and-turns-whistleblower/ (Video, Former San Diego Family Court Judge Tells)

Lisa Millard and John Nichols.CLE presenters.Keeping It in and Keeping it Out.Error Preservation

https://jonisaloom.wordpress.com/category/judge-lisa-millard-in-the-310th-court-in-harris-county-texas-houston-signs-orders-to-institutionalize-children-but-pretends-not-to-know/

JUDGE DENISE PRATT.311TH.PROOF OF BACKDATING ORDERS.CS CORRUPTION

jonisaloom.wordpress.com/category/judge-lisa-millard-prohibits-mother-from-speaking-spanish-to-her-daughter-at-home-recused/

http://www.jonisaloom.wordpress.com/category/marin-county-family-court-fraud-and-judicial-tampering

www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/22/judge-abel-limas_n_3794523.html

http://www.jonisaloom.wordpress.com/category/rate-your-family-court-system-in-your-state-and-county/(Rate Your Court by Filling Out this Report Card)

http://www.jonisaloom.wordpress.com/category/watch-chamber-of-secrets-48-hours/ (“Chamber of Secrets,” Mom Wears a Wire, Judge, Clerk, and Attorney Indicted)

http://www.jonisaloom.wordpress.com/category/texas-judge-orders-removal-of-youtube-video-exposing-abuse-in-the-foster-care-system/

www.polkcountytoday.com/coker012413.html

www.wnd.com/2013/06/texas-judged-accused-of-corruption-goes-on-legal-rampage/

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Judge-Angus-McGinty-has-resigned-5235681.php

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Help Mother in Arizona by Signing her Petition Against Judge Teresa Sanders of Maricopa County Superior Court, Who Has Ruled Against “Best Interests” of Child(ren) Construed in the Light Most Favorable to Mother and Child, or, Parent and Child, if One Prefers


Subject: Corrupt Judge Teresa Sanders of Maricopa County Superior Court Violates Family Law, Destroys Family Without Evidence or Accountability

Hi,

The corruption and willful violation of the Arizona State Family Court Rules of Law by Judge Teresa Sanders and Best Interests Attorney Christine Powell has destroyed this family’s life.
Please assist in exposing their violations of law, the violations of parents rights, and the violation of the First Amendment.
We need to root out the corruption rampant in Arizona’s Maricopa County Superior Court, Family Law.

That’s why I signed a petition to Teresa Sanders, Judge in Maricopa County Superior Court Family Court and Christine Powell, Attorney of Family Law.

Will you sign this petition? Click here:

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/corrupt-judge-teresa?source=s.em.cp&r_by=11210123

Thanks!

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This could happen to your child in a contested, high conflict child custody case (video)


http://www.infowars.com/toddler-dies-in-cps-captivity-after-being-taken-from-marijuana-smoking-parents/

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TEXAS INJUSTICE…”A FAMILY TRADITION”: Kerry Max Cook Sent to Death Row for Twenty-Two (22) Years for a Murder the Prosecutor Knew he did not Commit in Smith County, Tyler, Texas


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TEXAS INJUSTICE…A FAMILY TRADITION: Kerry Max Cook Sent to Death Row for Twenty-Two (22) Years for a Murder the Prosecutor Knew he did not Commit in Smith County, Tyler, Texas

Texas Injustice and Dirty DA’s in Tyler

TEXAS INJUSTICE…A FAMILY TRADITION: Kerry Max Cook Sent to Death Row for Twenty-Two (22) Years for a Murder the Prosecutor Knew he did not Commit in Smith County, Tyler, Texas

http://www.texastribune.org/2012/07/06/prosecutorial-errors-haunt-30-year-exoneration-fig/

http://brokenchains.us/TheEagleSpeaks/IITDCJ/News.html

http://www.chron.com/news/article/Win-at-all-costs-is-Smith-County-s-rule-1632942.php

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/plea/for/cook.htm.(You may have to cut and paste or otherwise manually enter this link into your browser to access this story, but the ones below should still be accessible by “clicking” on them).

Although there is an excellent autobiography by the unfortunate Mr. Kerry Max Cook and the crimes perpetrated against him by a notoriously corrupt Smith County (Tyler, Texas) crime family that still runs the courts and district attorney’s office, the following account by Frontline provides a concise re-cap of an injustice that should not be forgotten in the wake of the National Innocence Project and its focus on exonerating alleged innocent victims on death row.  Indeed, this is a real-life tale of the “Shawshank Redemption” anti-heroic, yet epic tale of endurance in suffering and injustice inflicted by incestuous, criminal, greed-mongering, hypocritical Pharisees with masochistic vices given free license to sodomize and deny justice and human rights and freedoms to entire populations in Texas.  Yet, Texas keeps getting richer while the rest of the nation takes one for the  collective team.

There is a reason for the 99.999% conviction rate (with bonuses and rewards for “enhancements” that one’s defense attorney will most likely secure for the criminals prosecuting your case for their own unconstitutional and unlawful, menacing misconduct claimed and “commissioned” in deputized money-gushing, skin-flint cheapskate “states” like Texas–the numbers are as phony as the dead or imaginary persons of legal fiction conjured on a voting recount in a critical election year in which an opposing party might actually vet a candidate that is in fact from the non-opposing party (an oxymoron).  Are these local Pharisees making as much money for the Feds as they are stealing from them and real Americans, Sovereign and divinely endowed by the Creator and subject to no man and/or otherwise harlot Harpy from He_ _ (double hockey stick) who happens to don a black robe and routinely betray her or his own gender, but most frequently when such defendant or respondent may be perceived as more credible, younger, and possibly better looking–an easy target for discrediting and neutralization as such defendant is usually of the highly tuned empathic sensibility that characterizes non-sociopaths and non-apaths who do feed off of the fervent and appropriately intense emotion and energy of the easy target who, unlike the Harpies, Furies, and Hellhounds whose natural habitat, rather, dark lair, is the family, juvenile, or criminal courtroom or prison does not need a sewingc circle to validate her purpose and presence?

Read Frontline’s  more judicious and objective synopsis not so tempered with righteous anger and indignation that must be spreading like the raging wildfires of that place from whence such Pharisees and oppressors are spawned.

Sidebar–to set the record straight, the “new” Texas, much like the old, discriminates equally between races, sexes, and socio-economic echelons, and mocks and jeers at all of their pain and suffering deliberately inflicted where any and all opportunities for unabashed cheating which they will always call winning beyond a reasonable doubt, or a preponderance of evidence, exists, unless of course it is one of their own kinfolk (wives and girlfriends excluded as they have been known to be killed for less than the cost of falsely imprisoning them or divorcing a good ole’ boy who, at some point or another in his illustrious dirty career chasing DUI/DWI’s and pursuing fake assault charges, may want to re-enact a scene from the movie “Deliverance.” This author can personally attest to the corruption in at least two courts in Harris County, Texas and one in Brazoria County, Texas (310th Court of elected Judge Lisa A. Millard and Associate Judge Conrad Moren and sundry clerks and personnel, and in the criminal 5th Harris County Court at “law” of Judge Margaret Stewart Harris and her best friend, Tonya Rolland (McClaughlin), formerly of the notoriously corrupt crew that succeeded the legendary D.A., Mr Johnny Holmes, none other than Mr. D.A. Charles/”Chuck” A. Rosenthal), and the 300th Court of Judge K. Randall/”Randy” Hufstetler in Angleton, Texas (who it has been reported to Author by others of firsthand, actual knowledge and direct testimony regarding “Randy” does, in their opinion, discriminate on the basis of skin color and lack of material wealth, or even regarding names that end in vowels).  Then again, the Houston (Harris County) court “jurists” may be more sophisticated at pretending to conceal their discrimination and loathing of anyone with real intelligence who they must know can smell their incompetence, incestuous, conflicted relationships, racketeering and abusive, criminal masochistic schemes, artifices, and deviant behaviors a mile away from the 77002 zip code that might as well end in triple sixes. Author’s opinion is that it was precisely this well-practiced and long-studied sophistication at  well-rehearsed, routine, generic rook-job court proceedings designed to oppress the innocent and reward the highest bidder and/or parent with a callous indifference and unconscionable reckless disregard for the reasonably foreseeable harmful consequences to children and families which are naturally predisposed to replication in the lives of future progeny of victims in a vicious cycle that necessitated the “resignation” or ousting of former Harris County family and civil court Judge of the 311th Court, the amateur, novice, inefficient, and not so well-rehearsed or calmly deranged Denise Pratt so as not to draw attention to her more refined and outwardly unassuming Machiavellian colleagues such as Judge Lisa Millard and Associate Judge Conrad Moren in the neighboring 310th Court of Harris County in Houston, Texas.

Is this the voice of bitterness one may detect?  Nah, one need only file it in the stereotypical  whiskey cabinet next to the tattered brown or Mead blue file folder on escape clauses of last resort that are so generously legislated and doled by the mysteriously silent and eerily non-prosecutorial Texas Commission on Judicial (Mis)Conduct for so many Pharisees who resign or seek help based on alleged “addictive” diseases with a white label, that reads, “Righteous” Anger (Ephesians 4:26, The Holy Bible, all real versions).  For, if one should injure the brother or sister of Author of this blog, naturally, one of the Lord’s own, who then is not injuring the Lord Himself and corrupting the entire family tree?  “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13, The Holy Bible, real versions). Anyone who suffers the oppressive and unjust hand, theft, beating, or berrating of a Texas judge, prosecutor, copper, “protector,” “advocate,” social worker, pedophile protector, sinecure court-appointed attorney, pseudo-scienter, stalker for hire/private investigator, sell-out “stool pigeon,” taker or solicitor of bribes, Bar member, or improperly empaneled “jury” member, and/or bearer of false witness, or government or alleged “non-for-profit” lobbyist degenerate, morally, legally, unlawfully, sanctimoniously catty, immature, infantile, and always repulsive to the mind and eye which is programmed to read the soul, is certainly a “friend” of Author of this blog, a woman subject only to God, who requires her property, now aged seven years, to be restored immediately by pressing of case at queen’s bench and by official recorder of any alleged court of record.

–Signed, Wanting and Aspiring to Be the “Shepherd,” but zealously willing to accompany the Archangel Michael as far as the Gates of “Hades” to fight to win back a loving soul or kindred spirit whose innocence may have been fatally defiled or sadistically and maliciously corrupted in this world by another Party member for “state” of Texas, for all hope is never truly Lost or Abandoned where there is a Faithful and Courageous Believer with the Heart of a Child and a Lion, with a Loving and Sweet Soul, and with a Truthful Spirit– eager prey, or bait, to the worldy savvy and worldly wise.  Like a flame waiting for the moths,…a mother sits in forebearing endurance and suffering with the painful, yet freeing and empowering knowledge that the worst thing they could do has already been done.  Author wonders what Mr. Kerry Max Cook waited for all those years he suffered innocent and alone in a dark prison while his oppressors feasted and danced on his grave in unconscionable ignorance and cruelty.

Note: It has been collectively and surreptitiously mapped, or zoned and labeled the “Golden Triangle” for its oil and natural gas.  It is called Texas, or, “Tejas,” which means “friend” in Spanish, and was named such a “state” in a dramatically ironic twist of fate (paradoxically, one might reverse the order in which one reads the word Texas or Tejas and arrive in the other Party’s circle of a certain other torrid region).  Home of “Black gold,” indeed it is, for The Bible forewarns that the men of this world–those with black hearts and souls– are more savvy and shrewd in matters of business than the children of God, and they are certainly not fools when it comes to “adopting” its gold (standard).  One should not let the church-going and religious small talk statutorily confined to matters of weather, fashion, and feigned morality and temperance which had to have been artfully and masterfully crafted to accompany the deceptively unrefined Southeast Texas, Gulf Coast region harsh and guttural German sounding, anti-mellifluous twang and slang fool one for a second should one find it necessary to tread upon this modern-day Babylon called “Texas,” which is appropriately close to the equator and deserving of a vacuous, flaming hot pit of fire.  To the degree that any real native Texan arrogantly boasts that he or she detests a “Yankee,” any such native “Texan” has revealed himself to be a “dandy” more aptly portrayed, perhaps, as a Rhett Butler who would rather ride[ behind a] real cowboy who protects the weak rather than prove himself to be a cowboy, or a real sheriff.  Posse comitatus, indeed.

The disappointing tragedy of the arrogantly initiated confederates (that is, actors recruited for blind or controlled studies and blind experiments) in Texas law enforcement and justice–that is, the rule, not any possible exceptions or otherwise “Yankees“– is that their very nature is blind and lacks the ability to see this tragically comical caricature that is so lastingly etched into the brick masonry of the institutions it has consecrated with unspeakable perversions of justice and morality, ignorance, malediction, malfeasance, criminal barratry, bribery, seditious conflicts of interests undisclosed, foolish pride, corruption and the blood of innocents.  This very criminal element paints the portrait of a “sociopath” and “narcissist” who appoints its own “therapists,” “evaluators,” and “friends” of the court.

For the real Texas gentleman who seem to congregate in “the great ‘state’ of Fort Worth,” Dallas,  and possibly other regions not in or around the Houston, Texas area to which Author of this blog has been condemned, Author intends no disrespect whatsoever, and looks forward to meeting such real Texans and/or cowboys, real southern gentleman who surely must exist somewhere in a “state” (hopefully of Grace) near Tejas, or, “Texas,”–friend…of sin and greed, black gold for black, lackluster hearts and souls predictably non-descript or uniform in appearance.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/plea/for/cook.htm.

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FREEDOM FIGHTERS AGAINST FAMILY COURT FRAUD AND CORRUPTION, Houston, Texas (Harris County): Collection of Outstanding Reporting by The Houston Press in its (Free)Best Years


Donna Ringoringo: Austin May Finally Investigate her Death and the Mysterious Circumstances Surrounding in Austin, Texas

 

 

 

https://books.google.com/books?id=sSDUAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT190&lpg=PT190&dq=marinelle+timmons&source=bl&ots=UAtvkIVWVU&sig=b4qjvCSu6BP5otCeARl-W6JPEFU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=B6CmVMKIKMaWNrbhgoAL&ved=0CEEQ6AEwCjgK#v=onepage&q=marinelle%20timmons&f=false

Was it a Hit by “state of Texas,” CPS, or a contractor?:  Donna Ringoringo’s Bizarre Death a Hit related to her Protest of the Family Court Fraud and Corruption in Harris County, Texas (Houston)?  Read the article below by clicking on the provided link.  If that does not work, just cut and paste it or enter it manually into your browser.

(1) www.houstonpress.com/1997-12-18/news/justice-lost-and-found/

Source: The Houston Press, “Justice Lost — and Found, Austin police may finally file charges in the death of courts activist Donna Ringoringo,” Steve McVicker, pub. Dec.18 1997

(2)  www.houstonpress.com/1994-11-17/news/the-extended-courtship-of-phrogge-simons/  (Phrogge Simons took Donna Ringoringo’s Place Fighting for Justice in the Family Court Fraud Racket in Harris County, Texas in Houston)

Source:  The Houston Press, “The Extended Courtship of Phrogge Simons, Her persistence paid off, but she’s not leaving just yet,” by Steve McVicker, pub. Nov 17, 1994

(3)  www.houstonpress.com/1998-05-21/news/little-girl-lost/ (Mom, Nikki Marie-Jones, her only child, 7-year old daughter, Brittany Ann Corcoran forced into hiding underground by abusive, pedophile protecting family law corporations in Houston after allegations of sexual abuse against Brittany against father, Jim Corcoran

Source: The Houston Press, “Little Girl Lost?,” Brittany Ann Corcoran, by Brian Wallstin, pub. May 21, 1998

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Criminal Barristers Lizzie Santiago, Joe Flores, Matthews Law Firm DEPRIVE DISABLED| CORRUPT TX


Re: Alleged Crimes Committed through or at d/b/a Matthews and Associates Law Firm in Houston and Corpus Christi, Texas; Alleged Crimes Ratified and Condoned or Tacitly Authorized by Multiple Texas Judges and Elected Government “Officials” in Austin, Texas (Texas Attorney General, Gregg Abbott and Governor Rick Perry)–Go Pick on Someone of Your Own Stature!  What Kind of Sick Degenerate Tortures the Disabled and Brain Damaged?

Pay the Man His Money, Already, Lizzie Santiago and Joe Flores! 

Did You Steal the Settlement Money from Astra Zeneca, Lie About It, or Both? 

Texas, Tejas, “Friend,”….Behave Yourself, Already!  Where is Your Hospitality, Charm, and Class?  Shame on You, …Again, and Again, and Again, Like a Child Throwing a Temper Tantrum You Clasp your Purse Strings so Tight that they are Bound to Break, Like a Merchant in Venice, Really!

Self-Governed,  Exercise your Sovereign, natural, common law rights, Today!

Considering that you are attorneys or paralegals at the Matthews and Associates Law Firm in Houston and Corpus Christi, Texas, Your Crimes Were Ill-Willed, Cruel, Conscience-Shocking to the Core, Ruthless, and Deliberately Executed with Reasonably Foreseeable Knowledge of Irreparable Harm that Should be Recompensed Immediately!  In the alternative, you reveal yourselves to be cheap, low-life, “ambulance-chasing” lawyers who can’t even afford to pay-out their own clients when they win their claims, as alleged by Daniel, a man with firsthand, actual knowledge and circumstantial and demonstrative evidence in his favor against these Filthy Swine in Houston!  The people who protected these criminals may have been people or foreign agents you voted for, more than once.

Read-on to the petition for how the elected public servants treat the Sovereign elect citizenry who it serves and would not exist without.  Texas, You’re Getting Way Too Greedy, and Way too Arrogant!  That is Where Mistakes are Made.  Election years will be here soon!  Criminal Barristers in Houston and/or Corpus Christi, Texas Who Allegedly Stole Many Thousands of Dollars, if not More, from a Disabled, Broken, Suffering, and now Homeless Man who it appears has been denied justice by every single official in Texas charged with granting it to him:   Lizzie Santiago of Matthews and Associates Law Firm and Joe Flores, alleged Attorneys or Lawyers—Reported Thieves and Common Criminals, Hoodlums Who Should be Deported on the Same Buses Coming into Texas. You are filthy, desperate thieves not worthy of your career.  You should trade places with your former client ya’ greasy, greedy degenerate ambulance chasers in cheap suits and swathed in the smell of sin, greed, and corruption!

Please read Daniel’s petition below and sign if you agree that he has been horribly wronged, irreparably harmed, had money that rightfully belonged to him and was promised to him by his lawyers on numerous occasions stolen.  Finally, if you agree that Daniel has been abused by criminal barristers and lawless criminal government in Texas– those who were supposed to “protect” him (in the light most favorable to Daniel as he comprehended the word to mean), that is,  before they stole his “big pharma” settlement money, refusing to give him a dime, and contributed  to his homelessness, seizures, and dangerous medical condition or disability…and before they allegedly began making threatening phone calls to his family, specifically, his mother in Colorado.  Although Author of this blog does not agree with the wording as written in link that one needs to click on above to access the petition, please consider that this man contends that he has a disability (construed in the light most favorable toward Daniel as a Sovereign citizen) that is at the heart of this petition.  For, Daniel admits to suffering brain damage in this petition as a direct result or exacerbating circumstance that could have been prevented.

Once again, it appears from reading this petition that “state” of Texas has once again mercilessly, cruelly, and intentionally delighted in denying justice and fairness to a helpless innocent man or woman who sleeps on the land.  It truly astonishes me that the same Texas Attorney General who prides himself and his staff on the gobs of money it collects or otherwise steals back from Medicaid, Social Security, and Home Health Care Busts, a man who himself is disabled and in a wheelchair, no less, could ruefully and sadistically jeer at the very Sovereign who suffers without basic needs, and for whom such public office and servants were created to serve with integrity, ethics, honor, fairness, equality, and justice with equal access.  Said Perpetrator in official and individual capacity and in collaboration appears to pillage and horde, if not launder money through certain alleged “non-for-profit” lobbyist groups and “advocates.”

http://www.change.org/petitions/lizy-santiago-joe-flores-and-lizy-santiago-stole-my-seroquel-astra-zeneca-settlement-award-and-better-pay-me-i-m-not-going-to-keep-playing-their-games-don-t-test-me

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Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Promotes Notorious Kidnapper and Alleged Pedophile Protector, Cheryl Harvick of Brazoria County, Pearland, Texas


CHERYL HARVICK

CHERYL HARVICK.CPS SUPERVISOR.BRAZORIA COUNTY.STOLE JULIAN.PEARLAND

CHERYL LYNN HARVICK, CPS SUPERVISOR, BRAZORIA COUNTY, TEXAS, REGION 6, WORKS IN CITY OF PEARLAND OFFICE

 

BRAZORIA COUNTY, TEXAS CPS

SUPERVISOR:

PREDATORY, RETALIATORY, PROVEN

KIDNAPPER, PROFESSIONAL

PERJURIST, CONSPIRATOR, ABUSE

OF POWER, OBSTRUCTION OF

JUSTICE PERPETRATOR, HARPY

FROM HE_ _ (DOUBLE HOCKEY

STICK)– JUST ASK THE ROGERS’

FAMILY IN FORT BEND COUNTY, AND

MY FIVE YEAR OLD SON, NOW EIGHT

, THOUGH THANKS TO THIS WOMAN, AND OTHERS, I HAVE HAD NO

MEANINGFUL CONTACT IN ALMOST

  THREE YEARS

  1. www.thehoustonpress/2003-03-27/news/fostering-abuse/full/
  2. www.jonisaloom.wordpress.com/category/declaration-of-joni-faith-saloom-certifiedverified-cause-no-2007-05391-judicial-district-court-of-harris-county-texas/
  3.  Much like the CPS social workers, one of whom was promoted for her crimes, Marcie Vreeken and Helen Dwojak  in Orange County, California who caused an obscene $9 million dollar plus judgment for damages (inclusive of interest caused by “state” appeals and attorney’s fees) via special verdict to be ordered in favor of Ms. Deanna Fogarty-Hardwick and her daughters for the exact same crimes–deliberate and ill-willed deprivation of constitutional and civil rights under the color of law with reasonably foreseeable knowledge of harmful consequences that did separate Ms. Hardwick and her daughters for years pursuant to allegations of sexual abuse by the girls against their father, with whom they were forced to live after enduring foster care, involuntarily, so, too, was Defendant Cheryl Lynn Harvick (C.A. 13-20605, Federal, US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals) promoted for, inter alia, kidnapping in the “best interests” of the “state” treasury and family court fraud, juvenile/dependency and probation court and affiliated  collaborative “community partners” and “key stakeholders” that routinely include a host of government-contracted service providers, guardian and attorney ad litem, and “therapists,” and/or parental “evaluators,” “coordinators,” or “facilitators,”  the Texas general fund, judicial slush funds, “safe” access and visitation jail profiteers, child support enforcement officers/”friends of the court,” and Crime Victim’s Assistance grant beneficiaries and BAR members, generally.
  4. www.zoominfo.com/p/Cheryl-Harvick/189305868989
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“Dirty DA” Series: The “End of a Corrupt Era,” by: Brian Rogers and Peggy O’Hare


End of a Corrupt Era

Rosenthal cites prescription drugs in decision to quit DA post
By BRIAN ROGERS and PEGGY O’HARE Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle.  Feb. 16, 2008, 12:32AM

Chuck Rosenthal’s decision marked a change of heart from his previous vows to finish out the remainder of his term even though he had abandoned his re-election plans because of the e-mail controversy.
 
End of the Rosenthal era
 
Nov. 7, 2000: Rosenthal wins a closer-than-expected election with 54 percent of the vote against Democrat James S. “Jim” Dougherty.
 
March 15, 2002: A Harris County jury sentences Clear Lake mom Andrea Yates to life in prison for drowning her children in a bathtub. Rosenthal’s office had sought the death penalty.
 
Jan. 17, 2003: Rosenthal announces plans to retest DNA evidence from hundreds of cases originally analyzed by the troubled Houston crime lab.
 
Jan. 23, 2003: Citing insufficient evidence, a Harris County judge tosses out an aggravated perjury charge filed by Rosenthal’s office against then-Police Chief C.O. Bradford.
 
March 26, 2003: Rosenthal personally argues in defense of Texas’ sodomy law before the U.S. Supreme Court. The performance, Rosenthal’s first before the nation’s highest court, leaves observers unimpressed and the court eventually threw out the law.
 
April 12, 2004: Harris County’s 22 criminal district judges ask Rosenthal to recuse himself from crime lab investigations. He refuses.
 
August 6, 2004: Rosenthal for the first time agrees to an independent investigation of Houston’s crime lab, days after new tests cast doubt on the rape conviction of George Rodriguez.
 
Nov. 2, 2004: Rosenthal wins a second term in office, defeating Democrat Reginald E. McKamie with 55 percent of the vote.
 
Oct. 3, 2007: Faced with DNA evidence that clears Ronald Gene Taylor of a rape for which he’d served 14 years in prison, Rosenthal agrees to seek his release.
 
Nov. 29, 2007: Attorney Lloyd Kelley asks a federal judge to hold Rosenthal in contempt for deleting e-mails that had been subpoenaed for a civil rights lawsuit.
 
Dec. 27, 2007: The Houston Chronicle reports the existence of affectionate e-mails from Rosenthal to his executive assistant, Kerry Stevens. The e-mails were mistakenly made public as part of Kelley’s lawsuit.
 
Dec. 30, 2007: Rosenthal defies calls from within his own Republican Party leadership to abort his re-election campaign.
 
Jan. 2, 2008: Rosenthal withdraws from the race.
 
Jan. 8, 2008: More of Rosenthal’s e-mails are made public. The e-mails contain racist comments, sexually explicit images and re-election campaign materials.
 
Jan. 9, 2008: County Attorney Mike Stafford asks the Texas Attorney General’s Office to investigate whether Rosenthal used county equipment to conduct campaign business.
 
Feb. 1, 2008: Testifying in his federal contempt hearing, Rosenthal acknowledges “errors” in previous sworn statements explaining his decision to delete e-mails. The judge then halts the hearing at Rosenthal’s lawyer’s request.
 
Feb. 15, 2008: Rosenthal resigns shortly after Kelley files a lawsuit seeking to remove him from office.
Source: Chronicle research
 
Chuck Rosenthal stepped down as Harris County district attorney Friday after six weeks of mounting pressure and intense scrutiny brought by the exposure of embarrassing e-mails that prompted calls for his resignation from all but his closest allies.
 
His announcement came just hours after his political enemy, attorney Lloyd Kelley, filed a lawsuit seeking to remove Rosenthal from office on the grounds of official misconduct, incompetency or intoxication.
 
Rosenthal’s decision marked a change of heart from his previous vows to finish out the remainder of his term even though he had abandoned his re-election plans because of the e-mail controversy. It was not immediately known Friday how quickly Gov. Rick Perry would appoint an interim replacement to lead the district attorney’s office until Rosenthal’s term expires Dec. 31.
Rosenthal, 62, said a combination of prescription drugs had impaired his judgment, and constant media coverage of his controversial e-mails — which included some sexually explicit and racist content, along with affectionate notes to his executive assistant — had taken its toll on his family.
 
“Although I have enjoyed excellent medical and pharmacological treatment, I have come to learn that the particular combination of drugs prescribed for me in the past has caused some impairment in my judgment,” Rosenthal wrote in his resignation letter.
 
“The federal court’s release of my private e-mails around Christmas of last year brought a lot to bear on my wife and children. I have been trying to restore my family as a unit, but the constant media pressure has made that restoration more difficult. I am hopeful that, in my retirement, the media will accord my family the privacy we need to heal.”
 
Had denied rumors
 
As recently as 10 days ago, Rosenthal publicly denied having any problems with medication to deal with pain.
At a Feb. 5 meeting with about 20 of his upper echelon administrators, Rosenthal addressed “rumors that he was addicted to painkillers” that he had heard was going around, said Julian Ramirez, a division chief.
 
Rosenthal said he didn’t even take painkillers, Ramirez said.  Ramirez said most experienced attorneys in the office were sorry to see Rosenthal leave under these circumstances.
 
“Chuck tried hard to make the office a nicer place to work,” Ramirez said.
 
Rosenthal, who had worked in the office for 31 years and was elected the county’s top prosecutor in November 2000, declined to comment further beyond his letter after answering the front door of his southwest Houston home Friday evening.
 
He was virtually assured of running unopposed in the Republican Party primary until six weeks ago, when a federal civil rights lawsuit filed against the county exposed his e-mails, including campaign activities he conducted in his office on county equipment last year.
 
Rosenthal’s resignation effectively ends an investigation launched by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott last month into whether the district attorney violated state campaign laws.
 
Rosenthal’s resignation was applauded by county officials and others who had called for him to step down.
County Judge Ed Emmett said he was grateful Rosenthal chose to put Harris County’s interests above his own.
 
“It is a relief for the county and the district attorney’s office,” said Emmett, who said he was unaware of Rosenthal’s impairment by prescription drugs before Friday.
 
Rosenthal will technically remain the district attorney until the governor appoints a successor, County Attorney Mike Stafford said. Until then, state law calls for the office’s first assistant — Bert Graham — to take over Rosenthal’s duties.
 
Rival credits lawsuit
 
The governor’s office had not received Rosenthal’s resignation letter Friday afternoon and had no immediate plans to name a successor, spokeswoman Krista Piferrer said.
 
Kelley — who has been criticized for waging a political battle that some believe is prompted by his close friendship with former Houston Police Chief C.O. Bradford, the Democratic nominee for the district attorney’s race this November — said Rosenthal would not have stepped aside if not for the lawsuit seeking his removal.
 
“It’s a little late, but it’s a good thing,” Kelley said. “No one should be happy about today.”
 
Rosenthal’s rapid downfall began Nov. 29, when Kelley filed a motion seeking to hold him contempt of court for deleting more than 2,500 e-mails that had been subpoenaed in connection with a federal civil rights lawsuit. Brothers Erik and Sean Ibarra filed the lawsuit against Harris County, claiming sheriff’s deputies wrongfully arrested them and destroyed film in their camera six years ago after one of them photographed a deputy at a drug raid.
E-mails sparked firestorm
 
On Dec. 22, the federal court presiding over the Ibarras’ lawsuit mistakenly unsealed some of Rosenthal’s e-mails.
 
Rosenthal’s downslide continued when the federal court convened a hearing two weeks ago to determine if he should be held in contempt for deleting documents that had been subpoenaed. On Feb. 1, he testified that he made some “errors” in previous sworn explanations for why he deleted the e-mails, opening himself to a possible perjury charge.
 
His contempt hearing is set to resume Feb. 25, but may be delayed while the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reviews whether U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt should be recused from presiding over the Ibarras’ civil lawsuit.
Type of drugs a mystery
 
Rosenthal might have admitted pharmacological drugs impaired his judgment so he can raise involuntary intoxication as a possible defense if he is charged with perjury, Kelley said.
 
Involuntary intoxication — such as unawareness that a combination of drugs could have a certain effect — is a fact issue that can be considered by a jury in a perjury case, said attorney Pat McCann, president of the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association.
 
“It is a circumstance that could make it difficult to prove you intended to lie,” McCann said.
 
What prescription drugs Rosenthal was taking — and where he got them — remains a mystery.
 
But his e-mails indicate he obtained some prescriptions from Sam Siegler, his personal physician and close friend, who is also the husband of Republican district attorney candidate Kelly Siegler.
 
In one e-mail last July, Rosenthal asked Sam Siegler to call in a prescription for sinus medication for Rosenthal’s executive assistant, Kerry Stevens.
 
In a follow-up e-mail to Stevens, Rosenthal wrote that he’d spoken with one of Siegler’s nurses. “I didn’t feel good asking her about Ambien. Sam wasn’t there,” Rosenthal wrote. Ambien is a prescription sleeping pill.
 
Siegler did not respond to requests for comment Friday.
The removal lawsuit that Kelley filed on behalf of Erik Ibarra in state District Judge Martha Hill Jamison’s court Friday did not mention prescription drugs, but alleged Rosenthal consumed alcohol at the office while performing his duties from 2001 to 2007.
 
The lawsuit did not cite specific instances, and Kelley would not elaborate on what evidence he had to support that claim.
 
Mounting legal bills
 
Though Rosenthal may be gone, his legal bills have not stopped. On Tuesday, the Harris County Commissioners Court will consider paying an outside law firm an additional $77,000 to defend him, Graham and Assistant District Attorney Scott Durfee in the Ibarra lawsuit. That would be in addition to $50,000 already approved by the court.
 
Meanwhile, Kelley said he will go forward with the other part of his removal petition seeking to expel Sheriff Tommy Thomas from office.
 
The lawsuit accuses Thomas of incompetency and misconduct, alleging he accepted benefits for his ranch from county vendors, failed to investigate the crimes and civil rights violations reported by the Ibarra brothers and gained “special advantage” for his son, Brent Thomas, when the younger man was arrested last year for possession of cocaine.
 
The sheriff declined to comment Friday.
 

 

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