tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55499570659212784772024-02-06T18:40:57.080-08:00Ruminations On LawThis is a place for thoughtful exchanges of views and of understandings regarding the Constitution, law, the Republic, some politics; it is not a place for subjective rants [unless they are mine!].Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-52154768050477043412016-10-07T07:09:00.001-07:002016-10-07T07:09:17.439-07:00Don't Get Tripped Up by Cops at Desert Trip<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">As I announced and predicted in various forums would occur,
there were many arrests at the latest incarnations of the Coachella Valley
Music and Arts Festival [Coachella Fest] and Stagecoach, most could have been
avoided if my advice had been followed, and things will be even worse for
liberty at the Desert Trip events this and next weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">These wonderful and fun-filled gatherings are sadly “fish in the
barrel” opportunities for the combined police forces sneaking around to nab
whomever they find having too much fun.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">You need to understand that local government coffers swell with
these sorts of arrests, and subsequent prosecutions, because they are Grant
funded, meaning the local agencies receive enormous sums of money from
Sacramento, which was sent there from Washington, D.C., which was taken from
you in taxes back here, to screw over people, in the disingenuous name of
“health” and “safety,” in this nation conceived of Liberty.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>And most of these sorts of arrests were and
are avoidable, if you just are careful of to whom you are speaking, of who you
are letting sidle up to you, and then of what you say and permit when you are questioned,
and then detained and then arrested.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Remember
that you are not never required to talk to cops, nor to let them search, and
you should not, because neither ever, ever helps.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They are there to put cases together, not to
seek the neutral ends of justice, nor to help you out of the downsides of your
bad choices.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Many times the officer, plainclothes or otherwise, does not have
all the information he/she needs, so they will start asking seemingly benign
questions: what did you take out of your [sock, bra, pocket]; how old are you;
where did you get [<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>]; what is that
white powder, etc.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>You do not need to
answer, and you never should.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>If they
suspect you of underage drinking, don’t offer over your license – make them
take it; don’t say it’s fake – make them prove it.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Don’t consent to searches of your person,
property, or vehicles.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Do not get deluded into thinking the police will help you out if
you are just “honest” with them, because they won’t: they are not social
workers, pastors, psychologists, nor your friends; they are government agents
with an agenda and one that does not include helping you out.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Do not plead with them, because that makes
them happy that they have “won” over your spirit as well as your liberty.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Do not think it is being dishonest to tell
the police you have nothing to say; I am not advocating lying to the police –
only they can get away with that in this system – I am advocating not saying
anything, either before or after you are arrested.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Don’t fall for the palaver that you will most likely get
diversion or a hand-slap if you “cooperate,” because they cannot make that
commitment, and many seemingly minor dispositions of drug or alcohol offenses
can have long-range effects on your plans in life.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Indeed, the classic PC 1000 deferred entry of
judgment disposition here is deemed a conviction for moat federal purposes,
which include immigration and sometimes federal grants and job
applications.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Do not believe anything
you hear from the police about what will happen with your case, because they
cannot control it after having screwed you over with an arrest or a citation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Even though avoidable things have not been avoided, that which
should have been avoided can be mitigated or eliminated if you have the proper
attorney.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">No one is more effective nor experienced with dealing with drug,
alcohol, and conduct related offenses at these festivals [or anywhere else]
than am I.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>No one has a better track
record, credibility in the Courts, grit, or scholarship than I.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">If you have been victimized at one of the festivals, this
weekend’s or next weekend’s Desert Trip, or later Coachella Fest and
Stagecoach, contact me.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>You can do no
better than having me on your side if you have been accused of crimes; you can
[and too many do!], however, do much worse.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">It does not cost to
talk to me about your case; it will, however, cost you more than mere money if
you choose to go elsewhere.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-41154478713006156722016-03-22T06:28:00.000-07:002016-03-22T06:40:38.294-07:00The Courts are Unfriendly = Contra-Constitutional and Outrageous<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The courthouses of this state have become very unfriendly places. There was a time that people interested in what was going on in their courts, and the courts are the people's property, could walk in and out without being molested by “The Man.” Indeed, I got interested in law by watching proceedings in the Fresno courts for years. I would walk in, in my shorts and orange sneakers, and sit in the back, and watch the drama unfolding. There were good judges and bad, good advocates and bad, worthy cases and unworthy, trustworthy and untrustworthy cops, and I took it all in.</div>
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No one cared about my shorts and sneakers; no one cared that people walked in and out of the courthouses and courtrooms; there was no presumption of guilt searches, and gropings. and paranoia-o-matic machines as we have now.</div>
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To the Framers, the court was the place of ultimate protection of the polity from oppressive government. It was a place that all should feel free to enter for help, for enlightenment, for education, for participation in our popularly sovereign government ruled by law not by men [and women], and for witnessing the operation of our system, kept somewhat honest by popular observation.</div>
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Sadly, paranoia is sweeping across the land. There are glass and plastic barriers between the government and the people who have empowered it [police stations, court clerks, district attorneys, public defenders, etc.], and there are checkpoints and search-o-mats at the doors of our own government buildings. The sovereigns, the people, are increasingly unwelcome in the corridors they have authorized, paid for, and legally control.</div>
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The grossest irony is at work in the courts. They were established to protect us from agents of government. One need only read the Federalist Papers, especially No. 78, and Madison's <em abp="1398">Notes on the Debates in the Convention of 1787</em>, to understand that. The modern day oppressors from whom the populace are to be protected by the courts are various levels of police forces. So who are the ones presumed to be guilty and hence subjected to suspicionless searches? The populace. Who are the ones who can walk in and out of the courthouses, OUR courthouses, without being hassled, searched, and molested? Badged members of police forces!</div>
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Are the presiding judges who have authorized this obscene topsy-turveyism oblivious to the contra-constitutional outrage they have wrought, or don't they care, or do they arrogantly believe that the people no longer control or matter, except at their re-election time, when many of the judges boast “endorsed by law enforcement” on their campaign materials? If you ever wonder what the <em abp="1400">quid pro quo</em> is for those endorsements, look at the marginal warrants being signed, look at free access to courthouses by the cops, and look at the presumption of truthfulness awarded cops in traffic court trials: you will wonder no more.</div>
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Justice O'Connor, upon her retirement, noted that our undoing will evolve from the people not knowing about the constitutional underpinnings of our Republic. One need only see the extending lines of people waiting to get into their own courthouses to understand that ignorance of the Constitution is not only rampant, but an art form etched by government masters.</div>
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And detain me from the inept and rationalizing pabulum that things are different now, so oppression is more warranted than in founding times [and in my time in Fresno]. What isn't different is that the people are sovereign and ALL government are the servant of those sovereigns. The only thing really different now is the arrogance and paranoia of those in government, and the tolerance by the people of their government's insolence.</div>
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Government agents from whom we are to be protected by the courts can waltz in and out of the courthouse unmolested with knives, guns, tear gas, whatever, whereas the citizens who own the courthouse [and the government agents] are subjected to abuse and scrutiny and searches of their belongings and seizures of their property if it is of any ambiguous sort that someone imagines to be forbidden. I, who am an officer of the court, was told [by a door sentry who is not an officer of the court!] that I was carrying forbidden contraband when I entered the courthouse with fountain pen ink - fountain pen ink I have carried and used for over 50 years! Ink is mightier than the sword sometimes, and maybe that is the anxiety, but more likely it is just another exercise of arbitrary power by those who think superficial security is more important than fundamental liberty, about which Ben Franklin warned us.</div>
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In the words of Ronald Reagan, “Mr. Government, tear down that wall.” And the paranoia-o-matic machines in the courthouses. Those in government too afraid to welcome their masters without barriers and suspicionless searches need to get out of government employment.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-53264138174667323182015-11-12T04:53:00.003-08:002015-11-12T04:58:01.978-08:00Yes, Virginia, There are Differences Among Attorneys<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is a mistake for those whose liberty is at risk to
assume that all lawyers are the same, can provide the same quality of
assistance, have the same scholarship undergirding their work, and are
similarly motivated to protect people from an increasingly rapacious,
pernicious, and insensitive government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The redoubtable Justice Gardner once penned sage
insight regarding some people’s distrust of the public defender over less-than-mediocre
private lawyers, and those insights similarly apply to the comparative
strengths of private attorneys, that is that judges can <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="FolioHit1">“only
... watch in silent horror as the defendant's family, having hocked the family
jewels, hire a lawyer for him, sometimes a marginal misfit who is allowed to
represent him only because of some ghastly mistake on the part of the Bar
Examiners</a>….”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Fighting things competently, aggressively, and
effectively, I will generally not speak first about what I need when there is a
group of lawyers meeting with the judge and prosecutors in chambers, because I don’t
want others to ride on my coattails about what I demand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, the other day, I was in chambers,
watching a gaggle of lawyers lined up in front of the judge like supplicants at
the altar of Rehnquist-mania, milquetoastingly pleading with the judge to give
their clients 6 or 10 days jail as a condition of probation for first time
drunk diving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Legislature does not require
any custody at all for those given probation for first time drunk driving, and
these clowns had taken thousands of dollars to beg for 6-10 days, which
defendants could get themselves if they represented themselves at arraignment!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But the attorneys went into chambers to con their
clients into believing they had accomplished something for them to justify
their fees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At the end of that disgraceful spectacle, when I was
alone with only a DA in chambers with the judge, I inquired “what the hell did
I just see?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The judge smiled and said “Mike,
it’s not up to me to tell lawyers how to represent their clients.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was shameful and disgraceful, and that
sort of stuff explains why people have little respect for lawyers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So, if you or a loved one is in trouble, don’t presume
that everyone with a Bar card and business cards will supply the same service. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Make sure the person you are hiring is not “a marginal
misfit who is allowed to represent him only because of some ghastly mistake on
the part of the Bar Examiners.” Does your lawyer merely attend seminars, or is
he invited to lecture at seminars as I am; does he merely belong to the State
Bar, or is he invited to lecture at the State Bar as I am; does he spend his
free time playing golf, or does he spend it studying and reading law as I do;
does he look forward to retirement, or is he committed to practicing his
liberty-protecting craft until the Constitution is restored such as I am; does
he consider the practice of law merely a remunerative job, or is it to him/her
a calling and mission, as it is to me; does he use canned and stock pleadings
prepared by others, or does he research and write everything he presents to
courts, as I do?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Attorneys are not fungible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Don’t get suckered by fancy clothes and flashy cars
and opulent offices; they are often a preface to shoddy legal work and shaky
commitments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have seen fancy,
expensive lawyers advise their clients that certain things cannot be won,
cannot be made better, and cannot be accomplished, while standing in unrealized
earshot of me after I have obtained evidence suppressions and/or dismissals on
the same sorts of matters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have accordingly
been employed to testify in hearings about what the reasonably competent
attorney should have accomplished in matters where they sold their clients down
the river, because I am recognized to know whereof I speak on attorney
competence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Some lawyers would rather be chums with judges and prosecutors
than to stand with their clients against the gusts of faction that are trying
to blow them over the edge and into the abyss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some lawyers have the attitude [which they will occasionally confess to
other lawyers and judges] that they will interact with the client only on one
case, whereas they will be dealing with prosecutors and judges over and over
and over again, so they need to keep the latter groups happy at the expense of
the former.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The legal profession touts itself as being a learned
profession, but learnedness is a diminishing commodity where caprice dethrones
the Constitution all too regularly. I was assailed by a judge just the other
day who scolded me about giving a post-hearing argument in writing, mainly
because it would require the judge to read and study, and it would embarrass his
government lawyer chum into being less able to carry their burden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I shrink not from judicial scoldings, because
my duty is to my client, and I abhor, and do not fear, bullies, whether they are sporting badges or robes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Many lawyers will take your money but will then put
pressure on you to back down from the fight that the Constitution and Framers
enable and expect you to make. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lawyers
like me, a dwindling breed, put pressure on government to back down, because,
unchecked, government will consume the whole and eviscerate liberty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So, if you or a loved one is in trouble, don’t be so naïve
as to believe that all lawyers are the same in their zeal and effectiveness to
protect your liberty interests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that
means that once you have decided on the lawyer you want, don’t dial another one
merely because you have not received a phone call back from the one of your
choice as quickly as you would like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Revolution was not won in a day; be patient in waiting for help from one of the
few who lives and breathes the spirit of that Revolution as part of his very being.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-41372667277423893182015-09-21T08:44:00.000-07:002015-09-21T08:44:37.094-07:00Thoughts about Drunk Driving, and Government Fraud, and Jurors' Duties<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Government
propaganda relating to people’s conduct and habits are problematic under all
circumstances [a lesson we should have learned from the example of Josef
Goebbels, Ph.D.], but when it spews alarmist falsehoods [think Goebbels again],
it is flatly evil, especially when it invites some of the public to demonize
others of the public, both sides of whom are paying for the evil propaganda.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The government’s
pogrom against drunk driving is a case in point.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In various media,
we are exposed to the grand myth of the U.S. Department of Transportation's “Ad
Council” propaganda blather that "buzzed driving is drunk driving."
That is an utter falsehood and should not be sponsored by the government nor
given prominent posting by newspapers and the broadcast media.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The definition of
driving under the influence of alcohol in this state is very clear and precise,
albeit grossly misunderstood. And, it seems, it is also grossly misrepresented
by government to the jury-sitting public, and purposely so; think Goebbels yet
again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let's look at the
definition:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“A person is <b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">under the influence<i> </i></span></b>if, as a result of <b>consuming
an alcoholic beverage, </b>his or her mental or physical abilities are <b>so
impaired </b>that he or she is no longer able to drive a vehicle with the <b>caution</b>
of a sober person, using ordinary care, <b>under similar circumstances</b>.”<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You see, there is nothing about “buzzing,” because
one can be cautious while experiencing a “buzz,” and one might not be cautious
even if he never experiences a buzz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is not just any impairment by alcohol that is illegal, but only one of such a
degree that one cannot exercise ordinary caution, yet there rarely is any
caution discussion in DUI trials or investigations or propaganda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very rarely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And no matter what other evidence there is, if there is no evidence
about diminished caution, indeed no beyond-reasonable-doubt <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">quantum</i> of diminished caution, there
cannot be a lawful conviction of drunk driving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[“Have you all seen a person at a party who you know has had too much to
drink?”, the stock DA query to a jury, has nothing to do with “caution,” yet it
is grooming the jury for an outcome not related to the true charges.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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been “consumed.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consequently, the
endogenous alcohol one produces in one’s body as a function or metabolism,
regardless of what that does to one’s caution, cannot satisfy the criminal law definition
of “under the influence.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moreover, we are
told to assess the caution standard in terms of the circumstances facing the
person at the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lateness of night;
nervousness of being hounded by the police, who might follow one for miles
until there is a vehicular misstep rationalizing a detention and investigation;
anxiety about family or job or finances; eagerness or reluctance to get home;
street distractions – all of such things must be analyzed when a jury assesses
the circumstances of the matter to decide the caution question.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There is no area of human endeavor so wracked with
high-priced attention; governmental prejudice; government-funded agendas;
political pressure on legislators, judges, cops, and prosecutors, as there is
in the arena of drunk driving prosecution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The community is overrun with “anti-drunk driving campaigns,” expensively
and noisily sanctimoniously funded by politicians, community leaders and
organizers, attorneys who will happily take your money to pretend to defend you
on your drunk driving beef while taking others’ money to tisk-tisk you for the
same conduct, and lobbyists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While we
are inundated by such programs, how many have you seen that are devoted to
eradicating murder, child molesting, rape, political and judicial corruption,
abuse by police and other government types, or electoral duplicity?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None, of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although those practicing the latter groups
of outrages are the real demons in the Republic, much more effort is made to
make demons out of drunk drivers than to bring to justice the real demons
victimizing us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People arrested for
drunk driving are self-righteously demonized; those truly victimizing the
populace have their ills rationalized away, or downright ignored. My God, we
are a weird people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Being politically decreed bogeymen, those accused of
drunk driving have to take extra precautions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What are they?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lurk in the shadows to pull you over when you leave the parking lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No judge, beholden to the cops at the next
election, is going to rule in your favor when you accurately claim that you
were targeted for being in a certain drinking place and were pulled over
without committing any driving offense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If a smiling, shiny-badged officer says you were weaving, speeding, ran
a red light, or failed to signal a turn, you could have a bus full of nuns
swearing the opposite and the judge would still side with the cop. [“Endorsed
by law enforcement” on one’s campaign literature is all one needs for
re-election.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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engine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Start recollecting where your license,
insurance, and registration are, and be prepared to competently turn them over
to the officer without spilling them on the floor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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say “no” and nothing else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do not admit
to speeding, turning, knowing what the speed limit is, anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do NOT admit to drinking any alcohol.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do NOT admit to anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do not say where you were coming from or
where you were going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shut Up!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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No!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are designed for failure, and
there is no established, scientific causal connection between impairment by
alcohol for driving purposes and one’s performance on those non-driving balance
and coordination tests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If he asks you
to blow into the pre-arrest breath device, politely decline; the so-called
“science” associated with those junk boxes would not be admissible in any other
type of case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If he arrests you and
tells you that you are required by law to submit to a blood or breath test,
take a breath test. [Some attorneys say blood; I say breath; I will explain why
in other circumstances, if need be.]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
you take a breath test, they are supposed to tell you that you then have a
right to a back-up test of blood or urine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They don’t like to give the urine option, even though the law requires
it. Tell them you want a back-up test of your urine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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requirement is the hardest to follow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
have had clients tell me “But I am honest; I don’t want to lie.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t say to lie; I said to say
nothing!!!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know it is hard to do;
most attorneys can’t shut up, so it is hard for their clients to do so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trust me – it NEVER helps to talk to the cops
when you are in these circumstances – NEVER, ever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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except for the biographical information they are asking of you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Say nothing else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Make your phone call and wait for the horrors
of the event to subside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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temporary license, good until the DMV proceedings are concluded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You MUST make a call to DMV within 10
calendar days of your arrest, without exception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you do not make that call [or have your
attorney do so], you will lose the chance for a hearing about the lawfulness of
the license suspension that is associated with the chemical test being <u>></u>
.08%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You or your attorney must make
that call within 10 days of the arrest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>All DUIs can be fought and are winnable if you have the right
lawyer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, the right one is expensive
– but not nearly as expensive as a conviction will be, in the long and short
run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>General lawyers, and general
criminal lawyers, are not schooled in the intricacies of DUI law and practice –
you must hire a DUI lawyer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not everyone
advertising themselves as DUI lawyers are thus qualified.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beware of the lawyers who put pressure on you
about your conduct or to take a plea bargain or to settle the case early on;
real DUI lawyers will put pressure on the government to get rid of the
case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Find out if the lawyer who claims
to be a DUI lawyer is a member of either of the two main DUI lawyer
organizations, California DUI Lawyers Association [CDLA], or the National
College for DUI Defense [NCDD].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Find out
if they have ever taught a seminar at either or both.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drunk driving defense is like brain surgery:
you would not hire a chiropractor if you had a tumor on the brain, and you
should not hire the legal equivalent of a chiropractor if you have a .08% or
greater BAC while driving, and for the same reason.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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crime, about the statistics supposedly supporting it, nor about the agents executing
and carrying out: government fraud and deceit are the signposts of the horrid
journey into the realm of drunk driving criminality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If “I am not a crook” was laughable and
demonstrably false when uttered by the chief executive of the Republic, you
would be foolish to give it more credence if uttered by lesser executives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The executive branch has an agenda in these
things [as in all things], and serving your interests, or those of your
families, is not among them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Make no mistake about it, drunk driving is a political crime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its politics derive from the fights that gave
rise to the 18<sup>th</sup> Amendment to the Constitution and Prohibition, and
the political measures being taken now to demonize those arrested for drunk
driving are in service to the distress that the prohibitionists experienced
when the 21<sup>st</sup> Amendment repealed the 18<sup>th</sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have written elsewhere about the drunk
driving exceptions to the Constitution, and to evidentiary and statutory law,
and one glaring example hit the books not too long ago, revealing to all who
might be harboring doubts that result-oriented politics are what colors all of
governmental action in the field.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In the 1940’s and 50’s, fledgling science suggested that the alcohol
which could be detected and measured on the breath resulted from alcohol
molecules that passed from the blood to the alveoli in the lungs, which was
then exhaled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A certain equilibrium was
imagined to exist between the alcohol in the blood and that in the alveoli,
such that there could be a fixed conversion enabling breath percentages to
approximate blood percentages. As a result, machines and statutes and
regulations were established based on that nascent science – alveolar “air” =
“breath” for breath alcohol percentages [simplistically].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Legally, breath alcohol for criminal
conviction purposes has been enacted to mean alcohol on the breath that
originates in the alveoli.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As with any science, evolving notions proved the original ideas to be
incorrect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The body of advanced science
of the matter now realizes that the alcohol detected in one’s exhalation comes
not from the deep alveoli, but from capillaries in the airways before the
alveoli, and that what is exhaled has virtually no alveoli-originated
alcohol.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consequently, when the criminal
charge is that a person had, say, .08% BrAC, breath alcohol, one should be able
to have a scientist testify that the number on the machine does not represent
alveolar breath alcohol percentages, and therefore the .08%, as a criminal
charge based on alveolar breath, is not scientifically accurate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, we all know that the due process
clauses permit a criminal defendant to put on evidence that what appears to be
a crime is not, correct?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Well, not so fast – there are more than mere constitutional law and individual
liberties at work here: there are the politics of drunk driving; there are
state and federal statutes and regulations; there are our corporate pals who
made $millions selling the devices that supposedly detect alveolar alcohol –
what are we going to do about all of that establishment, if the true and
contrary science were admitted to juries?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The solution for our state Supreme Court was the same as the solution
Pope Urban VIII came up with when </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Galileo Galilei had the
temerity to broadcast the true science about the Earth circling the sun: when
establishment forces are faced with contrary and inconvenient truths, you
declaim, deride, and banish the truth and preserve the establishment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that is what our Supreme Court recently
did in the infamous Vangelder decision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our Supreme Court embraced Pope Urban VIII and opposed Galileo!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">There
is not a balanced playing field here; there are purposeful and evil sorts who
have axes to grind that they want to sharpen on the noggins of those arrested
for, or suspected of, drunk driving, and you should not be their patsy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Government propaganda wants to influence the perceptions of the public,
particularly that portion of the public sitting on juries, and it wants to
evict science from the realm of a crime that fundamentally is defined by
physiological science, and it must be stopped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Why do you think we see signs posted on the streets and highways
exhorting people to call 9-1-1 if they know of a drunk driver?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is to prejudice the potential jury pool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How would you know if you are in the presence
of a drunk driver?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You would not know by
observing driving patterns of those around you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are sober people who drive horribly and impaired people who drive
exceedingly well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t see signs
that suggest that you should call 9-1-1 to report murderers, rapists, child
molesters, burglars, thieves, do you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That is because the aim of the signs is not to have the populace
apprehend drunk drivers or others suspected of crimes, but rather for the
populace that may later sit on juries to become prejudiced against drunk
drivers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Framers intended juries of citizens drawn from the community to view
government’s evidence against people’s liberty with skepticism, the standard for
which requires that people may not be found guilty without a quantum of
evidence adding up to beyond a reasonable doubt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And even if that quantum is present, a jury
does not have to find a person guilty, and a conscientious one frequently will
not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly, though, despite the Framers’
understanding of the dangers of government power, juries increasingly lean in
the direction of government in political crimes such as drunk driving,
revealing that the propaganda has worked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jurors should not become pawns in this game of chess invading people’s
liberties: they were intended to be queens and knights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And every time a juror votes against liberty
because he/she presumes the government is telling the truth in these political
crimes, he or she thereby spits on the blood shed by the Founding generation to
preserve our liberties.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-39205304042154147252015-09-20T08:32:00.001-07:002015-09-20T08:32:16.305-07:00Sanctuary Cities - Misunderstandings and Legality<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There is a wide-spread and gross misunderstanding of
the meaning and operation of “sanctuary city” when it comes to discussions of
cities cooperating or not with federal immigration policies. Among those confused about the matter are sadly
included many presidential candidates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When we talk of sanctuary cities in the context of the
current debate, the jurisdictions that fall into that vague label are not
commanding their employees to sneak around back alleys in the dark of night and
to furtively hide out people from pursuing immigration agents. The issue, the sole issue, is that those jurisdictions
are refusing to use their people and jail facilities to serve federal
immigration law purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What the federal government generally wants is for
state and local jailers and street cops to check the immigration status of the
people they come in contact with and to hold them over and above the time
authorized by the event that brought them into state contact, sometimes by 48
hours, so that immigration agents can attend to them. If the people so contacted are witnesses to
crime, they need to know they will not be turned over to immigration agents
once they have assisted local law enforcement solve a crime. If the people so contacted are in jail for
their own state crime, they need to be released when their commitment to the
state is over and not be held additional periods of time for federal agents to
contact them – local jails cannot hold people beyond their lawful release time,
and the jail overcrowding we have now sees many local detainees released early
anyway – do we use that scarce space to enforce federal law when we don’t have
enough even for state law? Are we to
command overworked local police to do searching background checks to decide if
the people are here illegally? What if
they guess wrong and the person is illegally held – does our polity want to
cough up the civil damages for that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">So, these so-called sanctuary cities are
jurisdictions in which local officials have decided that they will not assist
federal immigration enforcement; they are local jurisdictions that refuse to
implement a federal program, for various reasons. [I doubt constitutional
purity is one of those reasons, but it is for me!]<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Whether it is wise for those jurisdictions to
go that way or not, it is perfectly legal, and actually constitutionally
compelled, if anyone heeds the doctrine of federalism, which is as ingrained in
our founding structure as is federal supremacy and immigration policy.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Although the Constitution decrees that federal law is
supreme, it is only supreme in its appropriate sphere. The appropriate sphere
reality means that the federal government may not commandeer state and local
governments to implement laws that are of an exclusively federal nature, which
immigration is. That means that the
federal government may enforce federal laws regardless of the desires of state
and local government [as we have seen with the questionable enforcement of
federal drug policy against things that are legal in the states], but the
federal government may not command state governments to enforce exclusively federal
law. Indeed, it is questionable whether
state governments can constitutionally enforce federal law even if it wants to,
but that is another question.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As was held in <i>Printz
v. United States</i> [where the subject is whether the states had to heed the
federal policies of background checks for gun purchases, the answer being “no”]:
“The Federal Government may neither issue directives requiring the States to
address particular problems, nor command the States’ officers, or those of
their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory
program. It matters not whether policymaking is involved, and no case by case
weighing of the burdens or benefits is necessary; such commands are
fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">None other than Justice Scalia penned those
fundamental words.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Unfortunately, the federal government does have
strong-arm tactics that it can employ, which would be inconsistent with the Framers’
intents about federalism, but which it has contra-constitutionally employed on
many matters over the years, and that is the tax and spend authority that the
Constitution set up. The federal
government can over-tax people and then offer to dole out some of its
ill-gotten booty back to the states <i>via</i>
grants and other fiscal inducements, thereby giving the states a painful choice
over policy matters that the federal government could not directly
command. That is, the federal government
could offer to not withhold grant moneys for state and local law enforcement activities
and materiel if the state and local people would get on board the immigration
requests. That is one of many instances
in which government can practice policies that would get you or me thrown into prison,
because that practice is common law blackmail!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Many local programs [even DUI checkpoints] are funded
through the federal government, as are highway building projects, etc., and we
have become so attached to the federal teat that we frequently lose sight of
the fundamental doctrine of federalism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So, the feds could say either cooperate or we will
starve you, but fortunately they have not gone down that Constitution-busting
road on this matter yet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But those who claim or pretend to be lovers of the
Constitution need to understand that there is nothing illegal nor unconstitutional
about the “sanctuary city” practices of the nature discussed here, and there is
much contra-constitutional about the federal government commanding the states
to do their bidding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-75675834558129201902015-07-03T07:22:00.001-07:002015-07-03T07:22:12.295-07:00Jury Nullification Really Is Not; It Is More<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One of the
problems with discussing, thinking about, avoiding, educating about, being
concerned about “jury nullification” is that the term itself is
misleading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It implies that there would legitimately
be a certain outcome but for the jury aggressively vetoing that matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that is not consistent with the Framers’
notions of, and intents about, the citizen jury.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Government
can start down the road of invading people’s liberties by arresting for and
then by prosecuting for a criminal accusation, but there cannot be a conviction
unless a jury is convinced that there is beyond reasonable doubt quantum of
evidence and also convinced that general concepts of justice are satisfied by a
conviction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is the original jury’s
role.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The thing we label “nullification”
is really simply part of the jury’s original role, which government wants now
to suppress. But the jury is not nullifying anything when it considers factors
other than sheer evidence; it has to be convinced both of the sufficiency and of
the justice of the matter, or acquittal is mandated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Over the
years, the executive has put pressure on their judicial friends to nay-say the jury’s
full role, pretending the executive has a right to conviction if they have
given enough evidence, and judges who are generally not well-steeped in
constitutional history and principles have given in, commanding attorneys not
to let juries know their full powers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But you see,
that proves the point, because the function of the jury was to protect people
against not only bad-minded executives, but also against bad-minded judges,
because the protection of juries was against all of government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So the fact
that a judge tells a jury that they must look only at the questions of fact,
and not of law nor of justice, merely points out the increasing need for a
robust jury.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, the fact
that judges say juries can’t do their full and intended function of protection
is like the fox telling the famer that he should not put up a sturdy fence
around the chicken coop. The wrongful and harmful claim illustrates the need
for the protection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We must
educate the public that despite what wrong-minded government tells the citizenry,
the citizens, through their jury power, are the ultimate deciders, and they
should not be dissuaded from using their power simply because one of the
agencies they are designed to protect us against says they can’t protect us
against it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When courts,
or the “sovereign’s representative” – public prosecutors, speak ill of the
doctrine of jury nullification, they thereby speak against the founding
principles of the Republic; they thereby speak against the power of the people
to govern the Republic; they essentially speak treason.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jurors need to
know that regardless of what the agencies they were designed to protect us
against, the executive and the judicial branches [and the legislative branch
also!], they have the power, legitimate power, power recognized and celebrated
and endorsed by the Founding Fathers, to disregard evidence and instructions
and contrary proclamations and to acquit people who are on trial in front of
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they have the duty to do so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Independence
Day approaches, and jurors taking matters into their own hands and acquitting
people on trial is the ultimate exemplar of the sort of independence that the
Framers envisioned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jurors doing
otherwise is precisely why we have so many factually innocent people who have
been convicted and imprisoned, sometimes for decades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As Ben Franklin intoned,
the nature of our liberty is such that it is better that 100 guilty people be
turned loose than that even one innocent person be convicted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Some people don’t quite get it when I correctly observe
that drunk driving in this state [and really in all states, thanks to the
federalism busting intrusion into the substance by the federal government] is a
political crime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe they don't want to get it. What is really going on
is that political neo-prohibition groups like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">MADD</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SADD</i> and others
have put pressure on the political branches [and the judiciary is the most
political of all, despite, and because of, its protestations to the contrary]
to become increasingly harsh about drunk driving conviction penalties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And instead of decrying the pressure, the
various branches of government largely genuflect to the improper and
considerable pressure by the religio-moralist groups who remain distressed that
the 21<sup>st</sup> Amendment passed.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We
have written and spoken about the horrid <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vangelder
</i>opinion by our supreme court [I really can’t capitalize the court, which
would be awarding it more credit than it is due], wherein the science of the
matter there boiled down essentially to a debate between Pope Urban, VII, and
Galileo, and the supreme court decided to side with mythology and against
science, because its <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">MADD</i> masters
demanded as much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now we have a new
judicial outrage, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Coffey v. Shiomoto</i>
(2015) 60 Cal.4<sup>th</sup> 1198.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
court defines the issue as: “In an administrative hearing to review the
suspension, plaintiff‘s expert witness opined that her BAC was rising at the
time of the chemical tests, suggesting her BAC was below the 0.08 percent
threshold at the time plaintiff was driving. Both the Department of Motor
Vehicles (DMV) hearing officer and the trial court discounted the expert‘s
testimony in part by relying on arrest reports, which described the physical
manifestations of plaintiff‘s intoxication, such as her general appearance,
erratic driving, poor performance on field sobriety tests, and the strong odor
of alcohol she projected.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We
decide in this case whether the trial court erred by considering, in addition
to the results of breath and blood tests, other circumstantial evidence of
intoxication to conclude by a preponderance of the evidence that plaintiff
drove with a BAC at or above 0.08 percent. As we explain, we conclude the trial
court did not err.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The translation of that is even though a
scientist has calculated what the BAC was at the time of driving, the
government can disregard that calculation and rely on things like FSTs and odor
of alcohol to decide what the BAC was, close enough for government work!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Huh?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The court decided to see if they could write something even more outlandish
than they penned in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vangelder</i>, and
they succeeded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem is that they
used some doctrines that anyone knowledgeable about this subject would realize
are utterly invalid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh well, what the
heck: it is drunk driving, after all, the modern day equivalent of what was
occurring in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">First off, to disregard the science of
looking at four increasing BACs now and scientifically calculating backwards to
the point of driving, they decide to look at driving and odor of alcoholic
beverage and FSTs.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The problem is that there is no
peer-reviewed scientific test that has found a causal connection between FSTs
and BAC [which is why any such connection is not admitted in this state!] nor
between such and impairment by alcohol [which is not the issue at an admin <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">per se</i> hearing].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no peer-reviewed science connecting
odor of an alcoholic beverage to BAC [especially since the odor detected is of
the cogenitors mixed with the alcohol and not the alcohol.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And there is no peer-reviewed science
connecting driving pattern with BAC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yes, yes, there are some non-peer-reviewed projects funded by the
executive, its National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, carried out by a
couple of psychologists, not relevant nor neutral scientists regarding the
science of physiological and neurological impairment, but their work is voodoo
conclusionism, not science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So to put that
on the same balance beam as real science is adversarial <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vangelderism</i> gone mad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">MADD</i>!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">How did things balance out that the DMV
hearing [where hearing officers are expressly permitted not to be neutral; they
are institutionally congruent with the party taking the anti-liberty action]?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“At
the ensuing administrative hearing, the DMV hearing officer had before her the
―Officer‘s Sworn Statement form, Officer White‘s arrest report and the
supplemental reports of Sergeant Martin and Officer White. In addition to
considering these documents, the hearing officer heard telephonic testimony
from Jay Williams, a forensic toxicologist with extensive experience, who
testified for plaintiff. Williams noted the result of plaintiff‘s first breath
test was 0.08percent, the second test three minutes later was 0.09 percent, and
her blood sample taken about 20 minutes later tested at 0.095 and 0.096
percent. According to Williams, these results suggested the alcohol level in
plaintiff‘s body was rising at the time of the tests and, given the totality of
the circumstances, were consistent with plaintiff‘s BAC being below 0.08
percent at 1:32 a.m. when she was first pulled over by Sergeant Martin.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“The
DMV hearing officer rejected Williams‘s testimony regarding a rising BAC,
explaining in her ruling that the witness‘s two conclusions—first, that
plaintiff‘s BAC was rising at the time she was pulled over, and second, that It
may accordingly be deduced that her BAC was below 0.08 percent when she was
driving—were not supported by reliable evidence, were―too speculative to
support the contention, and were―based on a subjective interpretation of the
evidence.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah, .08, .09, .095, .096
are not rising in DUI new math!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So,
we have a scientist testifying live, subject to cross-examination by the
hearing officer, about what the mathematical/scientific calculation was versus
a cop’s hearsay report of symptomology, and the symptomology carries to day to
define the numbers???<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was Alice of
Wonderland fame the hearing officer?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Playing
with a stacked deck is worse than not playing at all, but the judiciary is
supposed to protect us from rapacious and thoughtless government, at least when
litigation is brought to bear against the outrage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Then
the court discusses the “rebuttable presumption” of Vehicle Code section
23152(b), the problem being that CALCRIM has dropped reference to that
“presumption,” because caselaw provides that the proper word/term/concept is “permissive
inference”: “presumption” is not supposed to be used for the concept being
addressed there!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does that presage that
the supreme court will reverse itself if the matter comes before it again and
will allow “presumption” to be employed there, or do they simply not understand
their own caselaw?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
court says that the presumption was rebutted here, but their repeated
employment of a previously disallowed term is most troubling.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
court finds pivotally compelling an old Arizona case that announced that BAC
could be ascertained from circumstantial evidence surrounding the driving and
the individual, while agreeing that such is not really authoritative here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is interesting that our supreme court finds
sufficiently persuasive a 1983 Arizona case to deprive this motorist of
liberty, but our state courts do not find persuasive a much, much later Arizona
case that holds self-evidently that “implied consent” is not Fourth Amendment
consent for warrantless DUI blood draws!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It can’t be that they are result-oriented in what foreign cases they
will rely on, can it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Naaahh!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If
a judge or DA had to defend against losing their robes or Bar card based on the
quality of the result-oriented, pseudo-science evidence introduced to strip
this woman of her liberty right to drive, they would be shrieking their proper
outrages to the rafters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But because
this is drunk driving, who the Hell cares about litigational precision!/?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The supreme court should hang its head in
shame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it has none.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-23054981386912695572015-05-06T10:29:00.000-07:002015-05-06T10:29:05.489-07:00ACLU Finally Enters Fray on Illegal Traffic Court Bail Scam<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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That is a fight that I have been making for many years. In
Riverside County, the traffic judges demand “bail,” without a finding of
flight risk, of all <em>pro per</em> arraignees, but if they are
represented by counsel, the “bail” is “waived.” I have set up two
speedy trial attacks on that, pro bono, with defendants willing to
undergo the inconvenience of coming back for the continued arraignments
required of those who don't pay the “bail.” On one, I filed an amicus
1382 dismissal motion when the continued date passed the 45 day point,
which was denied by the traffic pro temp. [who should lose his license
to practice law, by the way for the shameful way he treats pro pers on
that stuff], and then the clerk saw that my name was on the amicus
motion, so she whispered to the judge on the continued date that he had
better let the defendant have his trial. He was, of course, found
guilty, and I did a <em>pro bono</em> appeal and it was reversed by
minute order [so nothing to seek publication on], the single appeals
judge musing that what was happening in the trial court was unsupported
by law. I agreed. He is now the PJ of the county but it is still going
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On the second one, I filed a <em>pro bono/amicus</em> 1382 dismissal motion, and when the judge saw my name, he granted the motion to dismiss on the day of continued trial.</div>
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I had complained to a previous PJ of Riverside County, and he wrote
back an incomprehensible letter that (a) it is not happening, but (b)
if it is, it's okay. I knew it was happening, because they tried to
pull that on me and I refused to pay, so they buckled under and gave me
my trial – on which I was acquitted. And I know it is not okay, because
"bail" may only be imposed on a pretrial person if he is found to be a
flight risk - never as an admission ticket to trial court!</div>
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</div>
<div>
But it goes on and on and on here, and I cannot be Crusader Rabbit
for the world, so I am glad the ACLU is getting involved. I think when I
first heard of this traffic court scam a decade or so ago, I wrote the
ACLU about it, but they apparently were not interested then. </div>
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</div>
<div>
It used to occur in the Joshua Tree court, but the judges there
wised up to the Constitution and it does not happen anymore. I do not
know about the rest of San Bernardino County.</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
Thousand and thousands and thousands of <em>pro pers</em> have had
their constitutional right to court trial extorted from them by this
pernicious and contra-constitutional practice. Were we able to sue
judges for their malfeasance [an immunity the Courts manufactured for
themselves, and then for their prosecution chums, from whole cloth], a
class action could be brought, reaping $millions.</div>
</div>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As I announced and predicted
would occur in various forums, there were many arrests at the latest
incarnation of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival [Coachella Fest],
and most could have been avoided if my advice had been followed.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">You need to understand
that local government coffers swell with these sorts of arrests, and
subsequent prosecutions, because they are Grant funded, meaning the local agencies
receive enormous sums of money from Sacramento, which was sent there from
Washington, D.C., which was taken from you in taxes back here, to screw over
people, in the disingenuous name of “health” and “safety,” in this nation
conceived of Liberty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And most of these sorts
of arrests were and are avoidable, if you just are careful of to whom you are
speaking, of who you are letting sidle up to you, and then of what you say and
allow when you are detained and arrested.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You are not required to talk to cops, nor to let them search, and you
should not, because it never, ever helps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are there to put cases together, not to seek the neutral ends of
justice, nor to help you out of the downsides of your bad choices.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Even though avoidable
things have not been avoided, that which should have been avoided can be
mitigated or eliminated if you have the proper attorney.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">No one is more effective
nor experienced with dealing with drug, alcohol, and conduct related offenses
at these festivals [or anywhere else] than am I.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one has a better track record, credibility
in the Courts, grit, or scholarship than I.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If you have been victimized
at one of the festivals, this weekend’s or next weekend’s Coachella Fest, or
the later Stagecoach, contact me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can
do no better than have me on your side if you have been accused of crimes; you
can [and too many do!], however, do much worse.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It does not cost to talk
to me about your case; it will, however, cost you more than mere money if you
choose to go elsewhere.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Call for an appointment:
760-863-3840.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">www.kennedyforlaw.com</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-74274878164904463152015-02-19T09:15:00.004-08:002015-02-19T09:15:50.996-08:00Like it or Not, Cops Do Lie and Plant Evidence<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span>I have said this for years, sometimes
to the outraged condemnation of police groupies and pissed-off cops,
but now a cop himself says what I could not say better nor more
effectively. Does this mean all cops are bad? No; many are good. But
the presumption that a cop is truthful merely because he wears a badge
is idiotic, and it is one of the main problems in jury trials today -
jurors do not want to believe that what appears to be a lie is, when
uttered by a shiny badged, Boy Scout-looking cop. Think again:</span></span><br />
<br />
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/officer-reveals-planting-evidence-lying-part-game/#5ubqphjYqDsAbeCw.01<br />
<br />
www.kennedyforlaw.com </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-69391650221523168932014-12-16T11:14:00.000-08:002014-12-16T11:30:50.616-08:00May the Juristic Devil Take the Heien-Most; We are Now a Full-Fledged Police State<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Does anyone really
question whether we have long ago sunk into the muck of being a police
state?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If anyone is so deluded, the newest
United States Supreme Court opinion on Fourth Amendment matters should sweep
away such a delusions.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Heien
v. North Carolina</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> came out yesterday, ironically <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bill of Rights Day,</i> and it involves a
traffic stop of a vehicle, which ultimately results in the collection of
cocaine because the occupants of the car couldn’t shut up and they consented to
a search.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What brought the case to the
Supreme Court was the fact that the cop stopped the car for a brake light
malfunction that really was not against the law: the officer made a mistake of
law about the facts he was observing on which he based his liberty invasion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now, we all know that “ignorance of
the law is no excuse,” right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are
accused of breaking the law and you genuinely don’t know your conduct is
illegal, you cannot invoke that doctrine to get out of accountability – you are
deemed to know the law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unless you are a
cop; a cop now is not deemed to know the law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Giving, institutionally and systemically, greater rights to police than enjoyed
by the polity has to be the definition of a police state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In an opinion that will live in
infamy, the Court ruled that reasonable good faith misunderstanding of what the
law requires is a defense to a motion to suppress evidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In effect, they are ruling that the
badged/jack-booted “law” “enforcers” are not deemed to know the law they
enforce!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Huh?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This really is a
conscience shocking opinion by SCOTUS, which had a duty appointed by the
Framers to protect people from excessive government. The default position in
this Republic was to be for liberty and against power, but that has eroded steadily
since the early years, and then at juristic lightspeed since the Nixon justices
were appointed in '68. It is interesting that the chief justice cites two-century
old cases to help support his anti-liberty screed, yet in that era, if there
were violations of the Fourth Amendment, cases would get dismissed and
government agents and judges could get sued, and the agents could get arrested
for trespass, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">habeas</i> would lie.
But the current court does not embrace those early doctrines, because they
protected individuals and they properly but inconveniently punished government;
“originalism” is only embraced these days where it appears to support power,
which is ironically counter-originalist! This court only embraces the early
doctrines that they think assist the power side of the equation. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If we ever needed proof
of the long self-evidence notion that we have become a police state, this case
is written to illustrate that truism. Ignorance of the law is not a defense for
you or for me, but it is for the court's pals sporting badges [yes, I know the
chief justice made an almost humorous, and patently cynical, distinction of
that idea as between regular folk and their government chums, but his
utterances on that have the substance of the Emperor's iconic raiment].</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Although this purports
to be a narrow opinion, it will be expanded by our trial court judges in our
suppression motions [negligently or otherwise], since they are no more required
to know the law and its limitations than are cops; it’s only the plain folk
that have to implicitly and expressly know the law, or else they get screwed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There was a time that
everyone understood that liberty is the default position in this Republic and
power is the disfavored position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
founding notion has been turned on its head time and time again since 1968, and
now it has been scrapped entirely.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">www.kennedyforlaw.com </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-40891123696634425092014-11-20T05:47:00.001-08:002014-11-20T05:47:20.688-08:00Chief Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye Asks Us to Brag About the Courts; Why Should We?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span _mce_style="font-size: large;" style="font-size: medium;">California
Chief Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye has spoken at many attorney
gatherings imploring members of our profession to work and to speak to
build up the reputation and credibility of the judiciary. She has not
explained, however, why we should do so. What reputation? What
credibility? </span><br />
<br />
<span _mce_style="font-size: large;" style="font-size: medium;">The
Framers envisioned the judiciary to be the one branch that could be
counted on to protect the rights of individuals from majoritarian
excesses, but it has increasingly sided with power against the
individual. As Dean Irwin Chemerinsky recently noted, echoing many of
my letters to the editor and radio presentations over the years, “when
the passions of the moment have led to laws that compromise basic
rights, the [U.S. Supreme] Court has failed to enforce the
Constitution.” E. Chemerinsky, The Case Against the Supreme Court 10
[Viking, 2014]. And then lesser courts learn their lesson from the
Supreme Court; they learn that liberty is no longer [and hasn't been for
decades] the ascendant value in this Republic. </span><br />
<br />
<span _mce_style="font-size: large;" style="font-size: medium;">A
regular citizen cannot walk into any state courthouse or courtroom and
sense that the functions there are to protect him or her from government
excesses. From the very beginning of the experience, where the regular
folk [who own the courthouse and are the sovereigns!] have to subject
themselves to demeaning searches and probings and snoopings just to get
into the building while their presumptive oppressors, the cops, walk in
and out without limitations or scrutiny, to the point of entering the
courtroom [where cops have been permitted to sit, and sometimes be
cheerfully greeted by the judge, while the polity stands outside, and
are sometimes sneered at by the judges], to the point of arraignment
[where some judges seem impatient and disgusted if the accused doesn't
want to plead guilty, and some even illegally demand pre-payment of
fines to obtain a constitutional right to court trial!], to the trial
[where things are grossly stacked against the accused], to sentencing
[where the system finger-waggingly tisk-tisks at people who have done
little different or worse than government agents do all the time], there
is no atmosphere of protection, understanding, concern for the hapless
individual. Judges never want to say anything harsh to their cop pals. </span><br />
<br />
<span _mce_style="font-size: large;" style="font-size: medium;">I have
won over 1000 Constitution-violating based motions in my many decades,
and many times the judge apologizes to the cop for having to rule the
way he did; but not once has a judge apologized to a defendant for the
fact that his constitutional rights were violated! Not once! My
clients have, of course, occasionally been scolded by the judge and been
reminded that the Constitution saved them. The cop has never been
scolded for the violation! </span><br />
<br />
<span _mce_style="font-size: large;" style="font-size: medium;">We
often hear the “Victim's Bill of Rights” bandied about as proof that the
system cares about the individual, but unless you are a victim who
wants the cops and prosecution aggressively to press forward [about
which they are eager, because there are grant moneys in the offing], you
are disregarded. If you tell a cop or DA that you do not want the
person prosecuted, the one whose actions made you a victim, they will
sneer and castigate and warn you that if you don't show up to press
forward, they will have you arrested and jailed! And they will and do.
And the judges allow and enable it. </span><br />
<br />
<span _mce_style="font-size: large;" style="font-size: medium;">Judges allow cops to lie to do their work, but Heaven Forbid if you or your attorney does. </span><br />
<span _mce_style="font-size: large;" style="font-size: medium;">Judges
concoct all sorts of exceptions to the warrant clause to excuse their
cop-friends for their violations of the Constitution. Judges are
constricting 4th and 5th Amendment rights on a daily basis, to the point
that those protections are a mere shadow of their former and intended
selves. </span><br />
<br />
<span _mce_style="font-size: large;" style="font-size: medium;">One
interesting and government leaning device that infects the system and
eviscerates liberty is the waiver/forfeiture doctrine, which is enforced
only one direction. If a defendant fails to bring up a point, he is
deemed to have waived or forfeited it. If a prosecutor fails to bring
up a point and you demand that he be deemed to have waived and forfeited
it, the judge will patronizingly lecture you that this is not a gotcha
game but an enterprise in which the Court is to do look at the legal
issues and decide the matter based on that, whether the other sife
brought it up or not! Huh? Why does that only run one way? The other
day, a DA failed to oppose my position, so I said they waived it and the
ruling needed to be in my direction. “Now, Mr. Kennedy; we have to
look at the legal issues and not get hobbled by such procedural
devices.” Oh, really? </span><br />
<br />
<span _mce_style="font-size: large;" style="font-size: medium;">I just had an appeals ruling where the DA agreed with me
that the motion ruling denial needed to be reversed and that I needed
to win, and so the outcome is clear, right? The parties are the dipolar
advocates, and the Court is to come down somewhere in between, right?
Uh…, not so fast. Despite the DA conceding the point, the Court
[neutral court?] would not decide the law of the matter, but instead
decided we have not raised the point quite enough, so despite the
government's concession, we lose – as does Liberty, as does the
Constitution. </span><br />
<br />
<span _mce_style="font-size: large;" style="font-size: medium;">Meanwhile,
the same appellate court, on an interlocutory appeal I brought against a
suppression motion denial wherein we had clearly and repeatedly pled
the warrantlessness nature of the drunk driving blood draw as the
liberty invasion about which we were complaining [to which the People
responded regarding the warrantlessness issue], the DA said in the
appeal that they didn’t understand that the issue was warrantlessness
[Huh?], so the appeals court reversed the denial with a ruling so opaque
that the trial judge asked for clarification [which they refused to
supply], but with a gist that since the People didn’t understand the
issue, we are to resume the motion hearing where we left off! Are you
kidding me???/! </span><br />
<br />
<span _mce_style="font-size: large;" style="font-size: medium;">The hypocritical double standard on that sort of stuff exposes the truth against any pretense that we are a nation of laws. </span><br />
<br />
<span _mce_style="font-size: large;" style="font-size: medium;">Another
outrageous position the Courts here advance [although the more "liberal" courts in Texas, South Dakota, Arizona, etc., don't embrace the idiocy] is that our judges are
pretending that if a cop says you are “required” to submit to a chemical
test when you are arrested for drunk driving, then if you don't tell
him to pound sand and go to hell and take a swing at him, you will have
been deemed to have “consented” to the blood or urine test by your
non-resistance. Only in California does the polite accession to a cop
saying “you are required” translate to “consent,” translate to
volitionality, translate to an exception to the warrant clause. [I can
imaging the robe-flapping hue and cry that would utter from the Third
Branch if a new rule of court came out saying that from here-on-out
judges had to take a urine test before they ascended to the bench every
day!] </span><br />
<br />
<span _mce_style="font-size: large;" style="font-size: medium;">Judges
claim to be apolitical, but in reality there is no branch of government
more political than the judiciary, somewhat because their self-ordained
aloofness invites them to rationalize not responding to criticism or
not explaining their actions [except, of course, in chambers to their
cop and DA pals]; they simply proclaim they are apolitical, and the
lemmings of the legal world salute and intone “Yes, Your Honor.” You
really think that <em>Bush v. Gore</em>, or <em>Korematsu</em>, or <em>Dred Scott</em> or <em>Plessy</em>
were not driven by politics, both of the times and of the people
writing the opinions? If you do, I have a suspension bridge for sale in
Joshua Tree, real cheap – suspension of disbelief! </span><br />
<br />
<span _mce_style="font-size: large;" style="font-size: medium;">Although
organized regional Bars are always holding “judges appreciation
nights,” where attorneys invite judges for free food and drink and then
gushingly praise them for the quality of their service, those same
attorneys will quietly bitch and moan about how they or their clients
got victimized by what they label as “ignorant” and “out-of-control”
judges. I never understood that inconsistent hypocrisy. I don't attend
judges' nights, because I cannot gush to those about whom I am
disgusted, and when I was on the board of a regional Bar, I blocked
holding it. </span><br />
<br />
<span _mce_style="font-size: large;" style="font-size: medium;">We
have some out and out punks on the bench, little different from street
thugs, and they are allowed to grow into that because they have
protected themselves from civil liability by court ruling and other
responsibilities by custom. </span><br />
<br />
<span _mce_style="font-size: large;" style="font-size: medium;">The court ruling that granted that counter-productive and odious and dangerous immunity, <em>Stump v. Sparkman</em>,
was in response to a lawsuit against a judge for ordering the illegal
sterilization of the female plaintiff; he had no power whatsoever to
order that non-noticed, ugly event. The accordingly childless victim
sued the judge for that patent and cruel violation of her rights, and
the Supreme Court came to the judge's rescue, agreeing that he had acted
illegally, but proclaiming that he could not be sued, because…, well,
he's one of us, the anointed black robers! They manufactured that
immunity right then and there. </span><br />
<span _mce_style="font-size: large;" style="font-size: medium;">Of
course, the Framers, while discussing governmental immunity, did not
award it to judges, nor to the president, nor to CPS workers, nor
qualifiedly to cops, but only to members of congress in a narrow
setting. That being the case, they are presumed not to have intended
others in government to be immune. And they didn't. And they should
not be. And that was the lesson of <em>The Declaration</em>: all were to be equally accountable to the law! </span><br />
<br />
<span _mce_style="font-size: large;" style="font-size: medium;">Indeed, the claim in <em>Sparkman</em>
that judicial immunity had always existed, citing British Crown cases,
is a fraud. American judges in colonial times were always held civilly
and criminally responsible for their injurious missteps. The Crown
cases involved the issue of the absolute immunity of the King himself,
whose personal representatives the judges were. His representatives
were immune because he was, not because they were judges. It had nothing
to do with the “everyone is responsible” regime established here by the
Founders. </span><br />
<br />
<span _mce_style="font-size: large;" style="font-size: medium;">The
default position in this Republic was to be of Liberty, and against
power, and the judiciary was assigned the role to protect those values.
And it increasingly does not; “endorsed by law enforcement” is still
the most cherished campaign boast a judge can make. And they will do
anything to be able to make that boast, at the next election, for which
they are constantly campaigning. </span><br />
<br />
<span _mce_style="font-size: large;" style="font-size: medium;">Does
all of this mean there are no decent, good, honorable, bright, balanced,
properly motivated judges out there? No. Indeed, I am blessed to work
with some in Indio, one in Banning, a couple in Joshua Tree, a couple
in San Bernardino, one or two in Riverside, a couple in Rancho
Cucamonga, and maybe one or two in Murrieta. It means that the
judiciary, as an institution in this state [and many places across the Fruited
Plain], does not generally heed its intended calling of protecting the
little guy from the big guy [whether he be big government or big
business] as intended by the Framers, and there is no mechanism in place
to enlighten them to their role, nor would most of the sorts who seek
judgeships want to embrace it anyway. </span><br />
<br />
<span _mce_style="font-size: large;" style="font-size: medium;">Far,
far too many judges are DAs or cops in black robes [even the ones from
the public defenders' offices], which frequently results in, to an extent, juristic terrorism.</span><br />
<br />
<span _mce_style="font-size: large;" style="font-size: medium;">So,
Chief Justice, why should we be eagerly talking up the quality and
greatness of the judiciary, when there is little in evidence? Please
explain.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-41305363110540735282014-11-11T06:58:00.001-08:002014-11-11T06:59:05.142-08:00Immunity for Government Thugs - The Latest Outrage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If Liberty is really going to reign supreme here, we
must dispense with the expansion of immunity for government sorts. The Framers,
having the subject matter in discussion, felt that the only governmental
immunity that should exist was for federal legislators in narrow circumstances.
Article I, sec 6, the Constitution. That
axiomatically means they intended there to be no other immunity from
responsibility for wrongful conduct by government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">However, the U.S. Supreme Court first decreed immunity
for itself and for other judges, then for their prosecutorial pals, then qualifiedly
for cops, then totally for the employers of bad cops [absent unprovable
issues], and then for many other government workers and agents. While the general polity is held responsible
in damages for its harmful actions, the government [servants of that polity]
can mistreat people with impunity. And
that is partially why we have convictions of innocent people, violent mistreatment
of people by cops, searches based on warrants judges should never have issued,
searches without warrants that should never occur, outlandish bail settings not
justified by any established flight risk, increasing judicial arrogance, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We must reverse the regime of immunity that is freeing
up government to be bad, harmful, injurious, mean.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The founding of this Republic had as one of its
overarching principles that freedom requires that all to be held responsible
for their actions – there were to be no favored groups who could oppress others
by right or with impunity, and we must return to that founding doctrine, lest
our loudly boasted devotion to Liberty be further sacrificed on the altar of
favoritism and privilege and prestige.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The latest outrage by the Supreme Court protecting its
constabularial pals is <i>Carroll v. Carman</i>,
in which the cops went to a guy’s back door because they saw that people
invited to the house had gone there, beat the guy, and when sued they then
urged they thought it was okay because they didn’t know any better. The Supreme Court, showing it is supreme only
in the extremeness of its protection of its pals, said the cops were
qualifiedly immune, because they could not have known their actions were
illegal. <a href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-212_c07d.pdf">http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-212_c07d.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Huh? There didn’t
even need to be an analysis in the case of whether their actions actually violated
the Fourth Amendment [they did, because the fact that you specifically invite
people to do something does not mean uninvited cops can do the same thing!],
because they were allowed to invoke qualified immunity, which is elevating to a
constitutional art form the notion that ignorance of the law is an excuse – for
cops, not for you or me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is rampant and growing police statism, expressly
invited and further enabled by the Supreme Court, and it has to stop, or our
pretensions of Liberty must cease.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-28345664051260038932014-10-01T10:01:00.000-07:002014-10-01T10:01:02.518-07:00The Tyranny of the Courts Regarding McNeely and Warrantless Chemical Collections<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Although I have written elsewhere about the drunk
driving exceptions to the Constitution and to various evidentiary and statutory
and customary norms, there is a growing evil in our courts on a critical drunk
driving issue, and liberty lies in the balance.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">In 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court [SCOTUS] ruled, in
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Schmerber v. California</i>, that a
warrant is presumptively required for blood draws from people arrested for
drunk driving because the integrity of the human body is at least as inviolate
as a residence from a standpoint of governmental invasion, and warrants are
presumptively required for searches of residences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, proven exigencies could excuse the
warrant requirement for chemical testing of the human body just as in
residential searches, but the urged evanescence of alcohol in the human blood
stream did not suffice as that warrant-detouring exigency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Because of the drunk driving exception to the
Constitution, however, many states, including California, pretended that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Schmerber</i> didn’t say what it said, and
they started flouting<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SCOTUS’s
constitutional rules on the point, not unlike the “Jim Crow” judges of the old
South who flouted equal protection rulings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Fast forward to 2013, and SCOTUS reiterated the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Schmerber</i> rule in a new case, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Missouri v. McNeely</i>, reminding all that
a warrant is presumptively required for those invasive searches [which in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">interim</i> SCOTUS held includes breath and
urine testing].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">California [and a couple of other jurisdictions]
feigned surprise: “Whaaat? – we thought that evanescence alone justified the
invasion, which is why we have warrantlessly done so for 40 years!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The law was clear then, and clear now, as is
the hypocrisy of the California Courts on the subject matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They take their hypocrisy a step further:
“And because we thought it was ok, don’t punish our poor policemen by
suppressing the fruits of their 47 year old illegalities, because they didn’t
know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Honest!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wonderful, ignorance of the law is a defense
for law enforcers and for law adjudicators, but not for the folks on the
street.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">One of the biggest devices the courts are
employing to detour the clear warrant rule is the state statutory,
administrative oxymoron “implied consent.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You see, the fiction is manufactured, from whole cloth, that motorists
are deemed to have given their “consent” to chemical testing by the virtue of
obtaining a driver’s license or of driving on the public roads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Huh?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Deemed”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yep.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The problem for an honest government would be that
state statutory rules do not define federal constitutional rights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moreover, something that is “deemed” is not
the product of arms length’s agreements, required in true consent matters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">McNeely</i>
said there will be no <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">per se</i> detours
around the warrant clause, and applying “implied consent” across the board as
that detour is a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">per se</i> rule, which
SCOTUS forbids.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">It is notable that Missouri has the same implied
consent statute we do, but the SCOTUS plurality merely nodded in its direction,
not giving it any weight, while writing on for many pages about the warrant
requirement. Many want to urge that it was because the defendant refused in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">McNeely</i> that the opinion needed to be
written, but (a) if you are deemed, in the past tense, to have done something,
you cannot undo it in the present tense, and (b) SCOTUS did not hold that the
refusal was a revocation of Fourth Amendment consent in that case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because everyone knows that “implied consent” is not Fourth Amendment
consent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">McNeely</span></i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">
does not hold that a warrant is required only if one refuses; it holds that a
warrant is required, absent established justification otherwise, established by
evidence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">It should also be noted, as does one of the many
helpful Texas cases, that the “implied consent” language nowhere provides that
a warrantless extraction is permitted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nor could it, since SCOTUS decides federal constitutional law, not state
legislatures [as the “Jim Crow” judicial tyrants finally found out].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then too, the limited “implied consent” nod
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">McNeely</i> was not joined in by the
majority of the court anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">One of the great ironies in this discussion is
that the courts of the Death Penalty Capital of the World, Texas, fully
understand that “implied consent” is not Fourth Amendment consent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Texas, Colorado, South Dakota, and other
places have sided with liberty in this liberty vs power debate, understanding
that SCOTUS has held that warrants are required, and that state statutory
doctrines cannot eviscerate that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Texas
in particular did not like the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">McNeely</i>
rule, but when their implied consent appeals case was remanded by SCOTUS to
reconsider in the wake of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">McNeely</i>,
the state courts saluted and have deferred, requiring warrants for drunk
driving blood extractions, and suppressing evidence where none have been
produced.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Our state, however, is quite, quite different on
the liberty debate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just got a ruling
against me on a clear <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">McNeely</i> matter
based on a Maryland federal district court ruling that they dredged up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had to leap over clear appellate rulings
in Texas, Colorado, and elsewhere favoring individuals to scratch around and find
that non-precedental trial court ruling [not even an appeals case!] to steal my
client’s liberty!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is obscene!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Courts are not supposed to decide in advance what they
want their destination to be and then search around until they can find
authority that appears to support that that pre-ordained destination!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Result-orientedness has no place in the hall
of justice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Because of this state thumbing its nose at SCOTUS
for 47 years, in many of the opinions and motions they are allowing the cops to
invoke the “good faith” exception [always in quotes because they know it is
not!], which the Nixon justices-led SCOTUS from the ‘70’s claims has the “sole
ground” of deterrence and of educating the cops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Excludability of fetid evidence was not part
of the Fourth Amendment but merely an appendage manufactured by the Court, goes
the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is utterly fallacious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The early Courts understood that the Fourth
Amendment was so inviolate and protective of people’s liberties and security
that cases could be dismissed, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">habeas</i>
could issue, evidence could be excluded, government agents could be arrested
and sued, and judges could be sued for allowing its violation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no manufactured “rule,” nor one
with a “sole ground” of taking care of cops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Violating the Fourth Amendment was the same as violating the 5<sup>th</sup>,
6<sup>th</sup>, or due process clauses: the fruits could not come into the
courts, due to the imperative of judicial integrity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SCOTUS has deftly eliminated <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">habeas</i>, case dismissal, suing the
judges, arresting the cops, and have granted limited immunity from suit to
their cops for Fourth Amendment violations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While we pretend to be advancing liberty for peoples elsewhere in the
world, we have slowly ratcheted down liberty for our own people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Justice Alito’s latest proclamation that the
“rule” was “created” by the court with that “sole ground” should invite
protestations beginning with “Liar, liar, pants on fire!,” but it has not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The general ignorance of the public, and of legal
practitioners, of the constitutional history and theorems of this Republic is
allowing courts to make outlandish constitutional claims with impunity, and
those claims are always in the direction favoring power and against liberty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The tyrannies and terrorisms we see thousands of
miles across the seas, in foreign lands, are nowhere nearly the threat to us as
are the tyrannies and terrorisms practiced on us by our own government, especially
the courts, and our silence allows it to grow and metastasize until the organism
is consumed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-27452982842111330842014-08-12T05:50:00.000-07:002014-08-12T05:50:26.758-07:00The Politics of Drunk Driving; Some Thoughts and Concerns<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">There is no area of the law in the modern era that is more driven by political pressures and agendas than the area of drunk driving. [I had one judge who was apoplectic about mentioning the term "drunk driving," because the statutory offense is "driving under the influence of alcohol," not "drunk driving"! Give me a break: the Vehicle Code lists it as drunk driving, the <em>Mothers Against</em> ... list it at drunk driving, the appeals and supreme courts refer to the topic as drunk driving, the billboards and other government propaganda label it "drunk driving," etc. Indeed, so unhinged was he that we had to label, over my strident objection, <em>MADD</em> as "Mothers Against Drinking Drivers." The hysteria in his mind about calling it "drunk driving" is part of the politics of the enterprise.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">When I say "modern era," I am calling to mind the obvious comparison from days of old to the Salem Witch Trials, wherein 17 women, two men, and a dog were executed for witchcraft on that same sort of hysteria-driven ignorance and suspicions and fears and self-serving pressures by evil people that visit the subject of drunk driving now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The most disappointing and ominous aspect of this area of endeavor is that jurors, citizens from the community who are supposed to protect us all from overweening government, fall prey to the suasions of government, and their laughably programmed and scientifically incompetent "criminalists" who will testify to whatever their governmental masters need while dressing their perfidies up in seductive scientific jargon. I got one who testified that "everyone is impaired at .08%" to confess that there was a time she would have testified that "everyone is impaired at .10%," because that was the law then, and at ".15%," because that was the law then. She agreed that there has not been an evolution in the human organism over that short a period that changed what is its "impairment," but only a change in the law, and she works for the law. Wow - unusual honesty by a government criminalist, and it was probably accidental. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">In no other area of law would we allow the self-serving governmental hackism that visits a drunk driving trial to infect the evidentiary stage. But jurors become seduced by the testimonial self-righteousness of the shiny badged cop and by the pseudo-science of the earnest hack, and they cannot perceive that they are being led down a primrose path whose careless thorniness will eventually come back to haunt them, and us all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">No other crime is the subject of such government propaganda as is drunk driving. No other crime has as powerful and pushy lobbyists as we see with the neo-prohibitionist <em>MADD</em> and related organizations as drunk driving. No other crime has so rigidly tied the hands of sentencing judges as does drunk driving. No other crime has as harsh an escalating recidivism scale as drunk driving, where misdemeanors can readily morph to felonies on the 4th go-around. No other crime causes those alleged to have committed it to give up and plead guilty to the alarming extent that we see with drunk driving. No other crime has the extensive governmental propaganda of bill boards and street signs decrying its commission as we see with drunk driving. No other crime has generated the dramatic exceptions to constitutional and statutory protective rights that we see with drunk driving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Jurors have to start to resist this reactionary outrage by understanding that it is all smoke and mirrors. The stats are manufactured; the science is akin to voodoo, and the harm to the victims of prosecution is incalculable. Yes, yes, there are people injured by drunk drivers - just as there are, in far greater scale, people injured by out of control, brutish, sometimes homicidal cops, but the excesses of neither group justifies punishing all in either group. We make prejudicial generalizations about those accused of drunk driving, and that is dangerous, unjust, and unfair. And it has to stop.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-85362049001429530422014-06-06T15:53:00.000-07:002014-06-06T15:54:37.766-07:00Indio Traffic Court Scam, Part 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I have written and spoken about this scam for a long
time and on many occasions, and the public needs to know the latest chapter.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Two things are fundamental in our system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One is that all people have a constitutional
right to a trial if they are accused of committing a crime [and traffic
infractions are crimes].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other is
that “bail” may not be imposed on people accused of crimes, conformably with
the 8<sup>th</sup> Amendment, unless they are found to be flight risks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The latter is rather regularly violated in
this jurisdiction for all levels of crime, because it is understood that people
who are held in custody for extended periods of time are thereby softened up
into pleading guilty to something, thus releasing pressure on the bloated
criminal trial calendar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes
literally months to obtain <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">habeas corpus</i>
relief for illegal pretrial detention, by which time defendants have generally
taken some sort of plea bargain.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">In the traffic trial setting, there are troublesome
tweakings of those two fundamental doctrines which have resulted in an overt
scam on the public of a sort and depth that if it were practiced by an
individual, he would be in state prison for extortion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">In traffic, the unwitting public are told that if
they plead not guilty to traffic charges at arraignment, they will not receive
their trial [a constitutional right] unless they post “bail’ [which
constitutionally requires they be found to be flight risks before it can even
be imposed].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That “bail” is suspiciously
about the same amount, or slightly more, than the fine would be if they were to
plead guilty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are told that they
will not receive a trial unless and until they post that “bail.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they politely refuse, they are dealt with
quite rudely and menacingly by the Court, which has even been known to threaten
an additional sum, over and above that “bail” amount, if they have not paid that
illicit tribute by the time of the future-set trial.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Here are the facts from
a declaration executed by one motorist who was exposed to that horrid,
virtually terroristic, attitude by the local traffic court:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I appeared at the appointed time for arraignment on
this traffic infraction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one said or
suggested I was a flight risk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt;">As part of the general advisals to the whole room full
of people apparently there on traffic citations, the judge said that there are
only three ways to respond to his reading of the charges to each defendant:
Guilty, Traffic School, or Not Guilty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He got seemingly great enjoyment out of mocking people who responded
otherwise or who wanted to explain something about the charges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt;">When my name was called, I came forward and pled “not
guilty,” which was one of the alternatives that he had said was available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only after I pled “not guilty” and asked for
a trial did the Court announce that I had to post $500.00 “bail” to obtain a
trial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When it was clear that I was not,
at that point, going to pay the $500.00, he told me to go back and sit
down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I was headed back to my seat,
he said to the bailiff “Bailiff, get your handcuffs lubricated.” I thought I
had a constitutional right to a trial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
thought bail could only be imposed on someone who is a flight risk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know many people who have had misdemeanor
charges against them, including drunk driving charges, and they never had to
post bail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This infraction is, I
believe, of less serious nature than a misdemeanor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The discussion of “bail” came up only when I
insisted on having a trial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The judge
became visibly agitated at me and asked why I thought I didn’t have to do the
same thing everyone else was doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
don’t and didn’t know what everyone else was doing; I only know that I was
there on my promise to appear for an arraignment on a traffic infraction, I appeared
when I was supposed to appear, when the Court asked me how I pled, I
respectfully said “not guilty,” to which the Court responded that I had to post
bail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If that was happening to everyone
else, then it was as wrong for them to be required to pay “bail” to enjoy their
constitutional right to trial as it is for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and unless I posted $500.00 “bail.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
started thinking then that what the Court was labeling “bail” was really an
admission fee to the trial Court, sort of like the old tickets one had to buy
and hand over to enter certain rides at Disneyland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was not clear whether this was an “A
Ticket” ride or an “E Ticket,” but I again said I was pleading “not guilty” and
I wanted a trial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By then the judge
seemed quite furious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He snapped that
the matter was being continued to June 6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I said I was not waiving time and I wanted a trial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As his closing comments to me, he said that
if I had not paid the $500.00 by the time of the continued date, he would add
$300.00 to the amount he was saying was due.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He did not supply the authority for that warning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nor was it clear whether he was thereby
prejudging guilt on the citation charges, or whether he was going to impose
that amount, regardless of what he determined, in his “neutrality,” was the
truth of the charge, or what.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not
scare out of enjoying my constitutional rights that easily, and I had said, for
a total of three times, that I was pleading not guilty and I wanted a trial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have consulted with counsel who knows the
law of these matters and he does not know what authority would support the
imposition of that additional $300.00 figure, but since I do not intend to pay
this admission fee to enter the trial Court, I guess we will find out the
authority, because I have been led to understand that many criminal defense
attorneys are interested in learning what it is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about getting a transcript of what had transpired in Court that day. The judge
responded “I don’t care what you do after you leave this Court.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can go spend $3,000.00 to hire a lawyer
and figure that out; I don’t care.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have ever seen such rude treatment of a citizen who was simply and politely
trying to enjoy his constitutional rights.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">This all occurred in America, Folks – right here in
Riverside County and Indio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Needless to say, the dismissal motion that this declaration
was appended to was granted today and the case was dismissed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that was no great loss to the voracious
traffic court fiscal coffers, because the dismissal motion was called first,
granted, and there was a courtroom of more potential lambs to the slaughter of “justice,”
ready to be arraigned, and ready to be assailed and exploited out of their
hard-earned funds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">When
I first became aware of this sort of exploitation years ago, I brought the
matter to the attention of the then-presiding judge of the Court system, Judge
Thomas Cahraman, and he wrote me back that (a) it is not happening, and (b) if
it is, it is okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Huh?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was and is happening, and it is not okay,
if we are a nation of laws and not of governmental hooligans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">That
patent and purposeful rip-off of the public, denied to exist by a previous
presiding judge, is what impelled me to run for judge against one of the
greatest victimizers of the public in this scam the last time around, but his
supporters also denied that what happens every day happens at all, and the
easily fooled public fell for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
got the judiciary you deserve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I and
other liberty-oriented people did not. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Citizens
who cannot afford counsel, who are the majority of people appearing on traffic arraignments,
don’t know their rights in this regard, and cannot afford to litigate their
rights on the subject, and hence they default into quietly paying their fines
and leaving the courthouse, without trial or dignity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">There
are circulars in the county law library regarding traffic court procedures that
announce that a person appearing on a traffic arraignment who pleads not guilty
must pay “bail” to obtain a trial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
is no authority for that, and the Constitution speaks loudly against it, and I
suspect most of the judges know it to be a fraud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paperwork from the Court, and some judges,
cite Vehicle Code section 40519 as the authority for this scam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apart from the clear point that state
statutes cannot trump state or federal constitutional doctrines, this one does
not pretend to do so, if it is read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That provision announces that if you have an arraignment date and you
want to come in early and plead not guilty to the clerk, not in court but to
the window clerk, they can require you to pay this “bail” to obtain a
trial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither it nor any other
provision authorizes the collection of “bail,” which is really just an
admission ticket to the traffic funhouse, to obtain a trial, if you have pled
not guilty in open Court.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Court
cannot even read or understand the very authority it invokes for ripping
unsuspecting people off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">There
is nothing more loathsome that for a person’s government, the government of,
by, and for the People, to rip off those people in the guise of administering “justice.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The traffic court system has really morphed
into a glorified appendage of the state tax revenue system, stealthily
detouring Prop. 13’s limitation on taxation by duplicitously labeling the
moneys thus extorted “fines” and “fees” and “assessments.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">This
scam has to stop, and it has to stop now, and all judges who have enabled it
should hang their heads in shame and resign.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-74638514679782446622014-06-05T09:57:00.000-07:002014-06-05T09:57:41.503-07:00Marijuana Madness; the Jury Got it Right, Regardles of What "The Man" Wanted<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<strong>This recent item from the San Francisco Public Defender's Office illustrates, in stark tones, why "jury nullification" should continue to be understood to be the Framers' intended and legitimate protection for us all against governmental over-reaching, whether by the executive, the legislative, or judicial branches. [Yes, the fundamental power of civilian juries protect us against bad judges as well as against other agencies of government, which is why juries, when told by judges that they don't have that power, should merely smile and say "Uh, ya wanna bet?/!"]</strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Thursday, June 5, 2014 · by <a href="http://sfpublicdefender.org/news/author/taparton/" title="Posts by Tamara Aparton"><span style="color: windowtext;">Tamara Aparton</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: 14pt;">San Francisco, CA— </span></em><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A good Samaritan who offered a pinch of marijuana to
soothe a stressed out stranger only to have his compassion repaid with felony
charges was acquitted following a jury trial, San Francisco Public Defender
Jeff Adachi announced today.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">After three hours of deliberation, a jury on
Wednesday found Stetson Qualls Jones, 24, not guilty of possession of marijuana
for sale and sale of marijuana. If convicted, Qualls Jones faced up to three
years in state prison, said his attorney, Deputy Public Defender Ariel Boyce-Smith.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Qualls Jones’ ordeal began Feb. 5 while
hanging out with friends in the “Hippy Hill” area of Golden Gate Park. The
group was socializing and smoking marijuana when Qualls Jones thought he
recognized a man approaching the group and waved him over. Upon closer
inspection, Qualls Jones realized the man was a stranger, but welcomed him
regardless. When Qualls Jones invited him to smoke with the group, the man
declined, asking instead if he could buy marijuana.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Qualls Jones testified that he told the man
that he did not sell marijuana. The man appeared agitated and stressed out, so
Qualls Jones reached into his personal stash, pinched off a small amount of
marijuana, and handed it to the man, who turned out to be a police decoy.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Qualls Jones, who lives a communal lifestyle
and frowns upon capitalism, testified that he refused the $20 the man offered
him in exchange for the marijuana.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">After the interaction, Qualls Jones was
swarmed by five to six police officers, who were conducting a sting operation.
Police found a bag of less than 1 ounce of marijuana in his jacket pocket.
Police testified they found the $20 under a blanket where Qualls Jones was
sitting.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Qualls Jones spent four days in jail before
being released by a judge.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">During the trial, Qualls Jones testified that
he considers marijuana to be medicine and feels it should be freely shared
instead of bought and sold.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Under questioning from Boyce-Smith, two
police officers admitted they were receiving overtime pay in exchange for the
buy-bust operation. One of the officers also acknowledged on the stand that his
department receives federal grants for the stings.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Despite conducting a well-funded operation,
police did not bother to gather any corroborating evidence. There wasn’t a
single photograph taken or a single witness interviewed, despite the fact that
Mr. Qualls Jones was sitting with six other people in a public park,”
Boyce-Smith said.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Throughout the trial, Boyce-Smith repeated a
rhyme that captured the frailty of the case: “He didn’t accept a dime/they made
up this crime/while they were getting paid overtime.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">In 2006, the San Francisco Board of
Supervisors approved an ordinance making marijuana offenses the police
department’s lowest priority. However, public marijuana sales are not included
in the policy.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Qualls Jones was found guilty of possession
of less than 1 ounce of marijuana, an infraction, and fined $25.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Adachi said Qualls Jones never posed a risk
to public safety.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">“A tremendous amount of city resources were
wasted in a manufactured case against a man who was minding his own business,”
Adachi said. “San Franciscans have been very clear about marijuana enforcement
and I am not surprised a jury rejected this case.”</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-20743498434920077042014-04-30T06:59:00.002-07:002014-04-30T06:59:50.092-07:00Don Sterling, the Racist, is Not Alone - The Punishment is Too Much<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background: white; color: #141823; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The understandable folderol
about Don Sterling and his foul mouth and his Clippers franchise [his personal
property] raises many interesting, telling, and sometimes disturbing issues,
over and above the rankness of his bigoted speech. For instance, I was amused to note that a
friend who pretends to value free speech and balance deleted my comment on his Facebook
page, along the lines of this post, about the lifetime ban of Donald Sterling,
which sadly might say more about him than Sterling's known foul mouth said
about him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #141823; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I think the punishment
of Sterling is quite over the top. Sterling is a jerk, a bigot, an asshole, and
he deserves whatever loathing comes his way. However, official, regulatory
ostracism is not a standard practiced in this country. And there are many team-members who also fit
that description [including one who labeled the teams "black teams"],
some of whom liberally use the "n" word while decrying those of other
races who use it, and their racism is similarly revolting, and yet we don't see
them banned, punished, highlighted as the cretins they are, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #141823; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Just as it is
Un-American to practice ostracism, it is also un-American to deprive a person
of the use and enjoyment of his property, which he alone assumed the risk to
build up, to the same extent that it is un-American to be a bigot [although I
suspect a high percentage of Americans really are bigots of various sorts!],
and I think we should tread carefully before we allow collective moral
self-righteousness be the measure by which WE decide if YOU can keep and enjoy
your property and pursuit of happiness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #141823; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Make no mistake about
it - I think Sterling is a scumbag and he has earned a place on the lower rungs
of Dante's Inferno. We need to be careful, though, that we don't slip down
close to him by our actions and public and private thoughts, glass houses and stones and the like.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-73588160071102010002014-04-15T08:24:00.004-07:002014-04-15T08:24:49.331-07:00Coachella Fest and Stagecoach<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #616060; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: CharisSILRegular, Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">CoachellaFest and Stagecoach: as I have warned over and over and over, 1.
don't discuss the subject of drugs with anyone you don't know, and 2. don't
admit to anything of criminal significance, nor consent to searches of your
person or belongings or car, when contacted by the police. Indeed, since too
many people readily fall prey to predatory cops, program yourself to not say
anything to the cops, other than your name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Responding to “what is this?” or “have you ever been arrested before?”
or “how long have you been here?” or “do you mind waiting here while I get a
police dog?” or “where did you get this money?” or anything other than a
legitimate question about your name can and will be used against you in ways
you won’t understand until the police report supporting your arrest and felony accusation
comes out, so say nothing to the cops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It never helps, except by helping them serve their agenda and by helping
me obtain a juicy retainer fee!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Get this in your minds - the cops are NOT your friends when it comes to
investigating crimes - they are friends only of themselves and of their agenda,
and their agenda has nothing to do with your well-being or liberty. Telling the
cops they can search your pockets that you know are crammed with drugs, and
then coming to me to get you out of it, is thoughtless - protect yourself
because you pay me $thousands to undo the effects of you not doing so.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Following this past weekend’s “Fest,” there is </span><span style="background: white; font-size: 15pt;">the stench in the nostrils of
freedom-loving people who were the victims of the predatory tactics of the
police searching, seizing, arresting, harassing them to build up their
grant-funded portfolios in the hypocritical name of "public safety."
I am outraged by some of the overbearing antics by the cops, and their police
dogs, to profit from conduct that might technically be illegal [although not
all of it is], but which is really not hurting anyone. We have lost our way in
this Republic, all the while scolding regimes in other parts of the world for
their anti-liberty activities that sometimes pale in comparison to ours. Back
off, cops, and leave people alone, unless there is evidence of true crime, not
the drug and alcohol manufactured crime about which you are suspiciously
aggressive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 15pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The
police are predators looking out for their own interests – do not become their sadly
easy prey<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by thinking you will
help yourself by “cooperating” with tidbits of statements or consents – you will
not, ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You only hurt yourselves by “cooperating”
into supplying the government with evidence to be used against you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Protect yourself from the Hun, because it is
sometimes very costly to undo the effects of your lack of wisdom in protecting
yourself, and a complete undoing is not always possible anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; font-size: 15pt;">Talking to the cops, or giving
consent to search, is a suicidal move – are you into suicide, or
self-preservation?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only you know the
answer to that, but I will not sugarcoat the psychological nature of
cooperating with government when it is investigating crime – it is suicide.</span></span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-70801243024526198492014-03-19T09:21:00.002-07:002014-03-19T09:21:51.850-07:00Thoughts About Bullying on the School Ground<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is a resurgence in the incidence of, or at least in discussions and public attention about, bullying in our society, and there are some things that can be done about the problem right off the bat [over and above dumping the bullies in a mine shaft!], but we need to see what might be causing it because we need to focus on a systemic cure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: large;">It is important to realize that school-ground bullying is simply a microcosm of our national political policies, from the beginning right up until now, and so one cannot entirely fault street punks from picking up on and emulating that which our “leaders” teach and do on a regular basis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: large;">Bullying, by definition, is the exercise of physical force and verbal intimidation by an obviously stronger person against an obviously weaker one. Bullies do not take on people of their own size and power, because they know there is a high danger of them getting cold-cocked: they are, in a word, cowards. But isn’t that characteristic of our national war philosophy?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-28290430022211163262014-03-10T10:51:00.001-07:002014-03-10T10:52:23.934-07:00Garcinia Cambogia Scam<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Don't get victimized by the scam being carried out by <em>Garcinia Cambogia</em>, an alleged natural weight-control "premium" you "win" for certain things you do or see or perform on the net. I signed up for what sounded like a first supply for S&H [shipping and handling] of $4.95, with the rest to be ordered if I liked it. What the fine print reads is that they will send it for the $4.95, and then if you keep it, you owe them about $85.00, and they will automatically send you more for $85.00, charging the same card!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">This needs to be addressed by the local US Attorney - it is an utter internet fraud scam!!!!! I can't seem to get it stopped [I told them two days ago to stop and just got a new shipment notice!!!], so I am cancelling my credit card, and going after them in damages. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-27434274578803831592014-02-27T06:21:00.000-08:002014-02-27T06:21:48.932-08:00Liberty Receives Another Blow from SCOTUS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">In the new Fernandez v. California, SCOTUS ruled, by 6-3, that if a present cotenant refuses consent to enter the residence [which controls against contrary wishes of another cotenant], if the cops can figure a way to get the refusing person away, then his refusal evaporates for 4th Amendment purposes! Huh? Does his duty to make mortgage payments cease if he is taken away? Then how does his other authority over his residence cease?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here, after he refused them warrantless entry, the cops "removed" the refuser from his home, and then they had only the meek, mild cotenant to deal with, and she gave in and let them search. Wow! I wonder how much these so-called originalists study about the Framers' intents about government invasions of residences when they come up with this police power cockamamie garbage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A nagging pivotal point needs addressing: "He does not contest the fact that the police had reasonable grounds for removing him from the apartment so that they could speak with Rojas, an apparent victim of domestic violence, outside of petitioner’s potentially intimidating presence. In fact, he does not even contest the existence of probable cause to place him under arrest. We therefore hold that an occupant who is absent due to a lawful detention or arrest stands in the same shoes as an occupant who is absent for any other reason."<br /><br />This is where his criminal lawyer failed him - he should have contested the warrantless removal from the residence, because there is no DV exception to the warrant clause for residential searches/arrests! Reaching in and dragging a person out of his residence or commanding him to leave the residence is tantamount to a Payton search and requires a warrant!<br /><br />Attorneys should NOT forget to object to any warrantless incursions/extractions in this sort of situation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love Alito's comment that they won't "extend" Randolph to this situation! Uh, Liberty is not granted [nor extended] by SCOTUS - it inheres in us as a people and is the default position in this Republic, Mr. So-Called "Originalist."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A book that comes to mind here is I. Müller, <em>Hitler’s Justice: The Courts of the Third Reich</em> (D. Schneider trans. 1991 Harvard University Press). I recommend all who think we have a court that protects us from a rampaging executive to read that - we are living in shades of '30's Germany, yet none dare voice it. Then read R. Balko, <em>Rise of the Warrior Cop: the Militarization</em> <em>of America's Police Forces</em> (2014), and all will become clear. Too clear for comfort.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-47931546281076883462014-02-12T08:18:00.000-08:002014-02-12T08:19:45.272-08:00Drunk Driving Cops; Jurors Need to Ponder the Downsides and Vote Accordingly<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Just so people with badges don't get too self righteous in the presence of jurors, and so jurors and the public think cops are squeaky clean and different from us all when it comes to this political crime, and different from the people they arrest for drunk driving, it is important to realize that cops and others in power do it too. Does that mean we should demonize the police? Is that the reason for this comment? NO. Neither they nor others arrested for drunk driving should be demonized! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This comment is to remind all that people make mistakes, no matter who they are [Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld all had DUI pasts!!!], and we need the system to be more understanding about things when the increasingly political subject of drunk driving is being put into the trial courts.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.kvoa.com/news/on-duty-uapd-officer-arrested-for-super-extreme-dui-after-crashing-into-wall/">http://www.kvoa.com/news/on-duty-uapd-officer-arrested-for-super-extreme-dui-after-crashing-into-wall/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865596113/Officer-arrested-in-DUI-case-after-police-truck-with-4-children-rolls.html">http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865596113/Officer-arrested-in-DUI-case-after-police-truck-with-4-children-rolls.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Lewis-Co-sheriffs-deputy-resigns-following-DUI-arrest-241406261.html">http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Lewis-Co-sheriffs-deputy-resigns-following-DUI-arrest-241406261.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://wreg.com/2014/01/17/off-duty-memphis-police-officer-arrested-for-dui/">http://wreg.com/2014/01/17/off-duty-memphis-police-officer-arrested-for-dui/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/city-dwi-smashup-article-1.1585013">http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/city-dwi-smashup-article-1.1585013</a><br />
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<a href="http://m.chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2014-01-20/dui-charge-savannah-area-fire-chief">http://m.chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2014-01-20/dui-charge-savannah-area-fire-chief</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/detroit-city-council-president-under-investigation-drunk-driving-possession-marijuana">http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/detroit-city-council-president-under-investigation-drunk-driving-possession-marijuana</a><br />
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<a href="http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/01/28/troy-cop-on-leave-after-arrest-for-drunk-driving/">http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/01/28/troy-cop-on-leave-after-arrest-for-drunk-driving/</a><br />
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<a href="http://wishtv.com/2014/02/12/bisard-expected-to-plead-guilty-in-second-drunk-driving-arrest/">http://wishtv.com/2014/02/12/bisard-expected-to-plead-guilty-in-second-drunk-driving-arrest/</a><br />
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<a href="http://mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2014/1/22/orlando_police_dui.html">http://mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2014/1/22/orlando_police_dui.html</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And there are so many, many more examples/instances.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, when jurors are given the task of deciding whether they shall find a person guilty of this political crime, which results in heavy penalties, loss of license, sometimes loss of jobs, loss of money, and convictions that can come back to haunt them for a long, long time, they should focus on the fact that all make mistakes, and people and their families should not be saddled with the heavy downsides of those mistakes for long periods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Contrary to comments by judges and prosecutors, a jury that votes guilty is indeed the cause of the ensuing conviction - but for the vote of guilty, the person would not be convicted, the very definition of legal causation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So jurors need to ponder whether they want to cause such grief to people, when the very people collecting the evidence and processing it are frequently the victims of the same sort of demonization that the government seeks for the people on trial.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"But judges say we must vote guilty if...." No judge in this Republic should ever say anyone MUST vote guilty for anything, regardless of the strength of the evidence. Moreover, the Framers envisioned that the jury of citizens would be the protection against all of government, the executive, the legislative, and the judicial branches. And they anticipated that jurors would nullify cases wherein they felt the justice of the matter did not support a conviction, regardless of the technical strength of the evidence. When judges pretend jurors cannot nullify cases, they are merely revealing thereby why the jury was given the power to do just that - judges like executives and legislators have agendas which citizen jurors must resist, or we otherwise negate the Framers' intent regarding the role of the jury in this Republic, a Republic where sovereignty lies with the people, not with the government.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-58524336971047231922014-02-05T05:25:00.000-08:002014-02-05T05:25:19.950-08:00Weak DAs Seek Sanctions Against Lawyers they Fear<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">The article below seems to be a new tack on the part of DAs' offices, reporting effective attorneys to the State Bar. A very effective DUI lawyer in Santa Barbara was reported to the State Bar for conduct in the courtroom, conduct which results in an embarrassing number of acquittals in prosecutions of the political crime of drunk driving. The problem is that if they start throwing down those gauntlets, they will be hoist on their own Janus-faced petards, because I see reportable misconduct by DAs on a daily basis, but I have always thought it unseemly to rat them off, preferring simply to beat them at the courtroom game that is our calling. I know not the merits involved in this article, but I do know that the attorney under attack is one of the more gifted attorneys in his area, and he will stand stoutly with his client against the gusts of faction, and the gust by this particular DA's office really blows. If I start to pick up this gauntlet, there will be many openings in DAs' ranks!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Read and weep, because there is an unhealthy alliance between prosecutors, judges, and the State Bar in this state, and it must cease, lest "interests of justice" transmogrify into "interests of the power brokers," the definition of Fascism.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.noozhawk.com/article/state_bar_suspends_santa_barbara_dui_attorney_darryl_genis/comments#disqus_thread">http://www.noozhawk.com/article/state_bar_suspends_santa_barbara_dui_attorney_darryl_genis/comments#disqus_thread</a></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193270370546202657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549957065921278477.post-14179189073661300122014-01-26T16:58:00.001-08:002014-01-26T16:58:10.341-08:00Reuters is Right about some things on the Right<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">It's about time that the powers to be come to realize what those of us in the trenches have been saying for decades: the war on drugs is a farce and cannot be won because it's not a real war and because too many people [cops, judges attorneys, rehabs, prison administrators and employees, probation officers, etc.] profit from the supposed "fight," and warehousing people in prison for most things is often counter-productive [as well as a cultural problem, considering we incarcerate a higher percentage of our population than any other country, yet loudly boast enlightenment to an increasingly disbelieving world]. This Reuters piece, somewhat about Christie, is right on, but decades late. Then too, enlightenment late is better than none at all.</span><br />
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<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/reihan-salam/2014/01/24/chris-christie-and-the-failed-war-on-drugs/">http://blogs.reuters.com/reihan-salam/2014/01/24/chris-christie-and-the-failed-war-on-drugs/</a></div>
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