30 years in prison for pissing off a judge?

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An email to me from Chris Kennedy:

"'Steve Erickson'" , "'reidcandi@earthlink.net'" , "'cksubs@aol.com'"
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Steve,

I will be at the courthouse at 8:00 am tomorrow for processing and
John OBrien will be representing me unless I find a better attorney. I
think they will try to pick me up tonight.

You have my mobile number here are contact to call if I don't call you by
2pm tomorrow.

Brothers:
[4 names and numbers snipped]

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I am requesting you immediate help,
A warrant was just issued for my arrest out of the Hartford Court.
I am being charges with purgery from a year and a half ago, March 18, 2004
for failing to included all the court cases on an application for a
restraining order.

My Bond is posted at $50,000 meaning unless I post it I
will be spending the next year in jail until trial.

I arranged to go to
court tomorrow morning 6am unless they decide to arrest me tonight. The
first arrest was for Custodial interference and bond set at $1000, only if I
failed to appear.

The second arrest was for Assault, Risk of injury to a
minor - a felony- and no bond was posted. I just started seeing Katie and
Brenna, my daughters, for the first time in 16 months with supervised
visits, 1 hour a week.

The arrest follows the Governor's request to investigate my complaints
against the state Prosecutor in my case in Enfield (Hartford County), Chris
Parakilas and the judges at Rockville.

Last week the court brought up my
attorney's motion to withdraw and removed him from the case. I just filed a
motion to dismiss the charges with copies of the transcript showing the
prosecutor lying to the judge and an appeal in each criminal case.

I would appreciate everyone calling every newspaper and media outlet and the
Governors office to get some remedy to this case. I have met with each one
and they are all well aware of my case and issues.

If you don't stand up
now, tomorrow will be too late.

Governor Rell: 860-566-4840
Attny Kevin Rasch, Gov. Legal Staff: 860-566-4840
LT Governor Sullivan: 860-524-7384
Congressman Simmons: 860-886-0139

Legislators
Hartford Prosecutor/Inspector who is arresting me, Inspector Steven Kumnick:
566-3190/ mobile 860-250-6805 I called him and arranged to meet him in the
AM, I suspect they will try to keep me in jail for the weekend at least

please forward.
-Chris

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US court shuns reporters' appeal

The US Supreme Court has refused to take up the case of two journalists who would not reveal their sources in a leak probe involving a CIA agent.

Judith Miller of the New York Times and Matthew Cooper of Time face up to 18 months in jail for contempt of court.

The two journalists, their employers and rights groups said they were dismayed by the court's decision.

US government officials leaked Valerie Plame's name in 2003 during a row over evidence used to justify war in Iraq.

Her husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson, claimed it was in retaliation for his public contradiction of President George Bush's claims in his 2003 State of the Union address that Iraq had sought to buy uranium in Niger.

The leak - a federal offence - was made to veteran newspaper columnist Robert Novak, who cited senior Bush administration officials.

Ms Miller and Mr Cooper investigated the Plame story, but were not involved in the leaking of her identity.

They chose not to co-operate with a grand jury inquiry into the leak, claiming they should not have to reveal their sources because of press freedoms guaranteed in the US Constitution.

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A SIGN painted on a Smith Street apartment building in New London opposes the city�s plan to use eminent domain in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood. The sign is addressed to an admiral with the Coast Guard, which had considered using the property. Above the sign, Efrain Caraballo looks out from the window of his second-floor apartment.
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WESLEY HORTON, the attorney representing New London and the New London Development Corp., speaks to reporters on the steps of city hall after the high court�s ruling was announced Thursday. Horton said the ruling is vital to economically distressed communities nationwide.
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BILL VON WINKLE stands in the street in front of two of the properties he owns in the Fort Trumbull section of New London. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that certain properties in the Fort Trumbull area could be seized by New London by eminent domain.
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OUTSIDE HER New London home � which won't be hers much longer � Susette Kelo reacts Thursday to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling allowing the city to use eminent domain to evict remaining homeowners in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood. The court said the city's economic development plan for the area justifies such action.
(CLOE POISSON)

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5-4, For The Takings High Court: City Can Seize Homes To Boost Economy
June 24, 2005 By LYNNE TUOHY, Hartford Courant Staff Writer

A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court Thursday expanded the power of government agencies to seize homes for economic development, clearing the way for the eviction of seven tenacious families on New London's Fort Trumbull peninsula.

The court ruled 5-4 that a city's quest for increased tax revenue and employment justifies the taking of even non-blighted property and satisfies the "public use" requirement of the Constitution's takings clause, even if the property is turned over to a private developer.

Dissenting justices and critics say the ruling leaves practically every property owner vulnerable to condemnation proceedings and voids the very constitutional provision on which it turns.

Justice Clarence Thomas, in a separate dissent, noted that the court enforces the sanctity of the home in search and seizure cases, then "tells us we are not to `second-guess the city's considered judgments' when the issue is, instead, whether the government may take the infinitely more intrusive step of tearing down petitioners' homes.

"Something has gone seriously awry with this court's interpretation of the Constitution," Thomas wrote.

Kelo vs. New London is the court's most significant ruling in half a century on eminent domain - the taking of private property for public use.

But its one-vote margin, with 85-year-old Justice John Paul Stevens writing for the majority, makes it among the most fragile - highly vulnerable to reversal with a change in the court's membership.

"I don't think anyone can regard this decision as putting this issue to bed," said Timothy Hollister, a lawyer who specializes in eminent domain cases for the Hartford law firm of Shipman & Goodwin.

"These issues will continue to be in play for years to come."

That is scant comfort to lead plaintiff Susette Kelo, a nurse who has been fighting tooth and nail to keep her home overlooking the Thames River since officials tacked a condemnation notice to her door in November 2000.

Or to Matt and Sue Dery, who have long agonized that every holiday and anniversary in the house they restored with their own hands could be their last.

Or to Matt's mother, Wilhelmina Dery, 87, who was born in the house where she still lives.

"They're going to have to drag me out of here kicking and screaming," Kelo said.


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"It's a sad day for us and for regular people everywhere across America, because you better believe if the rich developers can do this to us, they can do it to anybody."

The Kelo case is the first in which the high court wasn't faced with glaring conditions that posed a threat to public welfare and warranted the taking of private property in the first place -such as severe blight in Washington, D.C., or concentrated land ownership in Hawaii.

"Those who govern the city were not confronted with the need to remove blight in the Fort Trumbull area, but their determination that the area was sufficiently distressed to justify a program of economic rejuvenation is entitled to our deference," Stevens wrote.

He was joined by Justices Anthony M. Kennedy, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer.

A jubilant New London Mayor Jane Glover said the ruling would help lift the city out of its economic morass.

"The people who live in New London know we are strapped for money," Glover said.

"We see this as a way to raise revenues for the city."

The homes the New London Development Corp. condemned were targeted because Fort Trumbull sits alongside the site where Pfizer Inc. built its sprawling global research and development facility, which opened several years ago.

The economically distressed city saw a boon in leveling the modest middle-class homes to make way for a hotel and conference center, upscale housing and offices. It designated the quasi-private New London Development Corp. to be its designated development agent.

Although the redevelopment project would not be for "public use" in the literal language of the takings provision of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the public would benefit through increased tax revenue and jobs, the city argued.

The Connecticut Supreme Court agreed, ruling unanimously 15 months ago that enhancing employment and tax revenue in a poor municipality satisfies the "public use" provision.

But U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, in her dissent, said the majority's ruling Thursday eviscerates the "public use" requirement of the constitution and places virtually all private property in jeopardy.

"Under the banner of economic development, all private property is now vulnerable to be taken and transferred to another private owner," O'Connor wrote.

"Are economic development takings constitutional? I would hold that they are not."

For who among us can say she already makes the most productive or attractive possible use of her property?" O'Connor wrote.

"The specter of condemnation hangs over all property. Nothing is to prevent the state from replacing a Motel 6 with a Ritz Carlton, any home with a shopping mall, or any farm with a factory."

Joining O'Connor in dissent were Thomas, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Antonin Scalia.

The court rejected the homeowners' suggestion that it establish a "bright-line rule" that economic development does not amount to public use, and refused to rule that the development plan can proceed without the seizure of their few remaining homes - 15 properties scattered across the 90-acre area.

The New London Development Corp. obtained and razed more than 100 homes through negotiated deals.Stevens said the court would not "second-guess" the soundness of the city's development plan or the land it needs to carry it out. That the city had a viable plan suffices.

Another provision of the constitutional clause governing eminent domain is that the government agency seeking to take property offer "just compensation" for the property. That was not a point of contention in the Fort Trumbull case: The NLDC did offer the holdouts compensation for their homes, but on principle they chose to fight the takings.

Connecticut law specifically authorizes the use of eminent domain for economic development, but lawyers who have followed the case believe that had little impact on the high court's ruling.

And the court expressed no skepticism about the city's plan to lease much of the property to Boston-based developer Corcoran Jennison for $1 a year for 99 years.

"Quite simply, the government's pursuit of a public purpose will often benefit individual private parties," Stevens wrote.

Attorney Wesley Horton, who argued on the city's behalf before the U.S. Supreme Court Feb. 22, said the ruling is vital to economically distressed communities nationwide. If blight was a prerequisite to the use of eminent domain for economic development, Horton said, then poor and minority communities would be targeted by definition.

Horton emphasized the Fort Trumbull redevelopment is not designed for private benefit.

"This is a reputable developer from Boston, and it's crucial to know the developer is not going to own the property," he said.

"They are going to build buildings at their own cost on the NLDC land, and if they don't do what they're supposed to do, their property is in jeopardy."

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal lauded the ruling.

"The paramount principle is that local officials - not the courts - should determine whether the taking of property serves a significant public interest," Blumenthal said.

Lawyers at the Institute for Justice in Washington, D.C. - a private, civil liberties law firm that represents the Fort Trumbull homeowners - urged citizens nationwide to lobby local legislators for constitutional amendments and laws to safeguard them against Thursday's ruling and the eminent domain abuse it invites.

"One thing the majority stresses which demonstrates its total disconnect from reality is they emphasize that New London had a plan," said attorney Scott Bullock, who worked on the case for the homeowners.

"In every eminent domain abuse case I've seen, there's a plan. To think that is some type of check on eminent domain abuse is preposterous."

Bullock said the Institute for Justice's representation of the homeowners will not end with Thursday's ruling. He said they will even try to persuade city officials to let them stay.

"These people are heroes," Bullock said.

"Susette Kelo and the others are known throughout the country now for standing up for their rights. To let them stay would be a great boon to the city of New London."

Detroit attorney Alan Ackerman last year secured a reversal of a controversial 1981 case in which the city condemned a working-class immigrant community to acquire the land for General Motors. The Michigan Supreme Court recently ruled that taking property for private development does not constitute public use.

"The risk of abuse of eminent domain is frightening," Ackerman said in response to the high court's ruling.

"Everybody's going to have to fear they're going to lose their homes."

Stevens in the majority ruling stressed that "nothing in our opinion precludes any state from placing further restrictions on its exercise of the takings power. Indeed, many states already impose `public use' requirements that are stricter than the federal baseline."

University of Connecticut School of Law Professor Jeremy Paul, a land-use policy expert, scoffed at the dire consequences critics of the ruling predict.

"The average homeowner has about as much chance of having a home taken by eminent domain as you do being struck by lightening on a golf course," Paul said.

"I think the worries for individual homeowners are exaggerated."

It does clarify that when a municipality has an economic development plan it thinks will work, it can go ahead and take the property and not be subject to judicial invalidation."

Courant Staff Writer Penelope Overton contributed to this story.

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Eminent domain: A big-box bonanza?

Court's ruling OKed land grab for business like Target, Home Depot, CostCo, Bed Bath & Beyond

June 24, 2005: 3:20 PM EDT By Parija Bhatnagar, CNN/Money staff writer

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The Supreme Court may have just delivered an early Christmas gift to the nation's biggest retailers by its ruling Thursday allowing governments to take private land for business development.

Retailers such as Target (Research), Home Depot (Research) and Bed, Bath & Beyond (Research) have thus far managed to keep the "eminent domain" issue under the radar -- and sidestep a prickly public relations problem -- even as these companies continue to expand their footprint into more urban residential areas where prime retail space isn't always easily found.

Eminent domain is a legal principle that allows the government to take private property for a "public use," such as a school or roads and bridges, in exchange for just compensation.

Local governments have increasingly expanded the scope of public use to include commercial entities such as shopping malls or independent retail stores. Critics of the process maintain that local governments are too quick to invoke eminent domain on behalf of big retailers because of the potential for tax revenue generation and job creation.

The Supreme Court's decision Thursday clarified that local governments may seize people's homes and businesses -- even against their will -- for private and public economic development.
The ruling would seem to offer new opportunities to retailers. However, some industry watchers caution that with Thursday's decision thrusting the eminent domain issue into the national spotlight, companies using eminent domain risk a very public backlash.

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Oh Gosh! Guess Who Pays NO Taxes?

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Fully 32.4 percent of Americans paid no taxes at all for tax year 2004, up from 25.2 percent in 2000, according to a new report from the Tax Foundation. Before you start screaming about the rich shirking their fair share of the federal tax burden, know this:

The people who don't pay taxes are primarily low-income, young, female-headed households who work part-time and are beneficiaries of the $1,000 per-child tax credit or the Earned Income Credit.

Tax Foundation economists say that the 32.4 percent who pay no taxes after they took advantage of perfectly legal tax credits and deductions translates into a record 42.5 million Americans.

But it doesn't end there.

Approximately 15 million individuals and families earned some income in 2004, but it was so little they didn't have to file a tax return. That brings the total to 57.5 million who pay nothing. And we're not done yet.

One tax return often represents several people so when the dependents are included in this no-tax sum, it amounts to roughly 120 million Americans or 40 percent of the U.S. population.

And that doesn't count the millions who paid just a very small amount in taxes.

Here's the rub, according to the Tax Foundation: We have become a nation divided. There is an ever-growing class of people who pay no taxes and a shrinking class of people who do.

Who are the non-payers?

Fully 91 percent of them earned less than $30,000 annually and 96 percent earned less than $40,000. They are young with more than a third under 25 and 54 percent younger than 35. More than half are single women or families where the primary wage earner is a woman.

Fully 79 percent are white, 16 percent are African American and 3.2 percent are Asian Americans. (Hispanic Americans are not included in the racial category since Hispanic individuals can be of any race. When they are included as such, 15 percent of those who paid no taxes are Hispanic.)

What does this mean?

The Tax Foundation says the findings raise serious questions about the future of the U.S. income tax system.

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The incentives to allow downtown kids to commit more and more crime, get addicted to alcohol and drugs, and for certain segments of the population in the US to get shoddy education, have their families ripped apart, to live a low quality of life, and be offered separate and unequal services, rights, and opportunities WILL BITE THE US IN THE ASS.

The short term cash incentives for states to be immoral to get Federal Tax Dollars has to stop.

Families being broken up and immorality is good for states in the short term taxes, fees, fines, and property confiscation, but is selling America's soul in the long term.

States get about $74/inmate/day to lock citizens up. So you can see why more and more jails are popping up and more and more citizens are being incarcerated on more and more lame excuses.

Men are targets for federal dollars for restraining orders issued, being arrested, etc.

States may get $90,000 or more in Federal dollars to take kids away from their parents.

Corporations can covertly bribe politicians and influence elections. Independent Americans, Small Business Owners, and Downtown property investors are all victims of the corruption and greed.

Those exposing the greed in corruption are threatened, harassed, arrested, imprisoned, and ruined for life.

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“Get Smarter” with Whistleblower Protections

Will Congress “Get Smarter” with Whistleblower Protections for the FBI?

“Is hummus

A) a terrorist organization or

B) a delicious chick pea dish?”

wonders Jon Stewart in his segment “Get Smarter” on this week’s Daily Show which pokes fun at the FBI.

It’s difficult to know where to begin in describing the depositions performed by law firm Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto of FBI officials to determine why their client, Bassem Youssef, a highly qualified counter terrorism expert, was repeatedly passed over for promotions post 9/11.

Top FBI officials admit in those depositions that hiring experts in the Middle East and terrorism is not a priority, despite 9/11 and promises to the Congress that they would change their terrorism-neglecting ways.

In one deposition, the FBI’s head of counter terrorism for two years after 9/11admits he doesn’t know the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims. According Associated Press, “Saudi officials said they regarded Youssef as the most skilled U.S. agent in conducting lie detector tests on Arabic-speaking suspects” but he was passed over repeatedly for headquarters jobs at the FBI.

Youssef joins a long line of FBI whistleblowers and former insiders making similar complaints about the FBI’s incompetence including Coleen Rowley, John Vincent, Bob Wright, Mike German, John Roberts, Fred Whitehurst, and Sibel Edmonds.

They have all quit, been fired, or otherwise tortured by an agency with an insular and self-perpetuating culture. The same week that the FBI’s dirty laundry was aired, Henry Hyde persuaded the House of Representatives to provide employees at the United Nations with better whistleblower protections than the FBI has ever had.

This week’s dirty laundry makes it hard to believe that Congress’ “intelligence reform” will have much impact on the FBI.

Perhaps it’s time for the Congress to “Get Smarter” by creating a safe haven for employees inside the agency who are trying to reform it and prevent another 9/11 catastrophe.

For more on the FBI’s retaliating ways, Mike German, of the newly formed National Security Whistleblower Coalition, offered this stark assessment in a report for GlobalSecurity.org:

The prohibition against complaining about management is enforced through open and organized retaliation against whistleblowers combined with corrupt internal review procedures. Although current FBI Director Robert Mueller repeatedly vowed to protect whistleblowers, two Department of Justice Inspector General investigations during his short tenure found retaliation in FBI whistleblower cases, and a third investigation is pending.

To determine if Director Mueller is serious about his vow to protect whistleblowers one need only ask him one question:

Who in the FBI is responsible for ensuring whistleblowers are not being retaliated against?

By “who” I mean what is the person’s name? What office does he hold?

Where does he fit in the chain of command?

Who does he answer to if a whistleblower feels he is not being adequately protected?

The Director will not be able to answer this question because no one in the FBI is assigned this responsibility. No one is assigned this responsibility because the Director is not serious about protecting whistleblowers.

I know because I endured two years of retaliation following a complaint about a terrorism investigation the FBI now openly admits was flawed.

The FBI is unable to police itself because it maintains illegitimate, discredited internal investigation and disciplinary procedures, which make it impossible to identify and correct problems inside the agency.

This is a critical deficiency that allows all other deficiencies to exist. Pick up the Department of Justice Inspector General reports from any of its investigations of the FBI, whether regarding thefts of World Trade Center artifacts, the Robert Hansen spy scandal, the belated production of documents in the Timothy McVeigh case, or the audit of the FBI Counterterrorism Program, and you will see a picture of dysfunction that keeps the FBI blind to its own problems and cripples its attempts at self reform.

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The Murder of Emmett Till

The 49-year-old story of the crime and how it came to be told.By Randy SparkmanUpdated Tuesday, June 21, 2005, at 2:17 PM PT


Emmett Till

Despite initial protests from Emmett Till's family, the Department of Justice earlier this month exhumed the remains of the black 14-year-old murdered in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman.

At the time of the 1955 murder, Till's mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, made certain the case file crossed the desks of both President Dwight D. Eisenhower and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

It met with calculated indifference. Now, however, the Till case is one of a pair of decades-old civil rights crimes in which federal and state prosecutors are seeking a measure of justice.

Eighty-year-old Edgar Ray Killen was convicted of manslaughter June 21 for his role in the 1964 murders of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman in Philadelphia, Miss.

Prosecutors in that case and in the Till investigation are encouraged by convictions in the last decade for the 1963 murder of NAACP official Medgar Evers and the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., the same year.

The Justice Department opened the Till investigation chiefly because of the perseverance (until her death in 2003) of Till-Mobley, and the attention drawn to the case by filmmaker Keith Beauchamp's 2004 documentary The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till.

The film delved into rumors that as many as 10 people, black and white, were involved in the crime. Yet the story of Till's murder has never really been untold—key elements were revealed 49 years ago by William Bradford Huie, a maverick Alabama journalist, in an article in Look magazine.


Milam/Bryant: acquitted

Huie talked to Roy Bryant, the husband of the woman Till offended, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, soon after they'd been acquitted of the murder by an all-white jury.

Their lawyer, J.J. Breland, accepted this offer from Huie: $3,000 for his clients and $1,000 to Breland's firm in exchange for the story of Till's kidnapping, beating, and murder.

It's easy to understand why Bryant and Milam talked: They were immune from further prosecution for murder, and they needed the money.

But why would Breland, a respected member of the Mississippi establishment, agree to expose the ugly story of this crime?

And why did Huie, a Southerner himself, want to tell it?

Emmett Till came to the Delta from his home in Chicago to visit relatives in August 1955.

In tumbledown Money, Miss., he had an unfortunate exchange with 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, who was minding the store where she and her husband sold sundries to black sharecroppers.

The details of the encounter are debated.

Whatever happened, Carolyn Bryant did not tell her husband, Roy, about it. But others did. Soon after, the sleeping teenager was dragged from his uncle's cotton-field house. Sheriff's deputies hauled Till's mangled and bloated corpse out of the Tallahatchie River three days later.

Local authorities covered Till's body with lime, nailed his coffin shut, and tried for a quick, local funeral. Till's mother insisted her son's body be returned to Chicago for burial.

Thousands filed by the open coffin, and Jet magazine published images of Till's grotesque corpse, sealing his place in the firmament of the civil rights movement.

William Bradford Huie arrived in Mississippi that October.

At 45, Huie was a Southern Zelig. Huie was born in the town of Hartselle, Ala., and his exploits as a young reporter at the Birmingham Post got him hired in 1941 at the American Mercury, an iconoclastic monthly with the irreverence and wit of its founder, H.L. Mencken.

When Huie became the Mercury's editor and publisher, after writing several best-sellers, his hires included William F. Buckley, Jr., then 26.

Huie is best remembered, however, as a civil rights reporter. His first article for the Mercury, about the electrocution of a black youth wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in Alabama, infuriated the white South.

He came to the Till case fresh from being arrested for contempt of court in Florida, where a local judge tried to block his investigation into the story of Ruby McCollum, a black woman convicted of murdering her lover, a prominent white physician.

Huie also figured prominently in the investigations of the murders of Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman—he reportedly told the FBI where the three civil rights workers were buried—and of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

In both cases, his tactic of paying informants to talk caused him trouble. But his books (the one about Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman has an introduction by MLK) are classic accounts of the crimes.

But in 1955, Huie gained entrance to Breland's office as a sixth-generation Alabamian—a member of the lodge, from the lawyer's point of view. Huie told Breland he would not write his article about Milam and Bryant as a confession.

He would simply state facts, including quotes, without saying how he came to know them. In order to protect themselves from their Mississippi neighbors and from being indicted for crimes for which they'd not yet been tried, the brothers would publicly continue to maintain their innocence.

But they would sign a release that protected Huie from a libel suit. In addition to the cash payments, Milam, Bryant, and Breland's firm would each receive a significant percentage of future profits from any book or film that came out of Huie's article.

Curiously, Huie let Breland know that he planned to shame Mississippi. He had initially approached NAACP head Roy Wilkins with the idea for the story, hoping that Wilkins would fund the proposed payoff so Huie could write a book that would "lay bare every facet" of Mississippi's battle over race.

When Wilkins turned him down, Huie struck a deal with Look. In a letter to Dan Mich, the magazine's managing editor, Huie recounted that he'd told Breland, "I don't like the hypocrisy in this case.

I intend to write, step by step, hour by hour, the story of the abduction, torture, murder, and disposal of the body.

I want to present the trial as the machinery for community approbation."
Breland, then 67, was a Princeton graduate and a leader in the Mississippi Citizens Council, a Main Street version of the Ku Klux Klan formed in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education.

Breland had originally been reluctant to take on Milam and Bryant's defense. But he came to see the prosecution as an affront against Mississippi, another assault like Black Monday, as the day of the Brown ruling on desegregation was known across the South.

By agreeing to Huie's interview request, Breland was putting the nation on notice: The ruling class in Mississippi intended to see Brown repealed and was willing to use poor whites like Milam and Bryant to fight a war to that end.

Breland agreed to Huie's terms.

"They're peckerwoods," he said of Milam and Bryant, according to accounts of the conversation in Huie's private correspondence.

"But, hell, we've got to have our Milams to fight our wars and keep our niggahs in line … there ain't gonna be no integration … there ain't gonna be no nigger votin'. And the sooner everybody in this country realizes it the better. If any more pressure is put on us, the Tallahatchie won't hold all the niggers that'll be thrown into it."

Breland arranged a week of clandestine, nighttime meetings between Huie, Milam, and Roy and Carolyn Bryant. Frank Dean, Look's senior counsel, brought the money for the payoffs to Mississippi in a satchel.

In a haze of cigarette smoke and profane justification, the brothers told their story. "Two long sessions with these bully-boys have been shattering," Huie wrote to Mich.

"It's an amazing, indefensible murder—and much of our story will be in the cool, factual manner in which we let the facts indict the community. It will shake people in Mississippi."

Huie's "Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi" was published in January 1956.

The article told the story of Till's murder from Milam and Bryant's point of view—a brutal tale of a beating that ended on the bank of the Tallahatchie River with a gun shot to the side of the head. The men portrayed Till as a sexually precocious youth who boasted of "having white women."

Milam gave voice to the backed-in-a-corner rage of Southern white resistance.

"What else could we do?" he said.

"I like niggers—in their place—I know how to work 'em. But … they ain't gonna go to school with my kids. And when a nigger gets close to mentioning sex with a white woman, he's tired o' livin'. I'm likely to kill him. Me and my folks fought for this country, and we got some rights. … I just made up my mind. 'Chicago boy,' I said, 'I'm tired of 'em sending your kind down here to stir up trouble. Goddam you, I'm going to make an example of you—just so everybody can know how me and my folks stand.' "

Huie concluded his article by indicting Mississippi for failing to convict Milam and Bryant or condemn their actions. His piece caused a firestorm. Charles Diggs, a black congressman from Michigan, read it into the Congressional Record. The NAACP decried the article in public and promoted it in private. The Southern press called it "the false imaginings of a sensationalist." And Reader's Digest put it on 10 million coffee tables.

A half-century later, Huie's article leaves the newly opened investigation of Till's murder without an obvious, breathing villain.

Edgar Ray Killen, like the killers of Medgar Evers and the bombers of the Birmingham church, deserves to be brought to trial, however belatedly. But the Till case is different. J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant died many years ago.

So far, two surviving possible participants have emerged in the investigation: Henry Lee Loggins, 81, one of three African-Americans who worked for Milam and reportedly helped transport Till, witnessed his torment, and cleaned up the gore; and Carolyn Bryant Donham, 71, who may have waited in the car during the kidnapping.

But if prosecutors decide to indict Loggins or Donham, will a Mississippi jury punish a field hand and a Southern wife who did as they were told—and would have felt they had no other choice?

William Bradford Huie's 1956 article won't help answer the lingering questions about who, if anyone, helped Milam and Bryant kill Emmett Till.

His deal with the two men bound him to frame the story as they told it. Huie wrote privately of the risks and compromises of his agreement; he knew he would be criticized. But he got what he was after: an indictment of his own culture and the keepers of its flame.

Randy Sparkman is a writer from north Alabama.

Photographs of Emmett Till and of Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam © Bettmann/Corbis.

More jurisprudence

The Murder of Emmett Till
The 49-year-old story of the crime and how it came to be told.posted June 21, 2005

Randy Sparkman
Crazy for You

The above found here on the web.

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Date:
Wed, 22 Jun 2005 08:00:54 -0700 (PDT)

From:
Vikingas@netscape.com

To:
sensenbrenner@mail.house.gov , Lawrence.Cafero@housegop.state.ct.us , Claudia.Powers@housegop.state.ct.us , Louis.Deluca@cga.ct.gov , John.McKinney@cga.ct.gov , stevengerickson@yahoo.com , cksubs@aol.com , news@journalinquirer.com

Subject:
regarding the Newspaper piece on you

Dear Legislators:

My name is Steven G. Erickson.

I saw your name in a newspaper piece regarding rogue Judges, an out of control Judiciary, Judge Chatigny, and former Connecticut Death Row Inmate, Michael Ross.

A judge shouldn't be able to threaten a lawyer with arrest and losing his/her job to try a case how a judge sees fit. Judges shouldn't decide the outcomes of trials and ignore laws and the US Constitution.

It is a nationwide epidemic.

The same style of policing, trying defendants in court, and police collusion with members of the judiciary and elected officials that allowed wholesale lynching, racism, obstruction of justice, allowing a small star chamber of individuals to divide the plunders of towns and the State in mainly Klan infested States STILL EXISTS IN MODERN AMERICA.

I'm white but the "Good Ole Boy Network" punished me for exposing corruption. Try googling Good Ole Boy Network.

Chris Kennedy complained about a judge and the judge told him that his kids were being taken away because he was Irish and there is strife in Ireland. What!!!???

I had lodged complaints against that same judge. He later told me I was guilty and going to prison before my kangaroo trial and after my false arrest.

I had been beaten at night on my own property coming home from a double shift of work. The robber was given immunity for threatening my life, beating me, and demanding my wallet or die for my having used pepper spray to end the attack, to maliciously prosecute me for Free Speech, proposing laws to elected officials, and exposing UnConstitutional behavior and official corruption.

I had no record but was sentenced to a year in prison and 3 years probation for having used pepper spray. My family, my life, and all that I had ever worked for ruined by the illegal act of Judge Jonathan Kaplan.

I invested 100's of thousands of dollars fixing up boarded up rental properties making a depressed downtown area better and my reward was being sent to prison as I wasn't a member of the Good Ole Boy network.

Please email or mail me that you have received this email.

Thank you,

Steven G. Erickson
PO Box 730
Enfield, CT 06083

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Top Ten Words of 2003
1. Embedded

News correspondents embedded in military units suggested to many that news correspondents were in bed with the military.
2. Blog
Web logs have come of age and, regrettably, this lexical mutation with them.
3. SARS
Farm animals strike back at the humans who eat them again with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. The Flu (with a capital "F") is pushing right behind.
4. Spam
This old word now refers to a plague contending with SARS for destructive potential. Could the Flu (with a capital "F") be any worse?
5. Taikonaut
The Chinese astronaut distracted our attention from textiles and copyrights to remind us that China is a rising industrial power.
6. Bushism
This word now has a real possibility for remaining in the language. (Dan Quayle has lost his chance of making solecisms his contribution to political history.)
7. Allision
The National Transportation and Safety Board in investigating the Staten Island ferry tragedy concluded it wasn't a collision (between two moving objects) but an allision (a crash with an immoveable object).
8. Recall
As in California Recall that resulted in the election of Ahh-nold as the Governator.
9. Middangeard
Middle English for Middle Earth in the movies of Tolkien's trilogy, still fascinating millions around the world with its characters and insights into the origins of the English language.
10. Celibacy
The word which holds the key to ending the seemingly eternal scandal of the US Catholic Church.
Top Ten Personal Names of 2003
1. Saddam Hussein
Just crawled out of the Spider-Hole and back into the spotlight.
2. W. (Dubya)
Can't talk his way out of the news. (See the Top Bush Mispronunciations below.)
3. Rush Limbaugh
How many pills actually fit into a cigar box?
4. Martha Stewart
Not really 'cooking the books' but not quite kosher, either.
5. Pvt. Jessica Lynch
Her rescue enthralled the nation desperate for good news.
6. Howard Dean
The doctor from nowhere now has the team with the roadmap from nowhere to the White House-Clinton-Gore.
7. Pope John Paul II
25 years in the Papacy have taken their toll but he is still with us.
8. Ahh-nold
That's California's new Governator after cruising over the Count of Bustamante in the recall election.
9. Paris Hilton
The heiress, apparently named after one of her grandfather's Your Ad Here!, landed a job on the Fox Network with the Internet distribution of her 'extracurricular activities'.
10. Hans Blix
Whose "hans" seem to be tied in his search for the elusive WMDs.
Top Ten Youthspeak Words
1. What Up?
Present incarnation of the ever popular: Wassup?
2. Give it up!
Replaces the square: please applaud for…
3. Shut up!
YouthSpeak for 'Really?'
4. Stog
Cigarette, short for 'stogey'.
5. SNAG
Sensitive New-Age Guy.
6. Hottie
Object of affection, either personally or in the cultural milieu.
7. Poppins
Perfect, as in 'Mary Poppins is perfect in every way.'
8. Tricked Out
Souped-up.
9. Rice Rockets
Tricked out Japanese compacts, as opposed to American 'muscle' cars.
10. Side Show
Temporarily cordoning off a freeway to perform outrageous car stunts in tricked-out rice rockets.

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Bling-bling
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Top Phrases of 2003

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1. Shock-and-Awe
Remember the initial strategy of the Iraqi War? There was probably more of this when we watched Saddam Hussein emerge from his 'spider-hole.'
2. Rush to War
Something the US was accused of by our allies and the slogan of liberals attacked by Limbaugh.
3. Tire Pressure

Announced the imminent disintegration of the Space Shuttle.
4. Weapons of Mass Destruction
(or WMD). The reason given for the Rush to War. Removing a genocidal maniac wasn't reason enough?
5. 16 Words
"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." Always check your sources.
6. Guantanamo Bay
The US Justice and Defense Departments thought they would "Gitmo" cooperation from suspected terrorists off shore.
7. Spider-Hole

Looks like this one is going to stick around for a while: Sen. Lieberman is already accusing Howard Dean of 'crawling into a spider-hole of denial'. (Don't step in that.)
8. Tipping Point

When any topic moves from one level to the next or the state of a politician one word (or drink) away from falling flat on his face.
9. Angry Left

The early followers of Howard Dean seem to have frightened him to the center.
10. Halliburton Energy Services

Vice President Cheney's old company was supplying our fighting men and women with fuel at enlightened prices before the dust settled in Iraq (if it has settled yet).
5 Top Mispronunciations by President Bush in 2003


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1. a-MERR-ca

a-MER-i-ca (America)
2. NEW-cue-ler

NEW-clee-er (nuclear)
3. JU-ler-ee

JU-wel-ree (jewelry)
4. Anzar

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar
5. Ne-VAH-duh

Ne-VAE-duh) (Nevada)

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Best New Product Names

1. Way Cool
For concerned parents, this car window shade actually begins to turn white when the temp hits 85º F.
2. Thermos Fire + Ice Grill 2 Go
Transportable gas grill and cooler in one unit.
3. Chronospan
Storage software that protects all your data all the time.
4. iTunes Music Store
Apple's Napster-like site for downloadable music.
Worst New Product Names
1. Hywire

GM's name for its new experimental fuel cell car that suggests (1) a potentially fatal act in a circus, in an (2) an electric vehicle (a spectacular automotive failure). Of course, (3) no one outside GM will ever call it "Hywire" because "Haywire" will always be good for an easy laugh.

2. Silk

From "soy + milk" Compounded by the company slogan "Silk is soy." No, it isn't; it is a kind of fine thread. You don't want a name that requires explanation.

3. Poolife

Here is a name in need of a hyphen (it seems to already have a colon). Would you want to put a product with this moniker in water you occasionally gulp?


4. Clonaid

The name for the cult that tried to clone the first human. They certainly could use some aid. But was this a simple case of misspelling-did they actually mean "Clownaid"?


5. Bene-

Benedryl (And now I wanna be a saw), Benefiber (now I wanna be a rope), Benefun (?). We can no longer ignore the silly use of bene- which can convey the sense of "good"—but words also have pronunciations.


Top Enron Inspired Words

1. Enrosion
Shrinking of the value of 401K plans as a result of entrepreneurial piracy.
2. Entronpy
The sudden dissipation of accumulated assets into nothingness.
3. Enro

Unit of currency that used to be worth much more than it is now.

4. Enronitis

It seems to be contagious, too.

5. Chronic Enronitis

It is spreading and won't go away, either.

Top Internet Words Moving into Widespread Use
1. Ping

Send a reminder, as in 'Ping me about that!'
2. Multitask

To perform several tasks at the same time.
3. 10X

In high tech jargon, the competitive advantage that separates a company from its competition.
4. Off line
The replacement for "out of it," as 'Are you listening or are you off line?'
5. Bandwidth
Capacity, as 'We'll have to increase our bandwidth to handle the order.'
Top Sports-related Words
1. Zim
As in 'to be zimmed' coined after 70-year old New York Yankees bench coach who lurched at Pedro Martinez in the American League Championship Series.
2. BCS
College football's Bowl Championship Series has been called the "Bogus Championship Series" for leaving the Nation's No. 1 college Football team (USC) out of the title game.
3. Curse of the Bambino
For the Boston Red Sox it's 85 years and still counting.

Top Word Trends in Pop Music Names
1. !!!

Bands without pronounceable names, though usually pronounced 'tch, tch, tch'.
2. ( )

Albums with symbols as names. This album by Sigur Rós contains a songbook of 16 blank pages.
3. The The

The definite pronoun is definitely in pop music: Examples in 2003 include: The Distillers, The Thrills' The Strokes, The Postal Service, and The Crystal Method.
4. Lots of 'Rs'

Examples include Christina Aguilera's "Dirrty" and Nelly's "Hot In Herre."
5. Downloaders

Downloaders could be anyone. From the 40-year-old classical connoisseur to the 11-year-old checking out Justin Timberlake.

Most frequently spoken word on the Planet:

1. OK
Still the most popular word in languages around the world. "OK" originated in a joke in the 1830's, spelled "oll korrekt" in Boston newspapers, the joke being, both words were incorrect.

It became so popular, that it was soon abbreviated to simply "O. K."

Despite its popularity, the word would have fallen by the wayside had not Martin van Buren, called "Old Kinderhook" for being born in Kinderhook, N.Y. used it in his presidential reelection campaign of 1840.

So don't "misunderestimate" the impact of presidential usage on the growth of our vocabulary.

It is also spelled "okay."

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Does the Connecticut State Police give excuses instead of paying its bills?

Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell and the Waterbury Fire Dept.

GOV. M. JODI RELL chats with Joseph McDermott, Waterbury assistant fire chief, as she tests out one of the “prime mover” trucks in Windsor Locks on Monday. The trucks will tow the state’s 34 new decontamination trailers, which will also serve as mobile command centers for fire and police operations (MARC-YVES REGIS I) Jun. 20, 2005 Copyright 2005, Hartford Courant

I have long thought of the Connecticut State Police
as a Mafia-like gang. They seem to do little more than act as Armed Revenue
Collectors for the State- a bunch of thugs.

There are probably a huge percentage of honest, hard
working men and women within the ranks, but the few rotten apples within the top
brass and lower ranks they might be forever tarnished an air of complete Sleaze.

I complained to Connecticut State Police Internal
Affairs and the IA officer refused to investigate ‘his friends’ and threatened
me. I then contacted Carol Amino of Governor John G. Rowland’s office, February
21, 2003, regarding police misconduct and about Internal Affairs refusing to
take, nor investigate my allegations of serious police misconduct, citizen
abuse, and Unconstitutional acts of police.

Carol seemed to threaten me with more arrests and
prison for again testing Free Speech blowing the whistle on official misconduct
and corruption.

-Steven
G. Erickson aka Vikingas

`Milestone' In Homeland Security
June 21, 2005 By TRACY GORDON FOX, Hartford Courant Staff Writer

WINDSOR LOCKS -- Gov. M. Jodi Rell handed out keys for the first five shiny red fire vehicles that will tow 34 mass casualty decontamination trailers anywhere in the state in response to a manmade or natural disaster.

But it may be a while before the remaining eight trailers arrive, because the manufacturer claims the state police still owes $1.6 million for them.

Twenty-two of the $125,000 trailers, each equipped with showers to decontaminate people, have already been delivered by fire departments throughout the state. Four more are in Wallingford, waiting to be distributed to fire departments.

Advance Containment Systems, which manufactures the trailers, said it would not release the final eight trailers until the state sends a check, not only for the units, but also for storage fees.

"We're not going to release them until they are paid for," Rick Dorfman, a salesman from the Houston-based company, said Monday.

"I want to be paid for them. I won't ship them until we are."

Public Safety Commissioner Leonard C. Boyle said there are issues with "certain aspects of the trailers we think the vendor has to correct."

"He thinks we should pay him for storage fees," Boyle said.

"We'll resolve it."

The Department of Administrative Services is handling the negotiations, Boyle said.

State police say the issue involves inspections of the trailers and would be resolved soon. There was a meeting among state officials Monday morning to discuss the trailers.

Dorfman, however, said he has had "zero correspondence, zero telephone calls" from the state.

There have been no problems with the tow vehicles, which are manufactured by Pierce, a Florida company, and supplied by the Connecticut-based Firematic Supply Co.

Within the next several months, the tow vehicles, called "prime movers," will be delivered to 34 municipalities, state and regional agencies, state officials said. They will be used to haul the decontamination trailers, which will also serve as mobile command centers for fire and police operations.

The $138,000 vehicles can carry five firefighters, protective gear, first aid supplies and tents to a biohazard scene. Along with the trailers, they will be stationed strategically around the state, to allow their quick response to any region, state officials said.Rell praised the tow vehicles and trailers, calling them "an important milestone" in homeland security.

"Connecticut can become a national leader in preparedness," Rell said.

"To have these units located strategically throughout our state will save time and will ultimately save lives," she said.

James Thomas, commissioner of the Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, said the radio system on the trailer allows fire departments from different communities to communicate with each other.

"This has been a collaborative effort," he said.

"We want to give the very best possible equipment to first responders. This is the very best possible equipment."

The trailers can decontaminate up to 125 people per hour, with showers and soap. Rell inspected both the tow vehicle and the trailer, saying "I'm pretty impressed with these things."

The trailers and tow vehicles, which will be distributed from Danbury to New London, make the state better prepared for possible terrorism or accidents.

"The fire service has been asked to take on tremendous responsibility in the post-9/11 environment," said Norwalk Fire Chief Denis McCarthy, whose town will receive one of the vehicles.

"All of this will raise the capability of the fire department."

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‘Armed Revenue Collectors’ buying expensive toys, screwing the public, and compromising Homeland Security

Are Taxpayers being screwed over Homeland Security?

Are Cops screwing the Homeland Security Fund for overtime not worked?

The Steven G. Erickson Office, Contact Information, and Favorite Links

Reasons to Abolish the Connecticut State Police

Can cops rape, rob, beat, and murder with immunity?

Is Connecticut not the Constitution State, but the Judicial, Prosecutorial, and Police Misconduct State?

Testing the First Amendment in the US is Dangerous

Is the Only way to even have a prayer at justice in America is to sue?

Lodge complaints against a corporation or official and your ass might just be grass. Very few 'little people' get justice in America. A fair shake is getting harder and harder to find.

Taking away our ability to sue those that ruin our lives will be the writing on the wall that the US is a police state and no longer a good place to live. I wouldn't no where to go, but if speaking out means being thrown in prison, there has to be other places in the world more conducive to Free Speech and Freedom.

A story of one man's saga against a corporate giant:



Russell Rich has in out with McDonald's

Second trial pitting AIDS patient vs. McDonald's set to begin

CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) -- It was tradition in Russell Rich's family that every Friday night his dad would take the kids to McDonald's.

Rich recalls gazing through the window of the local old-style McDonald's -- the kind with the big golden arches and no indoor seating -- and dreaming of flipping burgers like the workers inside.

He started working the cash register at age 13 and put in 21 years with the hamburger giant, eventually becoming a corporate manager. Then, he contends, he was pressured to resign in 1997 because he has AIDS.

Left without health insurance, Rich said he nearly died from the illness. In 1999, he became so sick and despondent that he sat in his garage with the car running. He began to feel the sting of the carbon monoxide, then got out of the car.

More from CNN

Power, Intimidation, and the Threat of Death or Serious Injury

is a hallmark of any Mafia-like organization.


Michael Bochicchio, a retired Major in the Connecticut State Police

Someone that can easily obtain large amounts of money and then just waste it, such as losing $176,000 gambling in just 6 months, begs many questions.

Large amounts of cash begotten by schemes, payoffs, and/or white collar crime capers can’t be used to just buy a home or other large purchase, but pursuits like gambling are an easy way to ‘launder’ and waste large amounts of cash. If there was no effort in earning it and the money wasn’t earned in a legitimate way, why not gamble it?

The former Chief of Staff for the former Connecticut State Police Commissioner, Arthur L. Spada, was nailed for fraud and other serious infractions. Spada had a cavalier attitude indicating that this was not uncommon State Police behavior and should be overlooked given the amount of time officers have been getting ‘freebies’ and on the take. What!!!???

Do we have to worry about other high ranking officials, police, and members of the judiciary going postal during a divorce having to explain where they were able to easily get large sums of money to piss away? Shooting the estranged wife and then themselves, would keep the Blue Code of Silence intact.

Given the depths into the sewer too many police, judges, officials, and legislators sank to during the Governor John G. Rowland administration in Connecticut should have their finances investigated for evidence of corruption and racketeering. The public wasn’t being screwed wholesale because of just a few that are getting ‘light’ sentences. Why did Rowland get such a light sentence, was it payment for his silence and not singing name after name?

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Divorce Marked By Ugliness

By JESSE LEAVENWORTH, DAVE ALTIMARI And DAVID OWENS

Hartford Courant Staff Writers

June 16 2005

By the spring of last year, Donna Bochicchio was taking a tape recorder to bed,ready to capture any angry outburst, threat or sexual advance her husband might make.

The Bochicchios were still living together with their two children in a small Harwinton (Connecticut) ranch house, but their relationship had sunk to a petty, pathetic bottom. Michael Bochicchio would come to the dinner table and only three places would beset - for Donna and the two children - and he would ask whether there was anydinner for him.

The accusations, according to transcripts of divorce hearings, went back and forth.

He was a high-stakes gambler, but a skinflint when it came to their two children. She wasted money on fad diets and dressed "like a stripper."

He took the kids to casinos. She was a sloppy housekeeper who focused more on expensive clothes and plastic surgery than the state of her home or her kids' schoolwork.

The hearings last year in Superior Court in Litchfield exposed a couple consumed with bitterness, jealousy and anger about their kids, their house, money, sex and the free-falling marriage that had once seemed so permanent.

The divorce case was more than two years old and had grown so bitter it was transferred from Superior Court in Litchfield, where no settlement could be reached, to Middletown, to be handled by a special unit. Court officials were keenly aware of the tension between the two, noting that they would sometimes argue in the hallway outside the courtroom.

"His attitude was, `I'll settle, but I want to keep all my stuff,'" said a lawyer familiar with the case who would only comment if not identified.

Bochicchio "didn't understand that it's not a football game. You can't out muscle the person on the other side."

"The judge who handled the settlement negotiations told him his expectations were not reasonable," the lawyer said.

"That judge told him, `I think this is how this is going to turn out, you might want to make a deal.'"

Michael Bochicchio, the lawyer said, was losing the legal fight - and he stood to lose a lot. In a motion on May 24, Donna Bochicchio set out her demands. Among them: That the children continue to live with her in Harwinton; that Michael pay $288 a week in child support and $300 a week in alimony; that he sign over to her their house, appraised at $245,000, on Lake Harwinton Road; that he pay her an additional $135,000 for what she put into the house; that she be given 60 percent of the proceeds from the sale of Northfield real estate valued at $393,500.

She also wanted a 1967 Chevelle valued at $29,000, the car's racing engine worth$9,450, and the trailer used to haul the antique car.

Michael Bochicchio, according to court transcripts, was adamant that his estranged wife would get nothing from him.

"He tells me ... that I'm making a big mistake," Donna Bochicchio said at a hearing on May 20, 2004.

"He's very, very persistent about - about alimony. He says, `You'll never ever see a penny of alimony. God strike me dead, you'll never see a penny.'

He's very adamant about that.

I said, `Well, what if a judge ordered you to do that?'

He said, `It won't happen.'

I said, `Why?'

He said,`You'll see.' "

When the marriage began failing is unclear, but a friend of the couple said shenever could have foreseen such a sad ending.

"They were a good family," said Lisa, a Harwinton neighbor who only wanted her first name used.

"A really good, happy family. I don't get it. We were always jealous of them. They did everything together."

Donna Bochicchio, whose maiden name was Seitz, was a dark-haired beauty, a popular girl from Torrington High School's Class of 1980. She liked to gardenwith her daughter. Michael Bochicchio was a confident, well-liked state trooper who enjoyed classic cars and racing.

Glancing up at the family's ranch house, Lisa said, "I look at this and I think they were the perfect family."

When he testified last May in the Litchfield hearing, Michael Bochicchio said he had not had sex with his wife for about 1 and ½ years and he didn't expect to ever have sex with her again.

Donna, however, testified that he was always after her. She was in the bathroom one day, for instance, and he came in to throw somedirty clothes in the hamper, Donna Bochicchio testified.

He came toward her.

"And I said, `Just leave. Leave me alone.'

He says, `Why do you have to act like this? We've been married for 18 years. Do I repulse you that much?'

And I said,`Just leave me alone. I don't want you touching me.' "

Michael Bochicchio told the court she was just trying to set him up.

"My wife has ... tried to elicit arguments when she was secretly tape recording me. However, as you'll hear even on those tapes, I'm the calm one. She's the one who is inciting the argument and getting agitated. That's the norm."

Michael Bochicchio's gambling was another point of bitter contention.

His wife had claimed he lost $94,000 in 2004 alone, according to court records.

During a withering, nearly four-hour hearing in April 2004, Michael Bochicchio acknowledged losing $5,000 in a half-hour of blackjack at the Bellagio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas at a time when he refused to reimburse his wife $10 a month for art lessons for his daughter or to pay a $46 bill at a CVS for his wife's Atkins bars and nuts.

Julie Porzio, Donna's attorney and a victim in the shooting Wednesday, tried toget Bochicchio held in contempt of court for violating an agreement that he wouldn't use any of the couple's joint assets for gambling.

Less than a month after signing that agreement, Bochicchio violated it by taking out a $5,000 marker at the Mohegan Sun casino against his State Police Credit Union account, according to the transcripts.

As the divorce proceeded, the mistrust between the couple worsened to the pointthat Michael Bochicchio acknowledged reviewing every receipt and credit card bill. By the time of the April 2004 hearing, Bochicchio had refused to pay morethan $4,000 in bills, ranging from $100 to house the family dog in a kennel to $500 for his daughter's braces.

When they started going to court, neighbor Art Narvesen recalled, Bochicchio complained that "she was bleeding him ... she was talking all his money."

But when it came to gambling, Bochicchio spent freely, according to the court records. He and a small group of friends traveled to The Bellagio, Atlantis in the Bahamas, and mostly to the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut.

Court records show Bochicchio did not dispute that he may have gambled $176,000 in a six-month period between August 2003 and January 2004, but he could not say how much he won or lost.

At the Litchfield hearing last year, Porzio read all of the entries on Bochicchio's Wampum Card, which is used by the casino to track a gambler's activities.

On a March 13, 2003, visit to Mohegan Sun, Bochicchio admitted losing $1,000 in 10 minutes.

But there were also successful days, such as Oct. 3, when he won $26,000, all of it on blackjack.

Bochicchio admitted that he had taken out the $5,000 marker against his credit union account but denied that he had gambled so much money. Bochicchio said most of it was his friends' money.

But the couple's feud was fired by many issues. The children were always tired because Donna kept them up too late, and each of them said inappropriate things about the other in front of the children, according to court transcripts.

"He makes comments ... in front of the kids, making it like I'm the bad person all the time. They go, `How come - how come you're taking Daddy's money?' "
Donna Bochicchio testified.

Despite the acrimony, Donna Bochicchio acknowledged that her husband never hither and was never violent. Julie Fasano, the family relations counselor appointed to study the child custody issue, testified last year, that Donna Bochicchio "was afraid that[Michael Bochicchio] was going to hurt her, or something like that.

And when she brought it to his attention, he said, `If I was going to hurt you, I would havealready done it.'"

After at least three days of hearings in Litchfield last year, Superior CourtJudge Robert C. Brunetti found that the situation at the Bochicchio home was"intolerable."

He ordered Bochicchio out of the home, but gave him joint custody of the children. Despite their troubles, the Bochicchios had raised their children properly, said Bridget A. Garrity, a lawyer appointed to represent the children.

"These children are literally the light," she said during one hearing.

"They are- these parents have done a really good job with these kids."

Courant Staff Writers Tom Puleo, Josh Kovner, Lynne Tuohy and Stephen Busemeyercontributed to this story.

Copyright 2005, Hartford Courant

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an assault on civil liberties but not on terrorism

U.S. Campaign Produces Few Convictions on Terrorism ChargesStatistics Often Count Lesser Crimes


Authorities have said the cases of Ali Alubeidy, left, and Mohammed Alibrahimi were not linked to terrorism, but the Justice Department still calls them terrorism-related


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Parallels of methods

If you look at how the Ku Klux Klan infested states operated during the Civil Rights Movements of the 1960’s you’ll understand how states such as Connecticut operate today. When citizens try to expose corporate/government fraud and illegal acts they are in for a surprise. There is a new more sinister and covert form of lynching and anyone who dares speak out can be a victim.


Edgar Ray Killen, right, speaks to his attorney James McIntyre, during court Thursday.

Transcript: Civil rights worker a target
Killen released from hospital

PHILADELPHIA, Mississippi (AP) -- Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen told fellow Klansmen during a 1964 meeting to leave civil rights worker Michael Schwerner alone because another unit was assigned to eliminate him, a jury was told Friday.

The testimony, read by a member of the prosecution team, was given by Carlton Wallace Miller, a Klansman, Meridian police officer and FBI informant during a 1967 federal conspiracy trial of Killen and several other white men that led to seven convictions. The all-white jury couldn't agree on a verdict against Killen.

In that testimony, Miller said the local White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan chapter had discussed whipping Schwerner but Killen told them the killing of Schwerner had been approved by the group's Imperial Wizard.

Defense attorneys, who had to borrow a 1967 trial transcript from Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon, had portions of Miller's cross examination read that showed he had received money while working for the FBI. The defense also used questions from the transcript to show Miller had told prospective Klan members that the organization was legal.

Killen is on trial in the killings of James Chaney, a black Mississippian, and Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, white New Yorkers, who were in the town to investigate the burning of a black church. They were stopped for speeding, jailed for a few hours, then released, after which they were ambushed by a gang of Klansmen.

The 80-year-old Killen listened to the reading of the transcript, appearing much stronger than he had Thursday when he left court suffering from high blood pressure. He arrived in a car and was pushed in a wheelchair to the second floor courtroom.

Killen was hospitalized on the opening day of testimony Thursday, just before the widow of one of the victims led the jury through the events that sent her husband to Mississippi during the "Freedom Summer" of 1964. A few in the courtroom wiped away tears during the testimony.

Rita Schwerner Bender, 63, recalled the moment she learned that authorities had found the blue station wagon that her husband, Michael Schwerner, and the two other men were in when they disappeared. The burned car was abandoned in a swamp.

"I think it hit me for the first time that they were dead, that there was really no realistic possibility that they were alive," the Seattle woman said, occasionally looking as though she was fighting back tears.

The trial later went into recess.

Killen, a part-time preacher and sawmill operator, has attended court in a wheelchair while he recovers from broken legs suffered in a woodcutting accident. A nurse sits nearby in court.

Killen was released from Neshoba County General Hospital in time to get to court. Doctors said Killen had suffered from elevated blood pressure and complained of a headache and discomfort in his chest.

Attorney General Jim Hood said prosecutors intend to prove that Killen planned the murders and helped round up Klansmen to chase down and kill the three.
They were then beaten and shot to death, and their bodies were found 44 days later buried in an earthen dam.

Rita and Michael Schwerner had been married just over a year and a half when they moved from New York to Mississippi in January 1964 to work in the civil rights movement. They lived in the homes of several black families in Meridian, moving frequently because the families were threatened.

Killen's name has been associated with the slayings from the outset. He could get life in prison if convicted in the state trial.

The defense does not dispute that Killen was a member of the Klan at the time of the slayings, but denies he had anything to do with the deaths.

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9/11 art project sparks NY anger

Skarbakka previously depicted himself falling from ladders and trees

A US artist in a harness has thrown himself off a five-storey building more than 30 times to create photographs recalling the 11 September attacks.

Kerry Skarbakka was photographed as he repeatedly fell from the roof of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

He had the idea after seeing Twin Towers workers fall to their deaths. "I was so distraught, I needed some way to find an artistic response," he said.

New York mayor Michael Bloomberg called the project "nauseatingly offensive".

'Sick individual'

Skarbakka, 34, previously exhibited images of him falling off balconies, from trees and off stepladders.

"Mentally, physically and emotionally, from day to day, we fall. Even walking is falling. You take a step, fall and catch yourself," he said.

More than 2,700 people died when hijacked planes collided with New York's World Trade Center on 11 September 2001.

The mother of a man killed in the attacks was reportedly unimpressed by Skarbakka's latest photo project.

"What kind of a sick individual is he? Tell him to go jump off the Empire State Building and see how it feels," Paul Salvio's mother Rosemarie Giallombardo told the New York Daily News.

"He's an artist? Go paint a bowl of fruit or something."

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The fun of driving an almost 2 decade old vehicle

Out for a drive with my 1978 Silver Anniversary L-82 4 sp Chevrolet Corvette

I used to have a 1978 L-82 Corvette with a 4 sp. I fixed just about everything on the car and really enjoyed driving it. I had to lose this car and much for having complained about the corrupt behavior of police, prosecutors, and judges. I guess they didn’t like what I wrote in newspapers and the laws I proposed to elected officials, as perjury of officers was needed to railroad me to prison.

I now drive a rusted out work van:


Gas pedal doesn't work so a rope will do to avoid a having to pay for a tow truck.


Taking motor cover off inside van

Not too long ago I was coming up on road construction and the two lane road with opposing traffic was reduced to one lane with a police officer directing traffic. The accelerator stuck and my van started barreling towards the cop. I had good breaks and the cop knew that something had just gone wrong with my vehicle.

It was in Massachusetts so I didn’t have a life altering event seeing a cop and having him see me.

I pulled the cover off the motor, noticed the return spring for the accelerator had broken, so I grabbed my tool box, an extra spring, and a pair of needle nose pliers and I was on my way in 10 minutes.

I was driving a couple of days ago, again in Massachusetts and the accelerator cable broke and the engine would only idle and I couldn’t go anywhere. I took the cover off the engine and then used a rope as a lanyard next to the carburetor to make the van go. I pulled out into traffic using the rope.

Before having lodged complaints about rogue, asshole Connecticut officials breaking laws and ruing lives, I could buy new vehicles and had credit, no more.

I got off lucky compared to some. I didn't face decades in prison, I wasn't sent to a mental hospital for pissing off asshole officials, and although my daughter has little to do with me since I was railroaded to prison I didn't go through the DCF crap a whole number of people have unnecessarily.

Breaking News: Decision on US Supreme Court Case on Eminent Domain Pending Any Day Now!

Breaking News: Decision on US Supreme Court Case on Eminent Domain Pending Any Day Now!

Submitted by SaveArdmoreCoalition on June 17, 2005 - 12:26pm. News Activism and Politics Blogging, Internet, and Media

This just in: the decision date is TRULY looming for the U.S. Supreme Court Case, Kelo v. New London. This is an eminent domain case that could have long reaching effects no matter which way the decision comes down. We of course, are hopeful that our esteemed Justices will find in favor of Susette Kelo. She deserves to keep her home, as us here in Ardmore, PA deserve to keep our small businesses and historic buildings! We are keeping our fingers crossed for her! And you read it here FIRST!

The dates that a decision could possibly be announced are as follows: 6/20/05, 6/23/05, 6/27/05.

For More Information on the Kelo Case & Eminent Domain, Please Visit:

http://www.ij.org/private_property/connecticut/

http://www.rppi.org/outofcontrol/archives/000940.html

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-09-28-justices-property_x.htm

http://www.professorbainbridge.com/2005/02/will_leviathan_.html

http://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20050219-092417-1856r.htm

http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/2005/02/kelo_v_city_of.shtml

http://www.castlecoalition.org/

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There is a 9th Circuit case,

Submitted by bobguzzardi on June 17, 2005 - 6:33pm.

There is a 9th Circuit case, I am told, that is on point with Ardmore Tear Down. Do you know it?
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SaveArdmoreCoalition on June 17, 2005 - 1:15pm.
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The Stark Raving Viking Feb. 23, 2005 post on Eminent Domain

The Government will take your home to help a corporate interest
a Feb. 22, 2005 FreeSpeech.com post

Courts are a popularity contest

Whoever has the most political connections wins no matter the evidence or the type of case, over and over and over.


Donna Bochicchio in a 1980 picture, slain wife of Connecticut State Police Officer, Michael Bocchicchio shot by her husband 4 times on a Connecticut court's steps


Waterbury Attorney Julie Porzio, a Connecticut woman with many political, powerful family, and corporate connections


Michael Bochicchio, a retired Major in the Connecticut State Police

Workers: Wife Feared Husband
Victim Had Sought Escorts From Court During Divorce Trial
June 17, 2005
By ALAINE GRIFFIN, Hartford Courant Staff Writer

MIDDLETOWN (Connecticut) -- Fearing the anger of her husband, judicial marshals escorted Donna Bochicchio and her attorney, Julie Porzio, out of court on at least three occasions during Bochicchio's contentious divorce trial, courthouse workers said Thursday.

That recollection and others of Bochicchio and her estranged husband, Michael, were on the minds of court workers Thursday, a day after Michael Bochicchio Jr. killed his wife and seriously wounded Porzio before fatally shooting himself in a parking lot outside Superior Court.

The couple was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday for the 12th day of their divorce trial, likely the final round of what had been a bitter two-year legal battle that Michael Bochicchio stood to lose.

Autopsy results released Thursday confirmed that Donna Bochicchio, 42, of Harwinton, died from multiple gunshot wounds. Law enforcement sources said she was shot twice in the torso, and once in the head and neck. She died in the parking lot shortly after the shooting.

The state medical examiner's office also confirmed Thursday that Torrington resident Michael Bochicchio, 47, a retired state police trooper, died from a self-inflicted gunshot to his head. Family members removed him from life-support Wednesday night.

Porzio, of Waterbury, was in serious but stable condition Thursday night at Hartford Hospital, and in a written statement, thanked colleagues for their support.

"My family and I have been overwhelmed with offers of support. We are all grateful for the support we continue to receive from friends and colleagues. We are touched by their concern and generosity," the statement says.

Porzio, who was seated in the car next to Donna Bochicchio when her husband opened fire, was hit with four shots, according to her brother, Thomas Porzio. He said she was shot once in each shoulder, a third shot grazed her face and mangled her left ear, and a fourth shot shattered the bones in her right hand. She underwent surgery today, her brother said, and she could be home early next week if all goes well.

A bank account in Porzio's name was set up at Wachovia Bank in Waterbury on Thursday for contributions to help with her medical costs and other expenses. The fund was created in response to "the outpouring of offers of support from people across the state," her statement said. Porzio is the wife of former Waterbury Mayor Joseph Santopietro.

Capt. Christopher Barrow, head of Middletown police detectives, said officers planned to talk to Porzio Thursday in an effort to learn more about Wednesday's shooting.

"The investigation is beginning to wind down, but we still want to talk to her about what occurred," Barrow said. Police confirmed that the .40-caliber Glock handgun used in the shooting was Bochicchio's own registered weapon and not a service firearm he used for his job as a federal court security officer.

Bochicchio was employed by Akal Security Inc., a company based in Espanola, N.M., that has a contract with the federal government to provide security at Connecticut federal courthouses, Deputy U.S. Marshal Gary Dorsey said.

Barrow said Bochicchio did not leave a suicide note. Though detectives are still poring through court files for a clear motive for the shooting, police believe the act was the result of the bitter court proceedings.

Hearings last year in Superior Court in Litchfield exposed a couple consumed with bitterness, jealousy and anger about their children, money and sex. The case had grown so ugly it could not be mediated and was transferred out of Litchfield to Middletown's special family court unit. The case was heard in Middletown on days in April, May and June and was scheduled to resume Wednesday.

Courthouse sources familiar with the divorce trial said Michael Bochicchio was always pleasant to the staff but didn't hesitate to get nasty with his wife in the courtroom. His wife, one source said, "put on a good face," but was clearly fearful of her husband's anger.

That fear prompted requests from Porzio that judicial marshals escort them to the parking lot at the end of the court day so they would have security until they got in their vehicles, sources said.

Michael Kokoszka, chief court clerk in Middletown, said Wednesday's shooting had a keen effect on those workers who were part of the divorce case, those who got to know the Bochicchios, even if it was just through casual exchanges.

"You obviously get to know these people sitting through the trial each day and you never expect anything like that to happen," Kokoszka said.

Talking in hallways and offices about the shooting and the Bochicchios, bringing flowers and holding a moment of silence at the shooting site were all part of the healing process at the courthouse Thursday.

Several employees found it difficult to concentrate long enough to draft simple memos. Others said they had trouble sleeping Wednesday night. About 25 court employees and judges attended a counseling session Wednesday where each person had the option of discussing the incident.

"It gave us a chance to talk about it, a tragic event that was so close to us, in a safe and respectful environment," Kokoszka said.Two employees witnessed the shootings from an office window that looked directly out to the crime scene.

"I can't even imagine how they must feel," Kokoszka said. "But they're holding up well. We're a close community here. We're like a family and in times like this, family comes together."

Kokoszka said he was impressed with the staff for resuming work so quickly after the nearly hour-long lockdown at the courthouse Wednesday.

While many have said they will never forget what happened, Kokoszka said the employees are moving ahead with their lives. And they're doing this, Kokoszka said, with the knowledge that there is the potential for violence at a courthouse.

"It's not something any of us take for granted," Kokoszka said.

Courant Staff Writer Bill Leukhardt contributed to this story.

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Former Connecticut State Trooper Shoots and Kills Wife, Shoots her Attorney, and then tries to kill himself near a Connecticut Court House

Connecticut State Police spokesman Sgt. J. Paul Vance

talks with reporters near where a man shot his ex-wife to death, critically wounded her lawyer and then shot himself in the parking area behind the Superior Court building in Middletown.(AP/Bob Child)June 15, 2005

Fatal Shooting At Courthouse
5:51 PM EDT,June 15, 2005
STAFF and Wire Reports, The Hartford Courant

MIDDLETOWN -- A former state trooper fatally shot his ex-wife, critically wounded her lawyer and then shot himself on a parking deck outside a courthouse where they were scheduled to appear this morning, law enforcement officials said.

State police Sgt. J. Paul Vance identified the shooter as Michael L. Bochicchio, Jr. , 47, of Torrington, a retired state trooper.

Vance confirmed that Bochicchio's ex-wife, Donna Bochicchio, 43, of Harwinton, was dead at the scene. Donna Bochicchio's lawyer Julie Porzio, 42, of Waterbury, is listed in serious condition at Hartford Hospital.

Michael L. Bochicchio, Jr is listed in extremely critical condition at Hartford Hospital suffering from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

"He was a wonderful person, a state cop for all those years. I don't know what went through his mind," said his uncle, Anthony Bochicchio Sr.

"He was going through a bad divorce. He just snapped."

According to court records, Michael Bochicchio filed for divorce in 2003 and had been fighting over money and the custody of their two children. A court order dated today grants custody of the 12-year-old girl and 14-year-old boy to Donna Bochicchio's family.

The investigation into the shooting continues. Vance said police hope to finish at the scene by 7 p.m. Middletown Police are being assisted by state police, Vance said.

According to Vance, the shooting occurred as the two women were parking their car at about 9:34 a.m. on the upper deck of the parking garage adjacent to the courthouse. Police said all three were scheduled in court today for a non-criminal court case.

Paul Tofil of East Hartford was working at an auto shop just below the parking deck. There were initially about eight gunshots, then a pause, and then another shot, he said.

Tofil said he thought someone was shooting off fireworks or trying to scare pigeons, but a man yelled down at them to call the police.

"This happened 30 yards away," he said.

"It freaked me out. I couldn't believe it."

Vance said the shooter arrived in a separate vehicle. Investigators recovered a handgun from the scene. Police are still determining how many shots were fired and the trajectory of the bullets. Investigators also are checking surveillance cameras in the area for evidence, but Vance would not say whether any images of the crime were available.

Public Safety Commissioner Len Boyle said Bochicchio was a retired state trooper. He also served as a contract federal court security officer, U.S. Marshal John Bardelli said.

Porzio is the wife of former Waterbury Mayor Joseph Santopietro. Family members and colleagues would not comment on her injuries or the incident.

The court was placed on "partial lockdown," immediately after the shooting, court spokeswoman Rhonda Stearley-Hebert said, meaning people were allowed into the courthouse but police kept them inside.

The court had resumed normal operations this afternoon, Stearley-Hebert said.Twenty years ago, a fatal domestic shooting inside a Connecticut courtroom led to tighter security measures, including metal detectors, at all state courthouses.

Kenneth Spargo shot and killed his wife, Priscilla, during their divorce proceedings in May 1984 in Norwich Superior Court. Spargo walked up to his wife while she sat on a bench in the front of the courtroom and fired several times.

At the time of that shooting, the Norwich courthouse was the second newest in the state and was one of just three equipped with a built-in metal detector. The detector, however, could be easily bypassed by anyone using an exit door in an adjacent foyer. It also was determined that a back door had been left unlocked and unmonitored for about an hour.

Hartford Courant reporters Lauren Phillips and Gregory Seay, and, Associated Press writers Cara Rubinsky, Matt Apuzzo and Donna Tommelleo contributed to this report.

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Why shouldn’t judges, prosecutors, and defense lawyers party together?

Too many judges get caught up in their own egos and illegal behavior

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Why shouldn’t judges, prosecutors, and defense lawyers party together?

Well, if you expect them to be impartial and care about your case, not just collecting as much cash as possible and then selling you out in a sleazy backroom deal anyway.

Should money exchanges hands directly between judges and lawyers?

Should judges be able to RENT OUT Courtrooms?

This was or is posted at the Enfield Connecticut Superior Court:

ATTN: ATTORNEYS IGNATIUS “IGGY” MANISCALO IS RETIRING THE LAST DAY OF JULY 2005
WE’RE HAVING A “BON VOYAGE” CELEBRATION FOR HIM IN THE JURY ASSEMBLY ROOM ON
WEDNESDAY JULY 27th AT 12:30 PM UNTIL...? $12.00 PER PERSON SEE JUDGE SCHEINBLUM

A list and stories of some victims of the system

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MEGALOMANIA IS OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD FOR JUDGES

Judges, Police, and lawyers in illegal collusion to screw over whistleblowers on corruption, police, judicial, and lawyer misconduct

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Version current as of June 8, 2005

Whether you're a newly minted blogger or a relative old-timer, you've been seeing more and more stories pop up every day about bloggers getting in trouble for what they post.

Like all journalists and publishers, bloggers sometimes publish information that other people don't want published. You might, for example, publish something that someone considers defamatory, republish an AP news story that's under copyright, or write a lengthy piece detailing the alleged crimes of a candidate for public office.

The difference between you and the reporter at your local newspaper is that in many cases, you may not have the benefit of training or resources to help you determine whether what you're doing is legal. And on top of that, sometimes knowing the law doesn't help - in many cases it was written for traditional journalists, and the courts haven't yet decided how it applies to bloggers.

But here's the important part: None of this should stop you from blogging. Freedom of speech is the foundation of a functioning democracy, and Internet bullies shouldn't use the law to stifle legitimate free expression. That's why EFF created this guide, compiling a number of FAQs designed to help you understand your rights and, if necessary, defend your freedom.

To be clear, this guide isn't a substitute for, nor does it constitute, legal advice. Only an attorney who knows the details of your particular situation can provide the kind of advice you need if you're being threatened with a lawsuit. The goal here is to give you a basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, to let you know you have rights, and to encourage you to blog freely with the knowledge that your legitimate speech is protected.

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Following the Money and Victim Trail in a Corruption Scandal

The Chronology of events that led to my arrest and prison for testing Free Speech

Open letter sent to Connecticut State Police Commissioner Leonard C. Boyle

Documents in the Legal Abuse of Christopher Kennedy of Ellington CT
"I taking your kids away because you are Irish and there is strife in Ireland ..." a quote that is close or right on to trial transcripts, Judge Jonathan Kaplan presiding

Jeffrey Yeaw, the father that was the cause of an Amber Alert

William Mulready, proof that the courts are sexist in rewarding women and punishing men in divorce proceedings

Divorce-Related Malicious Mother Syndrome

Niggers and Second Class Citizens

America’s Twilight Zone, Part 1
Documents of lying liar, Attorney Michael H. Agranoff

A weasel cartoon and a post on Attorney Michael H. Agranoff

Will it and it will be

Should an immoral state be shut down?
A letter to President Bush

The History of Abuse of Citizens arbitrarily caught up in the legal system

Do White Officers give White Officers a FREE PASS, but not Minority Officers?

Can cops rape, rob, beat, and murder with immunity?

What is prison really like?

Should a bar owner that wasn’t sure which official to bribe go to prison?

U.S. Courts and Law Enforcement are more about revenue collection than criminal correction

An email to the New Haven, CT, office for the FBI

Open Letter to Chief Justice William J. Sullivan of Connecticut

U.S. Courts and Law Enforcement are more about revenue collection than criminal correction(an open letter to Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell and Connecticut Attorney General Blumenthal received this week, registered)

The Kathleen Dickson Saga of what happens to a whistleblower in Connecticut

The Steven G. Erickson Office, Favorite Links, and Contact Information

Complaining about Crack Cocaine and Heroin

being sold off my front yard and near my Stafford Springs, Connecticut, rental properties caused me to lose these fine pets and much more:



My Rotty/Great Dane/Black Lab mix, Alexandra


Simona

Police officers don't want to be forced to fight crime, help downtown kids become productive adults, or to get off their lazy asses, especially in Connecticut.

Should proposing legislation to elected officials and spouting off about police and judicial misconduct in newspapers be so costly?

I ask myself that everyday.

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[connecticutcivilrightscouncil] The Connecticut Hall of Shame and Victims of the System

If a state can’t fix its injustice and corruption problem, maybe it is time to call for federal intervention.

The Connecticut courts allowed rich investors and greedy city officials to take homes from the middle class and the poor to displace them for housing for the rich, those able to pay larger taxes. Does it have to take the Supreme Court to intervene for any non-politically connected and non-corrupted Connecticut citizens to actually get justice?

The New London Eminent Domain Story:
http://starkravingviking.blogspot.com/2005/02/satanic-us-government.html

Report corruption and abuse in Connecticut Government, in the former Governor Rowland Office, and in DCF, go to prison. The story of Kathleen Dickson a former Pfizer research scientist lodges complaints, then is thrown in a mental hospital, is thrown in prison for two months not told of her charges, intimidated to pleading guilty to false charges, then is made to sign papers that she won’t criticize the government:
http://starkravingviking.blogspot.com/2005/06/ethics-and-rowlandgate.html
What!!!???

Donald Christmas of Enfield, CT, a landlord, got mouthy to reporters about being abused in the courts based on where he lives, downtown, and his occupation, landlord. Donny proposed Civilian Oversight of Police to elected officials and police officers at a town meeting openly threatened Donny with arrest and prison for speaking out at a town meeting! Donny threatened to sue police and Connecticut for civil rights abuses. Donny was attacked on his property by a police officers 16 year old prostitute girlfriend and only Donny faced a year and a half in prison, no deals. His story:
http://www.freespeech.com/archives/001741.html
and
http://www.freespeech.com/archives/001360.html

Jeffrey Yeaw learned how out of hand and abusive DCF is having grown up under it. He then lodged complaints against DCF and then his kids were taken away. Jeffrey Yeaw felt his children were being abused and harmed in DCF care and took them from an unsecured, supposedly secure, DCF facility. His story:
http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/yeaw_040605/

Chris Kennedy’s story and more:
http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/frauds_and_charlatans/

The chronology of events that caused me from pursuing the American Dream to living a Connecticut Nightmare I just can’t wake up from:
http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/the_free_speech_scam/

If a Judge breaks ranks with the Connecticut Injustice System and the Connecticut State Police dishonor guard, the judge faces removal and worse:

The Judge Speziale case:
http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/weblog/corrupt_ct_state_police_010505/

The Judge Carmen Lopez story:
http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/connecticut_state_police_and_judiciary_the_white_boy_club/

Are State Police Investigation outcomes for sale? The Heather Specyalski, Neil Esposito, Govenor Rowland story involving a Governor Rowland Crony getting oral sex crashing drunk and Esposito Clan influence to change the outcome of a State Police investigation so they get inheritance money and Specyalski gets nothing and falsely arrested and imprisoned.

Story and Picture:
http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/legal_abuse_011205/

Why would Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal refuse to return US Congressman Simmons letters and staff phone calls to just take a look at my trial transcripts to see if illegal acts were committed by Judge Jonathan Kaplan and former Police Commissioner Arthur L. Spada? Story:
http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/a_doj_request/

Juries in Connecticut see videotapes of how to find a defendant guilty but not innocent and nothing about reasonable doubt. With Connecticut State Police Perjury and my lawyer being told he wasn’t allowed to defend me, the fact that a Police worker was placed as jury foreman, and the jury saw a ‘jury tampering’ videotape I had no chance in a Connecticut Kangaroo Court. Story of the videotape in the comment section of this post:
http://www.freespeech.com/archives/001654.html
(post also contains my picture)

When are laws and the US Constitution going to actually apply in Connecticut?

Thank you,

Steven G. Erickson
PO Box 730
Enfield, CT 06083

Cell [snipped]

P.S. I can’t go to a family reunion this July in Minnesota as I am still on probation for being a crime victim on my own property. I haven’t seen these relatives since 1991. I can’t get employment, even loading boxes on a truck with a bogus criminal record. I have been offered insurance work and travel, but can’t take the job as I’m on probation. I can’t pursue my former import/export contacts as I can’t travel and am on probation.

I already have lost my 3 rental houses, 2 I fixed up from a boarded up condition pouring in 100’s of thousands of dollars and years of hard labor. My contracting business of 22 years was lost because of my false arrest and imprisonment.

The response to this email (included with the above)

John Huber wrote:

Chris,

You are doing everything you know to get justice and to see you kids. Hold them in your heart untill you can hold them in your arms again. May God grant you the serenity to accept the things you cannot change; the courage and strength to change the things you can; and the wisdom to know the difference.

Be well, be safe my friend.

John Huber
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Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 11:40 PM

Subject: [f4jnewengland] CORRUPTION Continues with Judge Kaplan and State Prosecutors

On June 6, 2005, in Enfield, CT Criminal Court GA-13, I witnessed the Supervising State Prosecutor, Chris Parakilas lie to a Judge. After a meeting in chambers with the Prosecutor and my Defense attorney, the Judge removed my attorney from my case for the second time when I demanded a jury trial. Two years ago I was arrested by warrant and charged with refusing to return the children to the mother when she was gone for the night with her boyfriend. The police report and the mother's testimony have confirm she wasn't home.

The Supervision Prosecutor Chris Parakilas agreed to dismiss the charges if I completed 8 weeks of counseling, I did, but then he refused. He refused because the Judge Kaplan in my family case called him and ordered him not to dismiss the charges, but to prosecute me for my complaints against him. That was 15 month ago!

Steven Erickson also alleges that for his complaints against Judge Kaplan and the State Police, he was assaulted on his property and arrested by the State Police and sentenced to a year in prison by Judge Kaplan, in retaliation for his complaints.

For two years I have been going to Enfield court every month, over 24 court appearances and denied my repeated demands & rights to trial. Other cases younger than mine have gone to trial. I have witness abuse after abuse of prosecutor punishing minorities based on their lack of understanding of the law and without defense council.

WHO'S LYING?? JUDGE OR PROSECUTOR??

Transcript of February 26, 2004, Judge Jonathan Kaplan, Administrative Judge of Rockville:
"I simply reported to the supervising State's Attorney in the Office, Mr. Parakilas…because he should not be entering a nolle…. He wanted to enter a nolle."

Transcript of June 6, 2005, Chris Parakalis:
"It's all unfounded, I don't know what transpired in GA19 with Judge Kaplan."
The Court: Have you ever represented that the Case was going to be nolled?

Mr. Parakalis: No.

The State Prosecutors in Enfield and Rockville, working with Judge Kaplan, have cost the State of Connecticut over $250,000 in Taxpayers money and Federal funding to maliciously prosecute this case without merit and deprive my children of a father.

My three children have been fatherless for a year and a half, my son has been arrested and I face 10 years in prison, all for my complaint against Judge Kaplan. Who will protect my children from this abuse? What if these were your children?

Chris KennedyEllington, CT 06029

860-871-8538(H)

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Does CT Gov. M. Jodi Rell care about undoing the Gov. Rowland Corruption Damage?

The Outrage that should have been acted on back in 1997

The Steven G. Erickson Office, Favorite Links, and Contact Information

V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta

Blog around the screenwriting and possible movie to do with the above poster (here)

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My idea

stevengerickson@yahoo.com

Is this Nazi Germany or the Former USSR?

Reasons not to protest

No, it's America ...

More

Did a word search on "shitbag central" and there was nothing.

Does CT Gov. M. Jodi Rell care about undoing the Gov. Rowland Corruption Damage?

The Outrage that should have been acted on back in 1997



From Governor M. Jodi Rell's Official Website

Links from her
site:

Ethics in State Government

Governor Rell has
made ethics in state government a top priority of her administration.
Click
on the links below for more information.

Governor
Rell Testifies in Favor of Ethics, Campaign and State Contract
Reforms

Governor
Rell Proposes Contract Standards Board

Governor Rell Introduces Sweeping Reform Proposals for Campaign
Finance, State Ethics, Contracting

Governor
Rell Announces Proposal to Revamp State Ethics Commission

Governor
Rell Pushes for Law Encouraging 'Citizen Watchdogs'

Governor
Rell Seeks Overhaul of State Ethics Commission
Ethics
Compliance Audit Report

A
Blueprint for Restoring Integrity in State Government

State
Contracting Reform Task Force
Special
Counsel for Ethics Compliance
Executive
Order #1

State
Ethics Commission
Code of Ethics
for Public Officials

I ask Governor M. Jodi Rell for a pardon in an open letter here, Dec. 21, 2004

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I emailed this out today:


From :
Steve Erickson
Sent :
Friday, June 10, 2005 4:22 PM
To :
newsroom@record-journal.com, trvl@hotmail.com, cksubs@aol.com

Subject :
Just got off the phone with a Record Reporter






Inbox
To whom it may concern:

I just got off the phone with a man that said he is a reporter for the Record, Stephen Scarpo, and he was in the process of interviewing John Dibase of the Meriden's Men's Center, Father's Rights Council, and Connecticut Civil Rights Watch.

I brought up the case of Chris Kennedy, the Ellington man that has his kids taken away after having lodge complaints against a Judge. Judge Jonathan Kaplan took Chris' kids away stating that Chris is Irish and there is strife in Ireland. What!!!???

His story:

http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/weblog/comments/4892/

Chris Kennedy cell phone 860-539-6612

My story, called, "Testing the First Amendment in the US is Dangerous":

http://www.starkravingviking.blogspot.com/2005/03/testing-first-amendment-in-us-is.html

Kathleen Dickson, a former Research Scientist for Pfizer was put in prison for two months for exposing the DCF/Rowland/Tomasso/Regallia/Insurance Fraud scandal, not even being told what she was charged with:

http://starkravingviking.blogspot.com/2005/06/ethics-and-rowlandgate.html

Thank you,

Steven G. Erickson
[snipped], CT

cell [snipped]

>From: "Steve Erickson" >To: Cksubs@aol.com, christopher.kennedy@pw.utc.com, ltgovernor.sullivan@po.state.ct.us, Mary.Glassman@po.state.ct.us, trvl@hotmail.com, news@journalinquirer.com, kevin.rasch@po.state.ct.us, governor.rell@po.state.ct.us, lead@po.state.ct.us

>Subject: Children and Families- Victims of Connecticut Corruption>Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 15:21:30 +0000>From: Steve Erickson To: Cksubs@aol.com, christopher.kennedy@pw.utc.com, ltgovernor.sullivan@po.state.ct.us, Mary.Glassman@po.state.ct.us, trvl@hotmail.com, news@journalinquirer.com, kevin.rasch@po.state.ct.us, governor.rell@po.state.ct.us, lead@po.state.ct.us

Subject: Children and Families- Victims of Connecticut Corruption

Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 3:21 PM

To whom it may concern:

Should crime victims get arrested and go to prison and not criminals who have attacked them?

Citizens that have proposed laws to elected officials that the police and members of the judiciary don’t like, that get ‘mouthy’ to reporters about corruption, threaten to sue police or members of the judiciary for civil rights violations, and/or lodge complaints against an official are targets for police harassment, malicious prosecution, and hard jail time.

My docket # is: CR01-0074672, Rockville Court, Connecticut, 20 Park St.

Please review it and please consider whether the officials in my case upheld their oath regarding upholding laws and respecting the Constitution. Did you take such an oath?

Donald Christmas of Enfield was one of the landlords I met with after my false imprisonment regarding suing for our civil rights. Donny, also proposed Civilian Oversight of Police and got ‘mouthy’ to reporters. Donny was then attacked on his property by a 16 year old prostitute girlfriend of a police officer. Only Donny faced a year and a half of prison, no deals, and his attacker received no punishment, same as me.

Christopher Kennedy’s wife stabbed him. Chris lodged complaints about a judge, his wife charges were dropped, she got the kids, Chris can’t see them, and Chris is being maliciously prosecuted in a number of court cases.

Judge Jonathan Kaplan referred to Chris Kennedy’s national origin and ethnicity and then said he was not allowing Chris to see his kids. What!!!???

Should an arrogant, maniacal tyrant sociopath be allowed to be a judge in Connecticut?

Taxpayers have had to foot the bill for millions lost in the costs of investigations, trials, and lost revenue, taxes, costs of imprisoning the innocent, and taking a productive, working consumer out of circulation.

Just the 3 of us mentioned above has hurt the Connecticut economy and faith in Connecticut Government and Courts.

I have not been able to go to a family reunion in Minnesota since 1991 due to work, other responsibilities, and because I was fixing up boarded up rental properties, investing 100’s of thousands of dollars and years of my hard labor.

All for nothing as testing Free Speech in Connecticut means do not pass “GO, go directly to prison.”

I need my charges thrown out. The jury was shown a videotape of how to find me guilty, but nothing about finding me innocent, nor about reasonable doubt.

A worker for the police was also allowed to become jury foreman, I asked my lawyer to use our strike, but he refused. Attorney Michael H. Agranoff told me that Judge Jonathan Kaplan has instructed him not to challenge Connecticut State Police perjury, conflicting police reports, the witness for the prosecution, a tenant that vowed revenge for my evicting her BEFORE the incident, and also Agranoff claimed he could not challenge the prosecution because of the judge’s instructions. I was told my Agranoff when it was already too late.

How many more political prisoners must there be, and how many millions more must Connecticut lose due to corruption and abuse of citizens at the hands of officials?

I want to go to the family reunion as many are elderly and I would like to see them while they are still alive this July. I want to pursue insurance work that involves traveling all over the US, but can’t as I’m on probation yet another year. I lost my contracting business of 22 years and 3 rental properties, my home dog, my daughter, and all I had ever worked for over my false arrest.

I want to rekindle my past import/export contacts, but can’t as I’m on probation. I can’t get a job loading boxes on trucks as I have a criminal record because I’m a crime victim!

I respectfully request that you read my trial transcripts and do something so I can have my life back. Judge Jonathan Kaplan told me I was guilty and going to prison BEFORE the trial even started. Connecticut State Police Officers were bragging around town that “Big Mouth” was going to prison and run out of town BEFORE the trial.

Should those that locate their families to Connecticut, invest in a home, work hard, pay taxes, be subject to having their families ripped apart, losing everything, and going to prison for not being a pathetic sheep?

Please, please, please do something as I have little time to re-earn my retirement AND need to work to support myself and my family, but can’t being labeled a criminal after investing 100’s of thousands of dollars and years of hard labor pursuing the American Dream in Connecticut which for me and others IS AN ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE!

Steven G. Erickson
PO Box 730
Enfield, CT 06083-0730

Cell phone [snipped]

P.S. Father's are being denied their voting rights and are unfairly taxed-

* Taxation without Representation
* We are imprisoned for trying to Redress Grievances to Elected Officials
* Connecticut Citizens are imprisoned for exposing Corruption and testing Free Speech

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Ethics and Rowlandgate

Racism and Retaliation in the Courts

'Jim Crow' laws aren't still on the books, but are still enforced

Testing the First Amendment in the US is Dangerous

Following the Money and Victim Trail in a Corruption Scandal

The Chronology of events that led to my arrest and prison for testing Free Speech

Open letter sent to Connecticut State Police Commissioner Leonard C. Boyle

Documents in the Legal Abuse of Christopher Kennedy of Ellington CT
"I taking your kids away because you are Irish and there is strife in Ireland ..." a quote that is close or right on to trial transcripts, Judge Jonathan Kaplan presiding

Jeffrey Yeaw, the father that was the cause of an Amber Alert

William Mulready, proof that the courts are sexist in rewarding women and punishing men in divorce proceedings

Divorce-Related Malicious Mother Syndrome

Niggers and Second Class Citizens

America’s Twilight Zone, Part 1
Documents of lying liar, Attorney Michael H. Agranoff

A weasel cartoon and a post on Attorney Michael H. Agranoff

Will it and it will be

Should an immoral state be shut down?
A letter to President Bush

The History of Abuse of Citizens arbitrarily caught up in the legal system

Do White Officers give White Officers a FREE PASS, but not Minority Officers?

Can cops rape, rob, beat, and murder with immunity?

What is prison really like?

Should a bar owner that wasn’t sure which official to bribe go to prison?

U.S. Courts and Law Enforcement are more about revenue collection than criminal correction

An email to the New Haven, CT, office for the FBI

Open Letter to Chief Justice William J. Sullivan of Connecticut

U.S. Courts and Law Enforcement are more about revenue collection than criminal correction(an open letter to Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell and Connecticut Attorney General Blumenthal received this week, registered)

The Kathleen Dickson Saga of what happens to a whistleblower in Connecticut

The Steven G. Erickson Office, Favorite Links, and Contact Information

Lawyer stealing settlement checks

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Former Lawyer Faces New Charges
June 10, 2005 By THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, Hartford Courant Staff Writer (ctnow.com)

A former West Hartford attorney, already charged with stealing the proceeds of a client's insurance settlement and bouncing a check for a town tax payment, was arrested again Thursday for allegedly embezzling thousands of dollars from another former client.

Ronald L. Lepine, 58, was handcuffed by state inspectors in the morning inside Superior Court in Hartford as he was making a court appearance for his earlier charges. Judge Marcia Gleeson ordered Lepine held on $100,000 bail on charges of first-degree larceny and second-degree forgery and slated another court appearance for July 12.

The chief state's attorney's office charges that Lepine, of 417 Chestnut St., New Britain, stole more than $26,000 from the damages a client received from a truck accident five years ago. Not only did Lepine not tell the client he had received a $41,375 settlement in the accident suit, said inspectors, but he advanced the client $15,000 as a "loan" in April 2004.

The client, Richard Terranova of Coventry, had been unable to work as a self-employed truck driver after suffering injuries in the accident, and ultimately was forced to file for bankruptcy, says an arrest warrant. Terranova and his wife, Helen, retained Lepine to represent them in the bankruptcy.

While the bankruptcy was ongoing in 2003, says the warrant, another lawyer, John J. O'Neil Jr., representing Terranova in the accident, told him that he had turned the $41,375 settlement check over to Lepine. Terranova later learned, says the warrant, that Lepine had forged his name to the settlement check and cashed it.In the meantime, says the warrant, Lepine offered the Terranovas three $5,000 checks as "a loan" to help them pay their other bills. He charged them a $1,230 attorney fee.

When inspectors interviewed Lepine, says the warrant, he told them he was surprised the Terranovas didn't get the settlement funds because he gave them a check. But, says the warrant, although Lepine said he would provide the canceled check or a copy of it, he never did.

And, Lepine's bank records show he made a deposit of the Terranovas' settlement funds, but never withdrew a like amount to repay the Terranovas.

In the other court cases, Lepine was arrested and charged with first-degree larceny and two counts of second-degree forgery and passing a bad check to pay his West Hartford tax bills. The forgery and larceny charges, said inspectors, stemmed from Lepine's theft of other lawsuit monetary damages due to a West Hartford man and his daughter, hurt in a car crash in June 2001. The man hired Lepine to seek damages from the other driver, says another arrest warrant affidavit.

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The Steven G. Erickson Office, Contact Information, and Favorite Links

Reasons to Abolish the Connecticut State Police

Can cops rape, rob, beat, and murder with immunity?

Is Connecticut not the Constitution State, but the Judicial, Prosecutorial, and Police Misconduct State?

Testing the First Amendment in the US is Dangerous

The Corporate/Government Scam- Health Insurance

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Nation's Largest Ob-Gyn Managers Investigated
9:25 PM EDT, June 9, 2005 Associated Press, The Hartford Courant (ctnow.com)

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The nation's largest obstetrician and gynecologist management company has been subpoenaed as part of an investigation into whether it received insurance kickbacks that artificially inflated malpractice insurance rates for Connecticut doctors, state and company officials said.

Women's Health Connecticut of Avon provides management services to more than 140 doctors and other health care providers around the state. It has been one of the most vocal supporters of a cap on awards in medical malpractice cases.

The company received a subpoena for insurance documents Friday and planned to comply, said Nancy Bernstein, the company's president.Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal confirmed the subpoena was part of an investigation into whether the company profited from an illegal insurance brokerage deal that drove up premiums for unwitting doctors.

"The price of their insurance was raised as a result of this scheme," Blumenthal said.

"We're talking about literally hundreds of doctors who see thousands of patients for ob-gyn services."

Companies hire brokers to help them find the best insurance providers, who then pay the brokers a commission. It is illegal for brokers to pay clients or share commissions to secure their business - a practice called rebating.

The Women's Health Connecticut investigation adds a new wrinkle to the typical rebating probe.

The company's former insurance broker, Hilb Rogal & Hobbs, acknowledged last month that its officials may have accepted extra fees, which are illegal, from insurance providers in exchange for steering business.

Blumenthal is investigating whether those illegal fees were shared with Women's Health Connecticut managers without the knowledge of the doctors, who paid more for insurance because the hidden fees were wrapped into their premiums.

"We don't believe that to be the case," said Women's Health Connecticut's in-house attorney, Katherine Keane.

"If the investigation is raising those issues, we would certainly deny it."

Keane said Women's Health received payments from brokers and insurance providers for company services such as risk management and physician education but said those payments were not improper.

"These payments have not resulted in increasing the premiums of the participating physicians," Keane said.

Blumenthal said the Women's Health subpoena is one of several filed in a wider investigation of the industry.

"We know of at least two other ob-gyn groups that engaged in similar practices, so the magnitude and ramifications are striking," Blumenthal said.

"The Women's Health kickback-sharing scheme is not an isolated or single instance of potential abuse in this industry. It seems to be part of a pattern."

Women's Health Connecticut was formed in 1997 to provide billing and other managerial support for doctors who had been hiring their managerial staffs individually. The company says it is already the nation's largest partnership between ob-gyn doctors and managers and plans to spread the model nationwide.

Dr. Richard S. Ruben, a Danbury obstetrician who organized the doctors that partnered with Women's Health, said company officials didn't profit off the selection of an insurance company and never tried to cut corners.

"We always said, 'No. Let's do it right," said Ruben, who is also chairman of the company's board of directors.

The Women's Health Connecticut investigation accelerated late last month when HRH announced the resignation of its president, fired another employee and turned over documents to federal and state prosecutors and insurance regulators.

"Given that we are continuing to assist in their investigations, it would be inappropriate to comment further," HRH attorney Ross Garber said.

The company has pledged to repay any clients who were overcharged.State regulators are conducting their own rebating investigation into HRH and Women's Health, said Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Susan Cogswell.

The Doctor's Company, the California-based company that sold insurance to Women's Health, is conducting an audit of the account but has not been subpoenaed, spokeswoman Jesmine Hulsey said.

Women's Health is no longer affiliated with HRH or the Doctor's Company and is now self-insured.

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Probe Explores Officer's Past State Native Faces Florida Inquiry
June 9, 2005 By KIM MARTINEAU, Hartford Courant Staff Writer

A former Madison police officer who was the subject of criminal investigations in two Connecticut towns is now at the center of an FBI investigation into the shooting of a Mexican day laborer in South Florida.

Lewis Perry III, 39, who grew up on the Connecticut shoreline and is the son of a well-known police chief, was working as a deputy sheriff in Broward County, Fla., seven months ago when he shot and critically injured 23-year-old German Gomez, the father of two young children.

Perry should never have been hired as a police officer, judging from his record in Connecticut, said Gomez's lawyer, Lynn Overmann.

"If you look at it, there's a pattern," she said.

"Routinely, he doesn't follow orders. He gets himself involved in these questionable situations with ex-girlfriends. He's the worst-driving cop I've ever seen."

Perry was called on a burglary complaint on Nov. 3, 2004, to the apartment complex where Gomez lived. Perry contends, through his lawyer, that his gun accidentally fired during a confrontation with Gomez in the parking lot. The bullet lodged in Gomez's head, leaving him permanently brain damaged.

Perry's personnel record from Madison, which details more than two dozen complaints about his performance, is now in the hands of a federal grand jury in South Florida that is investigating the shooting of Gomez. The Broward Sheriff's Office in Fort Lauderdale recently fired Perry for a matter unrelated to the shooting.

Perry was repeatedly disciplined over his short career in Madison, a decade ago, for conduct unbecoming an officer, insubordination and recklessly driving his police cruiser, town records show. Perry resigned from the force in 1997, as the department was set to fire him. Perry comes from a family of police officers.

His brother, Michael, was recently promoted to the rank of state police sergeant. His father, Lewis Perry Jr., was a longtime Hamden cop who is now the police chief at Eastern Connecticut State University. The elder Perry is past chairman of the town Democratic town committee.

Perry's lawyer in Fort Lauderdale, Eric Schwartzreich, has called the shooting a tragedy for both men. Schwartzreich declined to comment on the complaints about Perry when he was an officer in Connecticut. Perry responded to the Pompano Beach apartment complex after receiving a burglary complaint. Gomez and his cousin, who lived in the complex and did not speak English, were mistaken for burglary suspects after they tried to enter the wrong apartment.

Long before Perry reached Broward County, his conduct had come into question in Connecticut.

In 1995, Guilford police investigated Perry after his German shepherd attacked a teenager outside a service station, Madison personnel records show. The teenager was the son of the Madison deputy police chief. The case was dropped after prosecutors declined to press charges.

After leaving the Madison department, Perry was hired as a part-time constable in Washington, a small town in western Connecticut. The town fired him after his ex-girlfriend complained he was harassing her and had entered her home. The investigating officer referred the case for prosecution, but charges were not filed.

In Madison, Perry was the subject of at least 28 internal investigations. A majority of the complaints were found to be legitimate. By one department estimate, 45 full workdays were spent investigating the complaints.

Perry's first warning came two years into the job. While directing traffic around an accident one summer day, he told curious motorists there had been a "triple homicide," and a "hostage type situation."

It wasn't true. Perry told supervisors he was bored, and that the heat and lack of sleep had gone to his head.

Two years later, he was suspended for sleeping on an overtime job that paid him $200.

Perry was disciplined for conduct unbecoming an officer after numerous witnesses reported seeing him in the back of a telephone truck, wearing a mask and dark sunglasses when he should have been directing traffic.

"I believe that the time has come for us to seriously consider whether Officer Perry's continued employment with the Town of Madison can be considered a `negligent retention' issue," Capt. Paul Jakubson wrote in a March 1995 memo.

Perry suspected a fellow officer of snitching on him. Several days later, he called the officer a "rat" and a "four-legged furry weasel" to a worker at Dunkin' Donuts, personnel records show.

The officer found out about the insults and filed a complaint. The lieutenant who investigated recommended that Perry be suspended. But a month after questioning Perry's fitness as a police officer, Jakubson asked Police Chief James Cameron to go easy on Perry. "I realize that this may cause a stir within our ranks but I am still of the belief that this officer's career can be salvaged," Jakubson wrote in an April 1995 memo.

Perry received counseling but no formal punishment. Two months later, Jakubson was appointed to the Clinton Town Council, joining Perry's father, Lewis Perry Jr., on the board.

They served together for four years. Jakubson, now the Madison police chief, denies that Perry's family connections helped him keep his job and downplayed the complaints.

"They were not what I'd call egregious," he said.

Perry was living with his parents in 1991 when he applied for a job in Madison, an affluent town that borders Clinton.

"He comes from a very well respected family," noted the lieutenant who interviewed him.

Perry was a graduate of Xavier High School in Middletown and later earned an associate degree from Springfield College in Massachusetts. Perry's troubles worsened after his dog, Thor, attacked the teen at Town Line Garage in Guilford.

The young man was Carl T. Jordan, son of Madison's deputy chief at the time. Jordan told Guilford police that Perry set the dog on him with two words: "Get him."

"The dog lunged forward and bit my pants leg," Jordan said in a statement.

"My finger went into the dog's mouth but I was able to pull it out when the dog released a little."

Guilford police prepared a warrant charging Perry with reckless endangerment, but prosecutors declined to sign it. New Haven State's Attorney Michael Dearington, who lives in Madison, said he doesn't remember why he denied the warrant. Clinton Officer Todd Carlson had given Perry the German shepherd after the dog flunked out of K-9 school. Perry was given a written reprimand. A year later, Cameron, the police chief, recommended firing Perry after two more complaints were upheld.

In one, he was accused of shining his police cruiser spotlight into his ex-girlfriend's home at 2 a.m. while another man was visiting. Less than a year after resigning from Madison, Perry was hired in Washington.

Two years later, he was asked to resign amid complaints he was harassing his ex-girlfriend and had broken into her home to retrieve jewelry he had given her. Perry was fired after failing to turn in his resignation. Trooper Robert Gavell said he conducted a criminal investigation and turned the case over to a lieutenant, who later told him prosecutors declined to press charges.

The Broward Sheriff's Office did a brief background check before hiring Perry in 2001. The first selectman of Washington at the time, Alan Chapin, told the investigator that Perry had left voluntarily, had a good performance record and had nothing derogatory in his file, according to Perry's Florida personnel records. Perry himself checked "no" when asked if he had ever been fired, or had resigned following allegations of misconduct or poor performance.

"No one from any Florida Department of Public Safety ever contacted me regarding his performance," said Gavell, Perry's former supervisor, now retired.

Perry was put on administrative leave after the Nov. 3 shooting, and he was fired in March for unrelated reasons. By then, he had been the subject of nine internal investigations, including two into use of excessive force, said Gomez's lawyer.

Gomez, an illegal immigrant, is slowly recovering but is likely to need a lifetime of care. His lawyers are trying to work out a settlement with Broward County to provide that care, but if no deal is reached, they might file a lawsuit next week. They are looking into providing legal status to Gomez and bringing his wife and two children to the United States.

"The kind of care he needs is just not available in Mexico," said Overmann, who lays part of the blame on Broward County.

"They never should have hired this guy," she said.

"German wouldn't be facing the rest of his life with the IQ of a child."

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What Europe can teach us about identity theft

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An epidemic of identity theft is sweeping the U.S., but it hasn't spread to Europe. Here's what they're doing right.

By Liz Pulliam Weston

Determining the rate of identity theft in Europe is difficult, and the reason is telling: Data security experts say it's not seen as enough of a problem to warrant a comprehensive survey.

The exception is the United Kingdom, where fraud experts estimate 100,000 people, or about 0.17% of the population, fell victim last year to account hijacking, new-account fraud or other types of identity theft. Compare that to the U.S., where a Federal Trade Commission survey found 10 million ID-theft victims a year -- or 3.39% of the population.

So what is so different in the Eurozone? Several things:

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Simpson's Chalk Board Writings

Bart Simpson

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On the television show "The Simpsons" Bart can occasionally be seen writing on the blackboard as punishment, a sentence hundreds of times. The sentences change all the time. Since Bart is a rather naughty ten year old boy (sort of like Johnny in the Little Johnny Jokes), the sentences take on a life of their own.

I will not carve gods.
I will not spank others.
I will not aim for the head.
I will not barf unless I'm sick.
I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.
I saw nothing unusual in the teachers lounge.
I will not conduct my own fire drills.
Five days is not too long to wait for a gun.
Funny noises are not funny.
I will not snap bras.
I will not fake seizures.
This punishment is not boring and pointless.
My name is not Dr.Death.
I will not defame New Orleans.
I will not prescribe medication.
I will not bury the new kid.
I will not bring sheep to class.
A burp is not an answer.
Teacher is not a leper.
Coffee is not for kids.
I will not eat things for money.
I will not yell "she's dead" at roll call.
The principals toupee is not a frisbee.
I will not call the principal "spud head".
Goldfish don't bounce.
Mud is not one of the four foodgroups.
No one is interested in my underpants.
I will not sell miracle cures.
I will return the seeing eye dog.
I do not have diplomatic immunity.
I will not charge admission to the bathroom.
The cafeteria deep fryer is not a toy.
All work and no play makes bart a dull boy.
I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.
My homework was not stolen by the one armed man.
I will not go near the kindergarten turtle.
I am not deliciously saucy.
Organ transplants are best left to professionals.
The pledge of allegiance does not end with "Hail Satan".
I will not celebrate meaningless milestones.
There are plenty of businesses like show business.
I will not waste chalk.
I will never win an Emmy.
I will not torment the emotionally frail.

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MEGALOMANIA IS OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD FOR JUDGES

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By Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, Reported in Los Angeles Daily Journal

NEW YORK - When Judge Lorin Duckman first came to wide public attention in 1996 it was for lowering the bail of a man charged with beating and threatening his girlfriend and ignoring court orders to stay away from her. The man was then released, and three weeks later he killed his girlfriend and himself.

But when New York state's highest court ruled last week that Duckman could be stripped of his judgeship, that case was not part of its decision. Instead, he was banished from the bench for a long record of behaving imperiously and preposterously in his Brooklyn courtroom.

The killings served only to shine a spotlight on Duckman's misbehavior, which had been widely known among lawyers who had appeared before him but did not cause judicial authorities to take action against him.

On one occasion, Duckman decided to dismiss a case without hearing the district attorney's arguments. According to court documents, he was especially nasty to prosecutors, telling one that he probably got his law license on the back of an orange juice carton and another that he would prefer she appear in his courtroom in short skirts.

Duckman's erratic and tyrannical behavior is hardly unique. "Megalomania is an occupational hazard for judges," said Professor Paul Carrington of the Duke University Law School, noting that a trial judge inevitably has a great deal of power over everyone on the courtroom. "Judges can get awfully full of themselves," he said. "Put it this way: Everybody laughs at the judge's jokes."

Prosecutors and public defenders in any city are able to point to errant Judges who are local legends, but they typically do so only among themselves.

They really are intimidated by the fear of retaliation," said professor Monroe Freedman of the Hofstra Law School. "They usually think they can't complain because they will eventually have to appear before the judge and he will take it out on them."

Yet some jurists, like Duckman, do manage to become infamous. Brian Duff, until recently a federal trial judge in Chicago, was the subject of courtroom chatter for several years. He once ordered the arrest of his personal clerk and had her held in contempt and fined $20 after a quarrel in which he complained she had handed him a file facing the wrong way. She was held in custody for an hour.

Duff refused to accept briefs unless they spelled out his middle name, Barnett, and once mused aloud during a criminal trial that he had recently been on a flight where a female attendant had wonderful legs.

The Chicago Council of Lawyers finally issued a report that said Duff's "outbursts go far beyond the range of irascibility that judges sometimes show towards lawyers."

The report also hinted at why judges may feel they are above criticism: "Some lawyers report that the only way to avoid Duff's ire is to grovel and constantly flatter him."

The few instances in which judges are removed from the bench usually follow notorious publicity.

In the case of Duckman, Gov. George Pataki asked the State Commission on Judicial Conduct to remove him following the bail-lowering incident.

Unlike most state judges, federal judges have life tenure and can only lose their jobs after impeachment by Congress, a rare occurrence that usually follows a criminal conviction. Duff retired shortly after a drunken driving arrest.

Another egregious example of judicial arrogance in New York occurred in 1975, when Judge William Perry of Suffolk County court had a Marshall bring into court in handcuffs a man who operated a refreshment truck outside the courthouse because the judge thought his coffee tasted bad. Perry was later thrown off the bench, not for abusing his office but for lying about the incident to a disciplinary panel.

Murray Richtel, a state trial judge in Boulder, CO, said a big part of the problem was that judges are obliged to keep a seemly distance from lawyers and others.

"It's a job that's isolating and they are deprived of the opportunity to have feedback as to their behavior," he said.

"You get very little criticism from the people in front of you and you don't hear the truth about your performance. You can get deeper and deeper into a pattern of behavior that's wrong and not even suspect it."

Judge William Schwarzer, a senior federal trial judge in San Francisco and the former director of the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, said, "Much of the misconduct of judges in the courtroom is a reflection of their insecurity."

He added that most people viewed judges as being in total control. "But when you're up there having to deal with attorneys at each other's throats arguing about tough issues, you're under an awful lot of pressure," he said.

Judges who are unable to handle that kind of pressure, Schwarzer said, resort to arbitrary and sometimes foolish behavior. "There are times when you get mad at a lawyer," he said. "But consistent heavy-handed and arbitrary behavior is as much due to insecurity and intellectual laziness as anything."

But Schwarzer warned that some attacks on judges mask a wider political agenda aimed at diminishing judicial independence, as when a politician criticizes an unpopular ruling to win favor with voters.

"Sometimes what's really occurring is really an attack on judicial decision-making," he said. "It's one thing to complain about judges who conduct themselves badly or arrogantly, but it's something else to censure judges for what they say in the decision-making process."

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Sex between Older Men and Teens above 16

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From what I understand it is legal in Connecticut for consensual sex to be legal for anyone over 16.

16 year olds can emancipate themselves from their parents in court in Connecticut. 18, I believe is the age for consensual sex in most other states.

A Hartford Courant Story about a teen having consensual sex with her 28 year old music teacher (below the * * * *).

A music teacher is accused of having consensual sex his 16 year old student. She exchanged emails, instant messages, and cell phone calls- all easily documented. The teacher is charged with a class C felony, up to 10 years in the hole.

Should he have to register as a sex offender like a rapist or child molester?

Why should Connecticut police officers get away with having sex with 16 year olds and young teen prostitutes with no punishments and a teacher is punished?

I don’t condone sex with children, nor the breaking of ethics codes in schools and churches.

I am sensitive to the ways laws are enforced, whom they are enforced against, the consistency of punishments, and who is and isn’t targeted.

I was first targeted for a retired cop tenant’s behavior of flooding my basement with sewage and I faced serious jail time for ‘negligence’ and health code violations for not being able to the messes fast enough when the retired cop flooded my basement 3 days in a row and I had to sleep after having little sleep.

I then got wind Connecticut State Police Officers tried to con a woman into making false sexual allegation against me to not be violated on probation and be able to see her kids. She didn’t give into the sleazy ploy of the police officers and was sent to prison for violation of probation.

I was then attacked on my property during a robbery attempt. Police were right there to arrest only me as self-defense isn’t legal in Connecticut.

So without a record I was sentenced to a year in prison, 3 years probation for having used pepper spray. I read while in prison that a teen with a long criminal record got probation for rape. What!!!???

And, another career criminal, but young, got 10 years probation for armed robbery and NO PRISON. What!!!???

I had been complaining to the former Governor John G. Rowland's Office about Heroin and Crack Cocaine being sold off and near my Stafford Springs, CT, rental properties. I also proposed Civilian Oversight of Police to elected officials. Complaining to the Governor's office and proposing laws directing police powers to serve the public, not just mainly collect revenue, upset the former Connecticut State Police Commissioner Arthur L. Spada. Is that the real reason I was arrested and railroaded to prison?

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Teacher Faces Sex Assault Charges
June 7, 2005 By CAROLYN MOREAU, Hartford Courant Staff Writer (ctnow.com)

WEST HARTFORD -- A former music teacher at Northwest Catholic High School is facing felony charges he had a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student at his Hartford apartment. Matthew Glasser, 28, was the band director at the private Catholic school until he resigned in late May in the wake of a police investigation. He was arrested by Hartford police June 1, and charged with eight counts of second-degree sexual assault.

Although the warrant describes the relationship as consensual, police charged Glasser under a provision of the law that deals with sexual relations between teachers and students. School officials at Northwest Catholic learned of the affair in early May after the girl feared she might be pregnant, according to the warrant.

Michael Griffin, the school's president, declined to comment Monday on details of the arrest. But he said school officials have not received other complaints about Glasser and, prior to the investigation, had been happy with his work with the band and choir groups.

"He always had satisfactory evaluations," Griffin said.

"This was surprising to us."

Glasser was released on $150,000 bail and is due in Superior Court in Hartford today. His lawyer, David Poirot, declined to comment on the allegations Monday, and calls to Glasser's apartment were not answered.

According to the warrant prepared by Hartford Major Crimes Det. Mark R. Fowler, the girl had known Glasser for many years. He had been her teacher at St. Thomas elementary school, but their relationship turned sexual from April 12 to May 3, the warrant says.

The warrant outlines a series of changes in their conduct toward each other leading up to that. Starting in November, Glasser and the girl, who was involved in the choir and class musicals, began exchanging cellphone calls, e-mails and instant messages.

The pair flirted and talked about relationships, in exchanges police describe as inappropriate.

During an online conversation in February, Glasser suggested they "spoon" - lie next to each other front to back - after the girl told him she was upset.

"Aww yes," the girl replied to him in a message, according to the warrant.

In March, Glasser called the girl on her cellphone at 2 a.m. and told her he was in Bloomfield Center, looking for her house. The girl gave him directions and she sneaked out to meet him without her parents' knowledge, the warrant stated. The pair drove around that night talking for two hours in his Jeep Wrangler.

After that, the girl and Glasser met on "two or three" similar occasions, the warrant stated.

Once, after driving to Glasser's apartment at 115 Oxford St. in Hartford's West End to watch a movie, the pair was lying on Glasser's bed.

He told the girl he wanted to "hook up," which she understood to mean have sex, the warrant stated. They kissed but did not have sex. But starting on April 12, Glasser and the girl had sex on about eight occasions, the warrant stated. The teacher told the girl to keep their relationship secret "because he would be in a lot of trouble," the warrant stated.

The warrant does not say who informed school officials about the relationship in early May.

School officials placed Glasser on leave and contacted authorities when they learned about the affair. He resigned a few weeks later.Second-degree sexual assault, a class C felony, is defined in part as sexual intercourse between a school employee and a student.

In December 2002, a music teacher from East Catholic High School in Manchester was sentenced to nine months in prison after she engaged in a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl who was a student at the school.

Thankful Meo-Burt, who was 24 at the time, pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree sexual assault. She admitted to police that she engaged in a consensual sexual relationship with the student after the two got to know each other through the school's music program.

Staff Writer Katie Melone contributed to this story.

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Donald Christmas of the Thompsonville section of Enfield, Connecticut, claims he was arrested after being attacked on his property by a Police Officer's 16 year old prostitute girlfriend. She was given immunity and Donny faced a year in the half in prison no deals for having been slapped from behind and cussed out. (Story)

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A lawyer that I might choose and trust

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The Connecticut Statewide Grievance Committee is made up of lawyers. I think this group of lawyers pretty much refuses to investigate or finds a lawyer innocent of charges no matter the offense.

If Attorney Jefferson Jelly was reprimanded for having a heart and caring about his client, I find that both rare and admirable. Jelly’s caring for a client is very hard to find in Connecticut.

If the Grievance Committee investigating lawyer misconduct in Connecticut investigated Jefferson Jelly, what kind of heinous crimes were committed?

From what I can tell, Jefferson Jelly extended his own money to a client in need of medical attention and that had no money to pay child support. I think the real reason he was punished is he wasn’t willing to make immoral backrooms deals with the overabundance of sleazebags in the Connecticut Judicial and Legal System.

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STATEWIDE GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE

Arnold L. Beizer, Complainant vs. Jefferson D. Jelly, Respondent

Grievance Complaint #95-0164

PROPOSED DECISION

Pursuant to Practice Book '27J, the undersigned, duly- appointed reviewing committee of the Statewide Grievance Committee, conducted a hearing at the Superior Court, 1061 Main Street, Bridgeport, Connecticut, on February 14, 1996 and on April 10, 1996.

The hearing addressed the record of the complaint filed on August 25, 1995, and the probable cause determination rendered by a reviewing committee of the Statewide Grievance Committee on November 17, 1995, finding that there existed probable cause that the Respondent violated Rules 1.8(e) and 8.4(c) of the Rules of Professional Conduct.

The reviewing committee's probable cause determination was contrary to the determination of no probable cause filed by the Hartford-New Britain Judicial District, Geographical Areas 12, 15, 16 and 17 Grievance Panel on October 6, 1995.

Notice of the February 14, 1996 hearing was mailed to the Complainant and to the Respondent on January 4, 1996. Notice of the April 10, 1996 hearing was mailed to the Complainant and to the Respondent on February 29, 1996.

The Respondent appeared at both hearings, and was represented by Attorney Ralph Dupont at the February 14, 1996 hearing and by Attorney William R. Moller at the April 10, 1996 hearing. The Complainant also appeared on both hearing dates.

This reviewing committee heard the testimony of both the Complainant and Respondent, as well as Judith Doucette, a witness.

This reviewing committee finds the following facts by clear and convincing evidence:
In or around June of 1991, the Respondent was representing Harold Langweil regarding a motor vehicle accident and a dissolution of marriage. In June of 1991, Langweil was involved in a second automobile accident, and the Respondent was retained to represent Langweil in that matter as well.

Prior to receiving a settlement draft from an insurance company regarding the property damage incurred in the second accident, the Respondent gave Langweil six hundred dollars ($600.00) to purchase an automobile. Upon receipt of the insurance draft, the Respondent was reimbursed.

During the course of the above representation, on another occasion, the Respondent gave Langweil approximately fifty dollars ($50.00) in cash, after Langweil complained about being unable to make a child support payment. Langweil never reimbursed the Respondent for this payment. The Respondent also provided Langweil with the funds necessary to be examined by a physician, in connection with injuries he had sustained in one of the accidents.

This reviewing committee also considered the Complainant's allegations of misconduct on the part of the Respondent in connection with a release signed by a Joan Watkins, which release is dated September 20, 1990. The Complainant alleges that Judith Doucette, one of the witnesses to the release, did not actually witness Watkins' signature but signed as a witness at the Respondent's request after Watkins had signed the release outside of Doucette's presence. This reviewing committee, however, does not find clear and convincing evidence in the record as to misconduct on the Respondent's part in connection with the release.

This reviewing committee does find, however, clear and convincing evidence that the Respondent provided financial assistance to a client in connection with pending or contemplated litigation, in violation of Rule 1.8(e) of the Rules of Professional Conduct. The Respondent testified that he advanced to the amount of six hundred dollars to his client so his client could purchase an automobile while awaiting a settlement check for property damage relating to the accident.

The Respondent also testified that he paid his client fifty dollars for child support payments. The Respondent also provided his client with funds for examination and treatment by a doctor, and while the Respondent originally testified that the funds were in the nature of a payment to an expert for preparation of a report, on cross-examination the Respondent indicated that he gave his client funds for delinquent child support and for a doctor's visit.

While sympathetic to the Respondent's concerns regarding his client, Rule 1.8(e) prohibits an attorney from providing the kind of financial assistance that was rendered in this matter. The exceptions to the Rule are not applicable in the instant matter. It is, therefore, the recommendation of this reviewing committee that the Respondent be reprimanded by the

Statewide Grievance Committee.

Attorney Alfred R. Belinkie

Attorney Lewis A. Hurwitz

Mr. Neal Jewell

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Telling a lawyer that completely sucks to go fuck himself- priceless

Documents that proves that prove Attorney Michael H. Agranoff is a hack lawyer, in my opinion

A Miner's Canary

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"Like the miner's canary, the Indian marks the
shift from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our
treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, reflects
the rise and fall in our democratic faith."

--Felix S. Cohen,
1953

The Case of Leonard Peltier, Native American Political Prisoner held for 27 years

Our treatment of Native Americans, Japanese during WWII, other
minorities, and the average working Americans is just plain disgusting. When are
more of you out there going to wake up and act for Freedom, Free Speech, and a
Fair Shake for all in America?
-Steven G. Erickson aka Vikingas

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From:
"Connecticut DCF Watch"

Date:
Sun, 5 Jun 2005 07:38:29 -0400
Subject:

[connecticutcivilrightscouncil] News Conference outside federal court house in Hartford, CT on Monday June 6, 2005


From: Connecticut DCF Watch
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 7:36 AM
Subject: News Conference outside federal court house in Hartford, CT on Monday June 6, 2005

On Monday, June 6, 2005, I will be arguing our case before the Second Circuit court of Appeals starting at 9:30 am via video link with New York. I have 10 mins, the State of Connecticut has 5 mins and the other three attorneys have 2 mins each.

In all 50 states, the government has striped and has set aside the constitutional rights of a class of American worse than the 50's and 60's. Not only is this unlawful but in contempt of Constitution. The states along with child protection and the state's attorney lack the jurisdiction to determine what Americans are entitled to when it comes to their constitutional protection.

This new class of individuals are called parents v. non-parents. In other words, if you are a non-parent and you commit a crime against a child and your not related, you are entitled to the full protection of the constitution. If you are a parent and commit the same crime against a child that is related to you, the state breaks the law and not only strips you of your rights, they have instructions for state officials how to violate those rights.

The public and the media does not realize that if you are a parent, you are not entitled to due process, equal protection, rules of evidence and you are not allowed to confront your accuser even though the 6th Amendment gives you that right. You are not allowed to challenge all of the testimony entered into court records or able to question the accuser or the child to see if DCF ask the child to lie or what they may have said.

These civil right deprivation of Americans nationwide is of epic proportion and this case will be a landmark decision that will effect every child and parent in the U.S. Here the states have one group of government officials that are told not to violation any American constitutional rights. But then you have another group of government officials that are specifically instructed to break the law and to violate the rights of Americans who happen to be parents.

The higher courts have stated that it is not relevant if the state is investigating crimes against adults or children, that does not effect the rights of the accused and has no relevance on whether is guilty or not guilty.

The higher courts have ruled all over the country and hold that Child Protection workers are government officials and must comply with the constitutional prohibitions that are placed on all officials. If it is illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional for the police, likewise it is for caseworkers. This is not open for any arguments.



Feel free to call me if you have any questions.

Respectfully,


Thomas M. Dutkiewicz, President
Special Family Advocate
Connecticut DCF Watch
P.O. Box 3005
Bristol, CT 06011-3005
860-833-4127

Admin@connecticutdcfwatch.com

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com

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Getting Tarred and Feathered in Modern America

Did the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights, The CHRO, actually follow up on a complaint of a former Manchester Connecticut Police Officer, Keith Hassell?

U.S. Confirms Urine Touched Quran at Gitmo

By ROBERT BURNS


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WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. military officials say no guard at the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects flushed a detainee's Quran down the toilet, but they disclosed that a Muslim holy book was splashed with urine.

In other newly disclosed incidents, a detainee's Quran was deliberately kicked and another's was stepped on. On March 25, a detainee complained to guards that ``urine came through an air vent'' and splashed on him and his Quran.

A guard admitted he was at fault, but a report released Friday evening offering new details about Quran mishandling incidents did not make clear whether the guard intended the result. In another confirmed incident, water balloons thrown by prison guards caused an unspecified number of Qurans to get wet, and in a confirmed but ambiguous case, a two-word obscenity was written in English on the inside cover of a Quran.


The findings, released after normal business hours Friday evening and after the major TV networks had aired their evening news programs, are among the results of an investigation last month by Brig. Gen. Jay Hood, the commander of the detention center in Cuba. A Newsweek magazine report - later retracted - that a U.S. soldier had flushed one Guantanamo Bay detainee's Quran down a toilet triggered the investigation.

The story stirred worldwide controversy, and the Bush administration blamed it for deadly demonstrations in Afghanistan.

Hood said in a written statement released with the new details that his investigation ``revealed a consistent, documented policy of respectful handling of the Quran dating back almost 2 1/2 years.''

Lawrence Di Rita, chief spokesman for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, did not address the confirmed incidents of mishandling the Muslim holy book. Reached while traveling with Rumsfeld in Asia, he said U.S. Southern Command policy calls for ``serious, respectful and appropriate'' handling of the Quran.

``The Hood inquiry would appear to affirm that policy,'' Di Rita said.

Hood said that of nine mishandling cases that were studied in detail by reviewing thousands of pages of written records, five were confirmed. He could not determine conclusively whether the other four took place.

In one of the unconfirmed cases, a detainee in April 2003 complained to FBI and other interrogators that guards ``constantly defile the Quran.'' The detainee alleged that in one instance a female military guard threw a Quran into a bag of wet towels to anger another detainee, and he also alleged that another guard said the Quran belonged in the toilet and that guards were ordered to do these things.

Hood said he found no other record of this detainee mentioning any Quran mishandling. The detainee has since been released.

In the March incident, as described in the report, the guard had left his observation post to go outside to urinate. The wind blew his urine through an air vent into the cell block. The guard's supervisor reprimanded him and assigned him to gate guard duty, where he had no contact with detainees, for the rest of his assignment at Guantanamo Bay.

In another of the confirmed cases, a contract interrogator stepped on a detainee's Quran in July 2003 and then apologized.

``The interrogator was later terminated for a pattern of unacceptable behavior, an inability to follow direct guidance and poor leadership,'' the Hood report said.

Hood also said his investigation found 15 cases of detainees mishandling their own Qurans. ``These included using a Quran as a pillow, ripping pages out of the Quran, attempting to flush a Quran down the toilet and urinating on the Quran,'' Hood's report said. It offered no possible explanation for the detainees' motives.

In the most recent of those 15 cases, a detainee on Feb. 18 allegedly ripped up his Quran and handed it to a guard, stating that he had given up on being a Muslim. Several guards witnessed this, Hood reported.

Last week, Hood disclosed he had confirmed five cases of mishandling of the Quran, but he refused to provide details. Allegations of Quran desecration at Guantanamo Bay have led to anti-American passions in many Muslim nations, although Pentagon officials have insisted that the problems were relatively minor and that U.S. commanders have gone to great lengths to enable detainees to practice their religion in captivity.

Hood said last week he found no credible evidence that a Quran was ever flushed down a toilet. He said a prisoner who was reported to have complained to an FBI agent in 2002 that a military guard threw a Quran in the toilet has since told Hood's investigators that he never witnessed any form of Quran desecration.

Other prisoners who were returned to their home countries after serving time at Guantanamo Bay as terror suspects have alleged Quran desecration by U.S. guards, and some have said a Quran was placed in a toilet.

There are about 540 detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Some have been there more than three years without being charged with a crime. Most were captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan in 2001 and 2002 and were sent to Guantanamo Bay in hope of extracting useful intelligence about the al-Qaida terrorist network.

06/04/05 08:09

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Does DCF and DSS abuse children, wrongly taking too many away to pilfer more and more federal tax dollars? (post)

Accessibility of the Courts

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Your access to the courts depends on your wealth and powerful political connections.

If you feel you were wrongly convicted or ruled against in court, the transcripts can cost you more than a thousand dollars at $3/page, before you are even able to hire a lawyer and pay all associated fees.

If you have a dispute with police or other officials, almost all lawyers will not want to take your case as lawyer know they can lose their jobs, family, assets, and freedom, like any other citizen that dare question what is now in America, The Legal Mafia- police, prosecutors, and judges acting together ‘to protect the integrity of the system’ while collecting as much revenue as possible. They have a lot of comfort and perks to lose doing something like actually caring about you or justice.

A judge can openly take your kids away and state on the record it is because of your ancestors’ country of origin. A judge can tell you to go out in the hall take the prosecutor’s deal or you are really going to get it without the benefit of a lawyer and it doesn’t matter if you are guilty or innocent.

Judges and prosecutors have judicial immunity. Little that they do is punished unless they are sloppy when they rape or kill or the case of one judge of using a penis enlargement pump and jerking off under the robe in court!

Most judges are former prosecutors and would rather sentence a citizen to death than to expose obvious police perjury or sloppily manufactured evidence.

Piss off someone powerful, be convenient to frame, be in the wrong place at the wrong time, kiss your ass good-bye.

-Steven G. Erickson aka Vikingas

stevengerickson@yahoo.com

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What First Amendment Rights in Connecticut?

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

No. 420 -- August Term, 1994(Submitted: September 22, 1994 Decided: December 29, 1994 )

Docket No. 94-7276

THEODORE KAMASINSKI, on behalf of Himself and Others,

Plaintiff-Appellant,v.JUDICIAL REVIEW COUNCIL, State of Connecticut; JOHN D. LABELLE, Executive Director; WILLIAM S. BROMSON, Chairman; ETHEL S. SOROKIN, Member; EUGENE C. BATEN, Member; SARFIELD G. FORD, Hon., Member; HOWARD J. MORAGHAN, Hon., Member; JAMES M. HIGGINS, Hon., Member; JOHN DONNELLY, Dr., Member; MICHAEL J. DALY, Member; REBECCA S. BREED, Member; RICHARD C. LEE, Member; DANIEL J. MAHANEY, Member,Defendants-Appellees.

Before: VAN GRAAFEILAND, MINER, AND McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.Appeal from a judgment for defendants entered on January 26, 1994 in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Cabranes, then-Chief Judge)* dismissing the complaint, the district court having rejected plaintiff's First Amendment challenge to the confidentiality provisions of the statute governing the proceedings of the Connecticut Judicial Review Council, see Conn. Gen. Stat. § 51-51l.Affirmed. more

A tribute to John Belushi

John Belushi's year book photo

John, the son of Adam and Agnes Belushi, was born January 24, 1949. He graduated from Wheaton Central High School, which is in Illinois, in 1967.

He was very popular, being voted the Homecoming King and Most Humorous. He was the co-captain of the football team and at 5’ 9” tall and 170 lbs, an all-conference middle linebacker known to his teammates as"Killer Belushi.”

While in high school, John did a a variety show in which he played a Nazi camp counselor. His performance caught the eye of Judith Jacklin, who not only became his high school sweetheart, but his wife as well.

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Robert De Niro

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An email asking President Bush and others if our American Justice System is a Sleazy Whorehouse

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Ethics and Rowlandgate

A gag order not to expose corruption?

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1. “No contact with victim, T. Gauvin (DCF) or family”
2. “Physic iatric Treatment deemed appropriate. Including inpatient treatment.”
3. “Take all medication”
4. “Do not post anything critical of the Government without approval of Adult Probation.”
5. “Do not fax any State/Local/Federal Agencies.”

What!!!???

Kathleen Dickson is a former research scientist. She is afflicted with chronic Lyme Disease.

Dickson was critical of the former Governor John G. Rowland administration. Rowland is now in federal prison on charges based on a federal corruption probe that exposed what Dickson was trying to expose in 2003, but received harassment, threats, was committed to a mental hospital, railroaded to prison, and forced to sign a document not to be critical of the government for exposing government and corporate fraud, illegal acts, and misconduct.

What!!!???

A large insurance company is alleged to have bribed and/or influenced numerous Connecticut politicians and other officials into allowing a less accurate Lyme Disease test so that insurance companies would not get a flood of claims. Less people would be diagnosed, so insurance companies would not have to pay out $12,000 per month for a lengthy treatment that actually tackles Lyme Disease. Medications of the ‘preferred’ companies could then put out expensive Lyme Disease medications that didn’t have to be as effective in fighting the disease.

Test kits sold by these pharmaceutical companies are another big moneymaker. Not selling accurate tests means more test kits will be sold …

Ms. Dickson claims that the allegations that landed her in a mental hospital, in prison, and then on probation with a gag order are completely false. If Ms. Gauvin’s allegations are completely false and not substantiated, shouldn’t an investigation of this additional scandal from the former Rowland administration be investigated by the Feds?

After reading 100’s of Kathleen Dickson’s documents I believe she has done absolutely nothing wrong.

Should whistleblowers lose their jobs, homes, friends/family, and the sum total of their life’s work for exposing corporate/government abuse of the public, misconduct, and illegal acts?

Should the rich and powerful be held to different standards and be above the law?

Courts and obtaining justice ISN'T available to average citizens. The courts AREN’T accessible but are merely tools of the rich and powerful to have an air of respectability and legitimacy as they rob us blind and have us railroaded to prison if we the people dare to complain.

Kathleen Dickson's report on some of the Lyme Disease scam on the public PDF

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Frauds and Charlatans?

Links to the Steven G. Erickson saga

The letter I wrote and sent to Bush, almost a full month before I was attacked on my property to be railroaded to prison

My complaints regarding Judge Kaplan

Can Exposing Government and Corporate Fraud and Misconduct land a whistleblower in prison? The Kathleen Dickson saga

Can complaining about DCF officials cause your kids to be taken away and spending decades in prison? Jeffrey Yeaw, the father and cause of a Connecticut goes to court July 15, 2005.

The Letter I sent to former Connecticut Governor Rowland to arrive on his first day in Federal Prison

Complaining to Governor Rowland's Office about corruption like this from 1998 led the corrupt governor and his cronies to railroad me to prison.

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'The Prison for Kids' program

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Corrupt politicians would love to put as many children as possible behind bars.

Here's why