Thursday, April 12, 2012

[Victims of Court Corruption] The Going Price For a Judge!

 
 

 

We all know the impact the Super PACs are having on who will be representing us in our state and national governments. Most senators, congressmen, governors, etc., are now pretty much bought-and-paid-for by Big Money’s deep pockets. This is largely thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision which found that financial limits cannot be placed on them. Apparently, the Court feels that corporations are "people", too, and therefor have a constitutionally-guaranteed right of free speech. In other words, corporations and fat donors dumping tons of money on political candidates are protected by the Bill of Rights!

This, of course, opened the floodgates: Big Money is now busily exercising their newly-discovered "free speech" by buying up judges, too….


Super PACs, Donors Turn Sights on Judicial Branch

Orlando, FL. Mar 29
– Just before sunset on a recent evening, scores of lawyers in dark suits and polished loafers streamed into the swanky 18th-floor ballroom of a downtown high-rise here. They sipped chardonnay and nursed Heinekens, munched on cheese cubes and made small talk.

The invitation to the event had asked for a “suggested contribution” of $500 to each of three candidates, who were now mingling sheepishly among the crowd. They were no ordinary politicians. In fact, they weren’t politicians at all, but rather Florida Supreme Court justices. Each has been in office since the 1990s, each retained by voters overwhelmingly in previous elections, and each now reluctantly campaigning — for the first time.

While deep-pocketed super PACs and ultra-wealthy donors have attracted plenty of attention in the presidential contest this year, they are also making waves further down the political food chain. The mere possibility that a rich benefactor or interest group with endless amounts of money could swoop in, write massive checks and remake an entire court for ideological reasons has prompted judges here in Florida and elsewhere to prepare for battles they never expected to fight.

The three justices sipping water and shaking hands in the ballroom decided months ago that they needed to campaign early and hard. They saw two of their colleagues targeted in 2010 after the court refused to allow a ballot measure opposing a key provision in President Obama’s health-care plan. They knew the organizers of that effort, angry about what they call “judicial activism,” had promised to step up their campaign and had formed a political organization that by law can raise unlimited money.

The judges were less than excited about having to ask people for money.

“It is almost embarrassing to be doing it,” Justice Fred Lewis said…

Those challenging the judges say their actions offer a way to inform the public and hold the judiciary accountable. The judges say they welcome accountability but want to protect the independence of the bench.

Like judges elsewhere, those in Florida remain rattled by what happened two years ago in Iowa, where three state Supreme Court justices who had upheld a ruling in favor of same-sex marriage lost their jobs after a vitriolic million-dollar campaign to unseat them — money coming almost entirely from outside the state. In the preceding decade, not a single dollar had reportedly been spent on Iowa’s high court elections…

Judicial elections have long drawn the interest of wealthy benefactors, business and labor groups, and trial lawyers, but watchdog groups say they are particularly troubled by a new trend: The universe of big donors has grown smaller and more concentrated.

In a 2010 study that examined 29 judicial races, the watchdog group Justice at Stake found that the top five spenders averaged $473,000 apiece, while all other donors averaged $850. In addition, loopholes in disclosure laws gave those big donors ways to spend money “in substantial secrecy,” the report found.

“Outside forces are becoming a bigger deal,” said Roy Schotland, a Georgetown University law professor and expert on judicial elections. “We’re seeing more takeover of the races from the outside.”

Schotland said state judicial races are increasingly becoming “floating auctions,” in which special-interest groups focus money and manpower in states where they can upend judges they don’t like. “The justices are like sitting ducks,” he said…


I wonder what the going price is for a judge?

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[Victims of Court Corruption] Re: People's Redress of Grievance By Access to Grand Juries is NOT Forbidden



I have been at this now for over sixteen years, but the People just do not understand. The somehow believe that we cannot resist the powers that be. L.A. County Grand Jury Foreman John Sonnyborne said to me that he tried to convince the Grand Jury of the conflict of interest in having the District Attorney present with them as their advisors, but even he could not convince them of the dangers. He told me that especially these senior women sitting on the Grand Jury look down at the end of the table and see a hansom young attorney who reminds them of their own grandsons, and they will never vote to expel this District Attorney from their Grand Jury. The County always chooses the most hansom and personable young men District Attorneys to advise the Grand Juries.

The problem is well depicted within the Bible, "My People are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because thou has rejected knowledge, I also will reject thee." Hosea 4:6. Sure, we keep presenting the truth, as the Bible says, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." John 8:32, but this does not change the dimension, "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved." John 3:19, 20. The whole world perished in the days of Noah because the world that then was did not want to hear his message. "When once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water." I Pet. 3:20.

Ron Branson




Peymon wrote:

Hi Ron,

 

You did into realize that the Grand jury was misled and lied to by one of their advisors, the DA or county counsel that the grand jury has no jurisdiction to investigate judges. It is your job, to use educate the grand jurors on their true powers so that they can act on them to investigate, accuse and indict corrupt and crooked judges.

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Try again. I did. Do it right this time. Use the information available to you at www.JuryPower.Org

Peymon Mottahedeh, President of Freedom Law School

www.LiveFreeNow.org | 760-868-4271

 

“For evil to conquer, good men need to do nothing.” –Edmund Burke

 

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” –Thomas Jefferson

 

From: Ron Branson [mailto:VictoryUSA@jail4judges.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 11:54 PM
To: Peymon
Cc: Ron Branson; art2pat35@hotmail.com; Shawn; david_gilmartin@msn.com; 'Dave W'; 'Mac MacPherson'; 'Scott MacPherson' (scott@beatirs.com); Nathan MacPherson; 'Tommy Cryer'; Larry Becraft (becraft@hiwaay.net); steve@freeenterprisesociety.com; Joe De Clue; joe@npn.net
Subject: Re: People's Redress of Grievance By Access to Grand Juries is NOT Forbidden

 



Hello, Peymon:

I wish to express to you that I received a letter from the Los Angeles County Grand Jury in response to my affidavit regarding the criminal conduct of Judge Fields. The letter stated that they do not have jurisdiction over judges, and that I would have to take my complaint to the California Commission on Judicial Performance. I so did, and they told me that since the matter was criminal, I would have to take it to the California Attorney General. I so did. The Attorney General acknowledged that they were the proper forum, albeit, they just swept the criminal complaint under the rug, and no prosecution of Judge Fields took place.

As you probably already know, Barbie worked in the D.A.'s Office. Two Los Angeles District Attorney prosecutors called me and told me of their problem. What they told me was that they were seeking criminal prosecution against two Los Angeles County Superior judges, and these judges defense, according to them, was that they, being judges, were covered by judicial immunity, and the judge before whom the case was brought before by the prosecutors, ruled they were covered by judicial immunity, and dismissed the case.

Further, I received an annual report from the Los Angeles County Grand Jury, and it says most of their complaints are regarding Los Angeles judges, but that they are not permitted to even investigate judges, much less bring an indictment against a judge.

While I realize, as you do, Constitutionally, this cannot be. Nonetheless, I am speaking as a practical matter, (the way it really is), as opposed to what we know to be the truth. As you know, I am continually telling people that neither law nor facts are relevant to justice within our current judicial system. An example of this is found in the U.S. Constitution, Article III, Sec. 2, Clause 3, "The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury." I argued this in front of a judge in a criminal case, and he said, "Your request for a jury trial is denied." But it was not a request, I was pointing out to him that under the Constitution of which he swore to uphold, he had a mandatory duty to preside over a jury trial since it was a criminal case, and did not involve impeachment. Nonetheless, I did not receive a jury trial. We have to deal with reality, not with what we would like to see as good news. This is what JAIL4Judges is about!
As you cite within the Thomas Jefferson quote, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”

Ron Branson







Peymon wrote:

Hi Ron,

 

Good news! The California Legislature did NOT take away the California grand juries power to investigate, present judges for corruption in office or indict criminal judges.

 

California Grand jurors, under Penal Code, Section 919(c), have a MANDATORY DUTY to investigate judges when they have been accused of corrupt misconduct while acting as a judge. Moreover, the grand jurors have the lawful power under Government Code, Section 3060 to accuse any judge, which appears to the grand jury to have become corrupt in office. This way, the corrupt judge may be tried by a trial jury and removed from office upon conviction by the trial jury.

 

Judges in California have been accused of corruption and fired by a jury trail and indicted for corrupt judicial acts. WE just need to inform them. Go to http://www.jurypower.org/grand-jury-power-mainmenu-29/judges-are-not-above-the-law-mainmenu-34.html for legal details and pass it on to others.

 

There is more on the subject at www.JuryPower.Org

 

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