Sunday, December 20, 2009

federal prosecutor in contempt of court

All parties in our case have been prohibited from engaging in pretrial public statements on the internet. The order which was originally brought before the Judge by the Governments attorneys.

The Judges court order also mandated that all the press releases mentioning Carrie and Guy Neighbors name and case be removed from the DOJ press release page. Including all press releases about Jim Ludwig and Louis Parsons. The Judges words in court were that "From now on we will litigate this case in a court room where both sides will have an oportunity to defend themselves".
The Prosecutor has conspired with police officers and forever taken away that right that was "promised" to me by the Judge in this case.

This false press release that was aired on WIBW 13 news, various other news channels, news papers both online and in print, and on the DOJ website is a deliberate and calculated act of Federal obstruction of Justice,and is a direct violation of the court order; in contempt of court and has the potential to damage my presumption of innocense and my Constitutional right to a fair trial. Even absent of the court order the Governments Attorney's right to publish prejudicial press releases in a pending case close to trial, is limited outside the courtroom, see, e. g., Sheppard v. Maxwell, 384 U.S. 333, 363. Cf. Seattle Times Co. v. Rhinehart, 467 U.S. 20.

If the Prosecutor and cops are allowed to continue to destroy my rights as the accused no one should consider himself safe from the law that once stood to protect us all. With this press release the Prosecutor has turned my presumption of innocense into a joke and police have been bragging about its potential to shut me down by the end of the week; all week!
In Gentile v. State Bar of Nevada 501 US 1030; The Supreme court sites Rule 177, which prohibits a lawyer from making extrajudicial statements to the press that he knows or reasonably should know will have a "substantial likelihood of materially prejudicing" an adjudicative proceeding.

The unproven allegations are flimsy and the witnesses are purchased. Even if I were wrongfully proven guilty there are no known victims in the case.
Allowing the prosecutors actions in this case is resulting in the wrongful destruction of my rights as an American Citizen, making the entire judicial system charged with the duty to secure my constitutional protections a failure.

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