Dr. Mustafa Ansari, American Institute of Human Rights

Dr. Mustafa Ansari

Congratulations to Mustafa Ansari, international lawyer and dedicated human rights defender with 20 years proven record of accomplishments in legal education, human rights activism, and personnel management. He is Dean of the American Institute of Human Rights, and he is Chief Justice of Indigenous African American Reparations Tribunal. Below is a url carrying our interview with Dr. Mustafa Ansari on our "Human Rights for Prisoners March" Blogtalkradio show, recorded on Monday, February 3.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nnia1/2014/02/04/human-rights-for-prisoners-march

Dr. Ansari spoke about CLE classes for attorneys and judges in international human rights law as well as classes and certification for human rights defenders and human rights monitors. Dr. Ansari is committed spreading knowledge about America's human rights treaties and laws (such as EO 13107). Courses are available through Internet access to equip both attorneys and qualified non-attorneys to file complaints directly with the International Court.

Dr. Ansari and the International Institute of Human Rights are anxious to acquaint more people with human rights laws. He also would like for more attorneys to learn International Law and cite international laws and treaties when defending clients and writing pleadings in civil actions. Many justice quests that may have failed in America's courts should be taken before the International Court. Therefore, Dr. Ansari now produces a weekly radio show on Blogtalkradio, called "Dr. Ansari's Human Rights Reports." The first broadcast was Tuesday, February 11, 2014, at 1pm EST, and can be accessed below:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/02/11/dr-ansaris-human-rights-updates

If you are interested in receiving personal contact about the courses, please indicate your interest in comments below or email administration@scholarsofpeace.com ~ Registration begins soon for the 16-week courses for Human Rights Monitors and Human Rights Defenders. Learn more about International Human Rights Treaties that America's justice system is already bound to uphold.

Congratulations to the United Nations and Dr. Mustafa Ansari on your work for human rights for all!

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ACLU's Victory for Native Americans

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) won a legal victory in their milestone lawsuit on behalf of Native Americans. See part of the ACLU's report below:

This week, the ACLU won an important battle on the road toward protecting the rights of American Indian children and their parents and tribes. Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken of South Dakota's federal District Court ruled that a lawsuit filed by the ACLU in March of 2013 can go forward, rejecting motions filed by the defendants that sought to have the case dismissed. The suit, brought on behalf of the Oglala and Rosebud Sioux Indian Tribes and a class of Indian parents, aims to ensure that state courts in South Dakota respect the rights granted to Indian parents by the Constitution's Due Process Clause and the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA). The defendants include a state court judge, a county prosecutor, and the director of the South Dakota Department of Social Services.

Recognizing that nothing "is more vital to the continued existence and integrity of Indian tribes than their children," ICWA's express purpose is "to protect the best interests of Indian children and to promote the stability and security of Indian tribes and families." Why did Congress pass this statute? Because a congressional investigation in the mid-1970s revealed some truly shocking statistics: Between 25 and 35 percent of all Indian children nationwide had been removed from their families by various state welfare agencies and courts. In one state, the adoption rate for Indian children was eight times higher than that of non-Indian children. In another, Indian children were 13 times more likely than non-Indian children to be placed in foster care. These alarming numbers were the result of more than a century of failed policy, in which state officials could not or would not respect Indian communities' cultural and social standards.

Continue to read about the ACLU victory at this url: "Important Victory for Indian Tribes"

https://www.aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/important-victory-indian-tribes

Congratulations, ACLU, for the ruling that your lawsuit can proceed.

(Because of interference, this article is repeated in comments. The comments are prevented from opening on some cellphones. I am America's most censored.) Native American children are frequently removed from their homes and reservations because false charges were levied against men in their households alleging sexual assaults. This justice advocate recently met two families who claim their men were falsely charged, prosecuted in corrupt courts, and wrongly convicted for sex crimes against children that never happened. The cases are USA vs. Juan Rojas and the USA vs. Yanktown4 (the Rouse family). Advocates for these five men allege misconduct by child welfare services, U.S. attorneys, expert witnesses, and some of their own tribal members to channel indigenous men into prison. Hear and read more at the urls below:

"Justice 4 Juan Rojas Blocked at Blogtalkradio"

http://justicegagged.blogspot.com/2014/02/justice-4-juan-rojas-blocked-at.html
(This is not allowed to show as a link on some cellphone views)

Juan Rojas is second from the right in the photo

Janice Howe reports, "Juan Rojas is a 37-year-old enrolled member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe who is currently serving two life sentences for sexual abusing his ex-girlfriend's two daughters. The girls were actually still virgins when examined by the doctor. The expert witness testified that the rape kits were inconclusive due to the fact that hymens grow back together all the time! The ex-girlfriend has a history of blaming men for sexually molesting her daughters whenever a boyfriend breaks up with her. She made these same false allegations against her ex-husband, but her daughters recanted their false statements against their father during his trial. Her daughters were going to recant their testimony against Juan Rojas, also. But due to prosecutoral misconduct, they did not. When their grandmother died, the U.S. Prosecutor, Mikal Hanson, went to the funeral told them that if they did recant their testimony against Rojas, their younger brother and sister would be taken away.

Before falsely accusing Juan Rojas of child molestation, the ex-girlfriend had accused Juan of raping her in state court, and the charges were dropped. Then the feds ended up prosecuting him in federal court for the sexual abuse of her daughters. He was wrongly convicted in a corrupt court process. Please help Juan Rojas regain his freedom." Read the entire article in Justice Gagged blog at the link above.

Presumed Guilty: Group Seeks to Exonerate Four Yankton Sioux Men
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephanie-woodard/post_2126_b_879912.html

The National Center for Reason and Justice, which has mounted successful campaigns to exonerate those falsely accused of sex crimes against children, has taken on the cases of four Yankton Sioux men. Brothers Jesse and Desmond Rouse and their cousins Garfield Feather and Russell Hubbeling were convicted in federal court in 1994 of abusing five nieces who were aged 20 months to 7 years at the time. A fifth co-defendant was acquitted.

BURDEN OF PROOF -- According to Chatelle, the cases of Feather, Hubbeling, and the Rouse brothers display patterns NCRJ has seen before, including the burden of proof shifting -- improperly -- to the defendants. "They should be presumed innocent unless they are proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt," Chatelle said. "Instead, they are presumed guilty and must prove themselves innocent, which is far more difficult." Read the entire article at the url above.

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The Rouse men remain behind bars. The defendants could have taken a plea deal and served a two-year sentence, but the men said they would prefer to die behind bars than to falsely claim molesting dear children in their family. 

Removing children from their families is traumatic. The ACLU article states that in some areas, Native American parents must wait an agonizing 60 to 90 days before they can learn why their children were removed, which violates the Due Process Clause and ICWA. The Rouse children were abducted by police and taken to a farm house to live among strangers without any explanation to their parents as to why the eleven children were taken. One of the children with whom I spoke (she is now an adult) said the authorities promised the Rouse children that if they lied on their relatives, they would be returned home, but they never were. I was told that the Rouse children have since recanted their false statements, and some took lie detector tests to prove their supposed molestation never happened. But the system is making prison profits off their relatives and refuses to acknowledge the men's innocence.

The congressional investigation showed that up to 35 percent of all Native American children had been removed from their families. Many of those removals coincided with wrongful convictions of Native American adults. Hear recent interviews with Rouse family members and supporters:

January 27 interview on "Human Rights for Prisoners March" radio show:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nnia1/2014/01/28/human-rights-for-prisoners-march

January 15 interview with Rouse family member and supporters:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nnia1/2014/01/16/assistance-to-the-incarcerated-mentally-ill
Interference was intense during our January 15 interview for the first 11 minutes, after which time the interference focused primarily on Mary Neal, America's most censored.

An attorney in the Rouse case reportedly said about his clients' wrongful conviction, "THEY DESERVE IT FOR NOT CONVERTING TO CHRISTIANITY." As a Christian, I find that particularly offensive.

Janice Howe has also granted us interviews about her cousin, Juan Rojas. She will join us in prayers for justice on Sunday, February 2, 2014, on the MaryLovesJustice Prayer Meeting at 9pm Pacific
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nnia1/2014/02/03/marylovesjustice-prayer-meeting

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Robin Yeamans: Family Law Attorney, Human Rights Advocate

Attorney Robin Yeamans, a  family law and appellate law specialist, recently granted us a radio interview. She chose to discuss her pro bono work for homeless and mentally ill clients who use the legal clinic where she volunteers her services. Please listen to the broadcast:

Interview:
"Human Rights for Prisoners March, January 7, 2014"
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nnia1/2014/01/07/human-rights-for-prisoners-march

Robin Yemans, Attorney at Law
1484 Pollard Road #191, Los Gatos, CA 95032
(408) 867-8137
Website - http://www.divorcecal.com/

PROFESSIONAL
~San Jose Superior Court, Judge Pro Tempore, volunteer program, 1986 to present.
~Attorney specialist certified by the California State Bar Association Board of Legal Specialization

Family Law Specialist, 1980 to present.
Appellate Law Specialist, 2004 to present.

~Legal Aid Society of Sacramento, Attorney, 1970.
~Sacramento State University extension, Instructor of course titled "Women and Law," 1970.

EDUCATION
~Stanford Law School, graduated 1969; member of the 1968 Stanford Law Review.
~University of Southern California, graduated 1966; Magna Cum Laude Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa.

ADMISSION TO PRACTICE
California
United States Supreme Court
9th Circuit Court of Appeal
Federal Eastern, Southern, and Northern District Courts of Appeal of California

HONORS AND AWARDS
Special Award for Pro Bono Legal Services awarded by the Pro Bono Project of Santa Clara County for leading community efforts to reform family court in relation to abuse of women & children, 1997.

San Jose Mercury News Silver Pen Award, for letter headed "Children must Testify Against Molesters," 1984 (based on my helping a child testify in criminal court).
Reginald Heber Smith Fellowship, focus "Poverty Law," 1969

BACKGROUND
Robin has helped many a child whose parents are tangled in a California divorce law web, an adult who is fighting for custody of their kid, people undergoing the horrors of sexual abuse or domestic violence, etc. While handling cases involving juveniles who have been abused, child custody, sexual abuse and/or domestic violence, Robin has managed over the years to remain caring yet professional, with an attitude like the best of medical emergency room personnel. It is this combination of legal skill and professional commitment that places Robin at the top of her profession.

Read Robin Yeaman's entire background at the website
http://www.divorcecal.com/

It is a Legal Victory when accomplished attorneys such as Robin Yeamans care about justice for our homeless and mentally ill people and donate time to ensuring their welfare. 

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Ken Anderson v. Justice for Michael Morton

Corrupt Judge Ken Anderson

Huffington Post reported on November 8, 2013, that for the first time ever, a corrupt prosecutor was going to jail. "Today in Texas, former prosecutor and judge Ken Anderson plead guilty to intentionally failing to disclose evidence in a case that sent an innocent man, Michael Morton, to prison for the murder of his wife. When trying the case as a prosecutor, Anderson possessed evidence that may have cleared Morton, including statements from the crime's only eyewitness that Morton wasn't the culprit. Anderson sat on this evidence, and then watched Morton get convicted. While Morton remained in prison for the next 25 years, Anderson's career flourished, and he eventually became a judge." 

CONGRATULATIONS to Moton's Pro bono attorney John Raley of Houston, Texas, and all members of Morton's legal team! Raley and Nina Morrison of the New York based Innocence Project filed Morton's motion for DNA testing in February 2005. Raley and Morrison relentlessly sought a court order for DNA testing in state and federal courts until the testing was finally achieved in June 2011. Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley "tenaciously fought" DNA testing for six years before a judge finally ordered the tests . . . The same day as Morton's formal acquittal, Morton's attorneys (including Raley, Morrison, Barry Scheck of the Innocence Project, and Gerald Goldstein and Cynthia Orr of San Antonio) asked Harle to order a "court of inquiry" into the actions of Anderson, who was then a district judge in Williamson County. (Wikipedia). The legal team is featured below.

Anderson defrauded Texas taxpayers of approximately $782,150, the approximate cost for Morton's incarceration (the Vera Institute of Justice released a study in 2012 that found the average taxpayer cost in the 40 states it assessed was $31,286 per inmate per year). Although the former judge and prosecutor was sentenced to merely 10 days behind bars for his crime, he was fined $500 and must do 500 hours of community service. Most importantly, Anderson lost his law license. One might assume that Anderson will now face a lawsuit by Morton. His mugshot is below:

Anderson's mugshot

The Courier of Montgomery County reports:

Morton was charged with killing his wife, Christine, who was found beaten to death in the couple’s bed in 1986. During a 1987 pretrial hearing, Anderson did not reveal two pieces of evidence that would have strengthened the case being made by Morton’s defense attorneys that a stranger had killed Christine Morton.

One piece of evidence was a transcript of Christine Morton’s mother telling investigators that the Mortons’ 3-year-old son had witnessed his mother’s murder. The boy told his grandmother his father wasn’t home when his mother was killed, and he indicated another man had killed his mother. In addition, Anderson kept from defense attorneys a police report about the driver of a green van who had been seen walking behind the Mortons’ house on several occasions before Christine Morton’s murder.

Michael Morton sits beside his mother, Patricia Morton, during an emotional press conference after a judge
agreed to release him on personal bond after he spent nearly 25 years in prison for the murder of his wife. 

Morton was exonerated in 2011 after DNA testing on a bandanna found near his home connected Mark Alan Norwood to Christine Morton’s murder. A jury in San Angelo convicted Norwood in March of killing Christine Morton and sentenced him to life in prison. Norwood also has been charged with the 1988 beating death of Debra Baker in her Austin home.

Barry Scheck, the co-founder of the Innocence Project, which has been instrumental in uncovering wrongful convictions, announced that other cases prosecuted by Anderson will be reopened and examined for hidden evidence.
http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/courier/opinion/ken-anderson-s-fall-a-lesson-for-prosecutors/article_563c4e8e-00ab-501a-87d0-23f846329285.html

Mark Alan Norwood, Christine Morton's murderer

The "ETHICAL RULE ORDER" could reduce prosecutorial misconduct that leads to wrongful convictions. The Huffington Post reports: "All judges, state and federal, should issue the standing "ethical rule order" proposed by the Hon. Nancy Gertner and Innocence Project Co-Founder Barry Scheck. The proposed order requires prosecutors to disclose, pre-trial, all evidence that "tends to negate the guilt of the accused or mitigates the offense." Details regarding the proposed ethical rule order, including all the justifications supporting it, can be found in this article by Barry Scheck."

Michael Morton, son, and first wife, Christine 

The awful fact that Morton's son probably witnessed his mother's murder probably saved him from wondering all these years if his father was her killer. That is not true for many survivors who spend decades thinking innocent people killed their loved ones, while the real murderers walk among us. Christine Morton and those who loved her finally got justice when Mark Norwood was arrested for her murder and her widow was freed. Congratulations, Michael Morton and family!

John Raley, Esq. (right) and his exonerated client, Michael Morton

Attorney Raley's Email - jraley@raleybowick.com

Website - http://raleybowick.com/professional.php?id=13

RALEY & BOWICK LLP, 1800 Augusta Dr. 300, Houston, TX 77057

Phone: (713) 429-8050 | FAX: (713) 429-8045

JOHN RALEY is a trial lawyer with 25 years of courtroom experience. He has tried cases in a wide variety of areas, including intellectual property, legal malpractice, products liability, hospital and physician malpractice, pharmaceutical claims, chemical exposure, industrial accidents, railroad accidents, securities and common law fraud, wrongful termination, malicious prosecution, and general commercial litigation. He has over 30 victorious first chair verdicts, and has handled over 150 mediations as lead counsel. John has defended many cases involving multi-million dollar claims, and as plaintiff’s counsel, obtained multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements for his clients. He has argued many times before Texas courts of appeal, and he took the lead presenting a landmark case before the Texas Supreme Court. Attorney John Raley Discusses the Extraordinary Exoneration of Michael Morton and the Joys of Working Pro Bono at an article called "‘The Most Important Reason We Have Law Licenses," published in the Texas Center for Legal Ethics at this url - http://www.legalethicstexas.com/Spotlight-on-Ethics/Profiles-in-Professionalism/John-Raley.aspx

John obtained his B.A., with highest honors, from the University of Oklahoma, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and played varsity football. He obtained his J.D. at Oklahoma University, where he served as Note Editor of the Law Review and received The Order of Barristers Award. He attended the University of Aberdeen, Scotland on a Rotary Fellowship and obtained an L.L.M. in International Law. 

Nina Morrison laughs with her client, delight with their victory

NINA MORRISON is a senior staff attorney for the Innocence Project who litigates claims for access to post-conviction DNA evidence from around the nation, under both federal civil rights laws and state DNA testing statutes. She also supervises students in the Innocence Project clinic. Ms. Morrison is a 1992 graduate of Yale University and a 1998 graduate of New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Snow Public Service Scholar. See her bio at this url: http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/Nina_Morrison.php

BARRY SCHECK the co-founder and co-director of the Innocence Project, a national organization that uses DNA testing to exonerate wrongfully convicted people and implements policy reforms to prevent future injustice. Founded in 1988 under the auspices of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, the Innocence Project has exonerated hundreds through post-conviction DNA testing.  http://www.innocenceproject.org/

GERALD H. GOLDSTEIN
San Antonio, Texas
Partner at Goldstein, Goldstein & Hilley
phone: 210-226-1463
800-226-6465 (Toll Free)
fax: 210-226-8367
Email Me - ggandh@aol.com

Gerald “Gerry” Harris Goldstein is a nationally known and respected defense lawyer and Past President of both the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and Texas Lawyer’s Legal Legends, has been profiled in numerous publications, has served as an adjunct professor of law at University of Texas School of Law in Austin and at St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, and is a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He is also Board Certified in Criminal Law.

CYNTHIA EVA HUJAR ORR 

Associate at Goldstein, Goldstein & Hilley

phone: 210-226-1463
800-226-6465 (Toll Free)
fax: 210-226-8367
Email Me  - WhiteCollarLaw@gmail.com

Orr has attained national prominence defending citizens and entities in state and federal trial and appellate courts. She is currently the President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (term starts August ’09) and Past President of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. She is on the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Council.

A trailer to a CNN documentary about Morton's case is online at a YouTube url:

http://youtu.be/fY2wyAN3zg8 ~ "An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story"

Congratulations to everyone who worked for Michael Morton's exoneration and Ken Anderson's removal from the bench. It is a legal victory for the entire nation. Wikipedia reports that on May 16, 2013, Governor of Texas Rick Perry signed Texas Senate Bill 1611, also called the Michael Morton Act, into law. The Act is designed to ensure a more open discovery process, effective January 1, 2014. The bill's open file policy removes barriers for accessing evidence. Morton was present for the signing of the bill.
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Morton_(criminal_justice)

It has been estimated that between 5,000 and 10,000 innocent people are convicted every year http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/ronhuff.htm. People who care about liberty and justice congratulate the legal professionals above who helped to correct a major failure in the system and to hold Judge Ken Anderson responsible for his psychopathic disregard for innocence. Hopefully, Anderson's indictment and disbarment will begin America's purging of numerous district attorneys and judges who should not serve as officers of the court.

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Police Murder Cover-up Settled: $1.7m

Jerry Amaro, III

  
CONGRATULATIONS to attorneys John Burris and Jim Chanin for successfully representing the mother and sister of Jerry Amaro III, 35. Amaro died a month after he was brutally beaten by police officers. Amaro's mother, Geraldine Montoya, and his sister, Stephanie Montoya, both of San Leandro, sued the Oakland Police Department regarding Amaro's wrongful death. The coroner's office reported that Amaro died of pneumonia caused by fractured ribs in April 2000. The city asked the courts to dismiss the Montoya's lawsuit, saying the statute of limitations had expired. However, the courts ruled that the lawsuit would have been filed timely if the police had not initiated a cover-up. The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

2. The city of Oakland agreed Tuesday to pay $1.7 million to the family of a man who died after being arrested by Oakland police officers in 2000, a case that a federal appeals court said led to misrepresentations and stonewalling by the Police Department. During the arrest, several officers, including now-Capt. Ed Poulson, used excessive force, breaking five of Amaro's ribs and lacerating his left lung, said the family's suit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.

3. In July, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco concluded that a homicide sergeant had withheld critical facts that could have substantiated the family's belief that Amaro [died of injuries sustained during his police beatdown]. Geraldine Montoya said the sergeant had told her that Amaro had "died in the street" following a gang dispute over drugs.

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4. CONGRATULATIONS to the Montoya family and their attorneys on this legal victory. Congratulations to justices in the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for their righteous judgement!

5.   John L. Burris formed the Law Offices of John L. Burris in 1985, after several years in private practice with the firm Harris, Alexander, and Burris in Oakland, California. He earned a law degree from UC Berkeley School of Law - Boalt Hall and MBA from UC Berkeley Graduate School of Business. He is best known for his work in the area of plaintiff's civil rights over the last 25 plus years and as a legal analyst on Fox, MSNBC, Court TV, CNN and many local television and radio stations. His primary areas of focus for his practice include cases involving police misconduct, employment discrimination and criminal defense. His initial participation with police misconduct issues occurred in April 1979 when he was hired by the Mayor and the City Council of Oakland to conduct an independent investigation into the fatal police shooting of 15-year-old Melvin Black and the entry into the Oakland office of the NAACP by Oakland police officers. He is the author of the book "BLUE vs. BLACK: Let's End the Conflict between Police and Minorities." John Burris has offices at 7677 Oakport St, Oakland, CA 94621. Phone (510) 839-5200. He his online contact form http://www.johnburrislaw.com/CM/Custom/Contact.asp

6.   Jim Chanin is a nationally prominent attorney who specializes in Civil Rights, Police Misconduct, Personal Injury and Business Litigation. Jim Chanin’s interest in police misconduct began over thirty-five years ago when he was part of a group that successfully established a Police Review Commission (PRC) for the City of Berkeley. He served on the first Commission starting in 1973 and was twice elected Chairperson of the Commission. He helped establish the PRC’s complaint procedures and assisted in crafting several important policy decisions relating to the Hostage Negotiation Team, Mutual Aid and the meaningful integration of the Berkeley Police Department. Mr. Chanin’s growing interest in civil rights and police issues led him to pursue a legal career and he became a lawyer in 1977. Less than two months later, he began representing a variety of clients including victims of civil rights abuse and police misconduct, as well as a variety of people injured by automobile driver negligence and other negligent conduct by third parties. Contact him at The Law Offices of James B. Chanin, Esq., 3050 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705. Phone 510-848-4752 ext.2. Email him at info@jimchanin.com

7.   THIS IS EXTRAORDINARY 

8.   Jerry Amaro's family was able to prevail in court because it was proved that police misconduct (withholding information about the cause of Amaro's death) prevented the family from filing lawsuit timely. In the case of the secret arrest and wrongful death of Larry Neal, my mentally, physically disabled brother, no lawsuit was filed timely because of collusion to defraud Larry's family by The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm and Memphis Shelby County Jail/Government in 2003. The demonic attorneys used U.S. Mail fraud to lie to my family about a nonexistent wrongful death case regarding Larry Neal's kidnapping by police and his murder by means that have never been disclosed to his survivors. Police refused to divulge information about Larry's secret arrest and death, and the Shelby County Attorney refused to answer a federal subpoena for records and information.

9.   The managing partner of the Memphis office of The Cochran Firm in Memphis, Julian Bolton, was himself a long-standing member of the Shelby County Commission, which owns and operates the jail where Larry was secretly incarcerated for 18 days and killed. Therefore, The Cochran Firm signed contract to represent the Neals with no intention of actually bringing suit against Shelby County Jail for wrongful death nor against the State of Tennessee and Larry's final care home for negligence. The unethical lawyers kept hope alive until the end of Tennessee's statute of limitations, then confessed their conflict of interest and their inactivity on our cases. Hopefully, since police withholding information on Amaro's cause of death was sufficient reason to extend the statute of limitations for filing a wrongful death lawsuit against Oakland Police Department, the conspiracy to cover-up Larry's death in custody and deny due process of law will also be considered sufficient reason to allow the Neals to proceed with a long overdue lawsuit against Shelby County Jail/Government. 

10.  Maybe that is why this writer has been censored, stalked, and terrorized for years. Before reading this article, I believed the Neals would need to file lawsuit against The Cochran Firm and Shelby County Government, et al. under the RICO Act, which has a significantly longer statute of limitations than personal injury cases do. See in this "Legal Victories" blog an article announcing that RICO Act lawsuits against police departments were ruled permissible by U.S. District Judge Gary A. Feess, entitled "RICO Lawsuits OK Against Racketeering Police"
http://legalvictories.blogspot.com/2013/10/rico-lawsuits-ok-against-racketeering.html

11.  This would be much more exciting news if every court was as honest as the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco was in the Amaro case. However, Larry Neal was murdered in Tennessee, the state where the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms hosted its whites-only annual event, the "Good Ol' Boys Roundup," where vendors sold "Federal Licenses to Kill Niggers" until 1996. My mother and I live in Georgia, a state where some high school children went to racially segregated proms as late as 2011, and where a federal judge dismissed our lawsuit against The Cochran Firm frauds, ruling that the lawyers' fraud against the Neals was "immaterial" (because as an African American psychiatric patient, Larry was "immaterial").

12.  Read the entire San Francisco Chronicle article about the Jerry Amaro case:

"Oakland to pay $1.7 million to Jerry Amaro family"  
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-to-pay-1-7-million-to-Jerry-Amaro-family-2326180.php
by Henry K. Lee at hlee@sfchronicle.com.

"Nigger Hunting License" sold at "The Good Ol' Boys Roundup," 

an event sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Ol'_Boys_Roundup

Paragraph 1 repeated (or stalkers may code this article to skip it on cellphone view. Four urls, three email links, twelve numbered paragraphs, five photos (with descriptions) are in this article).CONGRATULATIONS to attorneys John Burris and Jim Chanin for successfully representing the mother and sister of Jerry Amaro III, 35. Amaro died a month after he was brutally beaten by police officers. Amaro's mother, Geraldine Montoya, and his sister, Stephanie Montoya, both of San Leandro, sued the Oakland Police Department regarding Amaro's wrongful death. The coroner's office reported that Amaro died of pneumonia caused by fractured ribs in April 2000. The city asked the courts to dismiss the Montoya's lawsuit, saying the statute of limitations had expired. However, the courts ruled that the lawsuit would have been filed timely if the police had not initiated a cover-up. The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

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Free Advertising for Attorneys!

Free advertising for attorneys! Write a statement of 250 words or less on either of the six topics below and include at least one citation, and I will read your statement and credit you and/or your law firm on a broadcast at one of the Blogtalkradio shows where I am a member, listed at the link below:

~Censorship
~Mass Incarceration
~African American Inmates
~Unequal Justice
~Decriminalizing Mental Illness and/or Drug Addiction
~Government Spying

New Human Rights Blogtalkradio Broadcasts
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/new-human-rights-blogtalkradio.html

Legal Victory - BATES v. STATE BAR of ARIZONA

Until 1977, lawyers were generally barred from public advertising. John Bates, Esq. changed that. Bates v. State Bar of Arizona, 433 U.S. 350 (1977), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the right of lawyers to advertise their services. In holding that lawyer advertising was commercial speech entitled to protection under the First Amendment (incorporated against the States through the Fourteenth Amendment), the Court upset the tradition against advertising by lawyers, rejecting it as an antiquated rule of etiquette.

The Court emphasized the benefits of the information that flows to consumers through advertising, positing that lawyer advertising would make legal services more accessible to the general public and improve the overall administration of justice.

Although legal advertising in phone books still remains the most popular and prominent in our society, new forms of advertising have emerged. Television advertisements are a relatively new form of advertising and are becoming increasingly more popular. The newest form of advertising by law firms and lawyers is over the internet. Internet advertising helps victims find a lawyer to represent their case. (Wikipedia)

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Congratulations, attorneys, for gaining protection for your free speech rights through the United States Supreme Court. Things have certainly Changed since 1977. Wikipedia reports, "In the top 75 television markets nationwide, 2,000 lawyers advertise on television and spend close to $200 million collectively on advertising." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_advertising_in_the_United_States

Until advertising was legalized for attorneys, law firms relied on referrals. Being applauded in my Legal Victories blog for cases you won, or allowing me to read your opinions and findings about legal issues on Blogtalkradio before large audiences, combine two forms of advertising: third-party word-of-mouth advertising on the Internet - and this is free. Many people are seeking your services, and I want everyone with civil or criminal case to have adequate legal representation. Let's make it happen.

More ideas for advertising your services are offered in "Justice Gagged" blog at an article entitled "Free Legal Services Advertising: Pro Bono" at
http://justicegagged.blogspot.com/2013/11/free-legal-advertising-pro-bono.html

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Legal Victory Overturned re Stop & Frisk, Then We Won!

Judge Scheindlin

***Victorious January 2014 update is below***

Unfortunately, one of the legal victories reported in this blog has been overturned on appeal. The NY Court of Appeals ruled Stop & Frisk racial profiling is A-OK! Furthermore, Judge Scheindlin, who ruled the practice unconstitutional, was removed.

"Of course it is acceptable to harass blacks and Latinos in New York. Carry on." 

(Reuters, Oct. 31, 2013) - A U.S. appeals court froze court-ordered reforms to the New York City Police Department's controversial stop-and-frisk program and removed the judge who found the police tactic unconstitutional, alleging that she "ran afoul" of the judicial code of conduct.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/31/us-usa-newyork-stopandfrisk-ruling-idUSBRE99U1A120131031

We congratulate Judge Scheindlin for trying to right a tremendous wrong. We further congratulate litigants who sued to end racial profiling and police officers who helped to expose how oppressive Stop & Frisk is. One such police officer speaks on a YouTube video at http://youtu.be/tt4O62_VXs4  (embedded below). He revealed that the quota for police officers in New York is one 1 arrest, 20 summons, and 5 stop and frisks. The police officer said, "This is not what I became a cop for - this is not what I want to do."

Legal Victories reported the ruling by Judge Scheindin in an article published in August entitled "Ruling Against Stop & Frisk - American Apartheid."
http://legalvictories.blogspot.com/2013/08/ruling-against-stop-frisk-laws-american.html

UPDATE

Mayor de Blasio announces New York's stop-and-frisk appeal is on hold
Mayor Bloomberg’s administration had sought to appeal Judge Shira Scheindlin’s ruling, which stated the NYPD had abused its power. But de Blasio is working to settle the case out of court.

"We believe these steps will make everyone safer," de Blasio told a Brooklyn news conference. "This will be one city where everyone rises together, where everyone’s rights are protected."
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/new-york-stop-fighting-stop-and-frisk-article-1.1596610#ixzz2ubS9PY9J

Mayor Says New York City Will Settle Suits on Stop-and-Frisk Tactics
“We’re here today to turn the page on one of the most divisive problems in our city,” Mr. de Blasio said at a news conference. “We believe in ending the overuse of stop-and-frisk that has unfairly targeted young African-American and Latino men.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/nyregion/de-blasio-stop-and-frisk.html

Bill de Blasio's Video Announcement with Commentary by Al Sharpton
http://youtu.be/LKV6tnEDwK4

Congratulations, New York!
  

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