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Sunday, November 30, 2014

UN to U.S.: Come Clean on Deaths In Custody

Regarding the secret arrest and murder of Larry Neal and wrongful deaths of other inmates, the United Nations and I recommend that America take the following steps: STOP avoiding accountability for wrongful deaths in custody, world police. "All we ask of America is to 'Be TRUE to what you said on paper'" (MLK). Honor the U.S. Constitution, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and International Law.
Florida reportedly had 346 deaths in custody in 2014 alone. The United Nations made the following recommendations about in-custody deaths:

DEATHS IN CUSTODY

22) The Committee notes with concern that 958 inmates died while in the custody of local jails during 2012, an 8 percent increase from the 889 deaths in 2010. During the same year State prison deaths remained stable with 3,351 reported deaths. The Committee is particularly concerned about reports of inmate deaths occurred as a result of extreme heat exposure while imprisoned in unbearably hot and poor ventilated prison facilities in Arizona, California, Florida, New York, Michigan and Texas (arts. 2, 11 and 16).

The Committee urges the State party to investigate promptly, thoroughly and impartially ALL deaths of detainees, assessing the health care received by inmates as well as any possible liability of prison personnel, and provide, where appropriate, adequate compensation to the families of the victims (NOT lawyer fraud through The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm, surveillance, financial persecution, intimidation against and censorship of the families of victims, which is what happened to the Neals for eleven years to prevent disclosure of Larry Neal's secret murder).

The State party should adopt urgent measures to remedy any deficiencies concerning the temperature, insufficient ventilation and humidity levels in prison cells, including death row facilities.

The United Nations released its assessment regarding the USA's adherence to the Convention Against Torture on November 20, 2014. SEE WHAT THE U.N. SAID ABOUT OTHER NEGATIVE CIRCUMSTANCES IN U.S. CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES AT:
http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CAT/Shared%20Documents/USA/INT_CAT_COC_USA_18893_E.pdf

It is a Legal Victory that the United Nations reviewed the USA and 155 other nations regarding their compliance with the Convention Against Torture. It is unfortunate that the United Nations found the USA wanting in so many areas, namely, the mistreatment of prisoners in War on Terror camps and in U.S. domestic correctional facilities as well as immigrant detention centers. The USA repeatedly stated during the CAT examination that it finds torture unacceptable at all times in all circumstances, even during war. That should also include the War Against African Americans that has been ongoing for centuries. The CAT examination was aired on live webcasts at the link below.

Quite a bit of the CAT examination focused on the Guantanamo Bay detainees. However, people were not only kidnapped and subjected to involuntary disappearance in offshore detention centers, but U.S. citizens also "disappeared" and were tortured and killed in domestic correctional facilities. The fact that Larry Neal was an American with a disability makes his torture and murder all the more egregious, which is likely why his family is censored and intimidated to hush the matter. We note regarding the Committee Against Torture's Question 17, the USA affirmed: "U.S. federal and state law prohibits unlawful acts that would constitute an enforced or involuntary disappearance, for example, by prohibiting assault, abduction, kidnapping, false imprisonment, and by regulating the release or detention of defendants." Larry was secretly arrested in mid-July 2003 until his death under undisclosed circumstances on August 1, 2003.

Larry's family considers his disappearance a kidnapping, since police refused to admit having the lifelong mentally ill heart patient in custody during the 18 days while Larry was imprisoned in Memphis Shelby County Jail, a facility where he had been arrested numerous times in the recent past. His fingerprints were on file at the jail, as was contact information for his social worker and family members. A missing person report was filed with police but was deliberately ignored, as were Freedom of Information Act requests to the United States Department of Justice after Larry's secret arrest and murder. The same is true regarding a federal subpoena to Memphis Shelby County Jail. We consider Larry Neal's death a murder because police were aware of Larry's heart condition when he was deliberately separated from access to his vital heart and psychiatric medications for nearly three weeks.

Moreover, we consider Larry's death in custody a covered-up murder, because the Department of Justice and federal court for the Western District of Tennessee allowed Shelby County officials and administrators over Memphis Shelby County Jail to file reports that they knew to be false in their deliberate omission of Larry's inexcusable death in custody. Over the past eleven years, extraordinary steps have been taken to conceal Larry's death, including but not limited to, a sexual assault on his elderly mother on her hospital bed, following of other relatives, denial of 911 emergency services when relatives were followed and waylaid by a government vehicle leading four other vehicles, threats from Atlanta police officers to Taser and arrest Mary Neal for telling people about Larry Neal's secret arrest and murder and The Cochran Firm fraud, and DeKalb County police officers were dispatched to Mary Neal's home to order her never to complain to any police superiors about their refusal to address her police reports.

No corrective action was taken about Neal family's frequent telephone and computer takeovers, stalkers in person and online, apparent agents who falsified their identities to enter the Neals' home as 1) a computer repair person, who actually made Mary Neal's computer inoperable except by calling the repair person to notify him that she wished to go online, 2) a woman who pretended to be Hattie Neal's home health nurse to gain access to her naked buttocks, and 3) another female who befriended a family member and arranged to remove court records and other documents from the Neals' home that were apparently perceived to be instrumental in proving the intimidation, censorship, and financial persecution of the Neal family, which ensued immediately after service of their lawsuit against the family's former wrongful death attorneys, The Johnnie Cochran Firm. The lawsuits alleged that The Cochran Firm's colluded with the Neals' intended defendants: Shelby County Jail, the State of Tennessee, and Larry Neal's final care home (not fully understanding the complicity of the U.S. Department of Justice in Larry's murder cover-up at that time).

The webcast recording of the CAT formal review sessions is on this UN site:

http://www.treatybodywebcast.org/category/webcast-archives/

The U.S. Response to Specific Recommendations by the Committee Against Torture
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/100843.pdf

Repeat of Paragraph 1 in this article:
Regarding the secret arrest and murder of Larry Neal and other inmates, the United Nations and I recommend that America take the following steps: STOP avoiding accountability for wrongful deaths in custody, world police. "All we ask of America is to 'Be TRUE to what you said on paper'" (MLK). Honor the U.S. Constitution, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and International Law.

MaryLovesJustice Neal
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Judge Joe Brown Arrested/Released from the "Jail from Hell"

It might be a legal victory for Tennessee if Judge Joe Brown becomes Shelby County's District Attorney General. We hope to speak with Judge Brown about his candidacy since he was released from Shelby County Jail, where my brother, Larry Neal, was murdered under secret arrest in 2003. Judge Brown was arrested on contempt of court charges related to his indignation over how a juvenile court judge was running his courtroom. Fox carries the report at the link below, which includes a video and article.

Judge Joe Brown kept talking as Juvenile Court Judge James Beasley demanded his silence. Judge Beasley started by giving Judge Brown a 24-hour sentence for contempt. Judge Brown said the juvenile court judge had no authority to sentence him for more than $10. Judge Brown said he had already checked that before the court hearing. Judge Beasley continued adding more days to the contempt sentence while Judge Brown spoke until the contempt of court sentence was five days.

Judge Joe Brown might find that Shelby County, Tennessee observes its own code of justice that has nothing to do with what is written on paper. It is a government entity that rallies to protect offenders who are connected, including murderers in the Memphis Police Department and Shelby County Jail. This writer is almost disappointed that Judge Brown did not serve his entire sentence, which he said was illegally levied. He would have seen how much work must be done as District Attorney of Shelby County to influence the county officials and the judiciary there to respect the law.

Hear the courtroom dialog at the following link, IF they let you, or hear it at the FOX News link below.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7OOCl9xjk33MW5fZFI0cDc3T00/edit?usp=sharing
FOX News: "Judge Joe Brown Arrested"

http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/25058951/judge-joe-brown-arrested

FOX News also reported Judge Brown's recent "man-up rally," which was organized to help young men realize their full potential. Judge Brown said his goal is to keep teens out of jail. Since Memphis Shelby County Jail (while under federal overview) can secretly arrest and kill African Americans without giving any accountability for the deaths, Judge Brown is potentially giving youths lifesaving advice.

http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/video?clipId=9974858&autostart=true#axzz2wxLTQBP9

Monday, March 24, 2014

New Requirements for Federal Halfway Houses

The Federal Bureau of Prisons intends to impose new requirements on the more than 200 federal halfway houses throughout the country, mandating that they provide treatment for mental health and substance abuse issues, permit cell phone use and provide transportation so that inmates can pursue jobs, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday. (Huffington Post - March 24, 2014)

It is a legal victory for mentally ill people in federal halfway houses that they will be provided treatment for psychiatric issues and substance abuse. The federal government should levy these mandates for all halfway houses that receive any federal funds, including those where inmates are supported by social security disability checks. More halfway houses should also be opened to ensure the safety of Americans with mental disabilities and reduce the number of inmates incarcerated because of their common, treatable health disability (presently 1.25 million people). A homeless, mentally ill Marine Corps veteran was arrested for vagrancy in February, then he was literally baked to death in Riker's Island Jail. See an article about Jerome Murdough's demise:

Mentally Ill Marine Vet Baked at Riker's Island: AP Blew the Cover-up
http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2014/03/mentally-ill-marine-vet-baked-at-rikers.html

There was a time when I thought we could negotiate a confidential settlement regarding the secret arrest and wrongful death of Larry Neal. I assumed the government and The Cochran Firm would not want it known that a mentally ill heart patient who was a U.S. citizen was killed and his survivors were defrauded by a law firm carrying Johnnie Cochran's name. We initially believed Larry's death was accidental. Not only was Larry Neal's death NOT accidental, but authorities do not seem to mind if the whole world knows that mentally and physically disabled Americans are secretly jailed and killed and that such deaths are covered up. It happens regularly. Apparently, it happened to Jerome Murdough.

Jerome Murdough was a 56-year-old mentally challenged veteran who was BAKED to death in Riker's Island in February 2014, but his family was not told for weeks. Finally, AP notified Murdough's family, not prison authorities or his attorney. The prison reportedly informed Murdough's state-appointed attorney three days after his demise. Perhaps officials and the lawyer had agreed that Murdough's family must never to be told about their relative slow-roasting to death in a Riker's Island prison cell.

Like Larry Neal, Jerome Murdough had suffered numerous previous arrests due to his mental illness before his fatal incarceration. It is likely that officials had contact information for Murdough's relatives in his file. But officials withhold information about mentally ill citizens' deaths sometimes to spare themselves bad publicity and save money on wrongful death lawsuits. That is why AIMI recommends that families physically search jails when looking for missing loved ones. Merely calling authorities and filing a missing person report are insufficient, as police lied when Larry Neal was "missing" for 18 days in 2003. He was secretly incarcerated throughout that time. Larry died in Memphis Shelby County Jail, deprived of his heart medications and likely because of other inexcusable abuses of power. The Neals were NEVER told the circumstances of Larry Neal's death, and we are censored and persecuted for asking.

If not for AP contacting Murdough's relatives, Murdough might have been "missing" forever and presumed dead. That was the likely plan. If only The Cochran Firm had not pretended (under contract) to handle Larry Neal's wrongful death and negligence civil actions, the Neals would have contacted media companies much sooner than WE DID to notify the public about Larry's secret murder. The Cochran Firm swore us to silence immediately regarding Larry's death, which we did not recognize at the time as being a coldblooded, premeditated murder. By the time we discovered The Cochran Firm had secretly withheld our lawsuits while Tennessee's statute of limitations ran, nearly a year had passed, and mainstream media had obviously agreed to withhold reports about the "wrongful death of Larry Neal" (Google it). That is still the case today. As odd as it seems, Murdough's mom and sister (pictured below) are lucky. They do not have to investigate and report Murdough's death themselves. See links to reports about Jerome Murdough by AP and Mother Jones.

Mother Jones reports:

(1) The United States operate 1,800 prisons and 3,000 jails. Like Alcatraz, they aren't about rehabilitation. They're about punishment.

(2) 80,000 people are held in solitary confinement every year.

(3) As many as half of all sexual assaults in prisons are carried out by prison guards.

(4) One fourth of the people incarcerated on Earth are incarcerated in the United States.

(5) We have 2.3 million Americans behind bars . . . they’re held at ADX Florence, Pelican Bay, and Rikers Island, where an inmate recently baked to death in his cell. Baked to death.

Rikers Island is the nation’s second-largest jail system with 12,000 inmates. A whopping 40 percent are mentally ill, and a third of them suffer from serious mental problems.

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Jerome Murdough was arrested after seeking shelter from harsh weather in New York in February. The meds he was administered for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia made the former Marine more susceptible to heat. One can only hope that Murdough was asleep as he slow-roasted in a solitary jail cell at Riker's.

APNEWSBREAK: NYC INMATE 'BAKED TO DEATH' IN CELL
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/apnewsbreak-nyc-inmate-baked-death-cell

Mother Jones: America's Worst Prison Closed 51 Years Ago. Except It Didn't
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/03/alcatraz-anniversary-51-years-ago

Condolences to Murdough's family and close friends. Hundreds of thousands of people of all races and ages who were labeled as being mentally ill were roasted in Nazi ovens before WWII. Our apologies for taking so long to decriminalize mental illness in the USA and give Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill. Our messages to the public and politicians are censored. Human rights advocates at AIMI hope that more care is applied in the future to ensure the safety of America's most vulnerable citizens and that victims and survivors are given due process instead of cover-ups when the system fails.

Citizen: One who by birth or naturalization owes a debt of loyalty to a country and is due protection BY that country (certain exemptions apply). Murdough showed his loyalty to the USA by enlisting in the military, but his protection as a homeless veteran was missing in action. Larry's family shows loyalty by enlisting in military service and paying taxes; however, we were told by federal court order that whatever was done to prevent lawsuit against Shelby County Jail was "immaterial." Certain exemptions apply no matter who is in the White House or over the Justice Department.

Mary Neal, director
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI)
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/aimi
Dog Justice for Mentally Ill
http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com
Wrongful Death of Larry Neal
http://WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal.com

It would be illegal to keep a dog in a tight space 23 hours a day and gas or Taser him for barking. It would be illegal to put a dog into a deadly restraint chair for control. But this happens to mentally ill Americans routinely in the nation's jails and prisons. What happened to Larry Neal?

Mentally Ill Americans Need Dog Justice. Treat mental illness medically, not legally.

Advocate for U.S. Congress to pass H.R.3717 - Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act

Paragraph 1 repeated: The Federal Bureau of Prisons intends to impose new requirements on the more than 200 federal halfway houses throughout the country, mandating that they provide treatment for mental health and substance abuse issues, permit cell phone use and provide transportation so that inmates can pursue jobs, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday. (Huffington Post - March 24, 2014)

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Saturday, November 16, 2013

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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Sunday, October 13, 2013

Forer Explains The Cochran Firm Fraud in CA

Mediator Charles F. Forer explains why The Cochran Firm's fraud against a class of black plaintiffs in California (clients) would not have worked in Pennsylvania. The Cochran Firm had its clients sign a mediation agreement for mediation that never happened and was probably not even planned. The unethical lawyers then fraudulently switched the signature page to a settlement agreement the clients did not know about and had not approved. (The Cochran Firm often works behind its clients' backs to help their defendants avoid accountability.) The outraged clients sued The Cochran Firm for fraud, but their lawsuit was dismissed from California court, and the CA Supreme Court would not even hear their appeal against The Cochran Firm. Why? Because the clients had been tricked into signing a confidentiality agreement regarding the nonexistent mediation.

The first of six(6) links below contains an explanation by Mr. Forer, a member in the Philadelphia office of Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, where he practices all types of Alternative Dispute Resolution, both as a neutral and as counsel to parties engaged in ADR. He is a former co-chair of both the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee and the Fee Disputes Committee.
http://www.eckertseamans.com/uploads/publications/ForerChesterCoBarAssocJulyAug2013.pdf

I would like an explanation as to how The Cochran Firm office in Atlanta was allowed to claim in Georgia Superior Court in Fulton County that it was a locally owned and operated law firm in the State of Georgia - "Cochran Cherry Givens Smith & Sistrunk, P.C. (CCGSS)." CCGSS disclaimed having any affiliation whatsoever with The Cochran Firm (national office) or with The Cochran Firm's law offices in Memphis, Tennessee and elsewhere. Why were The Cochran Firm's defense lawyers, Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, LLP, allowed to present perjury in Georgia courts and defraud the court into wrongly dismissing the Neal's lawsuit against The Cochran Firm by claiming the lawsuit was served not to a Cochran Firm office (a void judgment)? A few other explanations would be appreciated to these questions:

1. Why do The Cochran Firm's law offices contract with people of color and then defraud those clients to rescue police departments and major corporations from its clients' legal actions?

2. Why did attorneys from CCGSS register with Georgia courts and the State Bar as being from Cochran Cherry Givens Smith & Sistrunk, P.C., operating at 127 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA, when no such professional corporation was registered with the Secretary of State's office at any time? CCGSS was not registered as a d/b/a in the State of Georgia or any of its counties.

3. When sued, why did CCGSS falsely disclaim any association with the Memphis office of The Cochran Firm when in fact, Cochran Cherry Givens Smith & Sistrunk, P.C. was actually a professional corporation registered with Tennessee's Secretary of State's office using the same address as the Memphis office of The Cochran Firm?

4. When the Neals sued The Cochran Firm, the lawsuit was served to CCGSS in Atlanta. Why did CCGSS falsely claim in court that it had no association with the national office of The Cochran Firm while CCGSS continued to advertise, receive and sign for mail, send mail as, and answer the phone as being "The Cochran Firm Atlanta"?

5. Why is "The Cochran Firm Atlanta" office listed as a law office operating under the national office of The Cochran Firm on the national law firm's website?

6. Why does The Cochran Firm advertise itself as being ONE of the nation's largest plaintiffs' law firms with numerous offices throughout the United States if that is false advertising?

7. Why is The Cochran Firm allowed to do U.S. Mail fraud, sending its clients false status reports about legal actions the firm is not actually doing? The Neals' wrongful death case file was empty after holding Larry Neal's wrongful death and negligence lawsuits secretly inactive while the Tennessee statute of limitations passed.

8. The Cochran Firm attorneys defraud their clients regularly to reduce or eliminate payouts on lawsuits, especially lawsuits against police departments and certain major corporations. As plaintiffs' attorneys, The Cochran Firm receives a percentage of its clients' winnings. Who pays The Cochran Firm when its attorneys lose a case or deliberately reduce their own income by defrauding clients?

9. By what authority do police deny me the right to inform and warn my fellow black and brown people about The Cochran Firm fraud against its own clients throughout the USA? Police in Georgia threatened to Taser and arrest me for exposing my disabled brother's lynching and The Cochran Firm fraud that prevented justice. Larry Neal was killed after 18 days of secret incarceration in Memphis Shelby County Jail, a jail that Julian Bolton, a Cochran Firm managing partner at the time, was in overview of as a County Commissioner. My computers and phones are monitored and controlled to prevent calls and emails to/from parties with whom police do not wish for me to communicate. See a list of offenses in

"Mary Neal's Oppressive Chemtrail and NSA"
http://justicegagged.blogspot.com/2013/08/mary-neals-oppressive-chemtrail-and-nsa.html

10. Why is protecting The Cochran Firm fraud considered important to the federal government, which was in direct overview of Memphis Shelby County Jail when Larry Neal was secretly incarcerated and murdered there? The United States Department of Justice was in overview of the jail after lawsuit by the USA for its pattern of inmate abuse. Yet, the Neals are denied any information and documents about this disabled man's kidnapping and murder, which federal authorities and Shelby County officials colluded to withhold from reports to the USA. Larry's murder is treated like a national secret.

11. Is the elaborate Cochran Firm fraud that involved collusion among many parties to cover up the secret arrest and wrongful death of Larry Neal in Shelby County Jail and The Cochran Firm's perversion of justice for hundreds of other black/brown clients an example of systemic racism and RICO Act racketeering? Is CoIntelPro still operational today through The Cochran Firm fraud?

See a partial list of its former clients, former attorneys, and law firms that alleged fraud and some filed lawsuits against The Cochran Firm for defrauding them in recent years at the article below:
"RICO Act: McMurray Exposes The Cochran Firm Fraud"

http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/rico-act-mcmurray-exposes-cochran-firm.html

Congratulations to Mediator Charles F. Forer for explaining how The Cochran Firm's fraud against a class of black employees was allowed to elude prosecution in California courts. The Cochran Firm found a loophole in the law and fraudulently substituted the clients' signature page for a mediation document onto an unauthorized settlement agreement. But there is no legal loophole for what The Cochran Firm did to prevent justice for the Neal family regarding Larry Neal's secret arrest and murder in Memphis Shelby County Jail. Therefore, the unethical law firm presented perjury before Georgia courts and disclaimed its own identity, and I have been persecuted, stalked, and censored ever since it happened to prevent disclosure and legal recourse.

Congratulations to Pennsylvania, where attorneys are not allowed to avoid malpractice claims simply by having unwitting clients to sign a confidentiality agreement for mediation. California should close that loophole. Most lawyers would not use it to defraud their own clients, but The Cochran Firm has a fraud operation in that state.

The Cochran Firm gives the appearance of being a continuation of the FBI's CoIntelPro War on Black America - giving the appearance of justice after wrongs done to blacks while actually working to prevent justice. See the video at YouTube link http://youtu.be/Zwdx1ewLBYA and embedded below:

WHY did Johnnie Cochran die soon after announcing his intention to assemble a dream team to sue the United States and major corporations for reparations for slavery and Jim Crow, leaving his firm in the hands of people who misuse his name and legacy to defraud his people? (Six(6) links, one(1) embedded video, and three(3) photos in this article, repeated below because of cyberstalkers)

References:

1. Mr. Forer's Presentation

http://www.eckertseamans.com/uploads/publications/ForerChesterCoBarAssocJulyAug2013.pdf

2. Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, LLP

(The Cochran Firm's Lawyers against the Neals' Lawsuits)
http://www.carlockcopeland.com/

3. "Mary Neal's Oppressive Chemtrail and NSA"
http://justicegagged.blogspot.com/2013/08/mary-neals-oppressive-chemtrail-and-nsa.html

4. "RICO Act: McMurray Exposes The Cochran Firm Fraud"

http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/rico-act-mcmurray-exposes-cochran-firm.html

5. CoIntelPro: The FBI's War on Black America
http://youtu.be/Zwdx1ewLBYA
6. MaryLovesJustice email
MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com

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Monday, October 7, 2013

RICO Lawsuits OK Against Racketeering Police

Judge: Los Angeles Police Department can be sued as a racketeering enterprise

The judge presiding over about 100 federal police corruption lawsuits has ruled the city's police department can be sued as a racketeering enterprise. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Gary A. Feess could lead to a sharp increase in the city's financial liability from the police corruption scandal in which some members of the Rampart station's anti-gang unit allegedly robbed, beat, framed and shot suspects. Legal experts say the ruling is groundbreaking because no police department or major police official has ever been held liable under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act . . . Feess is [also] overseeing the consent decree between the city and the federal government that was formulated to avert a civil rights lawsuit planned by the U.S. Justice Department. More than 100 convictions were overturned. Read the entire article at ABC
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93521

The precedent has been set to go after racketeering police departments and their officials under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply "RICO." Wikipedia reports that RICO is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization. The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them, closing a perceived loophole that allowed someone who told a man to, for example, murder, to be exempt from the trial because he did not actually commit the crime personally.

RICO was enacted by section 901(a) of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 (Pub.L. 91–452, 84 Stat. 922, enacted October 15, 1970). RICO is codified as Chapter 96 of Title 18 of the United States Code, 18 U.S.C. § 1961–1968. While its original use in the 1970s was to prosecute the Mafia as well as others who were actively engaged in organized crime, its later application has been more widespread."