Legal Victories

Attorneys, judges, justice officials and advocates deserve praise for legal victories, past and present. The judicial branch has a significant impact on life in America. Applaud righteous outcomes in LEGAL VICTORIES blog at http://LegalVictories.blogspot.com ~ Submit cases in comments and to MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com ~ Phone: (678)531.0262. Announce victories yourselves at ~FB https://www.facebook.com/groups/558144604237359/ ~Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/117533221580313557714

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

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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Saturday, January 4, 2014

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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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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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

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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Sunday, November 3, 2013

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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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."