THE EVOLUTION OF JUDICIAL TYRANNY IN THE UNITED STATES:

"If the judges interpret the laws themselves, and suffer none else to interpret, they may easily make, of the laws, [a shredded] shipman's hose!" - King James I of England, around 1616.

“No class of the community ought to be allowed freer scope in the expression or publication of opinions as to the capacity, impartiality or integrity of judges than members of the bar. They have the best opportunities of observing and forming a correct judgment. They are in constant attendance on the courts. Hundreds of those who are called on to vote never enter a court-house, or if they do, it is only at intervals as jurors, witnesses or parties. To say that an attorney can only act or speak on this subject under liability to be called to account and to be deprived of his profession and livelihood by the very judge or judges whom he may consider it his duty to attack and expose, is a position too monstrous to be entertained for a moment under our present system,” Justice Sharwood in Ex Parte Steinman and Hensel, 95 Pa 220, 238-39 (1880).

“This case illustrates to me the serious consequences to the Bar itself of not affording the full protections of the First Amendment to its applicants for admission. For this record shows that [the rejected attorney candidate] has many of the qualities that are needed in the American Bar. It shows not only that [the rejected attorney candidate] has followed a high moral, ethical and patriotic course in all of the activities of his life, but also that he combines these more common virtues with the uncommon virtue of courage to stand by his principles at any cost.

It is such men as these who have most greatly honored the profession of the law. The legal profession will lose much of its nobility and its glory if it is not constantly replenished with lawyers like these. To force the Bar to become a group of thoroughly orthodox, time-serving, government-fearing individuals is to humiliate and degrade it.” In Re Anastaplo, 18 Ill. 2d 182, 163 N.E.2d 429 (1959), cert. granted, 362 U.S. 968 (1960), affirmed over strong dissent, 366 U.S. 82 (1961), Justice Black, Chief Justice Douglas and Justice Brennan, dissenting.

" I do not believe that the practice of law is a "privilege" which empowers Government to deny lawyers their constitutional rights. The mere fact that a lawyer has important responsibilities in society does not require or even permit the State to deprive him of those protections of freedom set out in the Bill of Rights for the precise purpose of insuring the independence of the individual against the Government and those acting for the Government”. Lathrop v Donohue, 367 US 820 (1961), Justice Black, dissenting.

"The legal profession must take great care not to emulate the many occupational groups that have managed to convert licensure from a sharp weapon of public defense into blunt instrument of self-enrichment". Walter Gellhorn, "The Abuse of Occupational Licensing", University of Chicago Law Review, Volume 44 Issue 1, September of 1976.

“Because the law requires that judges no matter how corrupt, who do not act in the clear absence of jurisdiction while performing a judicial act, are immune from suit, former Judge Ciavarella will escape liability for the vast majority of his conduct in this action. This is, to be sure, against the popular will, but it is the very oath which he is alleged to have so indecently, cavalierly, baselessly and willfully violated for personal gain that requires this Court to find him immune from suit”, District Judge A. Richard Caputo in H.T., et al, v. Ciavarella, Jr, et al, Case No. 3:09-cv-00286-ARC in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Document 336, page 18, November 20, 2009. This is about judges who were sentencing kids to juvenile detention for kickbacks.

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

The vacant Town of Hamden's Tax Assessor Seat and the Aggressive Felon Taggart: I DO NOT WANT MY FELONY CONVICTION RECORDS SHOWN TO THE PUBLIC - HERE, MY DARLING


I challenged in court - Neroni v Delaware County, EF2025-447 - LEGALITY of ALL tax assessments in the Town of Hamden this year.

WHY?

Because there is no tax assessor to make them - as a matter of law.

WHY?

Because Public Officers Law Section 30 makes it clear that a public office becomes VACANT - as if "nobody is occupying it" - on conviction of the occupier of that public office for a felony.

And, the Town of Hamden's (NY) Tax Assessor office is occupied by a convicted felon Katherine Covell/Taggart.

Hamden Town Supervisor Marshfield addressed that issue publicly - as covered by the local press - deciding to do what Delaware County Court refused to do - lift associated disabilities or seal the conviction records.

Well, Marshfield is not authorized by law to do it.

Taggart - aggressively - is moving in court to (1) strike any mentioning of her felony conviction as "prejudicial" and "scandalous", and (2) sanction me heavily, with monetary sanctions and a bar on access to court - and I am a journalist, my newsgathering by FOIL requests is, as Taggart and her counsel Frank W. Miller of Hancock Estabrook LLP know well, depends on vindication of denials of FOIL requests through Article 78 proceedings, which I may need to bring frequently, as many as there are denials of FOILs.

I do not know what the judge will decide.  And it is irrelevant to what I am going to do here.

A COURT DECISION, a PUBLIC COURT DECISION, and PUBLIC COURT RECORDS of felony conviction of a public official that resulted in a VACANCY in a public office throughout the period that Taggart, with Marshfield's help, was trying to usurp it - are what they are: PUBLIC RECORDS.

So here we go: I PUBLISH THEM.  You can read them here.

And yes, it IS scandalous, not-so-dear Ms. Taggart, the usurper of Town of Hamden Tax Assessor's office drawing a salary of $25,000.00 a year UNLAWFULLY at MY expense, too.

It is scandalous that you killed a human being, a young father of two children while driving drunk.

You were given a slap on the wrist for it - just 4 months in jail - by a judge who you "shadowed" - notably, Dick Northrup, the then-DA, recused, but not Becker, never Becker.

The mother of the killed man made a victim statement at the sentencing - reported contemporaneously by the local press - that you were NOT rehabilitated, that you were seen drunk AGAIN during the period leading to your plea allocution and sentencing.

You have no morals and no conscience and no integrity to have done that.

You should not occupy the public office of Town of Hamden Tax Assessor - more so that you are ALSO a REAL ESTATE BROKER, so the raising of taxes fills your pocket much more than taxpayer-backed salary does - through elevated REAL ESTATE COMMISSIONS.


The law requires you to disclose disqualifying conditions and disqualifying conflicts of interest, not - as you are doing - HIDE it and try to QUASH it and try to PUNISH THE MESSENGER.

You MAY NOT - as a matter of law - occupy the seat of Town of Hamden (NY) Tax Assessor.

You MAY NOT receive that salary.  

And whoever is elected instead of Marshfield must BOOT you and REQUIRE you to reimburse the Town taxpayers with whatever you were paid.

Buyers and sellers of real estate in the Town of Hamden, beware of what is going on:  as a tax assessor, Taggart can and does DRAMATICALLY raise taxes through raised tax assessments.

As a real estate broker, she BENEFITS from raised commissions - from ALL sales in the Town of Hamden, NY.

This type of conflict of interest is in addition to the fact that AT NO TIME Taggart was allowed by law to take that public office in the first place, due to her felony conviction, resulting in a VACANT office of tax assessor in the Town of Hamden this year and all the legal consequences that come with it - which Town of Hamden property owners and taxpayers are welcome to explore with their own lawyers.

The financial benefit Taggart gets from her public office disqualifies her absolutely even had she had a right to occupy that office in the first place - which she does not, by operation of Public Officers Law Section 30.

As to the destiny of Town's tax assessments this year by a hole in the Tax Assessor's office - it is in court already.  I am doing it not only for myself.  I am doing it for all Town of Hamden, NY property owners and taxpayers.



 

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