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, May 13, 2015
Judge Guy insists on his non-existing authority to proceed as a Delaware County Surrogate even after being notified that I know of the order of removal to the Supreme Court
Yet, even after being notified that I know of the order of removal, Judge Guy acts pretending that he still has authority as a surrogate.
Today I received an e-mail from the Delaware County Surrogate's Court Clerk Lisa Hulse forwarding to me the letter of Judge Guy responding to my letter dated May 6, 2015 where I asked for an adjournment in the Surrogate's Court, not knowing that the Surrogate's Court does not have jurisdiction over the proceedings since April 3, 2015, pursuant to the order of removal.
In the letter, Judge Guy stubbornly (and unlawfully) states that the case will remain "on the calendar" in the Surrogate's Court, even though it has been removed to the Supreme Court (without my knowledge) as of April 3, 2015, of which Judge Guy has failed to notify me - or anybody else.
Of course, I know, as well as Judge Guy does, that I have absolutely no obligation to serve anybody in accordance to the Surrogate's Court Procedure Act once the case has been removed to the Supreme Court, or follow directives of the Surrogate's Court as to service, scheduling or anything else, after that court has lost jurisdiction over the case, as per court order of Judge Mulvey dated 4/3/2015 (above).
Judge Guy stubbornly continues to tell me that I did or did not acquire personal jurisdiction in the Surrogate's Court pursuant to the SPCA (Surrogate's Court Procedure Act), while knowing very well that (1) he was never assigned to that court in this case, (2) the Surrogate's Court no longer has jurisdiction over the case since April 3, 2015, (3) SPCA no longer applies.
Due to Judge Guy's stubborn unlawful actions the only conclusion that I can reasonably arrive at is that his misconduct in concealing the order of removal from me was deliberate, and that he is acting in this case (not surprisingly, as many judges did before him) as an advocate on behalf of Richard Harlem (son of the retired and now late Supreme Court Justice and Chief Administrative Judge of the 6th Judicial District Robert Harlem) and on behalf of Richard Harlem's client the Estate of Andrew Mokay.
Well, one of the judges who were committing misconduct in this same case, Judge Carl F. Becker, is retiring 3.5 years before his mandatory retirement time.
Maybe, it is time for Judge Guy to consider retirement, too, if he cannot either read, or understand, or follow, even his own orders of assignment.
It is an official big secret - I am not guilty of criminal contempt
As you can read in the order denying the "motion" for criminal contempt, the order itself and papers upon which it was made is a big secret and it is confidential, so forget you ever saw what you saw on this blog post.
But know that when judges and prosecutors screwed up, they try to hide it by sealing what cannot possibly be sealed - a criminal proceeding.
As I recall, recently a couple of judges and a prosecutor begged a court to destroy evidence of their misconduct (texting during a criminal trial), and wanted their texts made on cell phones that were issued and paid for by the government, to be sealed as private.
And they lost.
Here, the court conveniently uses the pretense of power to seal a proceeding that the court knows it cannot seal because of my waiver of confidentiality - as to disciplinary proceedings. The criminal proceedings can never be sealed in this state.
Of course, to say that the dismissal of a criminal proceeding is confidential under Judiciary Law 90(10) is laughable, because Judiciary Law 90(10) does not make civil disciplinary proceedings confidential due to my waiver of confidentiality and applicable law, and Judiciary Law 90(10) does not apply to criminal proceedings, especially to proceedings contested on jurisdictional grounds (with which jurisdictional challenges the court apparently agreed).
And, of course, if the court had no jurisdiction to review the criminal contempt proceedings to begin with (not being "the court of record" and for many more jurisdictional deficiencies pointed out in my Memorandum of Law, upon which the court relied in denying the "motion" for criminal contempt), the court has no authority to seal the proceedings either, especially for no good cause shown.
Anyway, the court has cast me a bone so far, saying - here, calm down, we are not putting you in the Monroe County Jail for 30 days per pop, as Mary Gasparini asked us to do, and there were approximately 7 or 8 pops that I counted, so Mary Gasparini asked the court to put me for 8 months in jail for exposing her misconduct, incompetence and outright fraud, fabrication of court transcripts.
Am I glad?
It is too little and, possibly, too late.
The court cannot give me back my nerves, health and money spent on fighting the frivolous criminal charges. I will not be the same person and the same attorney again, not after being charged with a crazy charge of violating my own privacy - and having to fight it for months!
My trust in integrity of our court system was forever destroyed in how the courts were handling my disciplinary case, including the criminal case that was fabricated as part of it - and the order denying the criminal contempt, but sealing itself, does not restore that trust.
It is a bittersweet victory since the "motion" had to be dismissed sua sponte when it was filed, as clearly having multiple jurisdictional defects, plus it was brought by a prosecutor-witness-alleged victim, which was unacceptable by any canons of due process of law.
Moreover, the denial of the motion came conspicuously only after I demanded that the fabricated criminal proceedings, as well as the already prejudged, premature and fabricated attorney disciplinary "mitigation hearing" that is to be held without a judgment of liability, and without a court-ordered evidentiary hearing be open to the public, and after I demanded that the court should provide to me names of judges who authored "directives" referred to me as if coming from the court by the court's clerk and the court's appellate attorney.
So, the bone that was cast to me has strings attached and is actually an implied admission that the court screwed up - badly, and an implied request not to press farther - and I will.
Of course, the best course of conduct that I would undertake, had I been in the court's shoes (if I would be the counsel advising the court), I would dismiss the entire disciplinary petition of the Grievance Committee, as fabricated and unconstitutional, because then I would have an authority under Judiciary Law 90(10) to seal documents in such proceedings.
Otherwise, all of the court's shameful shenanigans in my disciplinary case will continue to be public.
A judge caught red-handed claims the order he disobeyed was wrong and needs correction
When I found (yesterday) that order of removal from the Surrogate to the Supreme Court, dated April 3, 2015
Of course, Ms. Sanfilippo had no authority to say what she said in her letter to me because the only order she has at this time is the order of April 3, 2015, by Judge Mulvey, and according to her statement to me, she did not speak to Judge Mulvey about it, she only spoke to Judge Guy who either misread the court order or deliberately misled me that he was assigned to the Surrogate's Court case instead of a removed Supreme Court case (different statutes apply).
Apparently, when a judge committed a blunder, a judge may ask his superiors to correct his blunder IN ARREARS in order to save his hide?
What is the most amazing part in this is that the judge is seeking an order of REMAND to the Surrogate's Court, which is for parties to do and not for a judge, and this way Judge Guy clearly stepped in as an ADVOCATE for those parties for whom it is preferable to keep the case in the Surrogate's Court - and that would be my client's opponents, because in the Supreme Court it is too easy to make motions to consolidate several pending related cases, which will further reveal conflicts of interest of politically connected attorneys involved in the whole Mokay mess.
So much for the rule of law, ladies and gentlemen.
And, since we have (allegedly) equal protection of laws in this country, if you do not like an order of Judge Mulvey, just ask the court clerk to correct it in your favor.
Of course, I asked Judge Guy to step down and notified his superior and the New York State Commission for Judicial Conduct of his behavior.
We will see if Judge Guy will ever be punished for pretending he was a lawfully assigned Surrogate's Court judge and attempting to change the order he disobeyed when caught red-handed.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
What do you do if a judge knowingly misleads you about his own authority to decide a case in a particular court?
First, February of 2015 I have filed a lawsuit against the Estate of Andrew Mokay, one of the Plaintiffs in the Mokay action, in order to determine percentage of guilt, if any of my husband, as opposing to the decedent Andrew Mokay as a tortfeasor; and
- make Richard Harlem, attorney for the Estate (and attorney for all Plaintiffs in the Delaware County Supreme Court) to disgorge legal fees granted to him by Judge Carl F. Becker on 7/5/2011 and put the money back into the Estate to make the Estate solvent against the claim of my husband as a potential creditor; and
- to stop disbursing moneys from the Estate, once again, to keep the Estate solvent.
Yet, without notifying me as the attorney of record in the Surrogate's Court case, on April 3, 2015 Chief Administrative Judge for the 6th Judicial District Judge Mulvey issued an administrative order:
That order was ordering TWO things:
The supervising judge Michael V. Coccoma (see my blogs about him and his wife Ellen Coccoma who I caught in committing fraud upon the court and who, of course, was never punished by judges who are all her husband's subordinates) was notified of the removal of the case, clearly saw that the court order was not copied to the court to which the case was transferred, or to the parties in the Surrogate's Court action, but did nothing to intervene and correct it.
I complied, without knowing that Judge Guy has no authority to act as a Surrogate and that the Surrogate Court has lost jurisdiction over the case long time ago, as per the April 3, 2015 order of removal.
David Mokay and Patricia Knapp were served in accordance with the CPLR.
David Mokay was served first by several attempts at personal service, which he ducked, and then by "nail-and-mail" service, after David Mokay's residence address was ascertained and confirmed by his neighbors, co-tenants in the apartment building.
Patricia Knapp was served by a substituted service upon her husband at her residence (and then by mail), which is permissible under the CPLR which governs service in New York Supreme Court.
Judge Guy ordered David Mokay re-served under the Surrogate's Court Act personally, knowing that (1) it was not possible because David Mokay was ducking service and (2) that David Mokay was served in accordance with CPLR at the time when the case was transferred to the Supreme Court and CPLR applied instead of the SPCA (of which I did not know).
After first ordering me to serve Christine Reed on a P.O. Box (which I did by certified mail), Judge Guy ordered me to personally re-serve Christine Reed in "Meridale, NY". Christine Reed was by that time already served by certified mail, in accordance with SPCA 307, as a person whose domicile in New York was not proven and for whom the court knew only her P.O. Box number in Meridale, which was not good evidence that she resided in that town, in the State of New York, or even in the United States of America.
You wonder why the feds have to do the job of the New York State Attorney General in investigating and prosecuting corruption and fraud in New York State government? Because the claimed job of the NYS Attorney General is to protect the fraudsters
Why the indictment was by the feds, and not by the New York State Attorney General?
The answer is very clear - because the NYS Attorney General REPRESENTS the State officials, even when they are sued for fraud and corruption.
So, if you have a corrupt legislator - NYS Attorney General defends him and will raise issues of various judge-created "immunities", "deferences", "comities" and what not - and will ask the federal court, likely successfully, to punish the victims of fraud who dared to file a civil rights action, with paying attorney's fees to the corrupt governmental official, for the inconvenience of being sued for corruption, and represented for free by the New York State Attorney General.
Yet, the New York State Attorney General ALSO has, as one of his duties, to protect people of the State of New York, voters who elected him, from fraud. The NYS AG makes this pledge before every election.
Yet, when it comes to doing his job, when it comes to investigating and prosecuting corruption in the New York State government, the NYS AG's status as the attorney for the corrupt public officials prevents him from doing the job he was elected for.
I bet the public did not vote to have the NYS AG oppose civil rights lawsuits targeting misconduct of governmental officials, on behalf of those officials whose misconduct is the subject of those civil rights lawsuits.
It is time to change the law and eliminate the position of the NYS AG, or to legislatively prohibit NYS AG to represent public officials sued for misconduct in office - because committing misconduct in office is not part of their public duties, and while 80% of taxpayers cannot afford their own attorney, those same taxpayers should not be forced to pay for the legal defense of fraudsters.
As we have it now, the New York State Attorney General is a sworn public official who violates his oath of office as a matter of discharging his duties.
That means - people of the State of New York cannot take care of corruption in their own state government and must ask the feds to do it for them?
A change in the law is overdue.
Monday, May 11, 2015
Mary Gasparini's confession
Dumber and dumber...
Mary Gasparini does not know what all 1st year law students know - that in criminal cases the prosecuted person is a Defendant, not a Respondent. By positioning a criminal Defendant as a Respondent, Mary Gasparini attempts to confuse the court and shift it toward civil standards of proof and civil procedure, and away from constitutional protections required of all criminal cases.
Judiciary Law 4 provides:
§ 4. Sittings of courts to be public. The sittings of every court
within this state shall be public, and every citizen may freely attend
the same, except that in all proceedings and trials in cases for
- divorce,
- seduction,
- abortion,
- rape,
- assault with intent to commit rape,
- criminal sexual act,
- bastardy or
- filiation, the court may, in its discretion, exclude therefrom all persons who are not directly interested therein, excepting jurors, witnesses, and officers of the court.