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.


Friday, April 29, 2016

The Oklahoma legislation is going to fix what didn't need to be fixed, but was undermined by a judicial decision - the forcible sodomy statute

I wrote yesterday about five judges who made life unsafe and dangerous in Oklahoma by a unanimous 2-page decision interpreting the Oklahoma criminal forcible sodomy law as not including the situations when the victim is intoxicated or unconscious.

The statute, in fact, does have in it an element of lack of consent when the person's mind is unsound (that includes, for any reasonable mind, temporary unsoundness through intoxication or unconsciousness).

The 5 judges, as I wrote in my yesterday's blog, are all very "accomplished", they are all portrayed in their biographies as brilliant lawyers, scholars and jurists.

In other words, they are definitely not dumb and they certainly can read.

And if, after they read the statute that includes a provision for "unsoundness of mind", they still ruled - unanimously - that intoxication or unconsciousness of the victim is not included into that statute, one needs to look for answers for that decision deeper - and I hope that the FBI should look into the possible case of corruption, and not necessarily by relatives of the defendant.

There may be some high-ranking perv somewhere, caught for the same thing, who needed protection - and got it.

In any event, the Oklahoma Legislature reacted to this collective act of judicial unsoundness of minds (or corruption) by publicly announcing that they will fix the perceived gap in the criminal forcible sodomy laws.

The sad part about it is that - it didn't need fixing, and more taxpayer money will be poured into the hole, simply because some supposedly "brilliant" public servants would not do their jobs properly. 

 


Thursday, April 28, 2016

By ruling that forcible sodomy laws do not apply to intoxicated or unconscious victims, Oklahoma was turned into a dangerous place for residents and visitors

In a disturbing ruling, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals declined to "enlarge the statute" for forcible sodomy, and declined to apply the forcible sodomy statute to victims who are intoxicated or unconscious.

Here is the decision.

Here is the statute:


The court claimed that none of the 5 factors enumerated in the statute are applicable when the victim is intoxicated or unconscious.

It happens rarely, but my personal opinion here is that the ruling is incorrect, and not just on the emotional level.

Subsection (B)(2) clearly includes into the crime of forcible sodomy a "sodomy committed upon a person incapable through mental illness or any other unsoundness of mind of giving legal consent regardless of the age of the person committing the crime".

Both or either intoxication and unconsciousness can be argued to be temporary unsoundness of mind. 

What was created in Oklahoma is a dangerous precedent encouraging rapists to get their victims drunk in order to escape criminal liability.

And that's definitely not the legislative purpose of the statute.

Oklahoma has become a dangerous state.  With just one 2-page decision by these five judges:


Here are the judges who made the decision.





 Judge Clancy Smith:




Judge Gary L. Lumpkin:










All of these 5 people unanimously concurred in ruling that intoxication or unconsciousness does not fall under temporary unsoundness of mind preventing consent to sodomy - that's oral or anal sex without consent.

Unanimously.

I understand the concept of judicial restraint and unwillingness to legislate from the bench.

Yet, here this concept was completely uncalled for.

These 5 people left residents and visitors of Oklahoma unsafe to sexual assaults if they are in a helpless condition.

These 5 people also gave an opportunity for really sick crimes to be committed - because such an approach does not take into consideration as to who rendered the person intoxicated or unconscious.

These 5 judges put together a defense for really sick individuals to first lace the drink or get a person drunk, or beat the person unconscious - and THEN rape him or her.

The sick birds on the street are no thinking - "we've got a free ride" out of prison.

Think about it - with those shining biographies.

Those careers.

A high school.

A college.

A law school.

Career as a lawyer.

Career as a judge.

FIVE PEOPLE, all educated as lawyers and judges - could not READ and understand that "unsound of mind" applies to unconsciousness or intoxication.

Unanimously they could not read that?

Or, another, more sinister explanation may be that they know there is some pervert in their ranks who is afraid for the statute to be - soon - applied to him and her, and they unanimously protect that pervert by their decision?

It is not very often that I think prosecution in a criminal case is right.

Here - at least as a matter of law, without going into the case's facts - it is.

The prosecutor stated that the court's decision is "insane, dangerous and offensive".    I couldn't agree more.





Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Honesty of the local law enforcement personnel in Delaware County, New York, is governed by insurance policy

Now that all the foaming accusations against me subsided for alleging the unthinkable - that local law enforcement personnel and firefighters may be committing misconduct in non-extinguishing and non-investigation of the house of a local critic of governmental misconduct Barbara O'Sullivan, I will publish a portion of a document that I actually received on April 26, 2016 from Delaware County in response to my FOIL request.

That's a portion of Delaware County liability insurance policy for actions of its law enforcement personnel.

The policy is pretty standard and, I am sure, a similar policy covers actions of firefighters.

Here is the interesting portion that I would like to share (I will analyze the policy in a separate blog, probably, tomorrow):



There were a lot of people who, based on their emotional attachments to individuals working in the local law enforcement and the Delhi Fire Department, defended their loved ones to the point of casting ugly allegations against the victims in Barbara O'Sullivan's house fire, as well as against her daughter, her extended family, me who reported the case, misconduct of the law enforcement and firefighters included, and even against my husband who has nothing to do with reporting of Barbara O'Sullivan's house fire story.  

Those relatives , driven by their emotional attachment to their loved ones, were telling me that "they know", even though they were never at the scene of the fire, because "they know" their husbands, or boyfriends, or former comrades-in-arms, and "they know" that those loved ones or comrades "can never" and "they are not liars", and because of that, I am the liar, and I need to have my head checked out, and to relearn the law (why I need to relearn the law in journalism, I don't know), and all other nice things that I need to do, including apologize to the Fire Department.

I won't apologize.

Read the liability policy of Delaware County regarding its law enforcement personnel.

It is pretty standard policy, I am sure.

Just read it.

The insurance policy says, in black and white, that "the insured" "shall not" (that is a prohibition) "admit any liability" or "assume any obligation".

Do you know what that means?

It means that Delaware County law enforcement personnel is PROHIBITED to tell the truth and "admit a liability" or "assume an obligation" - in other words, they are PROHIBITED to say - YES, I caused a bodily injury of this person, or "I neglected my duties and caused injury to a person or property".

They are prohibited to say that.

You can read the full text of the insurance policy here.

And, even though I will be requesting a separate policy as to firefighters, I am pretty sure that it will say the same.

So much for the claimed honesty.

Just saying...





The demographics of the rural Otsego and Delaware County, New York - people are leaving, while the government is growing

Yes, yes, yes, I know, there is small lies, big lies and statistics.

Statistics may be manipulated, may be forged and fabricated, that's true.

But, when many business decisions are independently made by various businesses and local governments based on demographic statistics, such statistics must be true.

People who want to make money will not turn money down based on fake statistics - they will research.

And Fox Hospital from Oneonta, NY did its research of demographics in the area.

And is closing its maternity services that were serving Otsego and Delaware Counties.

Not enough babies being born is cited as the reason.


Oneonta, NY, by the way, is located right on Interstate-88, while Cooperstown, NY is reachable only by one-lane county roads that can be tough to navigate in winter.

This is the second maternity hospital that closed in the area within the last 10 years - after the maternity wing in Delaware Valley Hospital in Walton, New York.

Delaware Valley maternity hospital (where my teenage son was born) served rural community in Delaware County for years - and served it well.  

Delaware Valley had only two labor rooms in the entire hospital.  When I was giving birth there, it was the only birth for 2 days.

Finally, Delaware Valley considered it not cost-efficient to continue to run its "labor and delivery" services in an area with dwindling population - where an entire elementary school building, the Abraham Kellogg Elementary School, had to be closed in 2008 and sold by the Delaware County School District because there were no children left to fill that building.


Fox is not the business or entity taking notice of dwindling population in the area.


Which is quite an extraordinary event, considering that just this past November the so-called "Pool Committee" has decided to "go forward" with construction, and was soliciting bids - and donations for such a construction, and that donations are being solicited to this day.

By the way, even though the pool is not going to be built, at least in the original scale, at least at this time (looks like ever), and even though the decision that bids are not approved has already been announced on January 16, 2016, that announcement did not appear on the "Pool Committee"'s website, and the website still has the "Donate" button as of today.


So, I wonder where all of those donations already collected are going.

Once again - on November 4, 2015 (the day of elections, by the way), there was a "go ahead" press release soliciting written bids and donations from the public.  It was like a plea - RE-ELECT ME NOW!  We brought this great project about.

On November 15, 2015 the Town of Delhi, NY published the invitation for bidding for construction of the pool (issued, curiously, 6 days prior, but for some reason not immediately published - why? "the near and dear" to the Town officials' hearts were first notified in a private setting?).

On December 11, 2015 there was an announcement on the Facebook page of the Pool Committee - but not on its main webpage - that "a legal snafu has caused a delay in the bidding process".



The latest "news" on the Delhi Pool Committee's main webpage remain this - those who know the location will see the playground in the back dwarfed by the "project" that was to be built in the area usually flooded by the West Branch of the Delaware River (I lived in Delhi, NY for 17 years, experienced such floods and saw this particular spot as a lake with ducks instead of people swimming all over it):


If you click the "read more" little red words, this opens:


In early January of 2016, bids for construction of the pool (two) came "too high", and the Pool Committee together with the Town of Delhi and the State of New York (that participated with a grant) is now considering a "scale-down" of the project - without notifying its readers on either their main webpage or on the Facebook page, and while continuing to invite donations, even though there is no assurance that the pool-building project will ever go ahead.

The interesting part is that there are no suggestions to collect more donations - only to "scale down" the project.  No people to "serve", it's starting to dawn, right?

And boy do they have to "consider" a scale-down - with the schools having to close and maternity hospitals in the area having to close - because people are leaving the area, with children in tow - who would come to use this "project"?

It will be an "attractive nuisance" and a liability for the remaining Delhi Town taxpayers, it will require a lot of funds for upkeep and garbage removal, it can be overrun by recurrent floods in the area, but it is doubtful that it will be "serving" a lot of people.

It is very obvious that, based on the facts of 

  • schools that are closing for lack of children,
  • maternity hospitals, even in a relatively large college towns, are closing;
  • "scalings-down" of major "community projects"

population in Otesgo and Delaware County is flying out.

In droves.

Which brings me to the question:

what will happen to the budgets of:

  • The school districts - when there are less children to teach;
  • Social Services - where there are less families to supervise;
  • Police and District Attorney's offices - where there are less people to commit crimes;
  • the Court system - where there are less cases to be brought voluntarily by local residents, and by social services and the District Attorney?

So far, the process was in reverse to the population dynamics.

There is a huge inflated budget of Delaware County Department of Social services - that, of course, has to feed: 

In July of 2015, a new, fourth prosecutor, was authorized for the Delaware County District Attorney's Office, see here and here.

In other words - while people are leaving the State of New York, and the rural counties, which is shown by business decisions to close schools, maternity hospitals and ditch the much-promoted swimming pool project, the "demographics" of the local government goes in reverse - it grows, salaries of officials grow, numbers of officials (judges, prosecutors) grow.

Why? 

Because these people will not survive outside of the government, in an honest self-made business?

They need taxpayers as captive cash cows to subsidize them?

Watch out, Delaware County taxpayers, as well as Delhi Village and Town taxpayers, for any increases of levies or taxes.

The parasites in the local government need the money of the remaining captive cash cows, the taxpayers, to survive, thrive and feed their clans.

Say "no" to the growing local budgets.

They have no basis to ask for growth.

And - I will run a separate blog on the unfunded increase of the salaries of local County District Attorneys, as well as a separate blog about the alleged "budget savings" recently reported by the Delaware County Department of Social Services.

Stay tuned.









Attorney misconduct of the Florida Bar in prosecuting attorney misconduct - what else is new

I've just submitted (two days ago) a motion for rehearing of my constitutional appeal as of right in my disciplinary case, the last step before going to the U.S. Supreme Court.

I will publish the entire motion and comment on it in a separate blog, today or tomorrow.

One of the prominent issues in my case was misconduct of New York State disciplinary authority in prosecuting me for alleged attorney misconduct - where New York State disciplinary authorities actually refused to prosecute themselves for multiple disciplinary violations and dismissed complaints against themselves.

A similar situation of misconduct is currently unfolding in Florida.

There, an attorney who was consulted about a disciplinary case by the subjects of the disciplinary investigation and prosecution, then switched sides and ghost-wrote an affidavit for the prosecutors, while reportedly making false claims in that affidavit into the bargain.

The lawyers - same as I did in my case - requested dismissal of the disciplinary proceedings based on prosecutorial misconduct, because it goes without saying that an attorney misconduct proceeding cannot be prosecuted with the help of attorney misconduct.

Here, attorney misconduct was apparent.

1) There was a conflict of interest in the attorney initially contacted about representing the defense side to switch to the prosecution side;

2) There was misconduct of the prosecution side to accept such help and allow the former defense attorney in the same case to ghost-write a pleading for the prosecution;

3) There is misconduct on the side of the former defense attorney and the disciplinary prosecutors to submit such a pleading to the court, and to submit a false affidavit to the court.

Definitely, means by which the government acts, matter.

And definitely, the attorneys who were and still are subjects of investigation and prosecution in Florida, irrespective of whether they actually did or did not do anything wrong, were deprived of their due process right of an impartial prosecutor, and to have elementary honesty in proceedings.

A disciplinary prosecutor should be squeaky clean and practice what he preaches, first and foremost.

Shouldn't he?

A new U.S. Supreme Court 1st Amendment case - factual mistake in sanctioning an employee for protected conduct is not a defense in a civil rights lawsuit

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued an interesting opinion where it protected, in a majority opinion, the right of governmental employees not to be punished for conduct protected by the 1st Amendment. 

Here is the opinion in full.

The case is decidedly weird, on many levels.

The gist of it is that a police officer was demoted because somebody saw him (and reported him to his supervisor) standing with a sign supporting a certain official in his election campaign and talking to that person's campaign workers.

The supervisor perceived that reported conduct of the police officer as participating in a political activity - which is not allowed to police officers and other government employees.

It was actually a misunderstanding.  The police officer held a sign he was bringing home to his bed-ridden disabled mother at her request, he did not support the campaign of that individual personally.

The big fight was that the officer was demoted and sued for discrimination on 1st Amendment grounds, among other grounds.

The dissent said that, since it was a misunderstanding and the officer did not ACTUALLY engage in political conduct, 1st Amendment cannot be invoked in his lawsuit.  In the opinion of the dissent, what was done to the police officer (demoting from investigator to patrol) was "callous, but not unconstitutional".

Whether the 1st Amendment could or could not be invoked by the officer in a discrimination lawsuit made a difference between whether the officer's civil rights case would be dismissed or allowed to proceed.

The U.S. Supreme Court reversed the lower courts' decisions and allowed the officer's case to proceed, stating that factual mistake is no defense.  If the officer's employer believed that the officer is demoted because of his participation in a political campaign, that was activity protected by the 1st Amendment, and the lawsuit could proceed.

The issue though is not that simple.

In fact, if the officer's employer believed that the officer did participate in a political campaign, and did that openly, so that his holding of the sign while talking to the campaign workers of a certain political candidate could send a message to the public that the local police endorses that political candidate, and where such political activity was prohibited as a condition of employment, the government was justified to demote or fire the officer, 1st Amendment or no 1st Amendment.

Such firing would definitely have met the required strict scrutiny test, because on the other side of the balancing test as to whether the 1st Amendment rights were violated and whether such a demotion or even firing would be permissible under the 1st Amendment, is the requirement of government neutrality and non-endorsement by the government of political candidates, to preserve integrity of democratic elections.

So, I am afraid, we did not see the last of that case, it can return to the U.S. Supreme Court after its round through the lower courts on remand, and, of course, I will report it if it does return.

Stay tuned.




Tuesday, April 26, 2016

On the other hand - why keep people waiting. Here it is: a firefighter's wife spits fire - and that fire is pure hearsay

Just received a threat from a firefighter's wife.

She is very transparently hinting to me that if my home in Delhi, NY is on fire, she will hide her firefighter husband's keys so that he wouldn't be available to extinguish it.

I have no doubt about that.

The attempted arson in our home was already ignored by the local police and the DA's office.

The firefighter's wife was not an eyewitness, but who nevertheless believes her husband's statements and calls me and the victim, Barbara, a liar, and accuses her of the death of a dog, and accuses her of starting the fire.

Obviously that is the theory of Delhi FD.

One criminal indictment against Barbara dismissed, they are immediately putting together another, with the help of the noble brave dog-pitying firefighter husband.

Which does not explain why the firefighter husband came home to his wife crying about the dead dog, instead of calling the warden (as he was supposed to) to come and collect the dog's body.

Which does not explain why Barbara was blocked from going back into the house to save that dog, and she did tell them that the dog is in.

She could only do so much.  There were three dogs in the house at the time the fire started.

The first one came out with her.

She went back into the burning building for other dogs.

She took her time - while the fire was raging in the house - to get the second dog out.  He was scared and confused and would not go.

She saved him.

She could not save the third one, she told the firefighters about the 3rd dog, and she was not allowed back into the house, nor did the firefighters do anything to extinguish the fire.

Since the firefighter's wife falsely claimed to me that I allegedly locked my blog for comments (I never did, and comments posted today by the firefighter "Archer" are the proof), I am publishing her fiery messages to me in full.

Apparently, she did that under her real name, and she can be called as a witness in any court proceedings that may ensue.


And, apparently, she or somebody in her family have a problem with my husband, and specifically about divorces my husband has handled, so I wonder whether my husband was on the other side of a divorce of the fire-spitting firefighter's wife or her friend or family member.

And the spitfire person, Sharon Reichert-Morgan, who toils in the Social Services Department of Delaware County, forgot to mention that my "slumlording" husband rented, until 2 months ago, an apartment approved for several years, for different tenants, by Sharon Riechert-Morgan's own employer, Delaware County, as the cleanest living quarters available in Delhi, NY.

And that the contract with Delaware County Department of Social Services ended only because the tenant is not longer there and the new tenants do not need public assistance.

Anyway, here is the spitfire comments that I was claimed to block from posting on my blog - in full:









I asked Mrs. Sharon Riechert-Morgan these two questions, given her fiery speech:


Here is what she answered:



















So - a worker supported by my taxes is threatening me to "correct the untruths" of my blog because Sharon Rienhart-Morgan, a social services department employee, believes her firefighter husband more than she does my friend - and victim in the case - Barbara O'Sullivan.

And, if I do not "correct the untruths", she is threatening me to withhold his husband's protection as a firefighter, and with a smear campaign.

Well, the smear campaign I will endure.  Not the first time.

The threat I will forward to Ms. Sharon Rienhart-Morgan's supervisors, with a request to fire her.

And, I will forward her threat to the Delhi Fire Department, Village Police, DA's office and the County Attorney with an indication that if ANYTHING AT ALL happens to my residence in Delhi, New York, I will know where to look for a culprit.

By the way, I did a little research on the Internet about the name of Sharon Riechert-Morgan's husband - since Barbara was denied any names of who was on site.

Here is the baby registry of Sharon Riecher and Josh Morgan, so Josh Morgan was allegedly on Barbara's property at the time of the fire.

Sharon Riechert-Morgan is also, "coincidentally", an employee of Delaware County (an entity much criticized by me on the blog) and specifically an employee of Delaware County Department of Social Services (an entity much criticized and sued by me and opposed in child neglect and abuse lawsuits by me and my husband).

Here is the fire-spitting firefighter's wife's picture:


Sharon Riechert(-Morgan) is also an employee of Delaware County since 2005, and a full-time employee, too:


Which does not prevent Sharon Riechert(-Morgan) to have a business on the side:



That little double-dipping makes me thinking - as a taxpayer in Delaware County - does Sharon Riechert-Morgan do her independent consulting on taxpayer-paid time?

By the way, as we speak, Sharon Reichert-Morgan keeps going on Messenger.

Here are her new spit-outs:




Since the smear campaign against Barbara already started, here are some answers.

No, Barbara did not have money problems.

She is retired and disabled from the NYS Department of Corrections and well cared for by the State of New York.  She had no motive to burn her own house.

I don't know whether Barbara was making any mortgage payments.  In fact, if she would be making any mortgage payments, I would be extremely surprised.

Why?  

Those curious why might check out Barbara O'Sullivan's name in Delaware County Courthouse.

I represented Barbara on a motion to vacate foreclosure on her house - and was successful, because the foreclosing bank did not have standing to sue.  The foreclosure was vacated and the house returned back to Barbara.  In 2010.

Whoever is pretending that they still have a claim on that house (now former house) had no such claim, as of 2010 when the foreclosure was vacated, by Judge Eugene Peckham.  

Check it out, Mrs. Sharon Riechert-Morgan, because what you are spewing about Barbara is ... well... not a little lie, but a big lie.  Like a bad lie.  Like a very bad lie.

And - why a firefighter's wife and an employee of the Department of Social Services interested in Barbara's mortgage payments, unless she is part of the team preparing to frame Barbara for something more?

And, Mrs. Sharon Riechert-Morgan being an employee of the County who persecuted Barbara on false criminal charges (just dismissed) and that lied to Barbara about legitimacy of its alleged Deputy Sheriff, and that is funding the legal defense of Derek Bowie at this time....  Well, makes her an interested witness, doesn't it?

And, as I said above,  Barbara saved two dogs out of three, plus herself, out of a raging fire, a fire that melted her cars - not bad considering that whoever wanted to ignite the house did that in the middle of the night, when the residents were supposed to be asleep.

Taking one dog out - and herself - required opening the door.

Getting back into the house for the 2nd dog - required opening the door.

If Barbara would let the 2nd dog burn to death, she would have been accused now of killing two dogs.

She saved two, now she is accused of killing the third.  By a person who was not on site, but who believes her husband "smelling of sweat and fire". 

Barbara got lucky.  She wasn't asleep.  And that's why she and two dogs (out of three) survived.

And, had Barbara planned to put fire to her house, she would have saved the family heirlooms that perished in the fire.

I understand that those who planned this were upset that Barbara got out unscathed.  Bad for them.  Good for Barbara.

And - there is no statute of limitations for attempted murder, the second one against Barbara since Derek Bowie's in September of 2014.

So, before piling it all up on Barbara - instead of providing an incident report - Delaware County should get to think how to train their employees.  

Or how to hire people of better caliber.  In terms of intellect and integrity.

Oh, and by the way - it was just reported to me that Sharon Riechert-Morgan is the former girlfriend of Judge Yvonne Pagillo's policeman son Richard Pagillo.  Where Yvonne Pagillo and Richard Pagillo spread rumors starting in 2013 that I was disbarred - I never was.

And that Sharon Riechert-Morgan, the paragon of morality, has three children by three different men and only the youngest kid is with her husband, who - my source indicated to me - was divorced and got his kid living with his ex-wife, so it is very likely that a man gets together with a woman who is a social services worker to help the man get his kid back.

So much for three kids "waiting for THEIR" father, Sharon.

Just a little bit of untruth ruins it all, right?