US Justice System Legally Destroying Lives
                                                                        
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

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on
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Birthday.

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I
t is not a Justice System.
It is just a system.
~Bob Enyart

Bad laws are the worst
sort of tyranny.
~Edmund Burke

This is a court of law,
young man, not a court
of justice. ~
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


 

 

 

 

 


Trent

Among the attributes
of God, although they are all
equal, mercy shines
with even more brilliancy
than justice.
- Cervantes


 
Steven with his dog Rocky

Let us be merciful as well
as just.

- Henry Wadsworth


 

Mercy more becomes a
magistrate than the
vindictive wrath which
 men call justice.
- Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow

One can not be just if one
is not humane.
[Lat., On ne peut etre juste
si on n'est pas humain.]
- Luc de Clapier de
Vauvanargues, Reflexions
(XXVIII)

In the Halls of Justice, the
only justice is in the halls.
Lenny Bruce



That's hysterical

http://www.inthesetimes.com
/main/article/2797/


There can be no equal justice
where the kind of trial a man
gets depends on
the amount of money he has."
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Hugo Black, Griffin v. Illinois,
373 U.S.12,(1964)

,
THIS IS FUN    

"If the motto ‘and justice
for all’ becomes ‘and justice
for those who can
afford it’, we threaten the
very underpinnings of our
social contract."
- Chief Justice
Ronald George California
Supreme Court, Annual
"State ofJudiciary"
Speech, 2001

We love Martin McMahon

From TCPalm, Stuart, FL

Regarding Judge Larry
Shack and his ludicrous
statement, “I’m going to
hand out a million years
served before I’m off the
bench,” what do we have
here? Premeditation and
prejudice — already
sentencing people before
their cases are heard. He
is an elected egomaniac.

Let’s get together and
vote, or force this “judge”
into another venue —
maybe flippin’ burgers at
a hamburger stand. Then
the “judge” can claim more
than a billion served.

Martin McMahon
Stuart, Fl



 


 

 


Justice is open to
everyone in the same
 way as the Ritz Hotel. ~Judge Sturgess



  
 

 

 

Steven with his son Trent



Steven & Trent

A senior editor of the US Executive Intelligence
 Review says the real
conditions of American
prisons are being
institutionally covered up.


During a Friday interview with Press TV's US Desk, Jeff Steinberg said that "if the world got a clear
picture of just how horrific the situation is inside the
US penal system at the federal, state and local
level, it would leave a very, very deep scar on
America's
reputation."

He went on to add that
those in charge of US detention centers have
"an institutional commitment" to keep that abuses taking place inside prisons from the public.

Steinberg said
overcrowding and lack of sufficient personnel were two of the main
contributing factor to the horrifying conditions of

US prisons.
He said according to
The Crime Report's estimates, some 200,000 cases of sex abuses that take place inside prisons annually.

The Executive Intelligence Review says the US has been reported to have the highest incarceration rate among developed nations.

Back in 2009, 90 prison
staff members were
charged with sexually abusing inmates.
Prison inmates subjected
to sexual misconduct by prison
staff in the
nation's 93 federal prison sites doubled between
2007 and 2009.


How much justice can
you afford?
Will it cost an arm, a leg
or much, much more?
What is so good about a
"free" defense,
When it takes a high
powered attorney to beat
 the offense.
You get as much justice
as you can buy,
And that my friends is no
lie.
Just visit a jail and you will
see why.

You get as much justice
as you can buy.
No money,  no justice,
Is how it goes.
A sad but true tale of woes
Linda Frazzetto
 


 

Please help Steven and
others fight this injustice.

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http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Yj8p94a81ZE

The reality is that the United States of America, which proclaims itself the 'land of freedom,' has the most dishonest, dangerous and crooked legal system of any developed nation.
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ~Max
Stirner, The Ego and His Own

....it could happen in your life It could be your son, daughter,  brother or sister.


Stevens case number is 04-19-CFA.   Click on this link to the correction facility where he is being held.



Please help Steven and
others fight this injustice.
 


Steven and his Austrian friend Mgk write this song before he returned to the US and get himself arrested. Click here.
"So many broken dreams"


 

 

 

Mad as Hell and hate Judge Schack
I am in the process of filing complaints to the FL Bar on Judge Schack, State Attorney Erin Kirkwood and my son's attorney, Thomas Colter. There is no justice in the courtroom when there's judges like Larry Schack. My son was found guilty for a crime he did not commit and Judge Shack allowed Erin Kirkwood to destroy evidence and not allow certain witnesses that were pertinent to proving my son's innocence. Erin Kirkwood lied in her closing argument and she got to stand up twice... since when is that allowed? Judge Schack gave her everything she wanted...it all went her way. My son tried to fire his stupid attorney before the trial began, because he was unprepared...he did no depositions or anything my son asked him to do and he had been paid thousands of dollars! He just wanted my son to take a plea for something he did not do and refused. My son told the entire courtroom that his attorney was not prepared to go to trial and Judge Shack yelled, "If you fire him you will represent yourself"! He denied my son his 6th amendment right. They all three sided against my son. Judge Schack couldn't even remember my son's name and even stated that he was having problems that day. The jurors were confused about the law and needed guidance and they never received it from Judge Shack....they came back with a guilty verdict ten minutes after Judge Shack told them they would have to return the next day, which was a Saturday. What is wrong with the citizens of Martin County, FL? How can they allow a judge to remain on the bench who is prejudiced and biased against those who come before him? He made rude remarks about my son's tattoo the day of sentencing.....that was out of line and unprofessional in my opinion. The citizens of Martin County need to wake up and elect someone else to do the job....unfortunately, I checked and there is no one running against him this year! God help them all! I hope the jurors who found my son guilty will someday be standing before Judge Shack....especially if it's for a crime they did not commit. I think what he did to your son is despicable and horrible!!!! This was a very messed up teenage girl and your son got her out of the gutter....he cleaned her up and made a respectable person out of her. Judge Schack should have thrown the entire case out of court, but of course he's never going to do that....he wants to go down in history as the judge who has sen tenced the most people to prison while on the bench....and I believe he already has...it totals over a million years. I would love to get a group of people and go to Tallahassee and personally complain against his practices in the courtroom! Don't give up....we will appeal my son's case till hell freezes over....I will be a thorn in their side until they free my son and you should do the same. God bless you and your family. Everyone should remember this quote from Martin Luther King: "THE WORLD BEGINS TO END THE DAY WE BECOME SILENT ABOUT THE THINGS THAT MATTER"! We need a huge grass movement to change the system as it currently is. Please don't be silent about injustice....the next time it may be you or a loved one.


Again, many thanks.

You can readily see where this whole thing can make us nuts. Stef hasn't
been sleeping well since January 9 (the day of the word) and he has a
constant knot in his chest and stomach. This is a stress he does not need
at 59 I worry about his health and his ability to survive through this
ordeal.
He was just telling me last night that he had no problem going into this
sentencing with Steven serving time as "maybe it would serve him a lesson if he did", but the magnitude of the sentence is truly mind boggling. This is something that has no resolution as it now stands. We wake up daily with it, spend the day consumed by it and at the end of the day feel as lost as at the beginning of the day. How do you live with something like this for sixteen years? And we are not the one behind bars.


Giving 16 years prison sentence to a 22 year old man who had consensual relations with the 15 year  old but not hearing witnesses or acknowledging what they have said about circumstances that surround this incident it's preposterous.

We realize that the penal system was setup to be punitive in nature and not remedial. But this sentence is extremely excessive for the nature of the offense committed.


Judge Larry Schack is a mean-spirited man who meets out vengeance, not justice,like a vigilante, or an Ayotolah Khomeni or an Osama bin Laden -- much like any fanatic who is extreme in their beliefs. We don't need to go to the middle east to fight extremism; we need only look inside our judicial system at those
empowered with life and death decisions.
Judges who preside over felony cases and have the power of life or death in their hands, should be psychologically evaluated  prior to placement in such positions.  The potential for abuse of power is great in these judgeships and the result of such abuse has dire, if not fatal, consequences for the convicted.
In the recent trial of Eugene McWatters, Judge Schack quotes from the Bible:
"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi

In addressing McWatters who received the death penalty from Judge Schack. If McWatters is guilty of the crime maybe he deserve the death penalty. But quoting from the Bible was unnecessary as  was the unnecessary chemical castration of a man receiving the death penalty and three life sentence.
Schack  is a mean and cruel Judge who has no respect for the law or constitution. Judge Schack has  no quality of  mercy, only self-righteous revenge, and no spirit of the law, only the letter of the law given out in maximum sentences even when the time does not fit the crime.

 



Steven's situation is not the norm where a predatory 40+ year old impregnates a 12 - 16 year old; this is his wife and he has gone out of his way to support both the mother and the child. What has to really hurt is that so many others so much more deserving of punishment walk away with not even a slap on the hand.


Another thing that really sticks in my craw is the labeling of Steven by the judge as a "child abuser" and "pedophile". Anyone reading what has been said about Steven by the Judge would jump to some pretty wrong conclusions without knowing all the facts, especially when the child was at the center of all of this when he was accidentally hurt. One would surmise from this that Steven abused his child rather than what we assume is the judge's assumption of Steven being a child abuser/pedophile for having sex with the child's underage mother. This is really over the top and a very bad disconnect in this case. And then the Judge ends his sentencing of Steven with "causing permanent damage to your son". What is one to assume from all of this? The words used by the Judge and not explained in the context of what he is saying is really a gross injustice to Steven. And then the newspapers pickup pieces of the story and without the whole reference of the case, cause even more confusion for the readers.

Needless to say, this is a very difficult time for all of us. It is pretty sad when a sixteen year sentence is given out so lightly, with little concern for the ramifications of such a sentence on all the lives involved. I realize that the penal system was setup to be punitive in nature and not remedial. But this sentence is extremely excessive for the nature of the crime committed.

Again, we appreciate your continued help. I will talk to you soon.

 


Justice projects are pro bono groups who take on situations where the defendant has been treated unfairly or appears to be innocent.  There are quite a few groups who have gained fame in working on utilizing new DNA evidence for death row inmates.  I am sure that there are some who are involved in less high profile cases.  If I can get any information, I will pass it on. 

Now for the hard part; I fear that Steven will be treated as a sex offender (which would follow him  not only in prison but also for life thereafter), and this is what the judge was referring to (and not the baby).  This is where the application of this category is so unjust, since it was not a forceable rape or abuse of a child.   The whole thing is just so nuts and I keep coming back to the fact that murderers serve only 8 years of a 25 year sentence. 


"I am in the process of filing complaints to the FL Bar on Judge Schack"

Good luck! They are crooked  us much us Judge Shack is. 


In Florida 137 prison facilities.  Who Pay For It?   

Probation & Parole Facilities:  

Over 157,000 offenders are monitored and supervised by the 156 Probation & Parole Field Service offices in Florida.  This includes offenders released from prison on parole, control release, conditional release, or conditional medical release and offenders placed on court ordered supervision including administrative probation, probation, drug offender probation, sex offender probation, community control, and community control with electronic monitoring. Correctional Probation Officers also supervise offenders placed on pre-trial intervention.

Probation and Parole Field Services' primary function and mission is to protect the community by supervising offenders commensurate with the level of supervision they require. Correctional Probation Officers enforce standard conditions of supervision stipulated by statute, as well as special conditions imposed by the court or sentencing authority, including victim restitution, substance abuse and/or mental health treatment programs, and other restrictions. Offenders are monitored through field contacts at their residences, employment sites and other locations in the community. Officers conduct investigations, including pre-sentence investigations, post sentence investigations, other state investigations and violation reports. Officers make appropriate referrals to assist the offender with resources available to complete their term of supervision successfully.

Facility profiles contained within the Probation & Parole Field Services section present Region information, as well as Circuit and Office information.

Jan. 10. 2009  Editors note.

NEW YORK   States budgets in crisis, governors, legislators and prison officials across the nation are making or considering policy changes that will likely remove tens of thousands of offenders from prisons and parole supervision.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28592088/

Trimming fast-rising costs
Policy-makers in Michigan, one of four states that spend more money on prisons than higher education, are awaiting a report later this month from the Council of State Governments' Justice Center on ways to trim fast-rising corrections costs, likely including sentencing and parole modifications.

In Florida, where prisons are so crowded that the state has acquired tents for possible use to house inmates, officials say 19 new prisons may be needed over the next five years. As an alternative, Corrections Secretary Walter McNeil told lawmakers they should re-evaluate the state's hard-line sentencing policies and look at ways to help released inmates avoid returning to prison.

"These laws have neither curbed drug use nor enhanced public safety," said Donna Lieberman of the New York Civil Liberties Union. "Instead, they have ruined thousands of lives and annually wasted millions of tax dollars in prison costs."

All of the Probation & Parole supervisions are waste of time, waste of taxpayer's money as they DO NOT  function as intended and do not protect the community in anyway.  States where inmates who are on probation have to pay $30 to $60 per week in probation fees make it even more difficult for them to stay clean as the jobs they get as ex- inmates pay minimum wages and the state takes almost half of their salary. In most cases they can't leave the area or state to look for a better job,  so 80 % of them are back in prison within 8 months average.
 
In many countries around the world  inmates on probation or parole are not monitored at all.  If they commit the crime or any offense during that period, they will be charged with the new crime plus violation of probation or parole and will serve for both. It is that simple and it does not cost anything but saves millions of taxpayer's money. And best of all it works. So, wake up America, it is time for change!


Eugene McWatters

Eugene McWatters MURDERED my first cousin aka little sister Christal Wiggins. McWatters CONFESSED CONFESSED! To all the idiots out there who say he is innocent. He was a druggy and a vitim of his own pollution! You, who say "my son is not guilty", YOUR GUILTY for raising a serial killer lady!! Shame on you!! He says he dosn't know what happened, he just lost it and killed them. Well he probably saw your face as he was killing them. Ever thought of that? What did you do to him as a child? GOD KNOWS ! and you will have to answer that question one day. However I wish he had gotten a life sentence instead of death. I want that demon inside of him to stay there and not go out into the world again when he dies. Remember HE CONFESSED!! May God have mercy on his soul and yours.


Gail Wiggins

 

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Stevens case number is 04-19-CFA.   Click on this link to the correction facility where he is being held.

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 Steven & Tiffany

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ~Earl Warren


Trent

A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing
but what he can do justly:
he is not the master, but
the minister of the
law. Authority without virtue is a very dangerous state.
- Thomas Wils
on


Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
[Lat., Summum jus, summa injuria.]
- Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero


Steven & Trent 2003
Help Steven reunite with his child.
 

Changes in sentencing law and policy, not increases in crime rates, explain most of the six-fold increase in the national prison population.  And “one size fits all" mandatory minimum sentences that allow little or no consideration for individual characteristics as in case above.

People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch
either of them being made. ~Otto Bismark

 Unfortunately, we cannot get the attention of Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson and it appears that without high-profile help, situations like this remain on the backburner and out of the public eye and without media attention. Are the scales of justice tipped in favor of celebrity and wealth? Where is the justice when the sentence is more criminal than the act?  
All we have is this website and you!   Please help.

Where is the justice when our children crying out for help and no one hears them.



It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ~Earl Warren

Gareth Peirce, an internationally acclaimed and respected solicitor based in London, explains in her book Dispatches from the Dark Side, “Guilty pleas resolve 97% of US trials, an extraordinary statistic inevitably achieved by the defendant's apprehension of what lies ahead -- not just for the 'worst of the worst' - and a desire to avoid, at any cost, the US law's most extreme application.”

A number of her clients including Syed Talha Ahsan, Babar Ahmad, Adel Abdel Bary and Khalid al-Fawwaz have been held in British prisons for a record amount of years fighting extradition to the US.

All of these men protest their innocence and would welcome their day in court -- a British court. However the evidence against them is either so flimsy or nonexistent that police in the UK have no intention of wasting public money on trials which will end up being laughed out of court.

Which takes us back to the 2003 US Extradition agreement in which the Blair government tied the hands of the UK judiciary beyond sound judgment; now any slight allegation made by the US should be regarded in British courts as solid proof.

By the way, it's not a two-way system. Should the UK ever wish to extradite a US citizen, the evidence supplied must be well documented, concrete and factual and able to withstand the scrutiny of a US judge.


Britain's legal system became the basis for most others in the world. It is based on presumed innocence and a trial by a jury of one's peers which emanates from our rights as set out in the Magna Carta of 1215, a noble document which has stood the test of time.

The 2003 Extradition Treaty is a complete betrayal of those basic rights. A victim of the treaty faces being locked up without evidence and has no right to a trial by jury and gone is the presumption of
innocence.

We cannot allow anyone in UK custody or under “house arrest” like Julian Assange to be extradited to the US. You just have to look at the treatment of America's own citizens to realize this.
Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old US Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to Wikileaks, has been held in solitary confinement for the last seven months, despite not having been convicted of any crime.

Manning has been kept alone in a cell for 23 hours a day, barred from exercising in that cell, deprived of sleep, and denied even a pillow or sheets for his bed. Unsurprisingly he now relies on anti-depressants to cope with the effects of isolation. No date for a court hearing has been set.
Make no mistake, this sort of treatment is torture and we, as a civilized nation, cannot send anyone into the hands of the US judicial system which openly tortures its own citizens as well as others.

But don't stop there! Every year the State Department of the U.S. sending a complaint letters to one hundred and eighty countries around the world reminding them of their human right violations.


Stevens case number is 04-19-CFA.   Click on this link to the correction facility where he is being held.