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lynnf
12-20-2009, 07:53 PM
Judiciary and "law enforcement" working together to deprive rights. At least the media wasn't totally in on it this time......


from Wikipedia (italics added by me):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Isaac_Fine

Two weeks later, on March 4, 2009, Richard Fine was arrested by the Warrant Detail of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, at the end of a dramatic proceeding, represented as "Sentencing" - in the presence of media - by Judge David Yaffe, whom Richard Fine was attempting to disqualify. The basis for affidavits of disqualification for a cause was Judge David Yaffe's accepting of such payments from a party to the litigation then at bar - Marina Del Rey Home Owners' Association v County of Los Angeles (BS109420).

Strangely, the entire proceeding later failed to appear in the publicly available litigation chronology, published online by the court. Likewise, the court record that was the March 4, 2009 Judgment and Order of Contempt, including what was represented as sentencing, which was widely reported by media present on March 4, 2009 in court, was later discovered to be invalid on its face. [18]. The record also was lacking authentication.[19]

Richard Fine has been held ever since at the Men's Central Jail facility in Los Angeles - part of the Twin Towers Jail complex, under unusual, possibly unprecedented conditions.[20][21] He has been held under continuous solitary confinement, in a hospital room in the jail, albeit - no disease or disability were ever claimed by jail authorities. In the first few months of his jailing, he was denied access to pen and paper, and such conditions undermined his ability to file habeas corpus and related petitions. Jail authorities also explicitly attempted in the initial period to deprive him of the right to represent himself in pro se, and to coerce him to accept representation by counsel, which Fine declined. On June 7, 2009, the Los Angeles Times published report by female Journalist Victoria Kim, who managed to enter the Men's Jail, interview Fine, and emerge out of the jail unnoticed, at a time that the Sheriff's Department and the court banned interviews with Fine.[22][23]