The Dictatorship of the Judiciary

Reposted with permission of The Post & Email, Inc.

WILL THE PEOPLE TAKE BACK THEIR POWER?

by Sharon Rondeau

(Oct. 15, 2010) — A Monroe County, TN retired Navy commander has been denied a transcript of court proceedings in which he has been named as a defendant even though he was promised a copy of it both verbally and in writing.

Fitzpatrick has reported to The Post & Email that Ms. Martha Cook, the Monroe County court clerk, said that the court did not possess the transcript in question.  He was told to contact Denise Barnes, the court transcriptionist, who “works at home.”  When Fitzpatrick did so, Ms. Barnes told him that she had given the transcript to private attorneys Randy and Matthew Rogers, a fact confirmed by Randy Rogers in a telephone message received by Fitzpatrick dated October 12, 2010.

A call placed to the Monroe County Circuit Court Clerk yielded no answer and no voice mail system after ten rings.

“Special” Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood is presiding over the Fitzpatrick case wherein Fitzpatrick has been charged with “riot” and “intimidation,”  having refused to dismiss the case on Tuesday, October 5. During last week’s hearing, Blackwood was told that the grand jury was contaminated because of Pettway’s longstanding position as foreman in violation of the law as well as the presence of another juror, Angela Davis, who had served on the jury for the term ending December 31, 2009 and also by law could not serve. Since Fitzpatrick had tried to arrest Pettway for violating the law, and all of the jurors currently seated know and have worked with Pettway on the jury during the new term, Fitzpatrick maintains that the current jury is fatally flawed and that an entirely new jury must be selected and seated.  He has described Judge Blackwood as “a criminal and a dictator” for failing to implement corrective action on the compromised grand jury.

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