Corruption of Florida's county law enforcement officials, dirty lawyers and judges

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To Whom It May Concern:
My name is Gloria Simmons and I recently discovered your website. * I am new to today’s technological world. Yes, I am the one who wrote the blog on St. Johns corruption on May 20, 2014. You covered my story in your update section on August 15, 2014.

* This is a very important message I am sending you. What I have to tell you needs to be heard by everyone. ** I am not sure, but March,May,June and July of 2016, are the dates that may be the cut off  for me to get legal justice; so, time is of the essence. So, I ask that you contact me as soon as possible to let me know if you can do a follow-up story,put me in contact with attorneys and detectives who are willing to help me get legal justice. Some of their work maybe on a contingency fee basis, when St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office, The State of Florida, the apartment complex owner and others are held  accountable. Due to the corruption of the police, public defender/legal aid, some private attorneys,the DA, in St. Johns and some individuals in Duval counties, I ask that if you plan on contacting a law firm on my behalf, that you let me know what law firm you have in mind first.

My contacting this office, is one of many steps to get my legal justice in time. I ask this office to take a chance on me and follow my story through. You obviously want to voice your opinion on corruption,free speech and unfairness in this world. * So, I ask you to dive consciously into news reporting, tell my story and do your own thorough investigating. Try your best to obtain court documents/proceedings, 2014 depostions of teen,her mother,Deputy. Lay,2013 video with audio in the police interview room and squad car, that I was unaware I was being taped. The police claim to not have the audio.*  Do not believe them! * The police don’t want the public to hear the content of the conversation, which was about the police helping people in that apartment complex to lie, to get me evicted or worse. Please contact me to get more information, list of witnesses, documents,other evidence of police corruption,my doctor’s statements and questionable actions by my former attorneys, that has not been seen by others yet.

***  It is my sincere and honest belief, that my former co- partnered legal representitives, Atty. Cushman of St. Augustine and Atty.Sheppard of Jacksonville Florida, acted intentionally with malice and deceit that was fueled by corruption to purposely waste my statute of limitation;ultimately, aiding the St. Johns County Sheriff’s office, The State of Florida and their friend, Atty. Megan Wall, ( head of St. Johns County Legal Aid ). She refused to help me several times before false charges and instigated arrest even existed in 2013! If I received the legal help and attention I needed, they could have prevented my ordeal,stress,speech impairment-due to police,the destruction of my good name and so much human suffering I endured!

***  Attorney. Cushman and Attorney. Sheppard, who partnered together for my civil suit, quit on me after I asked them for over a year, to tell me what their plans are in representing me. Those plans a complaint against the county sheriff’s office, was the first and only plan of action I received; which, accompanied their quit letter and came three days before Thanksgiving 2015.

***  These law firms repeatedly ignored my calls, emails and letters;even thought, I have done and or provided everything they asked for. Due to my speech impairment caused by the St. Johns County Sheriff’s office deputies, I sent both law firms emails and letters. On occasion, I had a third party assist me with my calls, while I was present and I still could not get them to tell me what their plan of action would be or answer my questions I sent them and asked over the phone. * I was left bewildered and at times hurt, with even more depression! * I had to ask for a copy of the contract I had with them, that had many errors; including, the phone number to the Florida Bar, if I was not satisfied with their service. The contract, only had their signatures and did not contain a date when they received it back with my date/signature.* They never bothered to get the hospital records of when I went to the hospital from the stress of dealing with what happened to me, nor did they ask. * They never bothered to get Florida to recognize me as the victim, to Florida Victim Services ,for being evicted by false charges and ultimately arrested for standing up for my rights. I was told that I am seen as a defendant, even when I asked them to go over the county’s head to file those victim papers.

 ** *They did not care how I survived and I believe they wanted me to commicide, by Atty. Cushman sending me a disturbing email three days before Christmas 2014! I was admitted to the hospital with a medical issue, along with depression and got out on Christmas Eve 2014. 

Although, Atty. Cushman was able to obtain a not guilty verdict on the charges brought on by the  sheriff’s office, I feel that was all he was willing to do and his real intention of not seeing me get justice for those charges was deceit to help Atty. Wall and the police. I told Atty. Cushman, I was willing to come down to Florida and tell the jury/court how the police did not protect and serve and helped my accusers bring on these charges and instigated my arrest for an added self bonus among them.  By then, Florida knew I was not going to admit to something I did not do and was willing to fight against it and tell all in court! * Through Atty. Cushman, my willing to fight, got through to the state of Florida and rather expose their corrupt county DA officials, a judge and equally corrupt sheriff’s dept, they dropped the battery charge.

*** Please note the following and these attorneys more than lack of communication with me. As stated above, in August of 2014, I beat the phony police charges in court. I was not told of the press release by Atty. Cushman’s office and not being in legal trouble before, I did not know this was done. In trying to send him a get well message after his September 2014 accident, I stumbled across his headline on free speech at his website. I clicked on it, which lead me to a link to the video of my assault by the police that I was not prepared to see.* I watched in horror and I could not move. I was in shock and was hit and flooded with emotions, filled with bad images of memories, I still can’t get over! I was raised to offer a thank you when someone did something for me and this is what I did to these attorneys offices, despite not being able to get them to act further, seeing my time going by and either being insulted by them or their paralegal. I continued to give them the benefit of the doubt and treated them, like I would like to be treated.

* Atty. Cushman refused to fill out his portion of my civil complaint against the sheriff’s office and both offices refused to let me know, what they did so far in my civil claim or mail me this for my review! Note, to protect herself, Atty. Wall from legal aid, referred me to Atty. Cushman to keep a non- corrupt attorney from taking my case, exposing many corrupt people in St. Johns  and Duval counties. Both law firms had no intentions of seeing me get justice, because it would come out in the open that their friend Atty. Megan Wall, did me an injustice by refusing me several times and created an undestroyable criminal record on such a peaceful person!    *A while ago, Atty. Sheppard got arrested on Valentine’s day in Jacksonville Forida for according to the deputy, having two marijuana cigarettes, having sex in a car in broad daylight and resisting arrest. He could have been body slammed on the ground with similar treatment like me. Instead, he was given special treatment and was given an appearance ticket and was allowed to continue to practice and his image was not over the internet like mind. * This attorney had the nerve to tell me when I called his office crying over my stress/dealing with the aftermath, “ that he had no time to listen to some woman crying on the phone“.  Does that  statement sound like an attorney who considered me his client, or does it sound like an attorney who has no intention on representing me ! He was not sympathetic to me and I could not control what happened to me. Eventually, my trumped up arrest and charges was going to happen, it just took longer, because of the kind of peaceful person I was, who always kept looking for the sheriff’s department to do the right thing.

* To conclude, if you are going to investigate my story, may I suggest you go back to my May 20, 2014 blog that has many details that you can uncover that is right on the surface. Obtain the jail video of my assault by the guards,( taser threat and body slammed back into the wheelchair, too weak to get in it on my own), obtain the hosptial parking lot video of deputies laughing as I was being brought out with injury from their assault, obtain records/documents and do personal one on one interviews with people I mentioned. * Look at the eviction court hearing in Judge. Christine’s chambers and examine the apartment manager’s statement, that she did not sign my 2013 lease, when in fact I saw her and made a note about no penalty if I gave a 30 day notice. Look at her signature on that lease and match it with something else she signed, maybe a court document. You will see the signature matches and will prove she lied under oath, which is a punishable/jailable felony, because her lie, was intentional to cause me harm, ( eviction, a stiffer penalty, if I lost my other charges and loss of my good name, etc ).

 

Look at how long I was in those chains and find out how long a person should be in them. Look at perhaps video or log of when I left the jail and when I returned. Perhaps some of the people who was there for court, or my former cell mates, would remember me if questions/interviews are done. Ask knowledgeable officials, if it is normal for someone to have a 4p.m. hearing, be taken out of the cell in chains  at near 8 a.m.and stay in chains til after 5p.m. I was a diabetic,lost feeling in one leg, had bad pain in the other,not prepared for this heaing that I was not informed of and was without an attorney!  Those marks are still on my legs today! ** This judge seemed to behave in a manner like he already talked with this apartment manager and staff and did not care whether the male staff did not take other peoples so called fire hazards in front of their door. I took pictures of other peoples fire hazards the same day, and have the  store receipt. My chair was taken and that was the reason for it being taken and me being thrown down the concrete stairs, causing knee injury that cracks and gives in unexpectedly this very day!

 

**  My wrong doers wanted me to die by natural causes; due to, their instigated situations, that affected my diabetes or by my own hand andGod/The Great Spirit, gave them neither!  I lived!  Now, I fight for justice for me and for others in St. Johns County,the state of Florida, the United States and the world!

 If my statute of limiations runs out, then I, as a peaceful/decent law abiding citizen, I have been grossly over looked by many, who could have  prevented my tragedy and given me justice for it. Until 2013, I’ve live a simple peaceful  life and stayed away from the world’s temptation to do a person(s) wrong. I’m among a few, who is a first time vehicle driver on my side of the family, who helped many people; including, those who looked the other way and supported my wrong doers. I deserve better than this, from this world and I will not stop until justice is served. I thank you for your time.  Gloria Irene Simmons – The Justice Seeker