Crooked L.A. Judges Try to Slide Marina Del Rey Project By: Residents Await Courts To Stop Developers From "Sprucing"
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Categories: Above the Law
As reported yesterday through very rose colored glasses by the L.A. Times, Marina Del Rey is in a process of "renewal." "Leaseholder Jerry Epstein will raze his 202-unit Del Rey Shores apartment community on Via Marina and replace it with a 544-unit complex in fewer, taller buildings, that will be called simply Shores."
The Times forgot to mention this detail: The residents of Marina Del Rey vehemently oppose this method of "sprucing up." And they fought it in court - only to have the attorney representing them taken down by a judge being bribed by the County - the County is partner with the marina developer.
Now L.A. judges (who have all accepted illegal bonuses from the County) are throwing around the follow up case like a hot potato:
State Superior Court Judges in L.A. County have been accepting massive illegal bonuses from the county since the 80s. The law states that judges cannot accept money other than from their employer - which in this case, is the state.
The people of Marina Del Rey sought former U.S. Prosecutor Richard Fine to represent them against the developer behind "sprucing up" their neighborhood in a way very unwelcomed by the community:
Fine pointed out that the judge overseeing the case, Judge David Yaffe, had accepted $850,000 in illegal bonus money from L.A. County. And the county is a partner of Del Rey Shores.
Fine found himself behind bars, in solitary coercive confinement, for 18 months. Yaffe's method to get him there? He slapped a $46,000 fine on Fine for filing a notice to the court one day late. Although the fine is legal, it actually isn't:
Fine had miscalculated the days, due to a holiday: Forgiveness for unintended error is the law. But the court used this as an opportunity to smear Fine - posing him as a debtor.
Fine refused to pay the sum, refused to disclose his personal assets and was told he was in contempt of court.
Fine had been disbarred during this process -- while the developer's attorney was serving as president of the State Bar Association.
Full Disclosure got wind of the incident and was able to interview Fine at the courthouse, before he went to jail. This gave much needed exposure to what was going on.
The very judge that had been responsible for locking Fine up, Judge Yaffe, ultimately was the one who released Fine.
Back in 2008 during Fine's contempt trial, Judge Yaffe testified in court -- in a very unusual situation: while he was sitting on the bench and testifying as a witness at the same time. He testified that he accepted payments from L.A. County, is not under contract with L.A. County and is not employed by L.A. County in any way.
In his release order to free Fine, he made a rather astonishing admittance:
"By keeping him [Fine] incarcerated for 18 months, the court has deterred others from defying its orders ..."
Yaffe then resigned from office before his term was over.
"I did disqualify him," Fine says of Yaffe. "And he didn't get off the bench. He stayed on even though he was disqualified, so he broke the law. That means everything he did in that case was void and null."
Which means there should legally be no "sprucing up" by Del Rey Shores quite yet in Marina Del Rey.
March 10, Dr. Fine headed back to court to continue his struggle to nullify and void all of Judge Yaffey's rulings. Other L.A. County Judges are afraid to touch it, as they are all guilty of the same bribe taking. The case is being handed off like a hot potato - five judges have refused to give him a hearing.
They are all afraid to meet the fate that Yaffe did.
Contact Mars Melnicoff at mmelnicoff@laweekly.com / follow @marsmelnicoff
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To the Editors:
Crooked LA Judges? Your title is a gross understatement!
The case of Richard Fine documented a crooked justice system all the way from the Los Angeles Sheriff to the Supreme Court of the United States:
1) The Sheriff arrested Richard Fine with no warrant and no valid conviction or sentencing, and held him in solitary confinement for 18 months under fraudulent records, stating that Richard Fine was arrested on location and by authority of the non-existent "Municipal Court of San Pedro".
2) The US District Court, Central District of California conducted an invalid litigation of the habeas corpus petition, where the judgment was never certified by the Clerk of the Court, and a fraudulent docket was published online.
3) The California Judicial Council retained Attorney Kevin McCormick to fraudulently appear, under false case caption, on behalf of Judge David Yaffe, while not authorized as Attorney of Record. Attorney McCormick then filed false records and a fraudulent declaration to affect the continued false imprisonment of Richard Fine.
4) The US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit published fraudulent dockets for the Petition and the Appeal, where none of the court orders were signed by a judge and none was served with attestation by a Clerk.
5) The Supreme Court of the United States conducted pretense review of the Application and Petition, where no valid record were ever discovered.
For detailed review of the case of Richard Fine and the various levels of fraudulent legal records in the various justice system agencies involved in the case, please see links below.
Joseph Zernik, PhD
Human Rights Alert (NGO)
LINKS:
[1] April 20, 2010 Motion to Intervene and related papers in Fine v Sheriff (09-A827) at the US Supreme Court
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WHAT DID THE EXPERT SAY ABOUT THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS?
* "...a system in which only the little people have to obey the law, while the rich, and bankers especially, can cheat and defraud without consequences."
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50753639/
Prof Paul Krugman, MIT (2011)
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA?
* "...judges tried and sentenced a staggering number of people for crimes they did not commit."
Prof David Burcham, Dean, Loyola Law School, LA (2001)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29043589/
* "This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states... and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are convicted."
Prof Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Irvine Law School (2001)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/274339
* "Innocent people remain in prison"
* "...the LA Superior Court and the DA office, the two other parts of the justice system that the Blue Panel Report recommends must be investigated relative to the integrity of the system, have not produced any response that we know of..."
LAPD Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24902306/
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA?
* "...corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California."
United Nations Human Rights Council Staff Report (2010)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE STATE COURTS IN THE UNITED STATES?
* "On July 26, 2010, Laurence Tribe, Senior Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, Access to Justice Initiative, delivered an important speech to the Conference of Chief Justices, challenging them to halt the disintegration of our state justice systems before they become indistinguishable from courts of third world nations."
Prof Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School (2010), per National Defender Leadership Institute (2010)
http://www.nlada.net/library/article/national_dojspeechto%20chiefjustice07-26-2010_gideonalert
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES?
* "More than 100 law professors have signed on to a letter released today that proposes congressional hearings and legislation aimed at fashioning "mandatory and enforceable" ethics rules for Supreme Court justices for the first time. The effort, coordinated by the liberal Alliance for Justice, was triggered by "recent media reports," the letter said, apparently referring to stories of meetings and other potential conflicts of interest involving Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas among others."
More than 100 law professors, as reported by the Blog of the Legal Times (February 2011)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49586436/
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WHAT DID CHIEF JUDGE OF THE US COURT OF APPEALS, 5TH CIRCUIT, SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM?
* "The American legal system has been corrupted almost beyond recognition..."
Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, Edith Jones, speaking before the Federalist Society of Harvard Law School (February 2003)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50137887/
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WHAT DID THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM?
* In a speech in Georgetown University, Senator Leahy, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee called for a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" on the US Department of Justice.
Transcript of Senator Leahy speech (2009)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38472251/
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WHAT DID THE EXPERT SAY ABOUT THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS?
* "...a system in which only the little people have to obey the law, while the rich, and bankers especially, can cheat and defraud without consequences."
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50753639/
Prof Paul Krugman, MIT (2011)
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA?
* "...judges tried and sentenced a staggering number of people for crimes they did not commit."
Prof David Burcham, Dean, Loyola Law School, LA (2001)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29043589/
* "This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states... and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are convicted."
Prof Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Irvine Law School (2001)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/274339
* "Innocent people remain in prison"
* "...the LA Superior Court and the DA office, the two other parts of the justice system that the Blue Panel Report recommends must be investigated relative to the integrity of the system, have not produced any response that we know of..."
LAPD Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24902306/
_____________________________
WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA?
* "...corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California."
United Nations Human Rights Council Staff Report (2010)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/
_____________________________
WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE STATE COURTS IN THE UNITED STATES?
* "On July 26, 2010, Laurence Tribe, Senior Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, Access to Justice Initiative, delivered an important speech to the Conference of Chief Justices, challenging them to halt the disintegration of our state justice systems before they become indistinguishable from courts of third world nations."
Prof Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School (2010), per National Defender Leadership Institute (2010)
http://www.nlada.net/library/article/national_dojspeechto%20chiefjustice07-26-2010_gideonalert
_____________________________
WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES?
* "More than 100 law professors have signed on to a letter released today that proposes congressional hearings and legislation aimed at fashioning "mandatory and enforceable" ethics rules for Supreme Court justices for the first time. The effort, coordinated by the liberal Alliance for Justice, was triggered by "recent media reports," the letter said, apparently referring to stories of meetings and other potential conflicts of interest involving Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas among others."
More than 100 law professors, as reported by the Blog of the Legal Times (February 2011)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49586436/
_____________________________
WHAT DID CHIEF JUDGE OF THE US COURT OF APPEALS, 5TH CIRCUIT, SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM?
* "The American legal system has been corrupted almost beyond recognition..."
Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, Edith Jones, speaking before the Federalist Society of Harvard Law School (February 2003)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50137887/
_____________________________
WHAT DID THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM?
* In a speech in Georgetown University, Senator Leahy, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee called for a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" on the US Department of Justice.
Transcript of Senator Leahy speech (2009)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38472251/
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