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11-02-08 Welcome Bulgaria - Last New Visitor! // Bienvenido Bulgaria - Visitante Mas Reciente! // 欢迎保加利亚- 最后的新访问者！

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11-02-08 The new case management system of the California courts (CCMS) - a cause for serious Human Rights concerns // // 新的案件，加州法院管理系统 -一个严重的人权问题的原因 // El nuevo sistema de gestión de los tribunales de California - una causa de graves cuestiones de Derechos Humanos

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ON POLITICS IN THE GOLDEN STATE

Statewide court computer project mishandled, audit says

February 8, 2011 | 10:10 am

California court administrators failed to properly plan for and realistically budget a massive computer modernization project that has fallen years behind schedule and on which the cost could balloon from the original estimate of $260 million to $1.9 billion, state auditors said Tuesday.

As a result, State Auditor Elaine Howle recommended that the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) delay moving forward with installing the system until an independent reevaluation is conducted of potential problems with the California Court Case Management System.

The office "has not analyzed whether the project would be a cost-beneficial solution to the superior courts’ technology needs and it is unclear on what information the AOC made critical decisions during the project’s planning and development," Howle wrote to Gov. Jerry Brown in suggesting the delay in deploying the system at three court systems. 

Envisioned as a way to modernize and tie together computer systems operated in the state’s 58 counties, the new system has been in trouble from the beginning, and some presiding judges have called on the administrative office and the Judicial Council of California to rethink the project. 

Originally estimated to be completed in 2009, the project now may not be finished until 2015-16, but there is not enough money yet to install it in all counties, which diminishes its value, Howle said.

Howle found the administrative office did not adequately heed warnings by a consulting firm it hired that raised "significant concerns" about the case management system, and bungled the handling of contracts to develop the system. In particular, the main contract to develop the system lacked cost controls, which resulted in the state changing the contract 102 times to increase the contract from $33 million to $310 million, Howle said.

"To make certain that no significant quality issues or problems exist," the audit said, the court administrators "should retain an independent consultant to review the system before deploying it" as planned to three court systems.

The Judicial Council agrees with many of the recommendations but has already made changes and will go ahead with deploying the system in three court systems during the next two years. The council also believes the final project will be brought in at a cost of $1.3 billion, below Howle's estimate. 

"The Judicial Council is largely in agreement with the (auditor's) recommendations and in many instances has already adopted practices and policies consistent with the recommendations made," said William C. Vickrey, administrative director of the courts.

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The new case management system of the California courts (CCMS) - a cause for serious Human Rights concerns

Los Angeles, June 14 - Human Rights Alert issued warning that the April 12, 2010 Status Report by the California Judicial Council in re: CCMS [1] development and implementation, must be a reason for grave concerns of Human Rights abuses, and must be subjected to publicly and legally accountable validation.

Read the full June 14, 2010 press release:

[1] 10-06-14 New Case Management System (CCMS) of the California Courts - Serious Human Rights Concern
http://www.scribd.com/doc/33073055/

Posted by: Joseph Zernik, PhD, Human Rights Alert (NGO) | 02/08/2011 at 12:53 PM

11-02-08 Welcome Trinidad and Tobago - Newest Country! // Bienvenido Trinidad y Tobago - Pais Mas Reciente! // 欢迎特立尼达和多巴哥 -最新的国家！

        

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11-02-08 Where are the Missing Records of the Supreme Court of the United States? // ¿Dónde están los que faltan registros de la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos? // 在哪里可以找到失踪的美国最高法院纪录？

  

Clerk of the US Supreme Court William Suter

The Supreme Court of the United States fails to meet the most fundamental international standards of an honest tribunal.

Los Angeles, February 8 -  a United Nations International Crime Prevention Center report lists missing court records as a cardinal sign of judicial corruption. [1] In the Supreme Court of the United States, missing court records are the rule.

In a series of cases from the Supreme Court of the United States, records have been released by Human Rights Alert (NGO), which are invalid notices of purported denial of motions, petitions, and applications filed by individuals in cases involving alleged abuse by government or large corporations. [2]

·        The notices issued by office of Clerk William Suter uniformly fail to include any true judicial records.

·        The letters are at times issued by unauthorized personnel, or are falsely signed.

Consequently, repeated attempts have been made to access the court file records of the Supreme Court of the United States, to discover if any judicial records existed at all, as the basis for the notices issued by Clerk William Suter. 

The right of the public to access court records to inspect and to copy is recognized by the US Supreme Court as a First Amendment right (Nixon v Warner Communications, Inc, 1978).  In the English speaking courts it is also held as a Common Law right.  Furthermore, it is essential part of Fair Hearings – a fundamental Human Right pursuant to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

·        In no case, where access to the paper court files has been permitted, has any valid judicial record ever been discovered, to support the purported notices of denial, issued by the office of Clerk William Suter.

·        In a number of cases – access to the paper court files has been denied.

·        Repeated requests to access the electronic court files of the Supreme Court of the United States have been denied. 

·        There is no evidence that public access to the electronic court files of the Supreme Court of the United States has ever been permitted.

The combined evidence is the basis for request, recently filed with US Congress, for impeachment of Clerk William Suter for public corruption, deprivation of rights, and violation of his Oath of Office.

The Supreme Court of the United States fails to meet the most fundamental international standards of an honest tribunal.

LINKS:

[1] 01-03-00 Strengthening Judicial Integrity Against Corruption - UN International Crime Prevention Center

http://www.scribd.com/doc/48103697/

[2] 11-01-25 Request for Impeachment of US Supreme Court Clerk WILLIAM SUTER s

http://www.scribd.com/doc/47539382/

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Human Rights Alert (NGO)

Human Rights Alert is dedicated to discovering, archiving, and disseminating evidence of Human Rights violations by the justice systems of the State of California and the United States in Los Angeles County, California, and beyond. Human Rights Alert focuses on the unique role of computerized case management systems in the precipitous deterioration of the integrity of the justice system in the United States.

http://twitter.com/inproperinla
http://www.scribd.com/Human_Rights_Alert
http://human-rights-alert.blogspot.com/

07-06-28 US Judges behaving badly // La corrupción de los jueces EE.UU. señaló The Economist de Londres // 美国法官所指出的腐败伦敦经济学

Judiciary

Jun 28th 2007 | from PRINT EDITION

A $54m lawsuit over a pair of pinstriped trousers that went missing from a Washington,DC, cleaners was thrown out by a judge this week. It had attracted worldwide ridicule. The fact that the case was brought, not by a random loony, but by a former judge has added to the sense that something is wrong not just with America's litigation laws, but with the kind of men and women Americans choose to sit in judgment over them.

A whole series of judicial misdemeanours, ranging from the titillating to the outrageous, has emerged over the past year. Take the Florida state judge, John Sloop, who was ousted after complaints about his “rude and abusive” behaviour. This included an order to strip-search and jail 11 defendants for arriving late in traffic court after being misdirected. Or the Californian judge, José Velasquez, sacked in April for a plethora of misconduct, including extending the sentences of defendants who dared question his rulings.

Then there was the Albany city judge, William Carter, in New York, censored for his “utterly inexcusable” conduct after jumping down from the bench during a trial, shedding his robes and apparently challenging a defendant to a fist-fight. Another time, he suggested that the police “thump the shit out” of an allegedly disrespectful defendant. Mr Carter wasn't carrying a gun; many judges now do. In Florida, Charles Greene, chief criminal judge in Broward County, had to step down after describing a trial for attempted murder involving minority defendants and witnesses as “NHI” (No Humans Involved). Then there are the sexual peccadilloes. In Colorado, a (male) judge resigned after admitting having sex with a (female) prosecutor in his chambers. In California, a former judge was jailed for 27 months for downloading child pornography. And in Oklahoma Donald Thompson, a judge for more than 20 years, was jailed for four years for indecent exposure and using a “penis pump” to masturbate during trials.

“To distrust the judiciary,” said Honoré de Balzac, “marks the beginning of the end of society.” In Britain, judges are one of the most respected groups. But in America they tend to be held in low esteem, particularly at state level. For this many people blame low pay and the fact that judges are elected. In 39 states, some or all judges are elected for fixed terms. Federal judges, usually held in much higher esteem, are appointed on merit for life—as in Britain.More serious are the cases of corruption. On June 5th Gerald Garson, a former judge in Brooklyn, New York, was jailed for taking bribes to rig divorce cases. Another judge was convicted of accepting money to refer clients to a particular lawyer. Rumours of buying and selling of judgeships in the district abound. At one time, one in ten Brooklyn judges were said to be under investigation for sleaze.

Most states allow judicial candidates to raise campaign funds. Huge sums are often involved, leading to inevitable suspicions that, once on the bench, judges will pass judgments that favour their benefactors. In 2004 the two candidates in one Illinois district (with a population of just 1.3m) raised a staggering $9.4m between them. Some of the states with the highest levels of campaign spending—Texas, Louisiana and Alabama—are also those whose judges are most criticised.

In the past, judicial candidates were banned from discussing controversial legal or political issues on the campaign trail. But in 2002 the Supreme Court ruled such bans to be unconstitutional, leading candidates to advertise freely their views on abortion and suchlike. Personal attacks have also become more common. Indeed, Sandra Day O'Connor, a former Supreme Court justice, fears that judicial elections have turned into “political prize-fights, where partisans and special interests seek to install judges who will answer to them instead of the law and the constitution.”

The meagre salaries of judges, whether at state or federal level, do not help raise standards either. Federal judges have not had a real pay rise for 17 years; a district court judge earns $165,000 a year, about the same as a first-year associate in a top law firm. John Roberts, chief justice of the Supreme Court, earns just $212,000—half the salary of England's top judge and one-fifth of the average income of a partner in the majority of America's 100 top-grossing law firms. Around 40 judges have left the federal bench over the past five years.

In his annual report to Congress in January, Mr Roberts said that the issue of judges' pay had reached “the level of a constitutional crisis”. It was threatening the judiciary's strength and independence. In February, Patrick Leahy, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, promised legislation to fix it within the current session. The judges are still waiting. Meanwhile, state judges in New York are preparing to sue the state for their first pay rise since 1999. The battle is joined
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11-02-07 Resistance rising to corruption of the courts in Florida // La corrupción de los tribunales en la Florida // 腐败在佛罗里达州法院

  

Sender: AMOJ_MAIN@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [AMOJ_MAIN] Fw: Attorneys Attack Rights of Citizen Journalists

Floida is a hotbed judicial and Bar corruption activists.  We are all not united in person, but we are united in cause, ideals and purpose.  To that end I welcome the recognition, attention and exposure provided by AMOJ and Jon Roland finally bearing fruit.  I have and will continue to share issues and actions that cross my path and have been generated wiothin the state for any intrinsic or extrinsic value whether they be the workings of "Joshua" Jack Thompson fittin' the battle of the florida Bar 'til down the walls come a tumblin' down; Les Winston of Biz radio AM 880 and the stories and achives of the corageous www.disbartheflordabar.com ; www.jaablog.jaablaw.com and the ongoing daily saga of the fraud and corruption in the Broward County Court and State Attorney's office; the writings of Bob Hurt of lawmangroups@yahoo,com the vigilence of Mark Adams

The archived lunimaries and heroes on disbarthefloridabar like Joshua Jack, Karin Huffer's Legal Abuse Syndrome, Mark Adams and many others sharing their stories with names, dates and places and mountains of true information in an effort to wake up Florida and America to this cancer need to be heard and enjoined.

This AMOJ exposure is the step I have wanted to see happen for all the years I have been contributing to it.  The ball needs to be kept rolling.
Huck

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Sent: Tue, Feb 1, 2011 12:36 am
Subject: [AMOJ_MAIN] Fw: Attorneys Attack Rights of Citizen Journalists

 
Please send messages on this and spread this message.

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Attorneys Attack Rights of Citizen Journalists
http://dailycensored.com/2011/01/31/attorneys-attack-rights-of-citizen-journalists/

The Florida Bar has proposed a new rule to eliminate coverage of court proceedings by citizen journalists. The Bar’s proposed rule prohibits anyone other than an employee of a traditional media outlet or an official court reporter from using any device which can make video or audio recording from being brought into a court including laptop computers.

Check out the article and spread the news.

Please note that if you want to object to this rule, the objection must be emailed in to the attorneys at the Bar by the end of the day on Feb. 1, 2011. Their email addresses are in the article along with a suggested comment.

Carpe diem,

Mark A. Adams JD/MBA

P.S. Since some of you may not know of my work, there’s a 3 minute video about some of it at http://blip.tv/file/1672498 Also, I'm one of the featured writers on The Daily Censored which is a news blog affiliated with the premier media watchdog organization, Project Censored. See http://dailycensored.com/writers/mark-a-adams/ for more about my work.

-- Jon

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11-02-07 Welcome Italy - Last New Visitor! // Bienvenido Italia - Visitante Mas Reciente! // 欢迎意大利- 最后的新访问者！

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11-02-06 Corruption of financial institutions and corruption of the state courts - both have deep roots in Los Angeles County, California

The US Department of Justice has treated Los Angeles County for at least three decades as an extra-constitutional zone.  On such background, synergy between the Los Angeles Superior Court and Countrywide Financial Corporation gave rise to Los Angeles County as "the epicenter of the epidemic of real estate and mortgage fraud."

The financial crisis and corruption of sub-prime lenders have deep roots in Los Angeles County, California:

• In the early 2000s, FBI reports distinguished Los Angeles County, California as "the epicenter of the epidemic of real estate and mortgage fraud."
• That distinction is claimed to have been earned through synergy of the Los Angeles Superior Court and the Los Angeles based Countrywide Financial Corporation - the leading sub-prime lender at that time.
• At least in one case, where a renowned Fraud Expert, and FBI veteran, opined real estate fraud, the evidence showed collusion by the Los Angeles Superior Court (with Judge Jacqueline Connor leading the pack), Countrywide (with Chief Legal Officer Sandor Samuels leading the pack), and later Bank or America (with Brian Moynihan leading the pack). [1,2,3]
• By January 2008, collapse of Countrywide ushered in the US and global financial crisis

Corruption of the state courts has deep roots in Los Angeles County, California:

• The Los Angeles based Sustain Technologies is wholly owned by the Los Angeles based Daily Journal - the largest legal newspaper in California, with tight ties to the California Judicial Council.
• Sustain Technologies is the maker of:
  • Sustain - the secretive courts' case management system, and
  • eCourt - the courts' online public access system
• Around 1985 Sustain was first developed and installed in the Los Angeles Superior Court.
• At that time, Ronald George, the immediate past Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, according to his official bio, served in leadership positions in the Los Angeles Superior Court.
• Based on two unpublished reports by Dr Zernik, a world-renowned computer science expert provided an opinion [4,5] supporting Dr Zernik's claims that the Sustain enables fraud by court staff, and called upon US based computer science experts to investigate the system.
• Combined, Sustain and eCourt were opined by Dr Zernik as the enabling tools for racketeering in the Los Angeles Superior Court.
• The latest report by Sustain Technologies claims: "25 Years. Two Provinces. Eleven States. Three Countries."  [6]
• Based on submission by Human Rights Alert (NGO), detailing conditions in Los Angeles County, California, the Human Rights Council of the United Nations issued in 2010 a report referring to "Corruption of the courts and the legal profession" in California. [7]

US Dept of Justice refuses to enforce the law regardless of finding criminality in financial institutions, because of their ties to corrupt judges.

• US Department of Justice has refused to enforce the law in Los Angeles County, California for at least three decades, effectively treating it as an extra-constitutional zone [8]
• Irrefutable evidence shows criminality in both Countrywide and in the Los Angeles Superior Court. [1,2,3,9,10]
• At least in one case, a renowned fraud expert - decorated FBI veteran - tied the refusal of FBI to enforce the law on Countrywide Financial Corporation and BofA to their collusion in criminality with corrupt judges of the Los Angeles Superior Court. [11,12]

LINKS:
[1] 10-05-05 Countrywide Bank of America NYSE BAC and its President Brian Moynihan Compilation of Records Evidence of Racketeering
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30975368/
[2] 10-05-05 Chairs of US Congress Committees of the Judiciary and Banking Are Requested to Join Senator Feinstein's Inquiries on Comptroller of the Currency
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30979882/
[3] 10-07-06 Complaint Filed with US Attorney Office Los Angeles Against Moynihan Bank of America [NYSE:BAC] Bryan Cave LLP Alleging Racketeering
http://www.scribd.com/doc/33971099/
[4] 09-04-20 Prof Eliyahu Shamir's Opinion Letter re: Sustain - the Case Management System of the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles
http://www.scribd.com/doc/46069337/
[5] 09-04-20 Prof Eli Shamir, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, directory information
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30454039/
[6] 11-02-06 Sustain Technologies - Corruption of the State Courts Has Deep Roots in Los Angeles County, California
http://www.scribd.com/doc/48294934/
[7] 10-04-19 Human Rights Alert (NG0) submission to the  United Nations Human Rights Council  for the 2010 Review (UPR) of Human Rights in the United States as incorporated into the UPR staff report:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/
[8] 10-10-13 Extra Constitutional Zones - Excerpts From Discussion on the OAK Board
http://www.scribd.com/doc/39302595/
[9] [1] 10-10-15 Proposed Organizational Chart of the LA-JR (alleged Los Angeles Judiciary Racket)
 http://www.scribd.com/doc/39383792/
[10] 11-01-07 Superior Court of Los Angeles County, California: Widespread Public Corruption and Refusal of US Department of Justice to Take Action
http://www.scribd.com/doc/46460640/
[11] 07-12-17 Samaan v Zernik (SC087400) David Pasternak: Grant Deeds in re: 320 South Peck Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90212, opined as fraud by James Wedick
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24991238/
[12] 08-08-21 Samaan v Zernik (SC087400) Email letter by highly decorated FBI veteran James Wedick regarding  FBI's refusal to provide Dr Zernik equal protection
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29713733/