She will not be defeated.  She will keep on typing until her fingers bleed and fall off.

KDD and I will continue to provide “free legal advice” to Gloria and all the probate victims out there–NO MATTER WHAT THE ARDC SAYS.

We won’t be pushed around by clout.  The “clout” from the Record on Appeal knows there was no service AND YET THEY CONTINUE to violate the civil and human rights of everyone involved:  Most of all Gloria and Mary, other Sykes family and friends who are strenuously isolated from her, then Ken and I who suffer under prosecution persection, etc.

From: GLORIA Jean SYKES
Sent: Jun 11, 2013 10:51 AM
To: “kenditkowsky@yahoo.com” , “k_bakken@att.net” , scott evans , “joanne@denisonlaw.com” , Elaine NAsga , Sue Fege , Lucinda , LUCIUS VERENUS , richard busse indiana attorney , rudy bush , barbara Los Vegas , Annie NASGA , “K. Ditkowsky paralegal” , GLD , Dave Silver Iphone account , paulette , Law Office , Suzy Nicksic , Erma NASGA , Sherrif Dart , Don Johnson , mary wooley state police , barbara nasga , Barbara Stephens , Kelly Yost-Wright Maderer , Bev Cooper , “ecarter@atg.state.il.us” , states attorney , matt senator kirk , Gail Duncan , larry chambers paralegal , Larry Chambers , “vahrh1135@aol.com” , Congresswoman Jan , Joe Hosey reporter , SteveS , JoAnne Denison blog , Peter Schmiedel Carolyn’s 2nd attorney , Cynthia GAL , Adamm Stern GAL , Salam-news Erna , Chicago Tribune , “cindydamron@aol.com” , maria 60 Minutes , “60m@cbsnews.com” <60m@cbsnews.com>, “dateline@nbcuni.com” , “nightly@nbc.com” , brian williams nbc , Brian Nadig newsapers , Marti Truth Squad
Subject: FW: Ronald Reagan on his knees

Dear All,

I am certain a few of you are wondering how I could or would have the gall to email you this digital recording, below.  Well, the answer is simple:  its up to you to decide.   These few people who have chosen to be adversaries, have appeared before many different Courts/Judges and proclaimed demonization upon my good name and reputation, even writing letters to the ARDC and Judges calling me a liar — that, for instance I did not cover the John Wayne Gacy story — let alone meet Mr. Gacy days after his arrest in the office of the Cook County State’s Attorney and interview him.  I am certain these people will also come to arms and say I also never met the late President Ronald Reagan — or spent a few hours in his California home. The truth is, I did all of these stories and much more: I’ve been blessed in my career to have had such opportunities.  In fact, the opportunity to spent a few hours with Nancy and Pres. Reagan was because I was assigned a story about a little girl who had a rare cancer: she was dying and her prayers first to meet Pres. Reagan and second, she wanted a hand made quilt crafted with certain colors and shapes (my mother, Mary G. Sykes made this quilt and the Reagans granted her wish and allowed my professional TV crew into their home).   I was not a fan of Pres. Reagan, and his economics (Reaganomics) and in fact during the 1980s also did many stories that came as a result of his politics (supply-side economics and trickle-down economics to reduce the growth of government spending, the federal income tax and capital gains tax, et al), to reduce inflation, but I was a fan of his courage to speak out about his beliefs in God and how prayer was of his, as other great peoples’ (Lincoln and Washington) successes.  

In sending this to these people who believe that isolating my mother, terrorizing me (seizing my assets, personal and intellectual properties, selling my home, rendering me homeless and penniless, in order to silence me or bully me into waling away and not appealing the Probate and Forcible Entry and Detainer Divisions’ acting without jurisdiction, or their actions in other courts, I am asking each one to watch the digital recording below, and then look in the mirror.  I ask the ARDC, who refuses to prosecute attorney Peter Schmiedel, Adam Stern, Cynthia Farenga, Joel Brodsky for violations against the Professional Codes of Conduct where Transcripts evidence said violations two-fold, because of the attorneys and Administrator’s need to stay their course and protect the attorneys who committed said violations as a means to cover-up their own involvement in perpetrating the isolation, drugging, medical and emotional abuses and undue influences perpetrated with blatant arrogance against my Mother.  

Without further ado, I ask each one of you to view this short video and if you are moved as any decent human being should be, then I ask that we all sit down at the table and agree to disagree but to et my Mother free so she can live out her life with the people she loves and trusts in her home (the sale was and is unlawful as the home is in a trust and the trust was NEVER vacated by Mother, giving Toepre the right to sell or take possession of).  I have over three dozen phone calls from my mother records (the reason why all calls were halted) and in each call my mother told me that every morning she prays for me and every night she prays for me and to return home.  No matter what you decide, I have my mother’s prayers and wishes memorialized and sooner than any of the adversaries would like, they will be published and the world will hear the voice of, and see the digital recordings of (along with transcripts of my Mother in Court) and the truth will be told.  

As my daddy taught me, “The truth leaves tracks…” and so in the shadow of my father’s words, and in my Mother’s prayers, along with the prayers of all of her family and friends, and people who neither my Mother or I have ever met, I send you this digital recording.  I appreciate any feed back, especially from the adversaries, who include the Cook County State’s Attorney, Sheriff Dart, the Attorney General, attorneys Peter Schmiedel, Adam Stern, Harvey Jack Waller and Cynthia FArenga.

And to close I will add the words that hang on the wall of Judge Stuart’s Courtroom, “In God We Trust”.  

Here’s one truth: Adam Stern, Cynthia Farenga, Peter Schmiedle, Lea Black and the IARDC Administrator, et al, you have done a good job stealing all my assets, looting my safety deposite boxes, damaging or destroying all of my intellectual properties, stealing my Mother’s home and assets, and now attemptig to sell my home too, but you WILL NEVER TAKE AWAY THE ONE THING MY MOTHER AND I HAVE THAT YOUR CLIENT CAROLYN TOEREPE WILL NEVER HAVE AND HAS NEVER HAD, AND THAT IS THE LOVE AND TRUST MY MOTHER HAS IN AND FOR ME, AND A FOREVER LIFE WITH MY MOTHER.  As I believe in heaven I also believe in Hell and as my Aunt Yo expressed to Carolyn Toerpe, (and each one of you), “There’s a special place in Hell” for Toerpe.  We all have choices.  

The question the adversaries must make is simple:  is the money youve earned for doing significant harm to people (my mother and me, Aunt Yo, et al) worth it?  I pray to God it is not.

Yes, your client Carolyn  Toerpe told me on September 20, 2009, before she shoved  my mother into the refridgerator and my mother twisted her ankle, that I would never see or be able to talk to my Mother again — and that she she “hoped the stress caused the cancer to return and that this time the cancer would kill [me]”.  Well, even though Fred Toerpe beat the crap out of me, and the Cook County State’s Attorney is protecting him (for now), I’m still alive and very, healthy.  You have my mother, my best friend and love of my life, but I have her love and trust and God and the Angels are on my side.

And now, I am rambling, as attonry Peter Schmiedel pointed out in his most recent Motion to convince the Illinios Appellate Court to dismiss my FED appeal and force me to pay his legal fees….

But now you have a choice.

In God I also trust.

ON HIS KNEES
RONALD REAGAN
 
 
This is a rather short video that we all should watch,  appreciate and fully understand its meaning. It is also one that everyone in our  government should be forced to watch several times, at least until they get  it!!! If you are one of those that do not forward e-mails, please make this an  exception and pass this along to everyone in your address book.
 
http://www.youtube.com/embed/OvN1jTkzXbY?rel=0
 

Healthy Regards to all…

.Gloria Jean Sykes
Bon Ami Productions, Inc.
BELIEVE (BeLive) LLC

From: kenneth ditkowsky
Sent: Jun 10, 2013 8:53 PM
To: GLORIA Jean SYKES , Eric Holder , matt senator kirk , Chicago Tribune , steve huntly sun times , LUCIUS VERENUS , “vahrh1135@aol.com” , “foxnews_7D7B711AF105DCA690AB56169C0FF242@newsletters.foxnews.com” , Elaine NAsga , “k_bakken@att.net” , scott evans , GLD , Lucinda , NASGA
Cc: Sherrif Dart , states attorney , “ecarter@atg.state.il.us” , mary wooley state police
Subject: Re: ROA Sykes window service not completed

http://www.ditkowskylawoffice.com/

Dear Readers;

As you know, this blog is for YOU, the person who can no longer see grandma or grandpa, the person who listens to grandma and grandpa cry in a nursing home to go home or go to a loving home with relatives to care for her, but she can’t go–because the probate courts say so.

So, Ken and I have suffered and been prosecuted with ARDC complaints.  The problem is, we have done nothing wrong.  We talk about what YOU the reader wants to talk about. We take your side, give free legal advice, I draft form pleadings for you to use in court–all you pro-se’ers out there. 

And the ARDC apparently hates that.

I have to tell you, I have worked for large law firms that have cautioned and me and wanted to get rid of me for “giving it away for free”.  Yep, that’s right, got told “don’t work so hard for so little money.”  Well, I’m honest and I love to work.

The ARDC is going to have problems with me and Ken, well, because we’re not yellers and screamers and we don’t use foul language, so we can’t fall into the pattern of cases THEY want to use to disbar us.

We think.  We write.  We read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and we believed in all of that when our mother told us, memorize some of that stuff–it’s important.  Even my grandparents told me that.

Now I am older and my head is spinning about all of this.

And yet the legislatures–Federal and State keeps on churning out more ways to protect grandma and grandpa and Ken and I speaking out for both of them and keeping them out of nursing homes, and us telling you the truth IT IS A WIRED IN SYSTEM for a chunk of people out there.  And you can ask, well these people have a lot of money and my family has nothing so it won’t happen to me.

Think again, grasshopper.  The reality is, you can have nothing and if a wired in institution–you know the type that buys mega pharma psychotropics to chemically restrain anyone, gets ahold of someone who might have soc. security benefits, pension benefits, really anything or any “govt program” for the disabled (Danielle Murphy’s institution gets $300,000 per year– you could be in for the state tied in ride.

Don’t fool yourself.

So while Ken and I work tirelessly for you, and we are indeed the real thing, I struggle every month to make ends meet, I have long months where I turn down the heat to 60 degrees, turn off the A/C until it’s unbearable in here.  I live from month to month with no money—but it means no disgrace, no accusations from the ARDC for taking millions for no work (whew, I’m so glad of that), so I can blog for you.  And the ARDC can’t say it’s money motivated.

When I go to probate (true story) I had a probate atty AND a GAL say you won’t get paid for all that work and I (honestly) turned to them and said I don’t care.  They threatened to “tell the judge”.  True story.  I said “I don’t care”.  I don’t have any money, so there’s nothing to lose.  Go right ahead.  I am there to make sure that the WARD is cared for by the BEST person, not to make money.  So go ahead and cut my bill.  Tell me I won’t get paid.  Same ole same ole for me.

I grew up poor.  When I don’t work at large law firm (80% of my time in law), I don’t make much and I work hard.  Sounds like a fine plan for me.  I did my undergrad on a scholarship and my law degree GM (“generous mother or “General Motors”) paid for at Indiana University, so I’m not in a bind to take advantage over money.  I’m frugal.

If I don’t get a vacation this year and I work 80 hours per week BUT I keep grandma and grandpa safely at home for a few more days before being dumped in a nursing home and chemically restrained, I’m happy.

I’ll take a vacation when I’m dead. (There’s actually a song by that name, good song).

But I digress and it’s a long digression.  The reality is, the ARDC says I can’t blog for YOU.  I don’t know where the ARDC dug up attorneys to go after honest and ethical attys and say that Ken and I lie, and I don’t know how many times I can publish the fact that Mary Sykes was never served, but I will do it until my fingers bleed and fall off, that’s for sure.

So I filed a SLAPP or CPA motion.  SLAPP means (and I actually learned this in BAR review BARBARI, so thank you very much), Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation.  It evolved from mega corps going after citizens making public grievances and complaints which were groundless.  You know, where you buy a house in a subdivision, you are promised nirvana, but the model house you bought has leaky plumbing, a bad roof, bad furnance, etc. and so you take to the streets with your neighbors and protest. The developer, all high and mighty files a defamation suit against you.  So, the Illinois state legislature came up with SLAPP or the Illinois CAP or Citizens Participation Act.

Is the ARDC really any different?  I don’t represent Sykes.  i tried to back in 2009 but was booted out of the elite and gold palmed old attys club of probate.  I got over that.  So I blog.  I blog for Mary and Gloria, Wyman, Tyler, Bedin and Gore, etc. Whomever comes to me.  Whomever needs purchase and rest.

What does the ARDC do on May 7, 2013?  They deny my motion for SLAPP against them, without comment, without explanation, without findings of fact or conclusions of law.

They are obviously gold plated and high and mighty.  And I know that 130 E Randolph where they reside are pretty much part of “ivory towers”.  I get that.

So here is my Notice of Appeal and Docketing Statement to get everything going at the First District Court of Appeals.

And I know I am not particularly favored there.  I’ve had my $6 million dollar case lost due to corruption.  I know the system.  Gloria’s been up against it and she leads a line so well known on this blog and so well studied, there’s pretty much nothing left to the imagination.

The court of appeals is not an easy or pretty place.  it’s when your case gets on life support.

But no matter.  I publish this for you so you have a sample pleading and know that somewhere out there, in a very miniscule manner, there is hope.

Sykesblog Notice of Appeal and Docketing Statement

sorry, link button isn’t working, I’ll fix later

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6FbJzwtHocwNXpuMUR0UmdVMEE/edit?usp=sharing

But I want you to know, I am still working for you and your rights and I will not abandon you.

JoAnne

Just to let you all know (and judging from KDD’s decision) I want to let you all know that this blog is practically contraband and prohibited like a meth lab in my home basement.  I almost have my response finished up to that, and it also isn’t pretty.

So, John Wyman’s decision wasn’t pretty. The justices practically tripped over themselves to kick it.  3 years, no jurisdiction?  What?  Can’t have that.

So they denied on whatever technicality they could find hoping I would go away.

Yesterday we filed the following:

Motion to Amend the Notice of Appeal

Motion for Reconsideration of Denial of Appeal

And I’m publishing all of this, so that YOU the reader can learn about how to do these things.  They should not be secret.  The ARDC should not be publishing opinions where they seem to strongly imply that my and KDD’s providing free legal advice to you the readers out there–even including Gloria, whom I think they fear like the black death plague, is entitled to it.  You all are entitled to this blog so you know what to expect when you get to probate.

We shot the red coats because they oppressed us.  We had no freedom of speech, no rights to “due process” or service of a summons and complaint.  The ARDC wants us to revisit the 1770’s and I for one am not willing.

Neither is Ken.

Let your elected officials know that grandma and grandpa are in trouble and need help.  They are being railroaded, shoved into guardianships and being ignored when they say they want an attorney to represent them–not an ice floe.

Mary was railroaded.  Her lack of summons and complaint is published below.

Mary’s lack of service by the Cook County Sheriff who will not do an affidavit or letter of non service

We don’t need another elder poster child.

Dear Readers:

Please see the link below and it appears that Attorney Grant Goodman has the same issues that attorneys are seeing hundreds of miles away in a cooler climate.

Arizona’s Maricopa County suffers from probate pillage and no due process either

So many of the quotes in this article, which btw is from ABC news who ran a series on probate, centers around the same issues in Cook County Probate–unconsitutional processes, dissipating/liquidating significant chunks of large estates.

I wonder if all this is a problem from time immemorial.

JoAnne

Dear Readers;

Yep, that’s it.  Nothing.  Mary has now been railroaded into a guardianship with no service. We went to the sheriff’s office after having obtained the Record on Appeal (ROA) and they confirmed that there was no service (and I won’t name name because the ARDC is chilling my speech right now).   BUT they refused to provide an affidavit or any evidence of “no service” other than two cryptic computer generated documents that somewhat indicate window service, BUT NO AFFIDAVIT.  Of course, if someone is served, there should be an affidavit of service, but what of “no service”?  Can’t we get one of those also?  Apparently not.  Our request to sign a prepared affidavit ended up with sorry, no can do.

I guess the sheriff’s offices does not want anyone to have any solid evidence that defendants weren’t served.

Ken is right, the courts are erroding our rights, taking away our liberties, taking away the right we used to have to say this is part of corruption in Cook County and has to end–and the newspapers write about all sorts of junk.

Yes, maybe the honey bees are dying because of Monsanto and other agra chem companies, but at the same time–mega corps are slowly taking away our rights as citizens to say that seniors are being isolated, that seniors are being wrongfully refused attorneys to protect them and make sure their interests are being taken into consideration, and TV is filled with violence and junk and sex that is apparently protected.

Video games with horrible life themes get a pass, but when grandma will get guardianized, isolated and ripped off with nary a blip on the screen, the country turns the other way.

Our nursing homes are filled with grandmas and grandpas that don’t want to be there. Their paid up homes and bank accounts pay for it, and they quickly die in nursing homes being isolated with bad food, and often they are given psychotropic drugs against their will and consent.  Nursing homes are one of the largest consuming facilities of psychotropic drugs which wreak havoc on heart, kidneys, liver, etc.–and there must be informed consent to the individual to administer them, but all of this is routinely bypassed (see, In re Tiffany posts).  Plus, there are no psychotropic drugs which are FDA approved for seniors, so what gives here?

And then, if you want to get elected, we have the Chicago Tribune article saying you must pay “the machine $30,000”–all from the mouth of a recently elected judge.

I see people going nuts and bezerk for animal rights, and that’s good, but if we don’t start protecting people first–in particular grandma and grandpa and their right to an attorney, their right to live in accordance with their advance directives, some mega corp will quietly take over and take away the rights of animal activists to do their work, well, because if humans no longer have or need their Bill of Rights, animals certainly don’t have one and that will be the end of that.

It’s good to protect the environment, it’s good to take care of Fluffy and Fido, don’t get me wrong.  But right now grandma and grandpa are in trouble, and placement in a nursing home against their will, drugging and isolating them seem the norm.

And if you think the politicians aren’t cozily in bed with this system. Think again.  In many nursing homes, the nursing home gets the senior to apply for an absentee ballot, and when they get there, they are filled out en masse–and not by grandma and grandpa who is drooling in the corner.

Where are the elections judges at the nursing homes and why don’t we have online voting yet? We know how many people live in a household according to driver’s licenses, why not do it that way?

Because there’s more going on, that’s why.

Write, call, fax your representative today and tell them the contributions to get a judgeship in Chicago must end and all seated judges must immediately disclose what and when they paid ANYONE and that includes “the machine”–either directly or indirectly.

Write, call or fax The Honorable Timothy Evans and ask him about all of this. Why wasn’t Mary served and why won’t the sheriff’s office provide affidavits of non-service to take to court.

Write or call your representative and demand online voting according to driver’s licenses and state ID’s for people that want this.  No one should control votes.  Any voting from a nursing home should be highly scrutinized and why isn’t the election board doing this?

JoAnne

http://www.ditkowskylawoffice.com/

see the below link and save it to post and comment as Ken’s case goes on and on and on and on….

NASGA stands behind Ken Ditkowsky and so do I

please post and comment on this blog and on the NASGA blog

okay to publish I assume?  Well done.  What I say and you say about a case we’re not appearing on is none of the IARDC’s business.  and if you want to announce it to the world you’re investigating the lack of service upon Mary, then you should be applauded and not made a pariah.

thanks

joanne

—–Original Message—–
From: kenneth ditkowsky
Sent: Jun 8, 2013 4:58 AM
To: JoAnne M Denison , Atty Ken Ditkowsky
Subject: Re: And I don’t care if the ladies at the ARDC are intelligence challenged

A bad complaint results in a bad answer.    The complaint filed by the IARDC concerning you (and me) has uncorrected several problems.  1) the complaint is meritless.    Pursuant to Citizen’s United it is now an absolute that no government agency (including the IARDC) has the authority to regulate citizen based speech.   A citizen, including a quasi citizen such as a corporation, has an absolute to be critical of government officials including the President of the United States.    Thus, the authorship of a ‘blog’ being critical of a public official such as Cynthia Farenga, Peter Schmiedel, or Adam Stern is not within the mission statement of the IARDC to regulate.   2) The Congress of the United States provided Statutory protection in 74  USCA 230 for the author of the blog and the blog itself.   3) The Congress of the United States provided statutory protection for the author of the blog by the Copyright laws of the United STates of America.    Complying with the dictates of Cynthia Farenga (smoking gun letter) is not an proper usage of copyrighted material.   (see Letter from Cynthia Farenga to IARDc attorney Lea Black requesting aid in stopping call for HONEST investigation of Sykes and similar cases).

I realize how important it is to the IARDC to protect the ability of certain judicial officials to protect the cottage industry created by certain favored lawyers to separate senior citizens from their liberty and property and in particular to prevent dissemination of information concerning the ‘theft’ of over a million dollars in assets from Mary Sykes’ safety deposit box, the dissipation of Alice Gore’s 1.5 million dollar estate and the lack of inventory of the gold fillings that we removed from her teeth, etc.    However, the governmental priorities of the IARDC (and its administrator) of aiding and abetting the separation of selected senior citizens from their families, friends, liberty, and property has run into the RULE OF LAW and the ethical and moral problem expressed by the words and phrases of the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

Lawyers who do not recognize the RULE OF LAW and terrorists who strike at the core of America!    I’ve copied Senator Kirk’s office and General Holder as the American Taliban cancer is eating away at our Democracy.     I previously wrote Senator Durbin – his office sent me back a form letter which in words and phrase said he was not interested!    Democracy is not a spectator sport!

Ken Ditkowsky
http://www.ditkowskylawoffice.com/

okay to publish, I assume, she DOES need a wellness check

On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 8:25 AM, kenneth ditkowsky <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com> wrote:

It is time for another wellness check for Mary Sykes  –  family attempts to locate her and check on her have been un-successful.

Let me make this very clear  – there have been too many instances in which elderly people who are subject to the ‘cottage industry’ of judicially sanction ‘elder cleansing’ have conveniently ‘died.’   The death is followed with a quick cremation and the labeling of the victim’s families as bunch of nuts.   Rudy Bush’s mother (in Colorado) is one of many of those situations.

As the ‘august participants’ of the cottage industry of judicially sanctioned elder cleansing have targeted Mary Sykes and they have prevented her two sisters, her younger daughter, her friends, and family from having telephone, physical or any contact with her we do not intend to assist in the project.    We therefore demand regular welfare checks of Mary Sykes and that the information obtained, if any, be freely available to the public.

Even though it has been ruled by the Illinois Attorney Registration and Discipline commission that it is unethical to write law enforcement or anyone else objecting to the program of ‘elder cleansing’ as a citizen without regret or repentance I want you to know that this is a serious problem and I have copied the office of Senator Mark Kirk and General Eric Holder of this request for a wellness check.

While I do not expect ‘foul play’ in the event that Mary Sykes should pass away, I want it made very clear that she is not be cremated without notification to her family and a full investigation being made.   We have no intention of allowing the ‘deserving promulgators of elder cleansing’ to not account for the approximately a million dollars of uninventoried assets that Ms. Sykes and others have revealed to have been placed in the possession of the plenary guardian.

Thank you for your courtesy and co-operation.

Ken Ditkowsky
http://www.ditkowskylawoffice.com/

from janet phelan:

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/04/misfortune-of-inheriting.html

this article shows you how to kill a disabled person, then hide assets and swipe them from the estate.   Thanks, Janet for giving me this link.  I stand behind your investigative reporting sills.

One of the things during Ken’s trial that the ARDC didn’t like, and it was pretty much the main theme– and what I pretty missed during my original reading of “Citizen’s United” a year ago, (and Ken has been right about this all along) is that content oriented speech that is private in nature is fully protected by the First Amendment.

And then, of course he told me an old war story, a story about how for some odd reason he was given an immigration case that was “deemed hopeless”.

Turned out the gentleman was an engineer.  He was from China years ago.  To summarize, when the “Reds” came thru his hometown,  many of his relatives were murdered. That was the “first wave”.  Second wave, third wave, well you get the picture, everyone was gone and he was hiding in the forest, cellars, haystacks, where ever to survive.

Eventually he made his way to Hong Kong, worked hard, managed to get a degree in engineering by climbing a lot of barbed wire and lived there for awhile as a young boy and then a young man. Then he made his way onto a merchant marine ship when the Reds were after him again (for being from the wrong town, the wrong family, who knows).  He worked on the ship for about 7 years and then came to the US.  He lived there for many years, until the US got caught him and said he had to leave.  Ken got the case because many other attys turned it down, saying it was hopeless, so how could he screw it up knowing nothing about immigration.  So Ken studied the laws.  Determined that because Mr. Engineer lived in the US for more than 7 years, his case was a priority.  BUT the USG atty said, you didn’t read the full act.  This guy doesn’t get priority because the act specifically exempts people who came off a boat acting as seaman.  So, Ken argued before the court, well, the man was an engineer before he got on the ship, he worked as a seaman, but that never changed the fact he was an engineer because he held a degree in engineering.

The court held with that argument,  the man was entitled to priority as a refugee seeking political asylum.  Now, that does not mean the rest of story made his immigration easy, because in the US we have decided that while most of us WERE immigrants who had NO immigration policy when our ancestors came here without highly restrictive (and ridiculous) laws, NOW we have to piss on the rest of the world, but I digress.

Getting back to the case at hand, the ARDC proposes that because lawyers take an oath of office to “uphold the US and Illinois constitutions” we can no longer speak about corruption.  Imagine all that.  We give up our Free Speech rights and the right to be a member of the Free Press–deemed essential to the preservation of a solid democracy, as stated in the First Amendment.

As many of your oldsters might recall, there was a cute old movie that won many prestigious awards about “Mr. Smith goes to Washington” and what did Mr. Smith find? Corruption.

Turns out, mentioning the fact back in that era of 1939 if you mentioned that Washington DC was corrupt, it could get your movie banned! Yep, that’s right.  And that fact is even mentioned in the Citizen’s United case.  I love it when the US supremes talk about a movie!

I don’t recall from the movie if Mr. Smith were a lawyer, but according to the ARDC if he mentioned the word corruption or let that movie be produced and distributed, he would be guilty of misconduct, violations of Rules 8.3 and 8.4 and disbarred.

I simply cannot imagine anyone in their right mind disbarring Jimmy Stewart, but if I had to choose someone to do it under gunpoint, I would definitely anoint the team of attorneys Jerome Larkin, Leah Black, Melissa Smith and Sharon Opryszek and Mr. Apostol.

I don’t get it.  President Clinton gets disbarred for lying during a deposition that a BJ with an intern isn’t “sex” (it’s private oral massage) BUT certain miscreants get a free pass when they lie to deprive a certain elderly woman of service, notice and her elderly sisters of notice, so Mary Sykes has no liberties, property rights, human and civil rights.

All ex Pres did was get a BJ and he gets disbarred.  Attys in Illinois stand idly by while millions disappear, lie about serving subpoenas according to the Record on Appeal, lie about service on the alleged disabled and the sisters, lie about all sorts of things DIRECTLY TO THE COURT, and they get free parking money of $2000, a couple of “get out of jail” cards,  they pass go and get their $200 income for the year, and benefist and health care.  Leah Black got a promotion for prosecuting an honest attorney, if you look at the record–or was that just a convenient coincidence for looking the other way (“gambling? there’s gambling going on in here?” whisper “sir, here’s your winnings”).  All the while I work for almost no money for victims of corruption and I have little heat during the winter, BUT I DON’T CARE.

But I can get disbarred or suspended for misconduct?  Something’s amiss in River City, that’s for sure.

All good questions, now where are the answers.

From: kenneth ditkowsky
Sent: Jun 7, 2013 6:10 AM
To: Janet Phelan
Subject: Re: There’s a reason they are called “courts….”

http://www.ditkowskylawoffice.com/

One of the problems that has cropped up in running this blog is that many of my sources are attorneys that do not want any flack from the ARDC, and I would like to protect my sources, which I am willing to do.

But if anyone knows of some good press credentials for myself and this blog, plmk.

take care

joanne

One of the issues cropping up in Ken and mine ARDC’s case is are the rules under 8.3 and 8.4 that provide, ( this is right from the Complaint sent to me):

a. making a statement that the lawyer knows to be false or
with reckless disregard as to its truth or falsity concerning
the qualifications or integrity of a judge, adjudicatory
officer or public legal officer, in violation of Rule 8.2 of the
Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct;
b. conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or
misrepresentation, in violation of Rule 8.4C of the Illinois
Rules of Professional Conduct;
c. conduct that is prejudicial to the administration of justice,
in violation of Rule 8.4C of the Illinois Rules of
Professional Conduct;

Now, when these rules are applied to conduct by an attorney for lying to the court, stealing, fraud, theft and embezzlement, even a DUI or sexual abuse, murder, etc., the rules are clear.  There is truly no problem in applying them.

The problem comes in, when the activities complained of encompass free speech activities of lawyers, and especially when they are applied to disseminating news or blogging.  Then, the lawyer stands or should stand as a citizen to her job and the First Amendment should be given as wide a berth as possible.

In this case, the ARDC seems to  think that an attorney cannot blog about corruption, irregularities, lack of service upon participants because that brings “disrepute” to the court system, when in fact it is the exact opposite.

One of the cases that KDD found which has some great language for keeping the First Amendment broad is Citizens United.  Most of you should know the case because it created a furror when SCOTUS said 1) that corporations are elevated to the status of “person” when determining First Amendment rights and 2) it is part of free speech to make campaign donations to particular candidates to promote who should be elected or who should not be elected.  The net effect of this decision is that corporations can now douse politicians with money who will support a corporate agenda that might be anti-green, anti-union, anit-worker, etc. and many people are fearful of that.

However, for the purposes of First Amendment rights, here are some excerpts of yours and my and Ken’s First Amendment rights.  One of the things that the ARDC is skipping is the fact that the First Amendment has to be given the broadest scope possible.  It has to allow people to speak out against corruption and prior ARDC cases were concerned with that.  In fact, I believe before Atty. Lanre’s case, I don’t know of an attorney disciplined for speaking out against corruption in the courts. The blogging world and even the Chicago Trib has stories of it, but for some reason the ARDC thinks attorneys should not mention it.

I have no idea where all of that came from.

In fact, if you read Ken’s ARDC decision closely, the tribunal was clearly disappointed that his behavior in court was perfect.  He did not yell, scream or shout obscenities like other lawyers did that got disbarred for ranting and raving and calling judges “corrupt”, “crooks”, etc.

All KDD did was call for an investigation.

Calling for an investigation is NOT the same as filing a police report or demanding prosecution.  It is merely calling for the police and the GAL’s to do their job.  Go out and investigate.  Pull bank records.  Look at the house, get involved.

Where this escapes everyone, I don’t understand.

From Citizen’s United and Ken’s brief, some great quotes:

with respect to blogging:

“Courts, too, are bound by the First Amendment. We must decline to draw, and then redraw, constitutional lines based on the particular media or technology used to disseminate political speech from a particular speaker.   Citizens United v. Fed. Election Comm’n, 558 U.S. 310, 326, 130 S. Ct. 876, 891, 175 L. Ed. 2d 753 (2010)

“The First Amendment provides that “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.” Laws enacted to control or suppress speech may operate at different points in the speech process. The following are just a few examples of restrictions that have been attempted at different stages of the speech process—all laws found to be invalid: restrictions requiring a permit at the outset, Watchtower *337 Bible & Tract Soc. of N.Y., Inc. v. Village of Stratton, 536 U.S. 150, 153, 122 S.Ct. 2080, 153 L.Ed.2d 205 (2002); imposing a burden by impounding proceeds on receipts or royalties, Simon & Schuster, Inc. v. Members of N.Y. State Crime Victims Bd., 502 U.S. 105, 108, 123, 112 S.Ct. 501, 116 L.Ed.2d 476 (1991); seeking to exact a cost after the speech occurs, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S., at 267, 84 S.Ct. 710; and subjecting the speaker to **897 criminal penalties, Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444, 445, 89 S.Ct. 1827, 23 L.Ed.2d 430 (1969) (per curiam).   Citizens United v. Fed. Election Comm’n, 558 U.S. 310, 336-37, 130 S. Ct. 876, 896-97, 175 L. Ed. 2d 753 (2010)

The Citizen’s United  has over-ruled Palmisano with the following dicta, to wit:
“While some means of communication may be less effective than others at influencing the public in different contexts, any effort by the Judiciary to decide which means of communications are to be preferred for the particular type of message and speaker would raise questions as to the courts’ own lawful authority. Substantial questions would arise if courts were to begin saying what means of speech should be preferred or disfavored. And in all events, those differentiations might soon prove to be irrelevant or outdated by technologies that are in rapid flux. See Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. FCC, 512 U.S. 622, 639, 114 S.Ct. 2445, 129 L.Ed.2d 497 (1994).

“**891 6 Courts, too, are bound by the First Amendment. We must decline to draw, and then redraw, constitutional lines based on the particular media or technology used to disseminate political speech from a particular speaker. It must be noted, moreover, that this undertaking would require substantial litigation over an extended time, all to interpret a *327 law that beyond doubt discloses serious First Amendment flaws. The interpretive process itself would create an inevitable, pervasive, and serious risk of chilling protected speech pending the drawing of fine distinctions that, in the end, would themselves be questionable. First Amendment standards, however, “ must give the benefit of any doubt to protecting rather than stifling speech.” WRTL, 551 U.S., at 469, 127 S.Ct. 2652 (opinion of ROBERTS, C.J.) (citing New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 269–270, 84 S.Ct. 710, 11 L.Ed.2d 686 (1964))”    Citizens United v. Fed. Election Comm’n, 558 U.S. 310, 326-27, 130 S. Ct. 876, 890-91, 175 L. Ed. 2d 753 (2010)

The Virginia State Bar case 2013 WL 749494 is consistent with The Supreme Court decisions that over-rule the district Court decision of Palmisano.
United States v. Stevens, 559 U.S. 460, 130 S. Ct. 1577, 1584, 176 L. Ed. 2d 435 (2010)   _ the Court stated:
“From 1791 to the present,” however, the First Amendment has “permitted restrictions upon the content of speech in a few limited areas,” and has never “include[d] a freedom to disregard these traditional limitations.” Id., at 382–383, 112 S.Ct. 2538. These “historic and traditional categories long familiar to the bar,” Simon & Schuster, Inc. v. Members of N.Y. State Crime Victims Bd., 502 U.S. 105, 127, 112 S.Ct. 501, 116 L.Ed.2d 476 (1991) (KENNEDY, J., concurring in judgment)—including obscenity, Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476, 483, 77 S.Ct. 1304, 1 L.Ed.2d 1498 (1957), defamation, Beauharnais v. Illinois, 343 U.S. 250, 254–255, 72 S.Ct. 725, 96 L.Ed. 919 (1952), fraud, Virginia Bd. of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc., 425 U.S. 748, 771, 96 S.Ct. 1817, 48 L.Ed.2d 346 (1976), incitement, Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444, 447–449, 89 S.Ct. 1827, 23 L.Ed.2d 430 (1969) (per curiam ), and speech integral to criminal conduct, Giboney v. Empire Storage & Ice Co., 336 U.S. 490, 498, 69 S.Ct. 684, 93 L.Ed. 834 (1949)—are “well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem.” Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568, 571–572, 62 S.Ct. 766, 86 L.Ed. 1031 (1942).   United States v. Stevens, 559 U.S. 460, 130 S. Ct. 1577, 1584, 176 L. Ed. 2d 435 (2010)
The Right to be critical and even disrespectful to elected officials is demonstrated on a daily basis and is clearly a protected activity under the First Amendment.

From Nancy Vallone, a highly experienced aunt of this dear girl, please read the below.

http://ppjg.me/2013/01/12/danielle-rene-murphy-victim-in-ohio-abused-by-apsi-dodd/

NASGA has been asked to pull the story from their website and they refused.

Good for them.  Lets support good Aunt Nancy with our prayers of love and support for her dear neice.

From: kenneth ditkowsky
Sent: Jun 4, 2013 5:43 AM
To: JoAnne Denison , “maryrichards”
Cc: probate sharks , NASGA
Subject: Elder Abuse/financial exploitation cases

http://www.ditkowskylawoffice.com/

FAX COVER SHEET
TO Denison & Assocs, PC
COMPANY Denison & Assocs, PC
F~XNUMBER 13123768842
FRO~I Denison & Assocs, PC
DATE 2013-06-04 03:25:39 GMT
RE ARDC v. Sykesblog/JMD
COVER MESSAGE
See attached CV for 253 disclosure.
I am also waiting to hear if you need for discovery
1) complete Record on Appeal for Sykes 09 P 4585 because
it shows there were no Sodini notices served and there is
no affidavit of Service upon Mary Sykes. This is huge and
will need to be put on disk. if you want paper, we do not
have that any longer. the file is at 160 N Lasalle. All
we keep are pixels.
2) any other items you want for written discovery. I made
a post if any bloggers want to disclose any confidential
emails they have sent me in the past to send to the ARDC
and will let you know if I get any response. You have not
asked for a privileged document list, so I am not
providing that yet. If you need one, I will also post
that and see if anyone responds.
3) also, Ken Ditkowsky’s video for appearing on Cooper’s
Corner I found on You tube at
http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/Law-Day/2013/04/27/Free-!
or you can google it.
4) I am still in the process of creating a file to upload
to the copyright office and of course, you can have a copy
of that. I will make it available to you in the next few
days.
5) PLMK if you fax does not work then can I email you? Or
should I just print out the fax and keep on trying. I am
trying to remember to also send everything to
illinois.ardc@gmail.com, but sometimes I forget. I note
you have not opened up anything there. Please note the
password is “*********.”
Anything not addressed by you via email (to
illinois.ardc@gmail.com) or by fax will be attached to my
Report to the Court.
thanks
JoAnne
cc: www . marygsykes . com http://www.efax.com

and I will pass it along.

The ARDC has served discovery on me and Requests for Documents.   Since I have nothing to hide and this blog has nothing to hide, please send along anything you think they ought to know, especially about the Sykes case.

I know you all have sent me a whole lot of emails and other communications, so if you are releasing those to the ARDC, please send them along to me again, esp. in a PDF or wordprocessing document file and I will make those available for inspection and copying.

If you are claiming privilege, the ARDC has NOT asked for a privileged documents list, so don’t bother with that yet.

thanks

JoAnne

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/secret_court_files/

and the comments are very interesting.  One of the hallmarks of a democracy is free and open and transparent courtrooms.  However, ****.

While the ARDC is asserting that I and KDD “bring disrespect” to the Illinois probate court system, this blog and KDD’s emails, this blog only started in Nov. 2011 and KDD only became involved in Sykes Probate 09 P 4585 since early 2019.

See the Link below and you will see the problems I talk about have been in existence long before Ken’s emails started a-flowin’ and I started this blog dedicated to cleaning up and keeping our Illinois Probate courts transparent, honest, reliable, ethical and most of all, a place of justice!

http://www.guardianshipreform.org/texas-probate-courts/home/reports-of-interest

My great thanks to Nancy Vallone!

LAW OFFICE OF
KENNETH DITKOWSKY
KENNETH DITKOWSKY
Monday, June 03,2013
MEMO TO: Melissa A. Smart:
5940 W. Touhy, Suite 230
Niles, IL 60714
(847) 600-3421 Telephone
(847) 600-3425 Fax
Email: kkditkowsky@yahoo.com
Re: JoAnne Denison and Kenneth Ditkowsky matters
Dear Ms. Smart,
I am forwarding a copy of this note to your attorney, as well as to your
executives.
Pardon the informality.
I am shocked by your letter of May 31,2013 in light of the revelation of the
‘smoking gun’ letter and exhibits that the IARDC produced from Cynthia
Farenga. I trust you are aware of the import of Ms. Farenga’s letter, but
apparently are not concerned that what has been revealed is a conscious
and concerted effort to interfere with the civil rights (First Amendment) of
both Ms. Denison and myself. In words and phrases Ms. Farenga
successfully requests that the IARDC act to use its limited authority to
terminate the call for an Investigation of the Sykes and related matters.
The First Amendment, as a ‘core’ of American democracy, bars such
conduct by not only the IARDC, but its agents, servants and attorneys. As
the IARDC by its pleadings mirrors Ms. Farenga’s demands, both Ms.
Denison and I are aggrieved at the open and notorious disregard of our Civil
Rights. The patently illegal disqualification is not a bar to requests for a
complete disclosure that is required after a government entity produces a
‘smoking gun’ fired off by itself. Ms. Smart – what the IARDC has
disclosed, which it produced as exhibit 1 and exhibit 2 attached hereto
and made part hereof, is the IARDC acting in concert with Ms. Farenga
and her cohorts to, under color of law, deny Ms. Denison and me our
Civil Rights.
Both Ms. Denison and I are entitled to a complete disclosure of all the
records of the IARDC that relate to this unconstitutional conduct. This
material should have been produced during discovery in my case, and it
now ought to be produced in Ms. Denison’s case also. It is respectfully
FOI response to Farenga (‘Smoking Gun’) letter and apparent refusal ofIARDC
to produce appropriate records.
suggested that the grievous act continues and that a case can be made that
the conspiracy continues.
Let this letter be deemed a demand under the Freedom of Information Act
by both Ms. Denison and myself for the balance of the material that relates
to the ‘smoking gun’ letter. I am sending you a copy of the ‘smoking gun’
letter for your review. Let this letter be a formal demand for this matter
to be referred to the United States Attorney and the Illinois Attorney
General for ationcc.as to the a arent violations b IARDC
K. Ditkowsky
jdjm
Enclosure:
Ms. Denison’s civil ri hts.
FOI response to Farenga (‘Smoking Gun’) letter and apparent refusal ofIARDC
to produce appropriate records.

see link below, the letter was of too poor quality to OCR

sykesblog-ardc-ltrtoMs.Smart-smokinggun

from the NASGA newsletter today: 

estate of Peter Karoly and his wife, Dr. Lauren Angstadt (not in Illinois)

and those fees apparently don’t even include attorneys for others appearing in the estate and contesting some matters!

An attorney on the losing side of the disputed wills put it more bluntly.

“Oh my God, I’m just blown away,” Richard Angino said. “In a case where individuals have the responsibility of liquidating the assets of the estate, the purpose isn’t to liquidate those assets into your pocket.”

I don’t think this is a new warning to any of you, but be sure of what you want to do when you step onto the 18th floor of the Daley Center.

From: GLORIA Jean SYKES <gloami@msn.com>; To: kenneth ditkowsky <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com>; Cc: Anthony Santiny ; JoAnne Denison <JoAnne@DenisonLaw.com>; NASGA <NASGA.org@gmail.com>; probate sharks <verenusl@gmail.com>; scott evans <scottcevans@hotmail.com>; DiAnn Matson; matt_abbott@kirk.senate.gov <matt_abbott@kirk.senate.gov>; Eric Holder <askdoj@usdoj.gov>; Cook County States Attorney <statesattorney@cookcountyil.gov>; Cook Sheriff <sheriff.dart@cookcountyil.gov>;

Subject: Re: the trials and tribulations of Gloria Sykes Sent: Sun, Jun 2, 2013 1:58:49 PM

http://www.ditkowskylawoffice.com/

Now the ARDC contends that attys must be “more proscribed” in their speech and manners, and no one can make false accusations, but then again, look at all the missteps, twisted accusations and blatant lies and misrepresentations in KDD’s trial.  Could the Tribunal have bent over more backwards for the miscreants?  They basically were bending over, grabbing their ankles, waiting for the pounding, whilst all the while saying “thank you sirs, we have been naughty!” over and over.

that betrayed the “smoking gun”.

From: kenneth ditkowsky <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com>
To: GLORIA SYKES <gloami@msn.com>; JoAnne Denison <JoAnne@DenisonLaw.com>; NASGA <NASGA.org@gmail.com>; probate sharks <verenusl@gmail.com>; scott evans <scottcevans@hotmail.com>; DiAnn Matson <djmatson06@yahoo.com>; “matt_abbott@kirk.senate.gov” <matt_abbott@kirk.senate.gov>; Eric Holder <askdoj@usdoj.gov>; Harry Heckert <vahrh1135@aol.com>; Cc: Cook County States Attorney <statesattorney@cookcountyil.gov>; Cook Sheriff <sheriff.dart@cookcountyil.gov>
Sent: Saturday, June 1, 2013 2:38 PM
Subject: the trials and tribulations of Gloria Sykes

http://www.ditkowskylawoffice.com/

From: Anthony Santiny
Sent: Sunday, June 2, 2013 5:59 AM
Subject: Re: the trials and tribulations of Gloria Sykes

From: kenneth ditkowsky
Sent: Jun 1, 2013 7:38 AM
To: GLORIA SYKES , JoAnne Denison , NASGA , probate sharks , scott evans , DiAnn Matson , “matt_abbott@kirk.senate.gov” , Eric Holder , Harry Heckert , j ditkowsky , Bill
Cc: Cook County States Attorney , Cook Sheriff
Subject: the trials and tribulations of Gloria Sykes

http://www.ditkowskylawoffice.com/

Dear Ken;

I agree with you on the wellness check.  Mary will disappear unless we keep the checks up. They should be done every week to 10 days.  AND there should be some sort of provision preventing her from be cremated right away.  C.f.  my other stories of endangered seniors.

Rissman in Indiana is a recent one.  Gore and Drabik aren’t long ago.  For those that have ears willing to hear.

JoAnne

Oh, my goodness.  I can’t believe this is only a draft and I forgot to post this, so I will have to post it again today.

From the Tribunal from May 3, 2013, KDD’s decision, and it’s just more of down the rabbit hole.

Professor Tarkington from Ind. School of Law got it right when she said the Bar Associations frequently use the standard propounded in New York Times v. Sullivan as a dark aberration of what it is intended to be and that results in decisions very far afield of what New York Times meant the first amendment to be, rendering all or most of the decisions invalid because they infringe too greatly upon the constitutional rights of lawyers.

See link below and let me know if you agree:

KDD’s Decision from the Tribunal

From: Anthony Santiny
Sent: May 30, 2013 5:35 AM
To: kenneth ditkowsky , “matt_abbott@kirk.senate.gov” , Eric Holder , NASGA , Harry Heckert , probate sharks , j ditkowsky , JoAnne Denison
Subject: Re: report on corruption in cook county

I seconded my own letter to the IARDC as a concerned citizen.

Dear Sir(s),

As a United States citizen who believes in my First Amendment rights, I question the motives of the IARDC in your collective decision related to the above cited case.  How dare you trample on the first amendment! American citizens have a right to freedom of speech and this right is set forth in our Constitution. Lawyers are indeed citizens too, or has that fact escaped the IARDC’s attention? I have reviewed the evidence that led up to your decision and I am appalled. How can a committee made up of people sworn to protect our constitution, supported by U.S. taxpayers, and under oath to protect the rights of U.S. citizens, conspire to usurp the right of an attorney to practice law; whose sole act was requesting a redress of a judicial decision? The case of Mary Sykes, on the face of the evidence, is rife with questionable rulings made by cook county judges. It also reeks of manipulation of the facts by court appointed probate Guardians ad Litem! I have known Kenneth Ditkowsky more than 10 years. Lawyers like Ditkowsky and Joanne Denison give average citizens like myself hope that whenever we seek justice there are honest legal practitioners who will represent our interests well. By restricting their right to practice law, you do the American public a grave disservice. This pure act gives one the impression that the IARDC aligns itself with the very same people who conspire to fleece the elderly and infirm of their rights (and assets). I cannot think of anything as despicable as stealing a person’s life savings; subjecting them to the care of state institutions that serve more as hospice centers than retirement homes. I have seen and read too much evidence that points squarely in the direction of corruption in the courts; where government appointed and elected officials take the prime cut because they do not fear the repercussions. When such a sickness manifests itself, then more and more officials figure its OK to follow suit. Greed sets in and honest citizens become victims of a legal system that aligns itself with campaign donors and fee for seats promoters.

It appears that many Cook County citizens are afraid to come forth and take a stand on Cook County court corruption under fear that their own future probate proceedings could be singled out and “managed” against their wishes; where judges and lawyers use them as scapegoats to quell any dissent that could arise as a result of their unconstitutional and illegal judicial decisions; these acts aimed solely at stealing away estate proceeds to enrich their personal coffers. What a blatant abuse of the public trust!

There was a time when Cook County courts were a shining example of justice. Let us rely once more on the Cook County judicial system to right the wrongs done its citizenry. It is every citizen’s expectation and right to a fair and impartial justice system that supports and promotes the laws of our land; not one that supports cronyism and corruption. Kenneth Ditkowsky and Joanne Denison are honest and trustworthy champions, fighting for the plights of honest citizens, both uncovering and shining a harsh light on corruption in our court systems. These are people the IARDC should be celebrating, not crippling. Please consider dismissing the proceedings against Ditkowsky / Denison and in the process winning back the confidence of American citizens, instead of stoking the fires of their ire.

Our first amendment rights are not negotiable. Help us champion the cause of ridding our courts of corruption instead of emboldening the corrupted with such acts.

Respectfully,

Anthony Santiny
United States Citizen

http://carrollspaper.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=15762

While it’s hard to image a judge telling court watchers and observers they “can’t take notes”, this judge takes it to a whole other level by telling the gallery “don’t take notes” because you “might influence jurors”!!!!  What?

Why doesn’t he then tell jurors where to look, when to smile or frown, when they can move, how to sit and not move, and finally, he can work on how to breathe!

Judge Evans, you got some company on this one.  Pretty strange company, but yeah, go for it.

It still offends the primary function of a free and democratic society, and that is to have as much press and blogging in court as possible, to not require litigants to have to hire court reporters at $150 per sitting fee and $4 per page.

What about this does he not get?

cc:  Via fax, Judge Timothy Evans.

Not so, grasshoppers:

from Larry Chambers today, a more information on how we have a ton of clean up work to do, so let’s get going: