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. Bilateral
abuse occurs in around 35-50% of current docket cases by best esitmate.
His advocates should file a
child abuse petition if children witnessed this wife assualting her
husband as a tactic of abusive control.Court house budgets cannot and
will not generate a statistic.
In Massachusetts where intimate
partner violence against men by women widespread, the rates of judicial
"bilateral' restraint orders is still lagging.
It is estimated that in
Massachusetts there are close to 3000 cases like this per year.
Getting police to come make the
arrest has caused Traumatic Stress for this man. Irreparable damage has
likely been caused by police irresponsibility for speciousarrest the
inciting combatant also.
We look forward to publication
on the internet of the falsified affidavit drafted by "domestic violence
advocates' who are elevated to paralegal status and given "client
privilege" carte blanche to subborn perjury which will be presented
forthwith at this poor man's arriagnment.
Paul Appleton
Fatherhood Coalition,
Massachusetts
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Can someone
please provide me with the name of the DA. It would be good to have the names
of all officials who are not taking into consideration that Terence has not
been given fair opportunity to be considered innocent.
In New
Zealand all officials in a department have a standard code for their
e-mails (ie helen.clark@paliament.govt.nz
), does anyone know if this is the same in Calafornia?
thanks for
this in advance
Ben
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From: Wilbur Streett [mailto:Wilbur@TheFaceOf.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002
3:50 PM
To: Wilbur Streett
Subject: [ncfc-network-forum]
DLJ EXTRA: No Justice in NoCal
Please fwd this email to as many
people as possible!
>From
Richard in NoCal>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Dear
all:
Yesterday a friend and I finally got to see Terence of
Live
Beat Dads California, in Santa Rita jail. We talked to him in
what
appeared to be a gymnasium. Although he was sitting, at the
most,
4 feet away from us, behind a low partition, the room was so
noisy
that we literally had to shout in order to hear each other.
He
told us that the first night there he was forced to sleep on
bare
concrete because he was crammed into a small room with 27
other
people. We were not allowed to
give
him paper, pen, or anything although we needed information
from
him about what happened. The only way we were able to give
him
information was by holding up legal papers so that he could
read
them. He was neither allowed to hold them or take them.
His
wife, according to Terence, attacked him first while they were
sitting
on a sofa. She was insisting on sending the children to
public
school. up to now they have been home schooled by Terence.
Rather
than talk about it, she immediately escalated the
"conversation"
into a fight and hit Terence, he says he
automatically
hit back but she continued to hit him. He pulled her
on
to the floor held her down by the wrists, told her to count to
10
and then let go. She got up and left the house. Approx. 3 hours
later
the police arrived to arrest Terence.
When
we left the jail we stopped at information and asked when and
at
what time he would be in court. We were told Monday at 2:30
p.m.
We arrived at the court at 2:00 p.m. with a Verified Demand
for
Bill of Particulars and a Motion of Release on Own
Recognizance.
To be told that he had been seen by the Court at
9:00
am, had refused to plead and been
sent
back to jail until the 20th. of this month. I feel that
switching
times was deliberate because while we were in the jail
we
were watched by two guards while we were holding legal papers
up
for Terence. The guards were on their "walkie talkies" clearly
reporting
our activity to someone.
Since
Terence had been sent to jail I did what I could. Went to
the
District Attorneys office and filed the papers. While there
the
D.A.came out and threatened me with prosecution because I was
"practicing
law without a license" apparently, in his mind a legal
filing
of papers is now a criminal act in California. Whilst
threatening
me he tried to make me take the papers back. As far as
the
D.A. is concerned Terence is guilty even though he has yet to
go
to trial. He told us that Terence wold have been let out of
jail
that day if he had pled guilty. In short if you refuse to
plead
or enter a not-guilty plea, you are kept in jail. This is
clearly
coercion.
After
arguing with the D.A. I then went to the "criminal law"
window
to file the papers. After being forced to stand there for
abut
half an hour, they refused to file the papers. They said they
had
asked the senior judge in the court house whether they were
legal
papers and the judge had ordered them to refuse them. This
was
patently false since the Motion for Release is on a standard
legal
form approved by the judiciary of California. After some
arguing
I left the papers there and left the
courthouse.
We
then went back to Santa Rita jail. To try to turn in Terence's
legal
papers to them. Again they refused to take them. We asked if
we
could make a special appointment to see him. he answer to that
was
no. He could only be seen by an attorney. That is a member of
the
bar that works for the court!!!
It
is quite clear at his point, to me, that their is a near total
breakdown
of law in California when it comes to "family disputes".
A
man is denied the lawful filing of papers and denied the right
to
seek help from anyone but the enemy. The contempt for law,
justice
and fairness on the part of the system is near total.
Terence
is denied the right to gather evidence that exists at his
house
that incriminates his wife as the instigator of the
violence.
A series of threatening emails to Terence sent by her
from
work to him.
As
you know Terence is the Treasurer for our Constitutional
Challenge.
I would not be surprised if the "powers that be" are
aware
of that and and are trying to get him for his legal
activities,
just as they are trying to get me and JR. His bail has
been
set at $30,000 in direct violation of California law. We are
now
doing a Writ of Habeus Corpus to try and get Terence out of
jail.
We
ask that as many people as possible draft e-mails in protest of
this
action. The more peoples' e-mails we have the more they are
going
to realize that they can not get away with suspending law in
order
to destroy men and snatch their children from them.
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Send
your emails to Richard but addressed to "The District
Attorney
of Alameda County." He will print them out and hand them
to
the D.A. in person. Terence is in court on the 20th (next
Monday),
so it needs to be done ASAP.
Send
your e-mails to Richard at jigcho@webtv.net
It
would be helpful to cc to the following media and gov't
officials:
ANG Newspapers
Josh Richman -
Politics & Criminal Justice
(510) 208-6428
jrichman@angnewspapers.com
Berkley Daily
Planet
Email:
news@berkeleydailyplanet.net
East Bay Express
stephen.buel@eastbayexpress.com
North gate News
lcha@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Alameda Daily News
donroberts@alamedadailynews.com
KPFA 94.1 fm
postmaster@kpfa.orgoffice
Governor Gray Davis
State Capitol
BuildingSacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-445-2841
Fax: 916-445-4633
governor@governor.ca.gov
Office of the
Attorney General Bill Lockyer
Public Inquiry Unit
at (916) 322-3360 or,
within California,
by calling (800) 952-5225.
MAILING ADDRESS
California
Department of JusticePublic Inquiry Unit
P.O. Box 944255
Sacramento, CA
94244-2550
http://caag.state.ca.us/consumers/mailform.htm
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