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YES! About time. Bring ‘em in in cuffs. I think I like this judge! The law around here as practiced in the courst is entirely too lax/casual. Time to catch up to the rest of the country Wichita/Kansas!
All I want is a judge with the brains, integrity and (excuse the term) cojones to implement Jessica’s law. No excuses and NO downward departures. I don’t really care if his honor doesn’t thing the abuse left enough physical havoc. What about ruining a child’s innocence and life forever? They get double Fs, IMO, in that arena.
This mother needs to get a grip on reality. Her daughter confessed to enough to send her to prison for 5 yrs. What any official or anyone else thinks is irrelevant. The fact is, her daughter is a convicted felon and there are 2 little boys without a mother. Her every emotional and physical resource needs to be directed at those 2 boys. She needs to let go of whatever shortcomings she blames on the prison. It’s a total waste of energy.
You really should read the story again before you comment. The fact is this story is about what Amber knew and when. It is setting the record straight on what she knew and when is all. There are no excuses being made, just facts being clarified.
And to this mother it is irrelevant what officials “think”, however it is very relevant what they SAY in the media. If they are going to make statements then they need to be factual.
And this mother is firmly planted in reality. After all she lives this reality every day.
What is so wrong with expecting that the truth be told? After all someday those 2 little boys will find this information and they should have facts to deal with not something someone twists to suit the politcal needs of the moment. They will be wondering I imagine why what their mom and family has told them doesn’t quite match what these “officials” have stated. Who is telling the truth I imagine they might wonder.
But by clearly stating what is fact now, not only will her children know the truth, but hopefully someone will care enough to call these so called “officials” to the carpet and stop the twisting of facts, stop the blatant lies and force the truth as it really was to be told.
Remember, it could be someone you know and love someday in the middle of something that attracts the public attention and believe me, you would want nothing but the truth told of the situation.
Why would I ever want to let go of the shortcomings of the prison? After all, aside from the known facts of this case, IF the prison hadnt suffered from what you call “shortcomings” this incident could never of occurred. Think about if for one moment if you will, IF those working that night had done their jobs correctly and as they are supposedly trained to do, this escape never could of happened. After all, these 2 intmates did manage to not only get but maintain possession of a cell phone for many months prior to the escape, and remember, they were in the one of the highest security portions of the prison, in segregation, they also left those supposed secure cells with this cell phone, a tool they used to cut their way out of the exercise pens (with a guard right there supposedly there to monitor them) they were in, and had on 4 layers of clothing. These are facts presented in the case. Yet no one speaks of these things, no one will step up and say IF THE PRISON HAD DONE ITS JOB PROPERLY SHE WOULD OF JUST SIMPLY SAT OUT THERE WAITING UNTIL FINALLY THE ROAMING PATROL FOUND HER.
This in no way takes away from what she did to facilitate this escape, I make no excuses, she had a choice and made the wrong one obviously, but I get tired of hearing how without her it wouldn’t of been possible, when in reality without the PRISON AND ITS EMPLOYEES BEING SO LACKING IN SECURITY, THIS COULD NEVER OF HAPPENED.
I live every day in the reality of this situation. A situation not of my making, but one that I none the less have to endure. I simply want those others whom without their negligence in duty that night, allowed this happen, to also be held to account. I want the entire truth to be told and for this to never happen again.
I would not wish this nightmare on any family, but believe me, unless and until all those who were involved in anyway are held accountable, it could happen again. After all what does anyone have to be afraid of in trying? Obviously so far they have gotten away with it. Why wouldnt they?
Let me get this straight: Goff bought a cell phone and SMUGGLED it into a high security prison she worked at, a couple of months before the escape? She knew for 11 days, but didn’t inform her bosses there was going to be an escape?
Then she cut the fences, left wirecutters for the convicts, and gave convicted criminals GUNS?? And her idiot mom claims “She wasn’t quite as involved in this incident as the officials would like the public to think,” ?? How much more COULD she have been involved??
Wow. I can see where Goff got her denial from and her inability to think clearly and responsibly! The NUT doesn’t fall too far from the tree!
No, as usual those responding are not reading the story. She did NOT smuggle the cell phone into the prison. Yes she bought it, but it was someone else who took it into the prison, who by the way to this day they havent discovered.
They were NOT her bosses when this escape was first told to her, she had not been working there for a few weeks by then.
The statement that she wasnt quite as involved as the authorities would like you to believe is a true one.
They would like for you to believe that she took in the cell phone ( which she did not), that this escape was planned well in advance by her or that she had knowledge for months (which she did not), that she was the mastermind behind it (as they have stated before, which she was not), and that she did this with complete willingness (which could not be further from the truth).
I just want you to know these things are not true at all.
While her “reasons” for helping may not of met the legal defense level, there are still reasons. Does that excuse her? Of course not, but what would you do in her shoes? There were threats made, there were reasons for what she did (which does NOT make it right by any means)
I am by no means and idiot or am I making excuses or justifying her actions. I am simply trying to let the entire story be told, the TRUTH be told.
Again I will say as clearly as I know how, she did what she did, and she had choices, and now we all suffer for those choices. BUT, that does not mean that the truth of what happened and why has been told, because it hasn’t. And that does not mean that ALL OF THOSE responsible have been held accountable because they haven’t.
THAT is what I am seeking, for the entire truth to be told, as it really happened, and for EVERYONE responsible to be held accountable.
That is not being in denial, that is not excusing anything, that is not clouded thinking. That is calling for JUSTICE.
Goff, 24, said in her plea this spring she had bought a prepaid cell phone last summer, which was then smuggled by someone else to Steven Ford and Jesse Bell at the El Dorado Correctional Facility. Goff added minutes onto the phone, which Ford and Bell used to plan their escape.
She not only purchased the phone, she convinced someone to give it to them and THEN purchased MORE minutes thus allowing them to plan their escape.
Who knows…these guys may have placed the phone up their backsides during the day to hide it. Do you think the authorities would have cavity searches without cause? I would think the ACLU would probably sue the State of Kansas on that one.
I think it is hard for any mother to admit to raising a child who made such horrible choices as her daughter did. The House of Cards fell down all around her and now she has the next generation to raise.
Who knows how any of us would try to reason why our child would make this kind of choice?
I appriciate what your trying to say here, but I am not trying to rationalize anything my daughter did. I raised her and until this occurred had no reason to ever be anything but proud of her. I am still proud of her in alot of ways, she accepted responsibility for what she did, which is more than I can say for alot of people. That by no means makes it right though.
She was NOT the one who found someone to smuggle in the phone, those 2 men in the prison did and whoever it was came to Amber for the phone. At this point there was no talk of an escape or anything. Stupid choices? Oh yeah, I agree 100%, beyond stupid.
I guess I just feel it is important that things be clarified as to what happened, when and why. Maybe that is the mother in me I dont know. But I would think that the truth would be the most important thing.
I offer no excuses for her, she had choices. Why she made the ones she did I dont know. Even if I had been in the very same position, under the very same threats, I wouldnt of done this. But knowing what I know helps me ALMOST understand a bit more of why she went through with it. But excuse it? Nope, no way.
I am a mother who loves her daughter unconditionally and am not ashamed of that fact at all. I will forever fight not only for my children but for the right thing to be done.
I am not asking anyone else to understand why she did this, but to remember that there are other that should be held accountable also. There are others who need to be punished for their roles in this. And even for them it should be based on FACT, not something that sounds politically better for whoever is up for election this fall.
The public should have the TRUTH about everyone involved, not just what someone sitting in a fancy office deems we need to know.
Justice for everyone and for the truth to be known is all I am after.
No excuses, no sympathy, just truth and justice.
The District Court should have seen this coming. In re LM was not the first case to suggest that juveniles should have a right to a jury trial given the harsh punishment and the permanent nature of sex offender laws. Complacency and arrogance is a good description of Judge Burgess’ lack of jury boxes and deliberations rooms in the new juvenile court. The code allowed for the granting of jury trials at the judge’s discretion, apparently Judge Burgess was not planning on ever granting one.
This is an outrage! He was duly unelected and removed. The Honorable Judge Corrigan is not showing much respect for the citizens whom voted to end David Kennedy’s act.
I do not understand this to be uncommon. After Jennifer Jones lost her District Judgeship election she became head of our Municipal Court. Removing females from judgeships has been a decade long goal of some.
101 is amazing, particularly to be 101 and still working. My husband’s delightful grandmother turns 101 in September. She has a full life in San Angelo, TX, but will be the first to admit her mental abilities are nearly as sharp as they used to be. That said, she’s a savvy domino player and she’s very proud to have a 52-year-old grandson in medical school. When anyone comments on my husband’s age (compared to the twenty-somethings common to med school) he says his grandmother believes he’s plenty young enough to become a doctor.
@LonnythePlumber ~ Identity theft is not a crime to be treated lightly. What kind of message would that send to anyone considering doing the same thing? That said, hopefully Ted Floyd will get an early parole and be able to move on from this.
I think the obvious remark here is how we as a society should handle this. The value of life as decreased so much to the point that some do not care whether or not another human being dies right at their feet? I was amazed a few weeks ago when I drove up on an accident an no one was stopping.
The ironic thing that I am seeing is if you have a situation where a pretty young girl has a flat tire, you see cars lined up to help her. If the same thing happens to a minority, no one stops. It seems society assigns a value to human life. Pretty young girls are assigned the highest value while the average person of color does not come near to the same value. What a shame and I suppose I could be guilty of this too. I wish I knew what the answer was besides the obvious.
TO killerpizza:
You like everyone else obviously doesnt read what is right in front of you. Get over yourself first and foremost, then READ the entire article and my replies before you start spouting off.
It gets tiresome to see people, who obviously have already made up their minds, make these statements when it is right there in black and white what I have said. But that doesn’t stop you all from twisting it all up and making it what you want it to be.
And for the record………you havent seen my “face” in some time now. You have only EVER seen me when I was ASKED by the media, never once did I seek it out. SO GET OVER IT ALREADY!
I remember when this happened. That store is right down the street from the elementary school my daughter attended. The EMTs arrived but couldn’t help because the scene had not been secured by LEOs yet, and in the meantime valuable time passed as the woman bled to death. At least, that’s what I remember from what I read in the Eagle. Mark McCormick wrote more than one column about it.
I’ve stumbled across a story or two where the comments got out of hand. I see such behaviors all across the Internet where unmediated discussion takes place between people who can hide behind online identities.
21-3214. Use of force by an aggressor. The justification described in sections 21-3211, 21-3212, and 21-3213, is not available to a person who:
(1) Is attempting to commit, committing, or escaping from the commission of a forcible felony; or
(2) Initially provokes the use of force against himself or another, with intent to use such force as an excuse to inflict bodily harm upon the assailant; or
(3) Otherwise initially provokes the use of force against himself or another, unless:
(a) He has reasonable ground to believe that he is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm, and he has exhausted every reasonable means to escape such danger other than the use of force which is likely to cause death or great bodily harm to the assailant; or
(b) In good faith, he withdraws from physical contact with the assailant and indicates clearly to the assailant that he desires to withdraw and terminate the use of force, but the assailant continues or resumes the use of force.
History: L. 1969, ch. 180, § 21-3214; July 1, 1970
The justification described in sections 21-3211,
21-3212, and 21-3213, is not available to a
person who:
(1) Is attempting to commit, committing, or escaping from the commission of a forcible felony; or
(2) Initially provokes the use of force
against himself or another, with intent to use
such force as an excuse to inflict bodily harm upon the assailant; or
(3) Otherwise initially provokes the use
of force against himself or another, unless:
(a) He has reasonable ground to believe
that he is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm, and he has exhausted every
reasonable means to escape such danger other
than the use of force which is likely to cause death or great bodily harm to the assailant; or
(b) In good faith, he withdraws from
physical contact with the assailant and indicates
clearly to the assailant that he desires to withdraw and terminate the use of force, but the
assailant continues or resumes the use of force.
History: L. 1969, ch. 180, § 21-3214; July 1, 1970
I wonder if we will see Cherokee, Sumner, Cowley, and other counties who house Sedgwick county inmates in newly built jails will expand their jails to make further profits off of Sedgwick county?
Hey Ron:
I want to thank the Eagle’s editors for respecting the importance of free speech and allowing my posts to be published. As long as I understand that I can be sued for libel or arrested under the Kansas state law for criminal defamation, I think that the Eagle should be willing to publish my allegations (and republish and republish & republish my allegations) of criminal activity including subornation of perjury, subornation of forgery, obstruction of justice and/or various federal criminal acts against citizens constitution rights of due process against the following judges, prosecutors & attorneys including Judge Rebecca Pilshaw, Sedgwick County prosecutor Christine Ladner (WBA Bar Musical Revue choreographer extraordinaire) & Todd Chottamongo, former Sedgwick County Court Trustee attorney Genine Ware, Judge Douglas Roth, Judge Mark Vining, Kansas Bar Association Board Member & Wichita attorney Rachel Pirner (wife of KAKE news director Dave Grant, attorney John Rapp (son of David Rapp chairman of the WBA’s ethics committee), attorney Steve Manke, attorney – Sheila Floodman recently named by her peers in Wichita as one of the Best Divorce Attorneys in America and Ross Hollander – law partner of abortionist attorney – Steve Joseph and joint venture business partner with former mayor Bob Knight, Steve Joseph & MGM Casinos in the failed attempt to build a casino in Sumner County). I have also alleged that several judges & attorneys intentionally violated their to cover up criminal activity of other attorneys & judges and/or to intimidate citizens from complaining (Sedgwick County District Court Judges Tony Powell, Eric Yost, James Fleetwood, Dan Brooks, Tim Henderson, Terry Pullman, Karl Friedel, and attorneys Tripp Shawver (outgoing chair of the KBA’s family law committee), Mark Kahrs (former GOP county chairman), Patrick Walters (current candidate for district court judge), Charlie Harris (long-time chair of the Kansas Judicial Council’s family law committee), attorney Ann Soderberg (who was also named by Best Lawyers in America as one of the best divorce attorneys in Kansas) and attorney Julie Ariagano (ex-wife of former WBA president Steve Ariagano and current wife of WBA Musical Revue show stealer Tim Moore who was one of the 3 finalists last Fall for the Appellate Court position chosen by the Commission of Judicial Nominations chaired by Richard Hite who is your wife’s law partner at HItge Homeman & Fanning).
I’d like to think that the Eagle posts my comments because it believes that the free flow of information will prevent government corruption. However the Eagle has refused to investigate the documented human rights atrocities committed by most of the above mentioned judges & attorneys that we involved in the corruption scandals involving Barry Simpson, Todd Wait and Joe Liddle. I think that the only reason why the Eagle publishes my comment is because it knows that I will e-mail copies to State Representative Jim Morrison (chairman of the House Committee on Government Efficiency & Technology), Supreme Court Justice Carol Beier (former Seifkin Foulston law partner, your wife’s best friend and the Supreme Court justice responsible for monitoring the problems in the Sedgwick County for the Kansas Supreme Court, Kelli McBride & Roy Peter Clark at the Poynter Institute . I also e-mail my comments to every judge, court reporter & secretary that works in the Sedgwick County Courthouse to challenge them to sue me for libel or have me arrested for criminal defamation.
I appreciate the readers’ patience in letting me conduct my saber rattling. I am sure the Wichita Bar Association members, the judges, the Eagle reporters and interested citizens are looking forward to the results of your survey. However before the results are published I want to advise the readers and the management at the McLatchy Corporation why I think that you, Ron Sylvester are the most intellectually dishonest person in Wichita. We will in exciting times with the Executive Director of SRS alleging that the Sedgwick County prosecutors intimidate his social workers into filing false affidavits to take children away from their families. In the past two weeks, the station manager at the local ABC affiliate (Dave Grant’s boss) was fired, the news director and assignment editor at the CBS affiliate were fired and the news director at the NBC affiliate resigned. I have to wonder if the executives at the stations’ parents companies Marci Burdick & Jason Elkins have gone back over and read some of my e-mails that I sent them last Fall after I spoke with them over the phone. I still think that there is a great business opportunity for Elkin’s chain of local TV stations to conduct a rapid response investigative reporting team. I want to make 3 points to the blog readers:
1) No one has had the courage to post any meaningful comments on your blogs even though we are living in historic times. IMHO this is proof that citizens are afraid that the Eagle will report the names of the bloggers identities so that the fascist criminals in power can retaliate.
2) In your blog post that there was a 26% increase in responses by WBA members who were to submit an evaluation form through the WBA’s internet. The Eagle & the WBA claims that the identities of the respondents will be kept confidential even the database administrators would need to keep track of the respondents to prevent multiple evaluations being submitted by one attorney. You failed to report that less that 25% of the WBA members responded. IMHO this is proof that the WBA membership does not trust their fascist president – Mike Herd the son of former Kansas Supreme Court Justice Hal Herd. For the record I have several e-mails from 2007 in which Herd (which I forwarded to you and the other 26 district court judges) refuses to respond to my claims that in early 2006 the incoming family law judges (Fleetwood, Pilshaw & Wilbert) ordered Dave Johnson, the chairman of the WBA’s family law committee to tell the attendees at the WBA’s 2/2006 annual family law seminar to betray their clients by refusing to attack the results of any custody reports by any court ordered forensic psychologists.
3) The WBA and the Eagle could have conducted and published this survey 2 months earlier so that reform minded attorneys could have networked with each other to decide challenge unethical or dishonest Judges James Brooks, James Fleetwood, Tim Henderson, Terry Pullman or Eric Yost who are all running unopposed.
Ron – I am disappointed that I have to inform the experts at the Poynter Institute and your bosses that you have a personal conflict of interest because you have personally profited by the fascism and cronyism in the federal, state & municipal courts in Kansas. Your wife’s close friend and confidant , mega fascist Foulston Seifkin attorney Jack Focht , was selected to be a special court master by a federal judges so that he could order the utility company Westar to pay your wife and the other criminal attorneys hired by former Westar executives David Wittig and Doug Lake millions of dollars in attorneys fees. IMHO this is a quid quo pro payment by the fascist federal judges to reward your wife for serving with Jack Focht as directors of the Kansas Appleseed Foundation and her law partner Linda Parks who is the outgoing KBA president for defending the current merit appointment process of judges and to reward their law partner, Richard Hite, for continuing to promote attorneys and district court judges that will maintain the code of silence though retaliation & intimidation to maintain the criminal racketeering that is condoned and covered up Justice Carol Beier, her former law partner US Attorney Eric Melgren, Governor Sebelius and State Senator John Vrtil the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and member of the Kansas Judicial Council. It should come as no surprise that Vrtil’s ex-wife is a federal judge and Gov. Sebelius ‘s husband is a federal magistrate. It should also come as no surprise that Park’s husband is Randy Brown who managed the Eagle editorial board for several years before he resigned last year after the scandals became too embarrassing.
I feel so sorry for your editor, Sherry Chissenhall, because she is going to look like such an hypocrite. I enclosed an article from earlier this year about her support for open government.
Per usual your reader can e-mail me at kiakahahaha@yahoo.com & I will e-mail them to their anonymous yahoo accounts scanned documents supporting my allegations. They can also call me at 316 293-6079. I will also send them copy of our e-mail correspondence from May 2006 which proves that I came up with the idea for the attorney surveys in response to the sexual harassment scandals involving Judge Wilbert & Judge Ballinger (who interestingly is also running unopposed). It just proves that the feminist attorneys & judges in Wichita & Topeka condone misogyny and sexual harassment of women because they are so eager to prove their loyalty to the fascist good old boys.
Bill McKean
http://www.wichita.edu/thisis/wsunews/news/?nid=138
Why is it sometimes so difficult for the public to get access to public information? Why are so many local governments around Kansas running afoul of the state’s open meetings law?
Those are two key questions for a statewide television broadcast on the Power of Open Government at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 12, at the First United Methodist Church, 330 N. Broadway in downtown Wichita.
The panel discussion will be carried live on Cox Channels 22 in Wichita and Topeka, as well as KWCH.com and radio station KFTI 1070. It will be rebroadcast on KPTS TV Channel 8 at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 3, and around the state on the Public Broadcast System.
Kansas recently failed an open government test by the Better Government Association, an independent nonpartisan government watchdog group based in Chicago. Among other things, the BGA researches solutions that promote transparency and accountability in government.
“The threat today is real,” said Randy Brown, executive director of the Kansas Sunshine Coalition for Open Government. “We are seeing closed government problems popping up around the state. Some local governments are doing well. But for Kansans who understand that open government at all levels is essential to democracy, things are getting worse, not better.”
In recent months, open government violations have been reported or formally charged in Topeka, Lawrence, Thomas County and Chanute.
Panelists include State Sen. Tim Huelskamp of the Dodge City area, Wichita Vice Mayor Sharon Fearey, Kansas Attorney General Stephen Six (invited, but not confirmed), Wichita Eagle Editor Sherry Chisenhall and broadcast and print journalist Nickie Flynn. Moderators will be Brown and Susan Huxman, director of the Elliott School of Communication at Wichita State University.
The panel discussion is free and open to the public. A reception will follow at 8 p.m. Audience members, who will be able to ask questions, should be seated by 6:45 p.m.
Sponsors are the Kansas Sunshine Coalition for Open Government and the Wichita Metro Chapter of the League of Women Voters.
I want to thank the Eagle for respecting the importance of free speech. Hopefully if I continue whacking the pinata (specifically you, your wife, Gaye Tibbetts o-director of Kansas Appleseed Foundation, her girl friend – Supreme Court justice Carol Beier, KAKE New Director Dave Grant, his wife – Rachel Pirner (KBA Board Member), former Eagle opinion page editor – Randy Brown & his wife – outgoing KBA president, Linda Parks) we can get an out of state newspaper to expose all of the corruption & fascism that has been covered up for decades by the Eagle and its sister paper, the KC Star.
The only good news is that the problems are just as bad or even worse in Johnson County where judges are merited appointed. IMHO Judges Jim Beasley (Wichita) & Janice Russell (Johnson County) have achieved statewide notoriety and can challenge former Sedgwick County Distirct Court Judge & Attorney General Bob Stephan for being the most dysfuncitonal misgonistic corrupt jurists in Kansas history. (although I would welcome other nominations from the readers about former Judge Sanborn). OOPS I forgot. People who post comments can be sued for slander. Of course there are worse things than being sued for slander: (Just ask Mike Lehr) Like being set up and disbarred for having the courage to defend the constitutional rights of citizens who complain about the dishonesty of prominent attorneys & case managers.
I posted the following comment on your article about the judges responses. I plan to e-mail a response to every candidate to challenge them to openly acknowledge the reality of the corruption. If every one starts accating like big boys & girls, the Eagle can start something really historic. I am very disappointed in Judge Bruce Brown’s response. Judge Brown is a graduate of Oral Roberts University and attended the 8/2007 Pachyderm meeting where Rep. Jim Morrison (Chairman of the House Committee on Government Affairs & Technology) stated that he had a 12″ stack of documented allegations of corruption by Wichita atotnreys & judges. I know that Jim Beasely’s reputed girl friend, Sheila Floodman, was on the nomination committee to choose municipal judges. Does Judge Brown want to the voters to assume that he is city attorney’s Gary Rebendorf’s boy??
Ths is soooo embarrassing. When will the Eagle interview Jim Morrison, Joe Liddle & Todd Wait???
MY COMMENTS ON TODAY’S ARTICLES:
WE ARE LVING IN GLORIOUS TIMES. THIS IS A GREAT REASON WHY THE VOTERS IN JOHNSON COUNTY SHOULD PASS THE REFERENDUM SO THAT VOTERS CAN ELECT JUDGES. ONCE THE CRIMINAL ACTS BY MANY JUDGES & ATTORNEYS WHO ARE RUNNING FOR OFFICE IN THE BARRY SIMPSON, TODD WAIT & JOE LIDDLE SCANDALS ARE PUBLICIZED, THE AUTHORITIY OF THE COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL QUALIFICATIONS AND THE OFFICEOF JUDICIAL ADMINSTRATION TO DISCIPLINE JUDGES & ATTORNEYS WILL BE TAKEN AWAY BY HE LEGISLATURE. THESE SCANDALS WILL PROVE THAT THE KANSAS SUPREME COURT AND ITS SUBSIDAIRY OFFICES CONDONE & COVER UP CRIMINAL ACTIVITY BY JUDGES & PROMINENT ATTORNEYS IN WICHITA. I POSTED THE FOLLOWING COMMENTON ON THE OTHER ARTICLE BY RON SYLVESTER.
I suggest that we take this discusson over to Ron Sylvester’s or Sherry Chissenhall’s blog. If you e-mail me at kiakahahaha@yahoo I’ll respond to your anonymous yahoo account with scanned documents documenting criminal allegations against Judges Henderson, Roth, Friedel, Vining & Rachel Pirner wife of KAKE New Director Dave Grant & former GOP Chairman Mark Kahrs, Trip Shawver Charlie Harris & many other other attorneys. The judges who got the lowest ratings were deamed to be the weakest poltically and had opposition tomake room for new fascists & nepotists. They needn’t worry – they will be back ont he bench like Judge Kennedy serving as judge pro temps. The most corrupt judges (Yost, Fleetwood, Pullman, Henderson, J. Burgess) had no opposition. Why? Because attorneys can not trust the WBA or Slyvester to keep their comments anonymous. Too bad a national organization like the ABA did not do the survey.
I was greatly amused that now Pilshaw has set up her own web site. The facts cannot and have never been disputed. Rebecca Pilshaw,Laura Roberts(Pilshaw’s aide),Christine Ladner,and a former SG county employee named Calene Binns knowingly and with malice violated Federal & Kansas Law.
These four believed themselves above the LAW. I endured the falsely sworn & falsely suborned oaths of this quartet for over seven years. Let any of this element,who violated the LAW and the Constitution stand against me or stand publicly where there wrongful conduct under the color of law can be examined.
These persons do not deserve any power or control over any person in any setting. They are corrupt and without ethic or even lawful conduct. They are the enemy of all people who yearn to breathe free.
GenericPatriot: Two commas can really make a difference. Great thing about online. You can always update and change. Still, a serious matter for the officer. Wouldn’t want to be dragged 50 feet no matter what my reach.
Hi, Bill: I figured you might be showing up here. Why not start your own blog? Then anyone interested in what you have to say could follow you. You could post documents without people having to email you. Just a thought.
Please contact me at kiakahahaha@yahoo.com. We are trying to organize regular weekly protests outside of the Wichita Eagle at lunch time. The editors of the Eagle have refused to investigate corruption stories involving high level judges. But why should they becasue Ron Sylvester & former opinion board editor Randy Brown are both married to high level bar association officials or prominent attorneys. I would love to put you in contact with Joe Liddell & Paul Rhodes and e-mail you scanned documents of Joe’s allegatons against Pilshaw, Ware, Ladner, Mark kahrs, Judge Fleetwood, Judge Henderson and many others.
I posted the following comments in today’s Eagle editorial
Bill McKean
316 293-6079
Vote against Jeff Syrios although I don’t know anything about his opponents. Jeff is another hypocritical elitist Daddy’s boy posing as pro life Christian. Jeff denies that the court house corruption exists. Jeff is a typical self-promoting Christian kingdom builder who never used his blog or Eagle columns to help establish the kingdom of God on earth. I sure hope that Bruce Brown is smart enough to become an advocate for reform. It’s going to be so ironic if Ross Alexander wins by default against Pat Walters.
Hey Bill-As rumor has it that you now live in the Dallas area, how are you going to protest on a weekly basis at the Wichita Eagle? Don’t you have a job or anything else to do other than harass the press and legal community? Why do you care what happens in Wichita if you live in Texas? Isn’t there any thing to worry about in that big old state down south?
I’M STILL CONCERNED ABOUT THE CRIME & CORRUPTION IN POTTERVILLE. I HAVE FAMILY & FRIENDS WHOSE CIVIL RIGHTS HAVE BEEN VIOLATED BY CORRUPT JUDGES, ATTORNEYS & COURT APPOINTED FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGISTS. FYI I COPIED SOME INTERESTING STATS ABOUT WICHITA. KANSAS IS NOT A VERY BIG STATE POPULATION WISE & A FEW PEOPLE STILL TAKE MY PHONE CALLS & READS MY BLOG POSTS. I’VE FOUND OUT THAT IF I POST MY E-MAIL ADDRESS TAHT IT’S SOOOOO EASY TO NETWORK WITH CONCERNED CITIZENS TI FIND OUT ABOUT SCANDALS INVOLVING JUDGES & ATTORNEYS WICHITA & JOHNSON COUNTY THAT WILL NEVER BE INVESTIGATED UNLESS WE KEEP ON KICKING THE EAGLE & THE KC STAR IN THE BUTT.
WHY DON’T YOU SEND ME AN E-MAIL AT KIAKAHAHAHA@YAHOO.COM I’D LOVE TO E-MAIL TO YOUR ANONYMOUS YOU SOME DIRT ON SOME JUDGES & ATTORNEYS THAT ARE CURRENTLY RUNNING FOR OFFICE. I’LL EVEN COPY THEM.
NOTE THESE CRIMINAL STATISTICS ON SEDGWICK COUNTY ARE UNDER REPORTED BECASUE THEY DO NOT INCLUDE THE FELONIES THAT ARE BEING COMMITTED BY WICHITA JUDGES & ATTORNEYS.
BILL MCKEAN 319 293-6079
SOURCE – KANSAS LIBERTY 7/25/08
In Kansas, the number of murders went down, while rapes and robberies increased Sedgwick County recorded most murders, rapes and robberies in 2007
For the second year in a row, Sedgwick County, the second largest county in Kansas, recorded more murders, rapes and robberies than any other Kansas county.
According to 2007 crime statistics released by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, 44 murders, 313 rapes, and 586 robberies were reported in the county last year.
In 2006, there were 28 murders in the county, with 265 rapes, and 532 robberies.
Overall in Kansas, the number of murders was down in 2007, when compared to 2006, while the number of rapes and robberies increased slightly.
Kansas City counties were a study in contrasts. Johnson County, a wealthy suburb of Kansas City, had only five murders in 2007. Wyandotte, a less affluent area of Kansas City, had five times as many killings and nearly three times as many robberies – but less than half as many reported rapes.
Wichita, with 350,000 people, is the largest city in Sedgwick County and accounts for much of the area’s violent crime. According to city-data.com, a demographics website, there are approximately 630 police officers in Wichita, 1.8 for every thousand residents. The national average is 3 officers for every 1000 citizens.
Rape and murder statistics for the state and for Kansas’ four most populous counties:
People may not like that Judge Kennedy is the “hanging judge” but wouldn’t you rather have that than one too lenient? I was shocked he was voted out. He has a brilliant legal mind and a great personality, at least off the bench.
Give me a choice between two candidates and I might believe both to be good, yet I can vote for only one. A sitting judge can lose an election for a myriad of reasons. While some people may perceive losing an election to be like getting fired, that doesn’t make it so. Sense101’s comment doesn’t seem logical.
Losing an election is getting fired, pure and simple. No other way to spin it. I like election, for the very reason that a judge may be removed. It tends to keep them on their toes.
Losing an election is not like getting fired. Elections are about more than competency. They are about public perception and financial backing. Would a good judge necessarily have the charisma to win an election?
If Phill Kline is working at all next year, he’ll be asking if you want fries with that. And I think his wages should be garnisheed until that $475,000 is paid back.
Furthermore, it remains to be seen how much money Phill has cost the taxpayers of Kansas AND Johnson County since then. Unfortunately Johnson County is stuck with his anti-abortion politics until next January.
I wonder how many kids could have been adopted or provided health care for that much money.
But there is sweet justice after all, dumb ass coudnt even muster 30% in a primary
I understand that times are rough for alot of people now days,but a crime is a crime and it really does not make any diffrence what your situation is. Both men knew what they had done is wrong plain and simple. You cannot steal food just because your house burned down, and you cannot falsify work time slips just because you need the cash. This is a poor excuse for sympathy. I agree with the judge you do the crime you must pay for your time.
I would of went out into the community to seek help and not take the risk of going to jail just for a measley pack of lunch meat and a dried loaf of bread it isn’t worth it. Yes I do have a soft heart and I do feel sorry for both men.
I also have alot of trouble with the “… all to common” statement. The ‘officer’ in this video must be from the cast of ‘Saturday Night Live’. In real life, in a real court case, any evidence siezed under these circumstances would be suppressed (if the defense attorney didn’t have his/her head stuck way up his/her butt). This video is nothing but an infomercial for defense attorneys.
WAR, I think that’s what Rebecca was saying: while these examples overstep some legal bounds, in her work in the appeals courtsshe sees these kinds of issues come up too often. Should note that cases from all over the state come to her office.
That’s why I got the attorneys to weigh in on it before I posted it. And no one said the acting was good.
when I took drivers-ed in 1995, we had an officer come talk to us and one of the things he told us was to always cooperate with any officer. And even went as far as to say if they ask to search your car, let them. This would be a good video for any drivers-ed and American Civics class.
So you reject the information in the video because the acting was bad? Excellent approach to constitutional issues.
If Woodman had said, “more than they should” in place of “all too common” would you agree with her? Or is an officer of the law attempting to convince a citizen that they must let them search their car or place of residence a rare occurrence? A justifiable occurrence?
I reject the way it’s presented. Lets take the first scenario done the way the ACLU wants you to do it. Done that way the cop would arrest the driver for reckless (speed excess of 20 MPH over limit…this varies by jurisdiction)the officer then does a search incident to arrest of the person and the car, finds the drugs and books everyone. Or he says this guys acting like he has a kilo of dope in the car and calls for a drug dog…and everyone gets arrested for what would usually be a weed ticket. Just enough info here to get someone into trouble but if they are driving around with dope they are already looking for trouble and should take all the HELP they can get, even if it sucks.
The ACLU should say “if you want to smoke weed do it at home and don’t carry it around with you or go drive high because doing so ups your chances of not only getting busted but running into that car with the mom and kids coming home from gymnastics practice” Then the cop gets to hear the dope say “dude where did that car come from and whats will all the screaming and blood man”. Well dude don’t worry about the weed charge cause you’ll be in court on involuntary manslaughter. Maybe the ACLU will come help him out of that mess…or not.
So the police have full access to your house, auto and anything else they wish to look at because, if you are not guilty, you wouldn’t mind them looking?
Nice leap to manslaughter from possession. If some one does something bad then they are liable for all bad things or the possibility of all bad things. And those pot wielding kids are potential baby killers so screw that constitutional stuff.
Re-read my post, we are talking about a car not a house. If you are familiar with prior court cases then you know a car has a lesser expectation of privacy and is mobile, which is the reason cops don’t need a warrant to search it. My point about manslaughter is one of advice. If you use drugs, lets even say weed, in your home and you’re not selling it or giving it to your kids to calm them down the chances of the law even finding out are slim. If they did find out it would take a warrant, consent or some exigent circumstance to get in your house and bust you. All that for a joint…not likely. Now climb behind the wheel of a car and get high. Not only have you opened yourself up for arrest by your semi-public possession but you’ve started putting the public at large in danger. It’s all about making good decisions from the get go. The ACLU has a video on how to make good decisions when you have already placed yourself in a jam. It might work for the weed arrest but not for other non-intended consequences like running into someone with your car while high. When that happens they pull your blood, find the weed and you’re done. Not much of a leap there ghost, I’ve seen a little weed do a lot of harm.
By the way I love the constitution. I’m a student of history and the biggest danger to a country as a whole is a corrupt controlling Government who’s force of will is carried out with the barrel of a gun. The police/military are that arm. Government must be limited by the people. The key to a government officials search is that it must be reasonable and legal. Our cops do a great job and the courts weigh in on what they do all the time sometimes ending up giving them more power and other times throwing out the evidence to limit that power. The constitution is a living document that has changing interpretations all the time. Anyone that thinks our cops are “jack booted” thugs have never been to a third world country. I was in the military and saw one of our guys try something close to this ACLU stuff (yes he was drunk and must have forgot he was out of the USA). He was pulled from the car through the window beaten with sticks kicked and everything was searched with no more compliant from us. oh by the way the stop was at a random street side checkpoint. I understand the limits placed on our police but this video portrays the whole thing from the wrong point of view. For starters I would have shown some kids going to the concert without weed and the cop making bad assumptions that lead to a bad search. That would be fair, point out the lessons to be learned and not portray the dope using driver as some hero for stopping the over reaching cop. Ok I better stop for now this is way to long.
The impact of enforcement creates criminals out of citizens every day. Locally, Judge Pilshaw stood up to excessive enforcement and suffered possible retaliation. Some of the very citizens she protected have turned against her. She is the last woman left on District Court.
Lonny that’s like saying the color yellow is yellow. By definition when a crime is committed and the law is enforced the offender becomes a criminal. If you are trying to say that you disagree with certain laws and they make people into criminals then your argument isn’t with cops who enforce the laws but with legislators who draft and make the laws the cops are then duty bound to enforce. And I gave up making critical decisions based on the sex, race or religious background of judges a long time ago. By the way judges are the third branch of government who are given the task of interpreting the laws made by the legislative branch and enforced by the the executive branch and the beauty of it is they are elected (in most cases).
A citizen who trusts enforcement and presumes honesty may be placed at a disadvantage when encountering tricks and misleading statements. This results not from the laws themselves but from the conduct enforcement sometimes feels is necessary and allowable.
My trust in others has never placed me at a disadvantage only my ignorance. The video erodes trust and increases ignorance with its lopsided portrayal.
Actually, the Kansas Court of Appeals often holds session in both the Old Sedgwick County Courthouse and the Federal Courthouse and that’s what was occurring last week.
The panel held hearings in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten. Judge Marten’s folk band, “The Shoes” also played at the reception, sponsored by the Wichita Women’s Attorneys Association.
Where is the “historic federal courthouse?” Our federal court building is the former post office and is not a historic courthouse. The Kansas Court of Appeals does not conduct court in a federal courthouse. When the Court travels to Wichita it conducts hearings on the second floor of the Historic Sedgwick County Courthouse.
As rhodgkie correctly pointed out, you are all correct. I have covered the Kansas Court of Appeals at different times on its visits to Wichita in both the Old Sedgwick County Courthouse and the Historic Federal Courthouse (thanks for the link to the history of the courthouse, sgsja). This wasn’t a one-time thing. Last time, they were at the federal courthouse here, it was an all-male panel.
So he (or his defense attorney) wanted to withhold evidence that he’s capable of being a bold-faced liar? Like that might make a difference? How interesting that prosecutors have so much evidence they don’t need to present those statements anyway.
Have you left out the salacious bits? I’m guessing so since I don’t see why there’s a problem with dancing on a web cam no matter who is the intended audience. Not that I’m asking for the ahem naked truth… just curious.
The better we understand enforcements authority and duties, then the safer they are and the better we are able protect our rights. There is a reason we have these rights that protect us.
I am grateful that the video was posted. It is hard to oppose the questions and actions of an enforcement officer. Understanding a situation before you are in it helps.
I can’t recall the names now, but the friend who testified against the father of Chelsea Brooks’ baby, didn’t he say one of their ideas was to beat Chelsea to induce a spontaneous abortion? They were trying to come up with a way to keep the father of the baby out of prison for having sex with a minor. Anecdotal evidence surely points to men abusing pregnant women with the idea that a miscarriage would relieve them of 18 years of child support or render any paternity question moot. I’m just thinking there could well be other or additional motivations for the abuser.
Yes, Cindy, you remember that testimony correctly from Everett Gentry. Prosecutors tell me that pregnant women get punched in the stomach, because “that’s where they’re most vulnerable.” I don’t know whether the motivation is getting out of responsibility, or just being jealous of not getting the attention themselves, as the articles I’ve linked to suggest. The articles also talk about pregnant women in abusive relationships being more likely to be killed. In the case of Chelsea Brooks, which you site, prosecutors say that was the motivation: to get rid of the baby. The father of Brooks’ child, Elgin Robinson, is set for trial Sept. 22.
Judges need to be elected by the people. When a Judge gets gets beholden to whoever hired him the court becomes biased.
There are some biased judges in the Juvenile Court. Who do they owe?
A lack of transparency and accountability in Juvenile contributes to this problem. Evrything is confidential and they can legislate from the bench and deny due process with no penalty to them.
Good luck getting one of them for judicial misconduct…the good old boy system and the bar association will all stick together and the people suffer for it.
We need judges who are fair, firm and above all honest and ethical. Some are not.
Hello, ma’am. I am a former inmate at ElDorado Correctional Facility. I spent nearly two years in the B-cellhouse Admin-seg unit. I was released in 2005, and have behaved myself and am now a successful business owner. I won’t say which business, obviously, but I am a computer repairman.
I want to extend my well-wishes to you, and would like to offer my perspective on exactly how I believe this escape was carried-off so well.
There are rules in practice, and rules in principle. The principle rule is: Prior to going to yard, EVERY seg inmate is to be strip-searched prior to escort to the “yard”, and subsequent to their return, as well. The rule in practice is: We have 150+ inmates to get out to yard for an hour each and we have 32 yard cages. Pull RANDOM or high-risk (or pain-in-the-ass) inmates from every batch going out for strip searches.
Now, these searches are performed with the inmate standing in one of six lower-tier shower stalls. These stalls, while they do offer the guard a total view of the inmate, do NOT offer a total view of the interior of the stall itself. I personally smuggled many items of contraband out to the “yard” on many occasions by taking advantage of this fact. It was never, in my 5+ years of incarceration, necessary to conceal anything inside my body.
Conservatively estimating, %35 of the guards at EDCF REGULARLY smuggle contraband into the prison. Three I knew personally. There is a lot of money to be made for an enterprising guard who sneaks in a cellphone, a bag of weed, or something else. I had a cellphone myself for over a year in EDCF. I was never caught with it. This is not un-common. Many inmates have their own phone, but they don’t use it to plan escapes. (More on this later) They use it simply to keep in touch. You may wonder why this would be necessary, since there are phones available for the inmates’ use; but only if you’ve never received a collect call from a prison in Kansas: The bills are ASTRONOMICAL. The policies and practices of the service provider(s) (they change names regularly) border on criminal.
Escape is a scary topic. Inside, the subject of escape is a VERY touchy one. If an inmate is even so much as overheard making a wise-crack, in total jest, about escaping, he is subject to a lengthy stay in Ad-Seg while his security status is reviewed. So people tend to keep it out of their mouths, so to speak.
The guards are treated almost as badly as the inmates. This is true. The only thing that separates the guards from the inmates are the uniforms, the hours, and the pay. That’s it. As far as I&I (Intelligence and Investigations [or even, Idiocy and Intimidation]) is concerned, the CO’s are every bit as un-trustworthy as the inmates. As you can imagine, this practice generates a lot of friction between the inmates and the administrators, with the guards right in the middle. So many guards adopt survival-based techniques to smooth out their days. Most of them go out of their way not to antagonize their working relationship with the inmates, which can cause problems with the administrators up front. It takes a very fine balancing act on the part of the guards to find the happy middle ground…and it’s pretty damn narrow, let me tell you. Relationships of an inappropriate nature are COMMON in just that one facility. When I was there, at least four CO’s were dismissed for having sex with inmates on facility grounds that I know of. This activity is not, as you might be surprised to find out, restricted to female staff. There are a few very pretty boys in prison, and guards can be gay, too.
Four of the six towers at El Dorado are NEVER staffed. That’s right, folks. Rural location combined with high turn-over have kept the facility running at about %50 of the staff she was designed to run with.
As for how the wire cutters, cellphone, etc. were brought to the yard, that is very easy: inmates bring things out/ hold on to things for each other ALL THE TIME. I cannot count the number of times I held one thing or another for some one because they were likely to be stripped. Once out on the yard, it is very easy to relay items to others through the fences dividing the yard cubes.
But after reading everything I could find on the subject, one thing still puzzles me: since “yard” begins after first shift gets on (around 0630hrs or so), and there is always at least one guard on the yard at any given time, how were they able to cut the actual yard fence itself without being noticed by: A. the guard; B. the other inmates, probably half of whom are snitches; and C, the perimeter patrol that makes the full circuit of the facility every 90 to 120 seconds? The road to the shooting range is regularly traveled, and she would also have had to drive right through the guards’ training facility which is adjacent to the shooting range. That road does eventually dump out right behind the B-cellhouse yard, but right onto the perimeter road. That dirt road was re-graded in 2004, and there are no bushes or trees on it capable of concealing a car, so how did her car, parked on this road presumably, escape notice for long enough? Not to mention, she would have been visible to any of the inmates still inside in their cells who had windows facing the yard, which would be half of each side of the cellhouse. And Several stories say this happened at night. There is NEVER yard at night. So unless they were BOTH porters, BOTH outside working, and NEITHER had a guard present, just how the hell did they get outside? The only way out of the cellhouse to the yard is through two solid steel re-enforced doors electronically controlled from a steel and Lucite booth.
In short, I believe at this point that the ONLY way this could have worked was with a LOT of negligence on the part of the guards. Ray Roberts is all about appearances. As long as his facility LOOKS secure, and he looks good, that’s really all that counts for him.
I don’t think your daughter’s role was any more instrumental than the wind speed that day. Anyone at all could have done what she did, and in any number of ways. I know lots of dirty little secrets about that facility, as well as Winfield Correctional Facility.
So not much has changed from 25 years ago when I was a teenager and heard similar harrowing stories? I lived in a small town in SE Kansas yet I heard enough to believe that running away from one’s family would lead to prostitution, drugs, and possibly an early death.
I’m thinking today there are better resources & options for homeless kids, but maybe I’m wrong.
Wait a minute. Inmate74649, are you saying that the El Dorado Correctional Facility is so insecure that people convicted of heinous crimes could escape if they tried hard enough? This is seriously disturbing. I wish you would help someone get this story out in a way that the prisons would be more secure.
That said, I’m also disturbed by the conflict between administrators & guards. Something is really wrong with a system that puts guards in the position of finding that narrow path that allows them to do their jobs while upsetting the fewest people possible.
This is Tiller’s last gasp attempt at staying above the law. His only hope is that the abortion industry puppet Sebelius will pull some strings of her own at the AG Office. Here’s some more information from kansasliberty.com:
Attorneys blame Morrison’s former mistress for convincing him to file charges
Tiller lawyers attack Kline over charges filed by Morrison
In a motion filed Monday, attorneys for a late-term abortionist facing 19 misdemeanor counts in Wichita launched a withering attack on former Attorney General Phill Kline, even though it was Kline’s successor, Paul Morrison, who had filed the charges.
The lengthy motion, filed on behalf of Dr. George Tiller, briefly acknowledged that Kline did not file the charges, but said Kline’s actions while conducting an inquisition of the abortion provider had permanently tainted the case.
Tiller’s lawyers sought either dismissal of the case or suppression of the evidence collected by prosecutors. District Court Judge Clark V. Owens has indicated arguments on the motion will be presented in November.
The motion, which was made available on the website of Tiller’s law firm, claims that Morrison only filed the charges in response to pressure applied by pro-life groups.
The motion further claims that Morrison’s mistress (described as “a Kline-influenced paramour”), who remained with the District Attorney’s Office after Morrison replaced Kline as Attorney General, also had encouraged Morrison to file charges. The claim was based on a newspaper article in the Topeka Capital-Journal.
Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, said he would like to believe Morrison caved in under pressure from various pro-life groups, but admitted that notion was somewhat unlikely, given the substantial donations made by Tiller and his PAC. The donations helped get Morrison elected as Attorney General.
Tiller is charged with performing late-term abortions on girls as young as 10 without obtaining the signature of a doctor unaffiliated with Tiller’s Wichita abortion clinic.
State law requires that before performing a late-term procedure, an abortionist must find a second, unaffiliated doctor to concur that the abortion is medically necessary. The criminal complaint contends that Tiller consulted a second doctor – Kristin Neuhaus – with whom he was financially affiliated. Neuhaus also performs abortions.
“The issue in the case is simple: Did Tiller have a financial relationship with Neuhaus or didn’t he?” Newman said. “All the rest of this stuff is just blame-shifting by Tiller – ‘it’s all Phill Kline’s fault.’”
The 154 page motion includes a table of contents with chapter headings that read like tabloid headlines: "Kline’s Holy Grail: Patient Records"; "Kline is out but can’t let go of Dr. Tiller (or his files)"; and "Kline continues to prejudice Dr. Tiller’s jury pool and thumb his nose at the courts".
Newman said the titles might have been lifted from the National Enquirer. “It just fills me with glee when I think how much Tiller had to spend to get this thing prepared,” he said.
According to the motion, “This prosecution is the product of an obsessed AG’s lies, half-truths and material omissions. His assistants and agents directed these prevarications to other state offices, the public, and the courts. This prosecution and the evidence on which it depends have been irreparably tainted as a result of Kline’s office’s misconduct. The only meaningful remedy is to dismiss the charges or suppress the evidence.”
On Monday, in response to a request for comment, Kline expressed a concern that the case, which has already been delayed many times at Tiller’s request, might be “side tracked” yet again.
In a statement, Kline told KansasLiberty.com, “Every judge who has viewed the evidence has found probably cause to believe that Mr. Tiller has committed crimes and all this demonstrates is that Mr. Tiller and his attorneys continue to believe that he is above the law. The only questions remaining are whether this court as some others have done will improperly delay or side track legitimate prosecution and also whether the Attorney General will begin to perform his duty and seek additional information from Mr. Tiller. Patient privacy has never been at risk and the women have never been under investigation.”
Chad and Shannon Floyd have waited more than three long years to be cleared of these accusations, and the dismissal hearing on Nov. 24, 2008, can’t come soon enough for them or their families. The Floyds are innocent, and they are anxious to put these trials behind them and move on with their lives.
Chad and Shannon Floyd and their families have had to endure three years of accusations, innuendo and rumor that have been absolutely false. The Floyds have had much support from the community, and from that support, they gained strength to fight on.
On Nov. 24, 2008, that fight will finally be over and their innocence will now be recognized by the Court.
— Dan Monnat, Attorney for Chad Floyd
“No one has ever found the body of Michael Golub, 27″
Hard to get convictions with no body. It doesn’t mean they are not guilty. It means they were not PROVEN beyond a shadow of a doubt to be guilty. They may be innocent.
The loser is a boy without a daddy. The lawyer said there was blood and someone should have heard gunshots? Bleeding can be caused without a bullet.
Monnat’s the Man. Aggressive prosecutors should shiver when they realize they must face Dan with explanations for their actions. Monnat helps keep all of us free from aggressive intrusive government.
This is a joke – Judge Fleetwood had no juridiction and made a ruling anyway – the case was in Juvenile Court. How can this man be an administrative judge when he doesn’t even know the law? Of course he will be the administrative judge over the so-called judges that don’t know the laws either – he’ll fit right in. With him in charge – no one will have to follow the law – after all – how will he know different?
It’s all about who has the money – that’s the way the ruling goes – whether legal or not. He’s part of the corruption in the courthouse.
How sick. This lady gives pro-life people a bad name. I despise Tiller, but I despise this lady just as much. Shooting people is NOT pro-life. I say let her rot. People who are truly pro-life need to resist violence, which Tiller definitely does not when he sucks the brains out of live babies.
Where do plumbers rate? I certainly hope it is ahead of builders whom most are constantly fighting against safety as being too costly. I’m disappointed but understand the low rating of labor leaders because business spends $100’s of millions of dollars every year to PR and legal firms to discredit workers and their leaders. Attorney’s have an almost unbelievable strict code of ethics that most are unaware of. When attorney’s fight hard people do get hurt but it keeps us a nation of laws.
The other day I was about to send my boss an email when I paused and wondered if the information really belonged in the system. I’m new to this job so I really didn’t know for sure. Rather than take any chances, I did something radical. I got up from my desk, went to my boss’ office, and talked with her face-to-face.
I’m sure anyone who comes across this comment will be in shock. I could have just picked up the phone, but I wasn’t sure if meaning would be lost. I had information in my hand that might help if I was face-to-face with my boss, so that was part of the reason I decided to be so bold. (Yes, I’m being a little sarcastic.)
People need to think twice about what gets put in emails, text messages, and on the Internet. Those words are accessible for years and years. You think they’re buried and gone until the day arrives when someone drags them up to haunt you.
For me, the best insurance is to be civil, honest, genuine, and sincere. OK, I did violate that standard above when I was sarcastic, but I was honest.
Most people. Receiving my Juris doctor in 2002 but not taking the state bar I still like to read the Kansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals cases. Lawyers are punished almost monthly. You can read the restrictions from the state judicial site. Some of the things I think they are too strict on is that they frown on attorneys collecting money owed to them, that even if they have a clients money in a trust fund they cannot use it to pay expenses of the client in most cases, they can’t represent someone they have had a relationship with, etc.
There are active ethic committees in most large communities in additional to the state committee and they investigate even somewhat ridiculous complaints to which the attorney must respond. There are all sorts of 10 and 20 day time limits on filings and even if an attorney is running 50 to 100 cases at a time they jump on a lawyer for missing a filing.
I sense that attorneys are twice as strict on themselves than any other profession, including doctors, bankers and securities. They do so because they recognize the publics poor perception
of their profession.
Lonny … yes, I know. It wasn’t really a serious question – I was trying to be humerous as much as anything. Several attorneys have served me well with personal matters in the past – all of them took care of business. I’m retired from law enforcement after 35 years and I can honestly say in my entire life I’ve encountered only two attorneys who were unscrupulous. Do you remember to good old days when attorneys were not allowed to advertise their services in the media? I can’t remember – were they also not allowed to advertise in the yellow pages?
They were not allowed to advertise. It was considered unethical. However attorney’s are not allowed to practice in areas they have no experience. The problem for citizens was they didn’t know how to tell what attorney’s practiced in what areas. Enforcement is a difficult area and I appreciate your 35 years. You don’t get paid sufficiently for what you must risk and encounter. It is also a burden for your families.
I rounded them off, but here are the exact numbers from the Department of Indigent Defense Services for the caseload for the Sedgwick County office. Remember, the office handles felonies and probation violations only:
He was stealing Hopes and dreams, preying on fools, so as far as Jail Time, none, this is no more than any church, when they pass the plate, so you soul can go to heaven, or no more than the DEM or REP, when they ask for Cash, so the they can wright all the wrongs bye the other side, no more than the Banks, who made loans to people who could not afford them, are all jobs going over seas, this is just the American Way, but if he did not pay Taxes on the money he stole, then bury this guy under the prison, and give him life. OJ him.
Two years. He operated in the open. Why did the government wait so long to make it clear to him and others that it was wrong? It seems similar to allowing companies to prepare legal filings for citizens, advertise it and then years later charging them for operating as an attorney without a license.
Mr. webber was in California for many years doing the same thing but he did not focus on illegal aliens. He served time for child abuse yet was allowed to register and an Indian home and take in Tribal children. Mr. Webber has been cheating and harming people since 1980 that I know of first hand. He needs to pay for for the damage he has done. He will continue this sham somewhere else if he is not stopped.
I’m glad to read a solution has been found for the interim. Sounds like this was just a fluke and when the office is properly staffed, they handle the load just fine. I hope I interpreted the situation correctly.
Hmmmm … out so soon after an attempted murder. It just doesn’t seem that justice was done in this case. It seems that out judicial system misses the target quite often in serious criminal and civil cases and we just stand around with our jaws dropped on the ground. And we wonder that we haven’t been able to weed our way through the controversies of the death penalty?
How come Dr. and Mrs. Schneider are being tried outside of the courtroom by the judge and prosecution without chance to defend themselves?
As I have said in the EAGLE’s comment boxes previously (why are those comments not attached hereto?) … I never talked to Dr. Schneider but I did observe him making rounds at the Haysville Nursing Home.
Visiting my mother there, I noticed that Dr. Schneider was unfailingly polite and interested in all people he talked to at the nursing home whether his patients or not. In fact I recently asked a former nursing home staff member at a Haysville store about this and received a positive endorsement.
Accolades were certainly not give to most doctors who visited patients in the nursing home. In fact, most doctors refuse to go to nursing homes. Patients have to be transported to the doctors’ offices or hospitals no matter how much pain they are in.
There is probably easier kinds of medical practice than dealing with the elderly, veterans who abuse drugs, other people who somehow become addicted, etc. Of course people are patients in nursing homes for all kinds of reasons, age, strokes, health failures of some kinds.
Even so, the staff do try to make nursing homes as cheerful as possible under the circumstances.
Thanks to doctors like Dr. Schneider with an upbeat, caring personality, these end-of-life cases are made as comfortable as possible for these people whose lives are dribbling away and who only want to pass away comfortably at the end.
Why can some lawyer who apparently has a mind prejudiced by lack of knowledge and experience go after one person or persons he views as having done something wrong and wring the case out in public?
The number of deaths is inconsequential. Many if not most of these very suffering people are going to die sooner, not later, in nursing homes or by themselves in agony of some kind.
If I hadn’t visited my mother regularly in the nursing home and still visit there on Sundays long after my mother passed away, I wouldn’t be aware of this sub-world of physically and mentally hurting patients … and not all elderly.
Thankfully there are a few doctors like Dr. Schneider who actually visited these nursing homes, injured veterans, elderly patients, etc., to assist staff to try to maintain “hurting people” in some kind of terminal comfort.
They are not being tried “outside the courtroom.” These are pretrial hearings, and the defendants are always present and represented by counsel. In this case, this was a hearing upon a motion filed by Linda Schneider’s lawyers. Their trial begins in February.
Thanks for leaving the comments. We have heard many former patients, and colleagues, speak of Stephen Schneider’s skill as a doctor and caring bedside manner.
This case involves accusations that there were also careless prescription practices at the Schneider Medical Clinic that led to harm of patients. A jury will have to decide the merits of those accusations.
Ron Sylvester
If male law enforcement treats their female co-workers with insults and offensive terms – how do you think they treat female victims or mothers of children that have been abused?
What would you say if I told you that an EMCU detective threatened to throw a mother of a child that reported sexual abuse thru a door 3 times? Threatened to prosecute her personally if she didn’t shut up about the abuse of her child.
There is a problem in Sedgwick County with the attitude of (not all) but of many police officers.
If they are ok with foul treatment of co-workers (and I can just image what they call them) can you imagine what they say to tax paying citizens?
This is what we have working for the citizens of sedgwick county.
Wichta is a bad place to be a female cop I have been stopped in traffic and harassed for years and nobody wants to hear my side of the story. The Wichita police department should all be fired.
I was working 3rd shift doing a maintence run when I was pulled over at aprox. 2am. Officer wouldn’t even walk up to my truck. Soon back up came as they hollored at me from across the road callin me the f word, told me to keep my mouth shut when I asked why I was pulled over. Yes i’m white and yes the five officers who showed up as back up were white. They were very proud of their arrogance. Total waste of tax payer money and I have NO respect for the City of Wichita Corrupt Cops. I say fire the Cheif of Police for lack of oversight! The harassment in this city is awfull. Call me for jury duty some day.
Sylvester’s remarks are fairly stated concerning Pilshaw’s service. Losing her is a significant loss of protection for the community. It is also a win for those that wanted all females off the courts. Will they now go after our minority judge to eliminate all diversity?
NOW JUSTICE FINALLY PREVAILS & DARKNESS DOES NOT PREVAIL OVER THE LIGHT. I see to the last that Pilshaw makes comments which devalue men which she despises with such animosity.
This one MAN DID NOT BOW before her unlawful acts and violation of the Constitution. Did she really believe in her diabolical hatred she could knowingly and with malice accept, and manipulate falsely sworn testimony solely because it was created & suborned by women?
She talks of her lengthy years, what of the long years of her falsified warrant which she wrongly maintained to avoid JUSTICE? The LAW had no meaning; she convinced herself she was above the LAW. No one could sanction her, how dare any mere MAN stand with evidence that did not advance her vile objectives.
I told Pilshaw many years ago that the day would come when the light of justice would shine again. In the end analysis her wickedness did not prevail. The determination (in accordance with US Law) was made that it was WRONG & UNLAWFUL to order any man or woman to pay 76% of their monthly income to Pilshaw when they had a family and other children.
It was WRONG TO KNOWINGLY AND WITH MALICE PUBLISH ON NCIC THAT A MAN WAS A CONVICTED FELON WHO ESCAPED FROM PRISON WHEN HE HAD NEVER EVEN BEEN TO TRIAL,HAD NEVER BEEN IN PRISON,OR EVER HAD ANYTHING MORE SERIOUS THAN WRITING A NSF CHECK (in another state) FOR $40 ONCE IN A LIFETIME.
Pilshaw knew all too well that Court Service Officer Binns lied under written oath, that Ladner and Ware were nefarious and vile conspirators seeking to destroy any hated man who dared stand. There indeed needs to be women judges, one of the most knowledgeable judges in the land is a woman on the US Supreme Court. Unethical and wrongful conduct under the color of law should not be tolerated regardless of gender.
Pilshaw and all the corrupt forces she could muster DID NOT PREVAIL against one rather insignificant man and non lawyer from out of state. When a cop in my home state nearly killed me at weapon point in my own driveway (based on Pilshaw’s falsified warrant) I saw the icy fingers of the wicked judge on the trigger.
Do you hear laughter Pilshaw? It is the laughter of the afflicted who bore your criminal and wrongful conduct under the color of law. I think it is only fitting that the words of a woman bring to an end your foul “reign”:
“Talk no more exceedingly proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up. He will keep the feet of his saints, and THE WICKED SHALL BE SILENT IN DARKNESS…”
ALL MY CHILDREN despise your name Pilshaw, your attempts to destroy my family failed and your wretchedness is an example for them to avoid. The official and court documents stand as a testament to your wrongdoing. I may never find one honest person to publish or evaluate the 135 pages of evidence which proves beyond any doubt the unlawful acts I endured from you.
It doesn’t matter, Pilshaw, YOU and the entire criminals dressed as SG county officials complex KNOW YOU LOST to one MAN. I rejoice that your downfall is now complete and that I was a small part of the equation. NO ONE WILL EVER HAVE TO CALL YOU YOUR HONOR AGAIN; it is fitting since your whole “reign’ was about DISHONOR.
I will sing unto the LORD for he has triumphed gloriously the horse and the rider thrown into the sea!
“The state of Kansas can never prosecute a case based on illegal evidence.”
How laughable can you be…they change,taint,and manipulate the evidence and get SG county officials to falsely swear under oath to fit into the lie they are waging. You are really naive Sylvester.
I imagine Foulston hiring attorneys from the Public defender will make it easier for her office to destroy civil rights and have inside knowledge to convict someone falsely accused.
If you are in SG County those numbers should be A LOT lower,perhaps minus 50% trust for attorneys,and 0% for scaredy cat journalists. I notice you did not say anything about crooked judges,probably have to go into the minus kelvin scale for them!
COMMUNICATION TO PILSHAW & CORRUPT SG COUNTY OFFICIALS,DT 10 DEC 04 @ 1249 HRS/ VERIFICATION OF RECEIPT CONFIRMED/EXACT TEXT SENT TO PILSHAW:
A Calene Binns, a court services officer (CSO) submitted a sworn affidavit to Judge Pilshaw’s office. The affidavit by Binns swore that:
“THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT,WHO WAS RELEASED ON PROBATION FROM THE CONFINEMENT PORTION OF HIS SENTENCE…”"AFTER HAVING BEEN CONVICTED OF THE CRIME OF NON-SUPPORT OF CHILD (FELONY)”
The sworn statement which is in your files (dated 26 July 99) was witnessed by Ms Laura Roberts and a warrant was sworn out by Judge Pilshaw on the basis of this sworn affadavit. CSO Binns had the file on the case,she swore to a false statement:
A) I was never convicted of the crime of non-support.
B) I have never been convicted of a felony in Kansas or anywhere else.
C) I was never sentenced on the crime since I never went to trial.
D) I was never released from the confinement (prison) portion of any sentence on probation.
So what is the difference right,wrong! Imagine a crooked judge who knowingly and with malice posts a falsified felony warrant nationwide. You are riding in a friend’s car and pulled over and nearly killed because the policeman believes the crooked judge and thinks you are a threat to him.
At one point the nationwide bulletin listed I was armed and dangerous. So what really happended? Pilshaw was mad because I could not pay 76% of my monthly gross income to her and the band of criminal officials in SG county. They had arranged to receieve up to 19% of the proceeds in a non-TANF case,so it was THEIR money in THEIR CRIMINAL MINDS.
Why couldn’t I pay her and the SG county criminal officials? I broke my neck in service to this country so apparantly criminals like Pilshaw could act as absolute evil from the bench.
Astute legal types may notice that 76% per month is in violation of US law,good observation,you see the LAW had NO MEANING to Rebeccca Pilshaw.
SO WHAT DID I DO NEXT:
I filed a pro se motion for redress on the record,ah,but Pilshaw and her evil cohorts were way too smart in their nefarious conduct. She simply would not allow pro se motions on the record as evidenced in the following exact text email from the Clerk of Court:
I received this e mail from Judge Pilshaw’s aide just moments after we spoke (see note below). I apologize that I misspoke regarding our pro se motion policy. Apparently, Judge has changed her policy. Consequently, your motion has not been filed with the court as of yet. Judge will review your motion and send it back to us to be set up for hearing, or it will be returned to you if it has not been filed properly. Again, I am sorry for the misunderstanding. Thank you.
Crystal
TCC IV
(316) 660-5720
I’m not sure who I should send this to, so if you could, please make sure it gets passed on to the necessary people.
Any Pro Se Motions (whether they have a Notice of Hearing attached or not) that are being filed by defendant’s or litigants that require a hearing date from Judge Pilshaw, please do not accept filing immediately.
Please place the Pro Se Motion into our 11th floor box. Judge Pilshaw will review the paperwork to see if it complies with statutory requirements and local court rules.
If it does comply, it will be returned to the Clerk’s Office by me for filing along with a hearing date. If it does not meet requirements, I will prepare a letter returning the paperwork to the person who submitted it telling them it does not comply with requirements and that it will be reviewed again should they desire to submit further paperwork. Only paperwork that meets requirements will be allowed to be filed.
Judge Pilshaw believes in the long run it will save a lot of time for your office, the DA’s office and our office.
Thanks, Laura
Division 14
Judge Pilshaw’s Court
You see these unlawful and wrongful persons ALWAYS are one step ahead in their crimes towards citizens. TOO BAD Pilshaw was publicly reprimanded for this practice.
Note to non legal folks: You see what this did was make sure nothing would get on the record and Pilshaw and her fellow criminal officials could win. Pilshaw knew that pesky Constituition required that motions were to be filed and heard,but she did not like the law or the Constitution,after all she was Pilshaw and we all were simply cattle to be slaughtered in her court,ESPECIALLY THE MALE CATTLE.
NOW FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WILL SAY PILSHAW DID NOT KNOW OF HER UNLAWFUL CONDUCT UNDER THE COLOR OF LAW HERE IS A COMMUNICATION THE EVIL ONE RESPONDED TO DIRECTLY DATED 15 AUGUST 2005 @ 1151 HOURS:
Your Honor,with all due respect, I find it very difficult to surrrender to a warrant based upon a false sworn statement in violation of 18 USC 1001. I have a copy of the warrant order sworn and subscribed by Court Services Officer Calene Binns,on 26 July 99. It was witnessed by your aide,Laura Roberts.
The sworn affadavit by your CSO states that I was convicted of the crime of non support (felony) and that I was released on probation from the confinement portion of my sentence,that I am a convicted felon.
Your Honor,you signed this order establishing this warrant which declares me convicted of this crime,when I have never even been to trial. The document is in the case file.
AND SO WHAT WAS THE RESPONSE OF RECENT CAKE & PUNCH CONSUMER PILSHAW? SHE LEFT THE KNOWINGLY WRONGFUL AND UNLAWFUL ACT TO STAND FOR ANOTHER TWO YEARS.
In the end it was not Pilshaw who DISMISSED WITH PREJUIDICE ALL COSTS TO KANSAS. It was a unilateral move by the ethically challenged SG County DA’s office.
So what have we learned? Every time my case and ordeal is mentioned it is said it is too complex to understand or well you won what more do you want?
I also hear how Jordan from the SRS is going to investigate wrongful acts…PLEASE don’t insult me and the other parents who suffer through the myriad of criminal acts your officials commit.
Everyone knows SG County is crooked,how about hearings under oath and we will see who the real criminals are!
I hear the legislators sometimes say it will take God to bring about change. Hey legislators,GOD is going to help the afflicted…YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BRING ABOUT CHANGE AS THE INSTRUMENT OF WHAT GOVERNMENT IS SUPPOSED TO BE,AND STAND FOR THOSE MISTREATED.
Lastly directly to Pilshaw,Ware,Givan,Fleetwood and all the criminals dressed as government and court officials I say this dated from
August 14 2005 @ 1238 Hours:
I want you to know something,I’m not Rodrock,(check the Internet for reference) I am a
hard rock,and my rock is my God & Christ,my King,who always hears the cries of slaves and the afflicted.
So we return now the blog to the Eagle who can hunker down in their hiding place under the couch. Many of pharoahs,er pilshaw’s “reign” are no more…Binns went to work in a ministry probably to forget the criminal officials of Sedgwick.
The spurrious SRS lawyer went to work at a small town bank probably handing out toasters for new accounts. Ware lost her job and the election,I guess your character flaws were discerned by the voters.
What a pack of lies that Pilshaw was voted out for being “tough” HAHAHAHA,are you high Sylvester?
Pilshaw was reprimanded for not allowing motions on the record,for conduct in violation of the judicial canons and for yelling & threatening jurors. THREE PUBLIC REPRIMANDS FROM THE STATE.
Sylvester how exactly are you related to Pilshaw?
Quick let me get the smelling salts for Sylvester so he can wake up and realize that Pilshaw can’t hurt him (OR ANYONE ELSE) anymore.
I am sure the lawyers had “no sign of hard feelings” IT WAS NOT THEY WHO SUFFERED FROM THE WRONGFUL ACTS UNDER THE COLOR OF LAW FROM PILSHAW,they got paid either way!
So for any who doubt WHY NOT HAVE an investigative hearing under oath WHERE these matters would be examined. I will bring myself and the 135 pages of undisputed court record and evidence which trounced these foul & vile persons and they will finally be where they belong —in prison.
We could have it on a warm spring day so the criminal officials implicated could jump out the windows and run to a get away car to have waiting Eagle reproters write a fantasy ending to their crimes.
Just make sure it is not in SG County. I probably would be stabbed in the back 42 times,worst case of suicide ever seen in SG county or Foulston would declare martial law and have all parents placed in concentration re-education camps until they signed a statement saying she created the universe and is their new demigod.
They really would not need to sign it I guess…just get a crooked court or county official to falsely swear under oath,that certainly IS ALWAYS EASY ENOUGH TO DO!
You think the cops are bad wait until you get to see the DA and the Court. The you lie and we will swear to it mentality is very thick with these crooks.
If you get the right attorney you can pay the usual bribe,and for an extra couple thousand they will invite to the annual gathering of crooked officials at their song and dance perjury gala!
Congrats to all bloggers who are still alive and living in SG County Kansas. The fact you are still breathing with the corruption in this county is testament that people can endure under even the most diabolical regimes.
Geez – Iowa Joe…move to a country where the evil “SC criminals” can’t get to you….Judge Pilshaw and the other judges work pretty hard to keep real criminals off the streets…if you had that many problems, maybe it would have been prudent to hire a professional (lawyer) rather than try to do it pro se……lets see, they have a college education and 3 years post college education in the LAW and deal with it everyday…. duh…… don’t you think that if you can’t get anyone to read the 135 pages of ranting and raving, maybe the problem is not with the system………
This hearing is about Morrison. It seems they would have questioned him. He was the one filing charges of tillers Misdemeanors. Tiller spent a lot of money buying his election.
It certainly is hard to weed our way through the convolusions of human nature to resolve justice. But, I guess that shouldn’t really surpise us – it’s not like Morrison and Carter committed original sin. Is it likely now that other defendants/respondants will come crawling out of the woodwork asking for new trials and hearings claiming that Morrison “… was acting out of character” when he or his staff filed on them?
I must have created a misunderstanding. Hmmm…I guess under your line of thinking holocaust survivors should not BURDEN any of you with what the Nazis did so you don’t feel uncomfortable.
YOU WISH QUOTE: “maybe it would have been prudent to hire a professional (lawyer) rather than try to do it pro se……lets see, they have a college education and 3 years post college education in the LAW and deal with it everyday….”
I can assure you that Pilshaw,and the rest of the nefarious criminal officials DID NOT think it a “rant” when it was filed on the district court record. They actually had a QUICK response within three days.
The 135 pages were defined differently than a blog,indeed there was a lengthy motion,but most of the filing was evidence against Pilshaw and her fellow criminal officials. Funny,NO ONE denies the evidence to be fact yet I am supposed to say nothing? I think not.
I WENT TO COURT AND WON,not because it was a “rant” but because the years of SG County criminality melted away like cowardly snow. They dismissed completely less than three days after the filing. Do you think that was a coincidence?
I did move to a country where the evil SG officials could not get me…it is called AMERICA AND THEY LOST VERSUS poor little ol’ me. The point of my lengthy blog was to correctly identify that Pilshaw is a corrupt person,not some mild cake eating judge.
Your idea regarding Pilshaw’s work with SG county was not shared by the Kansas Supreme Court and the higher level officials who ISSUED THREE PUBLIC REPRIMANDS AGAINST PILSHAW. A judge does not get a pass to be a judge in several cases and then totally abandon the LAW and the JUDICIAL CANONS in other cases.
Hiring a “professional attorney ” in SG county is more than laughable. No attorney in Wichita WOULD have accomplished what I was able to do in these matters. The idea is to pay,pay,pay for a crooked lawyer when the corrupt judge will not even examine or admit the evidence. If it is not on the trial court record it cannot be admitted at the next appeals level.
PILSHAW AND THE DA WOULD NOT ALLOW EVIDENCE AND FACTS ON THE RECORD BECAUSE IT DID NOT ADVANCE THEIR MONETARY OBJECTIVES. The law,the facts,the TRUTH, IT HAS NO BEARING. I would remind you that Pilshaw was PUBLICLY REPRIMANDED FOR THIS VERY ISSUE IN ANOTHER CASE!
Your blog praises the level of education of these foul officials,perhaps you assume I am uneducated which I assure you is not the case. The very reason you quote,the day to day interaction between lawyers and the judges is the very fabric WHY THE OUTCOME IS PREDETERMINED REGARDLESS OF THE EVIDENCE OR FACTS. If you are from out of state they circle the wagons and in a unified manner violate federal and state law.
It is a double win for them. IF you have wealth, they will prolong the issue to extract your life savings. If you do not have the money to fight, they will destroy your life because you have NO advocate. I WANTED THESE VILE PERSONS TO KNOW BY THIS BLOG THAT THEY LOST,WHICH OF COURSE,THEY ALREADY KNOW.
So for me to REJOICE at the forced termination of this vile person who for YEARS violated the law and harmed me is appropriate. THE FACT IS I have established evidence which without dispute,proves Pilshaw and several others knowingly and with malice committed wrongful acts under the color of law.
The idea that because the press is scared or lazy to report the issue does not change the FACTS AND EVIDENCE. The reason for the length of the evidence was not to “rant” it was because the criminal officials kept committing further criminal acts under the color law that had to be explained in detail and defined by case law.
You can’t go to COURT on the record and cite that a District Court judge is a criminal WITHOUT extensively explaining the position,the applicable case law,and the evidence. I dealt with over eight years of SG County official criminal acts under the color of law…it was a lot to explain.
The TERMINATION of this vile person (Pilshaw) should be denoted and celebrated. The EAGLE presented their “side” of that event. I presented a different perspective which has extensive evidence and facts proved on the official & court record.
THE EAGLE KNOWS there were wrongful acts under the color of law in this and other cases. No amount of what the judge had for breakfast,fluffy, and paralyzed with fear reporting will change that outcome.
The head of the Kansas SRS has publicly stated there is coercion from SG county in matters involving children. If the head of the Kansas SRS really wants a case to prove the point I have the irrefutable evidence and the all important DISMISSED WITH PREJUIDICE,ALL COSTS TO KANSAS case to fell these evil persons.
Some Kansas legislators spend a lot of time trying to set up hearings to examine the white washed sepluchre that is SG county. So go back and have some more cake and pretend that injustice does not exist in this corrupt county,it will be better for you that way.
The other blog entry questions that I am someone else. I am not “Bill Weeks”. I don’t know who “Bill Weeks” is. I can assue you that your now terminated judge and the other criminal element in this county know exactly who I am.
I had a lot of contact with these criminal officials over a lengthy period of time. I wrote governors,and the entire federal and state complex over these issues and I WON. I AM SURE THEY WON’T FORGET WHO DEFEATED THEM at their own crooked game!
Anytime the prosecutor and his staff appear to have tainted the process due to their own behavior or beliefs, it should be questioned.
But with that said, if the charges against Tiller is that he did not have a separate second physician sign off on the late term abortions, which is what the law requires, then that is what the actual trial should be about – not the behavior of the prosecutor and his staff. And those charges should be able to be proven by the actual medical records.
More to the point, perhaps Mr or Mrs Djuric were traumatized by watching Hitchcock’s “The Birds” and were in terror? The infliction of suffering upon these people requires some kind of redress, but how does one sue wildlife?
Perhaps the city of Laguna Beach can sell “gull insurance” to compensate you if you are attacked?
Tis much easier to lampoon this than try to find the humor in senate confirmation hearings or analyzing the probable FCC Chairman appointment..
That’s absolutely the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. So, defending yourself against a flying menace is now “animal cruelty”?? Florida is known for its stupid laws (and even stupider population), but this takes the cake.
Gulls are obnoxious, overpopulated pests, nothing more, nothing less- and under the same curcumstances I would have done the same thing.
WHOKNOWS – in response to your comment, the only obnoxious, overpopulated pests on earth are humans. And there are only a few caring humans that try to protect animal from us. Because of our arrogance, there are no animals safe from the majority of us unless someone passes a law. You sound like one of the pests.
I remember a group of 20-25 of us going to Bush Gardens in Tampa years ago. We would have fun throwing handfulls of popcorn at eachother to get the gulls to attack for us.
I actually just returned yesterday from a vacation in Long Beach, CA, and had a few run-ins with obnoxious seagulls. I found waving your arms and yelling at them is a pretty good deterrent–there was no need for violence.
Those wily pelicans, though, they’re a whole different story
Why does it take so for a case like this to convict and sentence a sick jerk like this? he does not deserve to breathe the air we do he so deserves the DEATH PENALTY!!
I haven’t checked lately, but last time I looked, men were presumed innocent until proven guilty. If Adams was HIV-positive during the time the alleged rapes occurred, how can the girl not be HIV-positive? Unless he used 100% effective condoms, not likely.
I think he is deservedly getting some kind of punitive sentence. If the birds were so much of a nuisance to our intrepid partygoer, why didn’t he and his wife merely go indoors?
As a society we should be ashamed for not protecting young girls from such abuse. Instead of letting Attorney General Phill Kline help such young victims, the messenger was attacked, even by the press. Pro-abortion forces in Kansas would rather protect abortion than such young victims, and society looks the other way in many cases.
Hey Iconoclast, last time I checked there was no mention she doesn’t have HIV, but she does have a privacy act to protect her, HIPPA. And last time I checked most children don’t fabricate those kind of lies. Just admit that the step father could be guilty and try not to hard to defend the kind of garbage that rapes children. Believe it or not, these things do happen and he will get a trial. You should try working in the health field and you would be shocked at what happens to children in the real world. We give people who mistreat animals more jail time than we do child abusers.
This has nothing to do with Phil Kline – he was more interested in reporting teenagers having sex with each other and using teens who had sex as a means to get to Dr. Tiller than a genuine interest in protecting victims of sexual abuse. The brutality of this man’s alleged acts is no platform for canonizing Phil Klown. The public saw through his charade.
if the notion that a man is innocent until proven guilty is real, why then do we lock these men up until trial? children however are innocent as they have not been trained yet how to bullsh!7 their way through our legal system. further more carying the hiv virus does not mean you will transmit it every time you contact a noninfected individual. I would not recomend gambling with that though. I also suspect that a group of educated people reveiwed these charges when they were leveed before formaly charging this creep. should there be some doubt, let me speak with ths guy and I WILL CLEAR THIS UP FREE OF CHARGE.
There is no justice or honest prosecutors or defense attorneys in Wichita. Alice Osburn ran for judge as a GOP candidate in 2004 against Bribeesca and is married to the Chief Public Defender, Steve Osborn ran for the Wichita School Board in 2006. (I guess his state job did not keep him busy) Corruption is never exposed because everyone wants to advance their political career or their spouse’s political careers. The corruption in the Wichita legal system extends from the district court judges to a clique of dishonest family law attorneys, forensic psychologists & case managers, to Nola Foulston’s district attorney’s office, to the public defenders or legal services offices, to the Wichita Bar & Kansas Bar Association officals and unfortunately probably to the prosecutors in the US Attorneys Office. The local FBI law enforcement agents who cover up this corruption should be be fired or transferred out of Kansas. I wonder if former US attorney Eric Melgren helped find Scholtzman the job at Hinkle Elkouri??? I think that Sebelius, Brownback & Tiahrt will have a lot of explaining to do before the next primaries. I hope some opportunistic reform politicians should take advantage fo the scandals to promote their own careers. Joe Liddle is ready to testify before Rep. Jim Morrison’s committee about Christine Ladner.
“The girls’ mother has been convicted of aggravated child endangerment for knowing about the abuse but not reporting it to authorities.” ………. This indicates to me that there would have to be enough merit to the charges to proceed with a trial. It’s kind of unusual that someone charged anncillary to a primary defendant would be tried prior to the primary defendant. (If step-father is found not guilty of the abuse charges, how can mother be guilty of not reporting a crime that didn’t happen? She very likely made a plea agreement to testify against the step-father.) Here’s another one for the books from Wichita. Abuse of a young child is bad enough, but when it is so violent … What must the rest of the country think of Wichita, KS with the Herrman case and this case making news?
The mother should go to jail just as long as the man. A lot of women turn a blind eye to these type of happenings because they are more concerned with their own welfare than the childs. As I was repeatedly abused by my uncle, my aunt just ignored everything and when it all came out, she stayed with him till they died a few years ago. Neither one of them belong on the face of this good earth.
This kind of crap is just happening far too often i our society anymore. What is wrong with these low-life women that allow men to sexually abuse or any other kind of abuse, their children without doing one thing to help them? It’s just another instance of how low women are becoming. And, yes, I’m a woman, but I’m certainly not very proud of my gender when I read about stuff like this happening.
Call this Karma. As a neighbor of Mr. Djuric, he deserves everything he gets. He has a tendency to want to do things “his way” and finds loopholes to get his way. I’m sure he’ll figure out how to get out of this.
Well TigerLily if I would not have broken my neck in service & defense of this country perhaps that would have happened. You see “TigerLily” people do not go to foreign lands in defense of the country to come back and suffer SG county type criminals dressed as court & government officials.
The facts are are these: PILSHAW is OUT & DISGRACED— NO neo nazi mentality is bringing her back
There are always a few who believe that INJUSTICE & CORRUPTION are fine until it affects them. The rationale of a person who would think that criminal acts by court & government officials is okay reflects a belief in wrongful acts.
You live in SG County where this is the status quo. The ENDS DO NOT JUSTIFY THE MEANS,MORE PLAINLY SPOKEN THE COURT & GOVERNMENT CANNOT BECOME CRIMINALS (AS THEY HAVE IN SG COUNTY) TO “WIN”.
The EX who faslely swore under oath also embezzled money for four years from her employer. Criminal acts and evil begin at one point and grow into worsening acts,it was nothing for the criminals I endured to commit unlawful acts…it was their standard operating procedure. Where does tolerated corruption begin and end?
Maybe the next time you have a traffic ticket the cop should beat you senseless to gain a conviction and money for the STATE…you think it can’t happen?
Eleven states in this country held that because of the Klan that it was acceptable for a person of color to resist police authority in wrongful race related actions.
Do you think court and county officials committing felony acts,and suborning violations of federal and state law is fine?
Pilshaw & Ware are out of a job,I wonder if there are lots of jobs for knowing,criminal violation of Federal Statute?
I am sure the Constitution and State Statute have no meaning to you. If you knew the ending of this story you would realize that Pilshaw is THE/A LOSER. My legal ordeal ended years ago,Pilshaw,Ladner & Foulston LOST. My children have all come to know the criminal acts perpetrated by officials in these matters,that was more important than any corrupt judge or DA.
With all their feigned importance they could not beat ONE MAN because they committed criminal acts in their duties. Their hatred of men consumed them to the point they were willing to suborn wrongful acts. THEY ALL TOOK AN OATH TO DEFEND AND SUPPORT THE LAWS OF KANSAS AND THE CONSTITUTION,which they collectively abandoned. It is humorous to note that their mocking wrongful acts were the very fabric which brought about their defeat.
I assure you darkness is not light and evil is not good…unlawful acts by government & court officials are WRONG & UNJUST every time,regardless of any blogger,gender,or other factor.
I am sure someone else will pipe in a comment and perhaps I will respond. If that does not occur it is fitting that since I endured knowingly wrongful & unlawful felony acts laced with malice from these persons that I am the one to turn the lights off on this so called “reign.”
These persons who embraced wrongful & unlawful acts are NOT ABOVE THE LAW. It may appear for a season that no one will ever bring them to justice. They believe we are all weak,and insignificant.
I know there are many people who do not believe in GOD. I tell you truthfully that I awoke in years past to face the full brunt of the “power” of these corrupt officials. I came to know that no one but a GOD could right the satan like conduct of these criminals dressed as government and court officials.
How many families were destroyed because of the fear of these evil doers? An unjust balance will not go without punishment. I without hesitation know and am thankful that GOD brought about victory over these nefarious persons and that NO other person (male & female) will EVER have to suffer glaring injustice from these same persons.
I have commented on Dr. Schneider before but my comments seem to disappear into thin air. In any case, I want to repeat my main points here once again.
To my knowledge, I have never spoken with Dr. S. nor his wife nor his medical staff.
My mother was a resident of the Haysville nursing home for several years. So I often saw Dr. Schneider visiting the nursing home to see his patients there. It was my observation that Dr. S. was always friendly and courteous to the residents whether of not they were his patients. Likewise he treated staff and visitors (such as me) with courtesy and a wave of the hand.
I saw few if any other doctors in the building. Most doctors would not waste time visiting the nursing home. They ordered the staff to take residents to their offices or to a hospital so the doctor would not have to go to the nursing home. Most likely more fees and who knows whether the doctor actually saw the patients.
I recall one patient, a little younger than regular nursing home patients. Probably 40 or so, I think a transfer from the VA hospital which happened from time to time, well llked by other patients and staff. He was a patient of Dr. S. He must have been a veteran of Iraq, confined to a wheelchair for some reason. He confided to me that he had a drug addiction problem. I don’t know what happened to him, I suspect he returned to the VA hospital … or passed away.
My point with the above is that the fellow was out of control and no doctor or anyone else was going to control him to any degree.
Since Dr. Schneider has received media attention, I have noticed the prosecution continues to release inflammatory information but I don’t see any rebuttal by the defense. I presume the defense is “muffled.”
I have made it my business to talk to people and staff in Haysville about Dr. S. I find he as well respected and everyone I talk with feel he was a good person and medical practitioner. I think a jury of his peers, friends and acquaintances in Haysville would give him a strong thumbs up.
I wonder whether the fact he is a DO makes a difference. I know some about the osteopathic training program and think it is up to par with M.D. training. Like any field of education, the quality of the student is as important as the buildings, curriculum, trainers, etc.
Almost everyone I know can tell stories about bad services from the medical health care industry.
So I question whose ox is being gored in this situation.
yeah this is a joke. He is currently working a case right now of which I will not divulge any confidential information, but he is allowing a sex offender to have shared custody of a baby girl. Tell me that isn’t sick.
I appreciate your concern ruffkat,no worries,I had plenty of help versus the criminals from Sedgwick. I know the vile officials who were thrashed and defeated in this matter read these blogs so I thought a little song was in order on the splendid occasion of celebrating the demise of Pilshaw.
I am providing the musical link from you tube and here are the new lyrics,everyone sing along!
Well, Old Fleetwood was a man and I’m sure that he meant well
But I pray for his disciples lest they wind up in hell
And I’m sure that old Givan thought he knew the way
But it won’t be Foulston’s minions we stand before on The Judgment Day.
No, it won’t be old Pilshaw that’s sitting on the throne
and it won’t be old Ladner that’s calling us Home
And it won’t be Foulston’s minions that plays that trumpet tune
And we’re going to see The Son, not Sedgwick doom!
Well, I don’t hate anybody so please don’t take me wrong
But there really is a message in this simple song
You see there’s only one way Jesus if eternal life is your goal
Meditation of Ballinger it won’t save your soul.
No, it won’t be old Pilshaw that’s sitting on the throne
And it won’t be old Ladner that’s calling us Home
And it won’t be Foulston’s minions that plays that trumpet tune
And we’re going to see The Son, not mormon doom!
Well, you can call yourself a jurist and not be born again
A falsifier and a liar and still die in your sin
You can even be a sadistic, shout and dance and jail a few
But if you hate your brother you wont be one of The Chosen Few.
Cause it won’t be Kansan jurists that’s sitting on The Throne
A Presbyterian or crooked lawyer that’s calling us Home
And it won’t be these sadistics that plays that trumpet tune
So let’s all just live for Jesus because He’s coming back real soon.
No, it won’t be old Pilshaw that’s sitting on the throne
And it won’t be old Ladner that’s calling us Home
And it won’t be Foulston’s minions that plays that trumpet tune
And we’re going to see The Son, not SRS doom!
And we’re going to see The Son, not SRS doom, not SRS doom!
Trying to get message to Ron Sylvester. Did story on August 8th with title Judge postpones jailhouse marriage in domestic violence case. If you go to poncacitynews.com today on front page is the ending to this story. BTW it is Jennfer Gregg not Gragg.
I’m sick of anti-death penalty crybabies whining. Justin Thurber is a piece of excrement who deserves exactly what he’s getting. He showed Jodi Sanderholm no mercy as he brutally raped, beat and strangled her, making her suffer. Thurber is a walking piece of filth who is getting off far easier than he let off Ms. Sanderholm. I hope someone at El Dorado treats him the same way he treated Jodi.
It’s about time someone get the death penalty. I was sick to my stomach when Kelsey Smith’s cold-blooded killer got life. I still am sick over that one.
Here in Kansas, the method of execution might still be by hanging. There are stories in the old West, where problems occured with hangings … toes touching the ground, broken ropes, etc. Gas chambers might leak … killing the observors by mistake. Lethal injections might miss the artery/vein. Firing squad members all firing over and around the head of the prisoner.
I’m convinced that death by guillotine is probably the best method. Its sure to work, quickly, with few problems possible. Saves on electricity, chemicals, poison gas and bullets.
Advertising possible on the guillotine structure. Patents to Dr. Guillotine have probably expired by now.
Sue Norton absolutely makes me want to vomit. She apparently does not have children because if she did she would surely understand the death penalty being justified in this case in particular. I personally think MONKEYBOY (Thurber) should die in the same manner that beautiful young lady died. If he were put to death tommorrow it would not be soon enough, and certainly would not be a loss to society. Jodi was obviously the loss as I watch from a distance. MONKEYBOY could have worked all his life and not made the contributions to the community or society that Ms. Sanderholm had to offer. As for the Christians in Cowley County I would bet there are some Christian Country Boys in Cowley County that would love to help MONKEYBOY die in the same fashion Jodi died. I hope he enjoys his time in prison while he appeals, that should be fun too!! I can see how he could have handled Jodi, but he doesn’t look like much of a match for a grown man.
It it not up to Ms. Norton to decide whether executing Thurber will give the Sanderholm’s peace. Jodi was not her daughter and Norton needs to keep her pignose out of their business. Thurber should be put down just like a dog. I’m sick of Kansas being so pacifist and all of the anti-death penalty liberal whining. If this would have happened in OK or Texas, Thurber would have been dead already and nobody would have thought twice.
I don’t think the name-calling is an appropriate use of this forum. This is why comments aren’t allowed on our crime stories, but we’d like to keep a civil discourse open here.
This kind of language hurts your credibility. You claim to have sensitivity for the Sanderholms. Yet you attack Sue Norton, who also suffered a great loss in a brutal murder (read the link to the story of her crime) simply because she holds a different political view.
We like to offer opposing views, which is why comments are always welcome. But let’s leave personal insults of it, please.
I should also clarify one point: if this happened in Texas or Oklahoma Thurber would not be “dead already.” As Norton pointed out, it took 13 years in Oklahoma to put her father’s killer to death.
What I’ve learned in a decade of covering these kinds of terrible crimes is that the emotional toll transcends politics and pain is bi-partisan.
I wasn’t in the courtroom, but the details we had of the Carr brothers murders when I was an intern made me not want to be a re
porter anymore. I hope that you (and everyone else involved) can find some peace.
It will be interesting, now that better laws are on the books, to see if small communities will start enforcing PFA’s and PFS’s. I’m aware of several situations where law enforcement just flatly refused to do it.
I agree with you, in regards to the emotions. I was not in the courtroom, and I have admiration for those of you that were. Our justice system needs plenty of witnesses. I, like you, shed a lot of tears after the “Death” sentence. And, if anyone deserves it, Thurber certainly does. However, his family were drug into this, and I feel bad for them also. No matter what their son did, they still love him.They can remember when he was a baby, toddler, teenager, to adult. There had to be plenty of good times. I hope the System studies his brain or lack thereof, etc. before he is actually put to death. My heart breaks for his family/friends as well as for the Sanderholms. What a loss to them and to the community. I believe there will never be a satisfactory reason for any of this.
the 52 years in prison, will send a message to all would be robbers, that Kansas will not put up with useing a Gun in a Crime, and save other Victims for 52 years, the 12 years they will be Gang members if not now, and harden criminals, possable killers, the next time they need a few bucks, and wont work for it, they wont be just out having fun the next time.
I’m shocked how progressive Judge Marten is for allowing twitter. Seems like it took over a decade for them to allow fax filings. Causes me to ask if courts are allowing email filings now.
So if this guy HAD been an officer, would she be in trouble for resisting him? Had she refused to go back into her home with him, what would an officer have charged her with, or done to correct her?
redbud– if he’d been a real cop he’d have shot her, maybe the kid too. And then there would have been a major a88kissing cover-up investigation absolving everyone and everything except the dead. Sorry, but after watching those kinds of things for 50 years I’ve gotten pretty cynical.
I think what she did was very brave despite how it could’ve turned out! The fact that she had the courage to fight him off to save her life & protect her child speaks volumes! Also, to take a stand in court & face him again says a lot. What he did was inexcusable & I’m glad the judge showed no leniency for this piece of trash! I hope she can close this chapter of her life & move on to greater things & hopefully her child won’t be scarred by this anymore than she already has been. No child should have to witness such a thing…
Fleetwood is not governed by Federal or State law. He takes his marching orders from out west. This guy has real issues. He is dangerous and out of touch with the law and life.
Count yourself lucky Fleetwood,your crooked decisions will be reviewed by a much higher court and falsely sworn oaths and suborning perjury will not prevail on that day!
It looks like we need to use her definition of “work” Rubber stamping the primary docs abortion. Now she says she doesn’t work. She got caught with her misleading testimony.
No wonder we ned to get parental consent for abortions. she is one to keep daughters away from.
Ron, congratulations on your recognition in The Guardian newspaper over here in Britain. Enjoy following your trial work, always interesting to see how our systems compare.
In relation to this line of questioning, while of course the short clip doesn’t give us the context of questions and answers up to this point, any confusion appears to be squarely at the feet of the prosecutor.
This lady is quite right to say that the original question was specific, “have you had any similar experience where you could not see your patients except through someone at the hospital” – when she answers actually yes there was, when I worked for Dr – the prosecutor then suggests that she has said her work for that Dr was similar to her work for Dr Tiller. She didn’t say that and the confusion is caused not by her answers but by the prosecutor.
In his defence I would not like to have my every question filmed and scrutinised – but I also know that my questions are being scrutinised by judges who would have involved themselves at this point and made it perfectly clear to the jury who was at fault for any confusion.
Thanks for your interest from Britain. You have some good powers of observation. From what I heard later, the doctor was not happy with the way the questions were being asked.
I’m sorry, but I just do not relate to this Twitter stuff. It appears to be little more than a list of spur of the moment disjointed stream of consciousness. It can never take the place of a well reasoned and comprehensive news article. Or maybe that is just the point, it does not have to be reasoned or comprehensive. But, wait a minute, maybe that is also the point and why it is a waste of time.
The reaction we’ve gotten is very positive. People feel they’re getting more detail from my Twitter reports throughout the day, making it more comprehensive than what they might find in print. I am able to report much more through Twitter than I can manage to get in one newspaper article.
That said, I am glad I have the opportunity to pull all the information together for a “well-reasoned” story at the end of the day. But I can tell when I post to Twitter I think about the information I need to provide and what would best serve those following me. Because it’s a social networking tool, I can also answer questions people may have and interact with them in a way I never could before. In those cases, I believe the tweets are “well-reasoned.” I don’t sacrifice my professional standards just because I’m using a different medium.
I’ve also had people tell me that they don’t regularly read the newspaper, or even visit our web site, but they get the information I provide on Twitter. I look at this as just another avenue to deliver news.
I hope this helps.
I also hope we’ll hear from those people who find Twitter useful, who will explain what they get out of it.
Twitter is useful only if one follows the tweets throughout an event, such as a trial. If one tried to pick up a tweet or two and expect to get the whole story, they would be missing out on a lot of information much like catching a radio news story midway. I see twitter (as it has been used in recent trails) as a written version of a radio or television news story. In addition, the news public is accustomed to learning the story after the fact, twitter does it as it is happening. Sorta like a live news conference that we see on televison.
Personally, I use twitter for the awesome, awesome links that users post (primarily photography related. Plus I have learned about some great new places to hang out in Wichita.
note: I made this user name a long time ago; considering changing LOL;
You know me as @corporategreed on twitter. I agree but doubt our locals will spend any money or resources proactively. Another serious worry of mine as a local family man is the robbery spike…
that the carr brothers(animals) are still alive is proof positive that Kansas system of justice is a FAILURE…my sympathies for the victims families….they will be unmercifully dogged by this crap for ????? years
I don’t understand how your knee effects your fingers but I do feel it’s important to know about the justice system. It speaks to how we should treat each other and the impacts for even accidental actions.
I am personally offering $100 to the commissary account of every inmate at the El Dorado Correctional Facility on the day either of the Carr brothers dies, regardless of their cause of death.
I realize that inmates are traumatized when a fellow inmate dies. So I’m offering money so they can buy potato chips and twinkies to make themselves feel better.
Regardless of their cause of death. $100. Every inmate’s commissary account.
Why haven’t they been prosecuted under federal law? I’m no fan of federal intervention in most things, but since this was a kidnapping/murder that involved a firearm and stolen ATM cards, it seems the feds could prosecute as well. Since they actually execute people (unlike Kansas), it seems a better course to take…?
Ron, I thought of you and what you have to endure to report these court stories for us, when I stumbled across an ad-laden blog titled “Parents Behaving Badly” with the tagline “Parenting so bad, it’s criminal”. The blogger gets so many tips that she created another blog, “Bad Breeders”, for links to news stories she doesn’t have time to blog about.
I landed on the site because I’d heard that a woman had recently been sentenced for murder; she had microwaved her baby. I thought that must be an urban myth. No way would anyone do such a thing. Sure enough, that blog confirmed it had happened.
I flipped through a few posts, enough to see that it’s an active blog with plenty of comments from regular readers. I clicked away. I get enough of these stories right here in Wichita. I don’t really want to hear about how these terrible crimes occur in communities across the country.
Ron, I am grateful that our community has professional journalists who write about these terrible crimes with respect for the victims and without adding speculation, sarcasm, or personal views of a crass nature.
I don’t know a lot about journalism, but I know that the way you write a story makes a difference to me because of what’s left inside after I finish reading. Rather than simply disgust for the crime & despair for humanity, my feelings are more complex. While sad, I’m also left believing somehow I can make a difference, and I have hope that good will triumph over evil.
This is my wordy way of saying thanks, Ron. And if my gratitude helps you sleep better… bonus!
It could be the rest of the convict’s life if parole is never granted. However, should the convict live long enough to complete the minimum number of years and go in front of a parole board, then they can decide she has served her time and have her released. Misty Tague won’t go before a parole board for at least 27 years.
Yeah, they never found who stole my identity and opened several long term accounts. lol Seems like a cell phone account would have several ways to follow up leads.
Once again, it’s who you know for the law to work. Government doesn’t help the people, only themselves.
I’ve been robbed, knew where the stuff was, including a new $1200 computer and the police wouldn’t do anything. I knew the location, my serial #’s, had the receipt… Oops that was only the crooked cop that helped steal it, not the DA’s office.
Be careful who you steal from.
If my identy were stolen I would still be sorting things out a year from now.
The government takes good care of themselves.
It would be enlightening to learn how this happened. My presumption is that a lawyer has advantages in protecting against loss. What can we all learn from this? What will Sally do differently now?
Ron… I love this idea! I think having this kind of approach is a great use of the online resources and it will, hopefully, go even further toward helping us normal folks understand what’s going on. I have enjoyed your blog for a while now and am very excited to see what you’re got coming next!
One I think could be interesting is addressing how mental and emotional health is addressed for those working at the courthouses. Attorneys, judges, stenographers, ect….. Such as are therapists made available as part of the government budget? Employees on their own with weak coverage on their health plans? What are the divorce rates? Especially compared to law enforcement jobs not centered in the courtroom.
These are excellent videos. Please produce more. Much more. These first ones seem “soft”. I’ll be interested in the harder impacts future videos may show.
It is very comforting to see this video of a public defender. However I resist the temptation to feel that others care when you encounter our justice system. Lives are destroyed easily.
Another excellent insight into the Judicial system. I think it is good for the public to see behind the scenes of the dangers, the drama that never gets exposed. Now Ron, give us some of them goofy moments in Court
Take a month. These clips are great and word is just beginning to spread. This is a hot new way for a newspaper to get out valuable information many of us have not gotten before.
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YES! About time. Bring ‘em in in cuffs. I think I like this judge! The law around here as practiced in the courst is entirely too lax/casual. Time to catch up to the rest of the country Wichita/Kansas!
All I want is a judge with the brains, integrity and (excuse the term) cojones to implement Jessica’s law. No excuses and NO downward departures. I don’t really care if his honor doesn’t thing the abuse left enough physical havoc. What about ruining a child’s innocence and life forever? They get double Fs, IMO, in that arena.
This mother needs to get a grip on reality. Her daughter confessed to enough to send her to prison for 5 yrs. What any official or anyone else thinks is irrelevant. The fact is, her daughter is a convicted felon and there are 2 little boys without a mother. Her every emotional and physical resource needs to be directed at those 2 boys. She needs to let go of whatever shortcomings she blames on the prison. It’s a total waste of energy.
You really should read the story again before you comment. The fact is this story is about what Amber knew and when. It is setting the record straight on what she knew and when is all. There are no excuses being made, just facts being clarified. And to this mother it is irrelevant what officials “think”, however it is very relevant what they SAY in the media. If they are going to make statements then they need to be factual. And this mother is firmly planted in reality. After all she lives this reality every day. What is so wrong with expecting that the truth be told? After all someday those 2 little boys will find this information and they should have facts to deal with not something someone twists to suit the politcal needs of the moment. They will be wondering I imagine why what their mom and family has told them doesn’t quite match what these “officials” have stated. Who is telling the truth I imagine they might wonder. But by clearly stating what is fact now, not only will her children know the truth, but hopefully someone will care enough to call these so called “officials” to the carpet and stop the twisting of facts, stop the blatant lies and force the truth as it really was to be told. Remember, it could be someone you know and love someday in the middle of something that attracts the public attention and believe me, you would want nothing but the truth told of the situation.
Why would I ever want to let go of the shortcomings of the prison? After all, aside from the known facts of this case, IF the prison hadnt suffered from what you call “shortcomings” this incident could never of occurred. Think about if for one moment if you will, IF those working that night had done their jobs correctly and as they are supposedly trained to do, this escape never could of happened. After all, these 2 intmates did manage to not only get but maintain possession of a cell phone for many months prior to the escape, and remember, they were in the one of the highest security portions of the prison, in segregation, they also left those supposed secure cells with this cell phone, a tool they used to cut their way out of the exercise pens (with a guard right there supposedly there to monitor them) they were in, and had on 4 layers of clothing. These are facts presented in the case. Yet no one speaks of these things, no one will step up and say IF THE PRISON HAD DONE ITS JOB PROPERLY SHE WOULD OF JUST SIMPLY SAT OUT THERE WAITING UNTIL FINALLY THE ROAMING PATROL FOUND HER. This in no way takes away from what she did to facilitate this escape, I make no excuses, she had a choice and made the wrong one obviously, but I get tired of hearing how without her it wouldn’t of been possible, when in reality without the PRISON AND ITS EMPLOYEES BEING SO LACKING IN SECURITY, THIS COULD NEVER OF HAPPENED. I live every day in the reality of this situation. A situation not of my making, but one that I none the less have to endure. I simply want those others whom without their negligence in duty that night, allowed this happen, to also be held to account. I want the entire truth to be told and for this to never happen again. I would not wish this nightmare on any family, but believe me, unless and until all those who were involved in anyway are held accountable, it could happen again. After all what does anyone have to be afraid of in trying? Obviously so far they have gotten away with it. Why wouldnt they?
Let me get this straight: Goff bought a cell phone and SMUGGLED it into a high security prison she worked at, a couple of months before the escape? She knew for 11 days, but didn’t inform her bosses there was going to be an escape?
Then she cut the fences, left wirecutters for the convicts, and gave convicted criminals GUNS?? And her idiot mom claims “She wasn’t quite as involved in this incident as the officials would like the public to think,” ?? How much more COULD she have been involved??
Wow. I can see where Goff got her denial from and her inability to think clearly and responsibly! The NUT doesn’t fall too far from the tree!
No, as usual those responding are not reading the story. She did NOT smuggle the cell phone into the prison. Yes she bought it, but it was someone else who took it into the prison, who by the way to this day they havent discovered. They were NOT her bosses when this escape was first told to her, she had not been working there for a few weeks by then. The statement that she wasnt quite as involved as the authorities would like you to believe is a true one. They would like for you to believe that she took in the cell phone ( which she did not), that this escape was planned well in advance by her or that she had knowledge for months (which she did not), that she was the mastermind behind it (as they have stated before, which she was not), and that she did this with complete willingness (which could not be further from the truth). I just want you to know these things are not true at all. While her “reasons” for helping may not of met the legal defense level, there are still reasons. Does that excuse her? Of course not, but what would you do in her shoes? There were threats made, there were reasons for what she did (which does NOT make it right by any means) I am by no means and idiot or am I making excuses or justifying her actions. I am simply trying to let the entire story be told, the TRUTH be told. Again I will say as clearly as I know how, she did what she did, and she had choices, and now we all suffer for those choices. BUT, that does not mean that the truth of what happened and why has been told, because it hasn’t. And that does not mean that ALL OF THOSE responsible have been held accountable because they haven’t. THAT is what I am seeking, for the entire truth to be told, as it really happened, and for EVERYONE responsible to be held accountable. That is not being in denial, that is not excusing anything, that is not clouded thinking. That is calling for JUSTICE.
Goff, 24, said in her plea this spring she had bought a prepaid cell phone last summer, which was then smuggled by someone else to Steven Ford and Jesse Bell at the El Dorado Correctional Facility. Goff added minutes onto the phone, which Ford and Bell used to plan their escape.
She not only purchased the phone, she convinced someone to give it to them and THEN purchased MORE minutes thus allowing them to plan their escape.
Who knows…these guys may have placed the phone up their backsides during the day to hide it. Do you think the authorities would have cavity searches without cause? I would think the ACLU would probably sue the State of Kansas on that one.
I think it is hard for any mother to admit to raising a child who made such horrible choices as her daughter did. The House of Cards fell down all around her and now she has the next generation to raise.
Who knows how any of us would try to reason why our child would make this kind of choice?
I appriciate what your trying to say here, but I am not trying to rationalize anything my daughter did. I raised her and until this occurred had no reason to ever be anything but proud of her. I am still proud of her in alot of ways, she accepted responsibility for what she did, which is more than I can say for alot of people. That by no means makes it right though. She was NOT the one who found someone to smuggle in the phone, those 2 men in the prison did and whoever it was came to Amber for the phone. At this point there was no talk of an escape or anything. Stupid choices? Oh yeah, I agree 100%, beyond stupid. I guess I just feel it is important that things be clarified as to what happened, when and why. Maybe that is the mother in me I dont know. But I would think that the truth would be the most important thing. I offer no excuses for her, she had choices. Why she made the ones she did I dont know. Even if I had been in the very same position, under the very same threats, I wouldnt of done this. But knowing what I know helps me ALMOST understand a bit more of why she went through with it. But excuse it? Nope, no way. I am a mother who loves her daughter unconditionally and am not ashamed of that fact at all. I will forever fight not only for my children but for the right thing to be done. I am not asking anyone else to understand why she did this, but to remember that there are other that should be held accountable also. There are others who need to be punished for their roles in this. And even for them it should be based on FACT, not something that sounds politically better for whoever is up for election this fall. The public should have the TRUTH about everyone involved, not just what someone sitting in a fancy office deems we need to know. Justice for everyone and for the truth to be known is all I am after. No excuses, no sympathy, just truth and justice.
The District Court should have seen this coming. In re LM was not the first case to suggest that juveniles should have a right to a jury trial given the harsh punishment and the permanent nature of sex offender laws. Complacency and arrogance is a good description of Judge Burgess’ lack of jury boxes and deliberations rooms in the new juvenile court. The code allowed for the granting of jury trials at the judge’s discretion, apparently Judge Burgess was not planning on ever granting one.
This is an outrage! He was duly unelected and removed. The Honorable Judge Corrigan is not showing much respect for the citizens whom voted to end David Kennedy’s act.
I do not understand this to be uncommon. After Jennifer Jones lost her District Judgeship election she became head of our Municipal Court. Removing females from judgeships has been a decade long goal of some.
Excessive and inappropriate punishment. A good citizen has been made a criminal by aggressive prosecution.
Nutter said Goff didn’t know of the plan to escape until 11 days before the men made their break on Oct. 28.
11 DAYS… ??
Then Goff arranged to cut through fences inside the prison grounds and left the men wire cutters and provided guns to help them escape.
CUT THE FENCE PROVIDED THEM GUNS ??
“She wasn’t quite as involved in this incident as the officials would like the public to think,” Nutter said.
AHHH WHAT THE HELL ELSE COULD SHE HAVE DONE TO BECOME “MORE INVOLVED” ??
IT’S ALWAYS SOMEBODY ELSE’S FAULT HUH??
I GOT TIRED SEEING YOUR FACE ON TV AND WHAT YOU WRITE SOUNDS JUST AS BAD.
GET OVER IT.
YOU SHOULD BE GLAD YOUR DAUGHTER’S BOY FRIENDS DIDN’T KILL SOME PEOPLE AFTER SHE BROKE THEM OUT OF PRISON.
101 is amazing, particularly to be 101 and still working. My husband’s delightful grandmother turns 101 in September. She has a full life in San Angelo, TX, but will be the first to admit her mental abilities are nearly as sharp as they used to be. That said, she’s a savvy domino player and she’s very proud to have a 52-year-old grandson in medical school. When anyone comments on my husband’s age (compared to the twenty-somethings common to med school) he says his grandmother believes he’s plenty young enough to become a doctor.
@LonnythePlumber ~ Identity theft is not a crime to be treated lightly. What kind of message would that send to anyone considering doing the same thing? That said, hopefully Ted Floyd will get an early parole and be able to move on from this.
Justice has a funny way to work things out.
I think the obvious remark here is how we as a society should handle this. The value of life as decreased so much to the point that some do not care whether or not another human being dies right at their feet? I was amazed a few weeks ago when I drove up on an accident an no one was stopping. The ironic thing that I am seeing is if you have a situation where a pretty young girl has a flat tire, you see cars lined up to help her. If the same thing happens to a minority, no one stops. It seems society assigns a value to human life. Pretty young girls are assigned the highest value while the average person of color does not come near to the same value. What a shame and I suppose I could be guilty of this too. I wish I knew what the answer was besides the obvious.
I appreciate the explanation of why comments cannot be submitted on certain stories. I presumed it was a web problem.
TO killerpizza: You like everyone else obviously doesnt read what is right in front of you. Get over yourself first and foremost, then READ the entire article and my replies before you start spouting off. It gets tiresome to see people, who obviously have already made up their minds, make these statements when it is right there in black and white what I have said. But that doesn’t stop you all from twisting it all up and making it what you want it to be. And for the record………you havent seen my “face” in some time now. You have only EVER seen me when I was ASKED by the media, never once did I seek it out. SO GET OVER IT ALREADY!
I remember when this happened. That store is right down the street from the elementary school my daughter attended. The EMTs arrived but couldn’t help because the scene had not been secured by LEOs yet, and in the meantime valuable time passed as the woman bled to death. At least, that’s what I remember from what I read in the Eagle. Mark McCormick wrote more than one column about it.
I’ve stumbled across a story or two where the comments got out of hand. I see such behaviors all across the Internet where unmediated discussion takes place between people who can hide behind online identities.
Article 32.–PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Article 32.–PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY
The justification described in sections 21-3211, 21-3212, and 21-3213, is not available to a person who: (1) Is attempting to commit, committing, or escaping from the commission of a forcible felony; or (2) Initially provokes the use of force against himself or another, with intent to use such force as an excuse to inflict bodily harm upon the assailant; or (3) Otherwise initially provokes the use of force against himself or another, unless: (a) He has reasonable ground to believe that he is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm, and he has exhausted every reasonable means to escape such danger other than the use of force which is likely to cause death or great bodily harm to the assailant; or (b) In good faith, he withdraws from physical contact with the assailant and indicates clearly to the assailant that he desires to withdraw and terminate the use of force, but the assailant continues or resumes the use of force. History: L. 1969, ch. 180, § 21-3214; July 1, 1970
I wonder if we will see Cherokee, Sumner, Cowley, and other counties who house Sedgwick county inmates in newly built jails will expand their jails to make further profits off of Sedgwick county?
Way to go your honor!!!!
Just another angry bitching niigger
Where does one view the rankings?
Chessart: Thanks for asking. They will be on a page at Kansas.com. Once they’re published,I’ll update this item with a link.
Hey Ron: I want to thank the Eagle’s editors for respecting the importance of free speech and allowing my posts to be published. As long as I understand that I can be sued for libel or arrested under the Kansas state law for criminal defamation, I think that the Eagle should be willing to publish my allegations (and republish and republish & republish my allegations) of criminal activity including subornation of perjury, subornation of forgery, obstruction of justice and/or various federal criminal acts against citizens constitution rights of due process against the following judges, prosecutors & attorneys including Judge Rebecca Pilshaw, Sedgwick County prosecutor Christine Ladner (WBA Bar Musical Revue choreographer extraordinaire) & Todd Chottamongo, former Sedgwick County Court Trustee attorney Genine Ware, Judge Douglas Roth, Judge Mark Vining, Kansas Bar Association Board Member & Wichita attorney Rachel Pirner (wife of KAKE news director Dave Grant, attorney John Rapp (son of David Rapp chairman of the WBA’s ethics committee), attorney Steve Manke, attorney – Sheila Floodman recently named by her peers in Wichita as one of the Best Divorce Attorneys in America and Ross Hollander – law partner of abortionist attorney – Steve Joseph and joint venture business partner with former mayor Bob Knight, Steve Joseph & MGM Casinos in the failed attempt to build a casino in Sumner County). I have also alleged that several judges & attorneys intentionally violated their to cover up criminal activity of other attorneys & judges and/or to intimidate citizens from complaining (Sedgwick County District Court Judges Tony Powell, Eric Yost, James Fleetwood, Dan Brooks, Tim Henderson, Terry Pullman, Karl Friedel, and attorneys Tripp Shawver (outgoing chair of the KBA’s family law committee), Mark Kahrs (former GOP county chairman), Patrick Walters (current candidate for district court judge), Charlie Harris (long-time chair of the Kansas Judicial Council’s family law committee), attorney Ann Soderberg (who was also named by Best Lawyers in America as one of the best divorce attorneys in Kansas) and attorney Julie Ariagano (ex-wife of former WBA president Steve Ariagano and current wife of WBA Musical Revue show stealer Tim Moore who was one of the 3 finalists last Fall for the Appellate Court position chosen by the Commission of Judicial Nominations chaired by Richard Hite who is your wife’s law partner at HItge Homeman & Fanning). I’d like to think that the Eagle posts my comments because it believes that the free flow of information will prevent government corruption. However the Eagle has refused to investigate the documented human rights atrocities committed by most of the above mentioned judges & attorneys that we involved in the corruption scandals involving Barry Simpson, Todd Wait and Joe Liddle. I think that the only reason why the Eagle publishes my comment is because it knows that I will e-mail copies to State Representative Jim Morrison (chairman of the House Committee on Government Efficiency & Technology), Supreme Court Justice Carol Beier (former Seifkin Foulston law partner, your wife’s best friend and the Supreme Court justice responsible for monitoring the problems in the Sedgwick County for the Kansas Supreme Court, Kelli McBride & Roy Peter Clark at the Poynter Institute . I also e-mail my comments to every judge, court reporter & secretary that works in the Sedgwick County Courthouse to challenge them to sue me for libel or have me arrested for criminal defamation. I appreciate the readers’ patience in letting me conduct my saber rattling. I am sure the Wichita Bar Association members, the judges, the Eagle reporters and interested citizens are looking forward to the results of your survey. However before the results are published I want to advise the readers and the management at the McLatchy Corporation why I think that you, Ron Sylvester are the most intellectually dishonest person in Wichita. We will in exciting times with the Executive Director of SRS alleging that the Sedgwick County prosecutors intimidate his social workers into filing false affidavits to take children away from their families. In the past two weeks, the station manager at the local ABC affiliate (Dave Grant’s boss) was fired, the news director and assignment editor at the CBS affiliate were fired and the news director at the NBC affiliate resigned. I have to wonder if the executives at the stations’ parents companies Marci Burdick & Jason Elkins have gone back over and read some of my e-mails that I sent them last Fall after I spoke with them over the phone. I still think that there is a great business opportunity for Elkin’s chain of local TV stations to conduct a rapid response investigative reporting team. I want to make 3 points to the blog readers: 1) No one has had the courage to post any meaningful comments on your blogs even though we are living in historic times. IMHO this is proof that citizens are afraid that the Eagle will report the names of the bloggers identities so that the fascist criminals in power can retaliate.
2) In your blog post that there was a 26% increase in responses by WBA members who were to submit an evaluation form through the WBA’s internet. The Eagle & the WBA claims that the identities of the respondents will be kept confidential even the database administrators would need to keep track of the respondents to prevent multiple evaluations being submitted by one attorney. You failed to report that less that 25% of the WBA members responded. IMHO this is proof that the WBA membership does not trust their fascist president – Mike Herd the son of former Kansas Supreme Court Justice Hal Herd. For the record I have several e-mails from 2007 in which Herd (which I forwarded to you and the other 26 district court judges) refuses to respond to my claims that in early 2006 the incoming family law judges (Fleetwood, Pilshaw & Wilbert) ordered Dave Johnson, the chairman of the WBA’s family law committee to tell the attendees at the WBA’s 2/2006 annual family law seminar to betray their clients by refusing to attack the results of any custody reports by any court ordered forensic psychologists.
3) The WBA and the Eagle could have conducted and published this survey 2 months earlier so that reform minded attorneys could have networked with each other to decide challenge unethical or dishonest Judges James Brooks, James Fleetwood, Tim Henderson, Terry Pullman or Eric Yost who are all running unopposed. Ron – I am disappointed that I have to inform the experts at the Poynter Institute and your bosses that you have a personal conflict of interest because you have personally profited by the fascism and cronyism in the federal, state & municipal courts in Kansas. Your wife’s close friend and confidant , mega fascist Foulston Seifkin attorney Jack Focht , was selected to be a special court master by a federal judges so that he could order the utility company Westar to pay your wife and the other criminal attorneys hired by former Westar executives David Wittig and Doug Lake millions of dollars in attorneys fees. IMHO this is a quid quo pro payment by the fascist federal judges to reward your wife for serving with Jack Focht as directors of the Kansas Appleseed Foundation and her law partner Linda Parks who is the outgoing KBA president for defending the current merit appointment process of judges and to reward their law partner, Richard Hite, for continuing to promote attorneys and district court judges that will maintain the code of silence though retaliation & intimidation to maintain the criminal racketeering that is condoned and covered up Justice Carol Beier, her former law partner US Attorney Eric Melgren, Governor Sebelius and State Senator John Vrtil the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and member of the Kansas Judicial Council. It should come as no surprise that Vrtil’s ex-wife is a federal judge and Gov. Sebelius ‘s husband is a federal magistrate. It should also come as no surprise that Park’s husband is Randy Brown who managed the Eagle editorial board for several years before he resigned last year after the scandals became too embarrassing. I feel so sorry for your editor, Sherry Chissenhall, because she is going to look like such an hypocrite. I enclosed an article from earlier this year about her support for open government. Per usual your reader can e-mail me at kiakahahaha@yahoo.com & I will e-mail them to their anonymous yahoo accounts scanned documents supporting my allegations. They can also call me at 316 293-6079. I will also send them copy of our e-mail correspondence from May 2006 which proves that I came up with the idea for the attorney surveys in response to the sexual harassment scandals involving Judge Wilbert & Judge Ballinger (who interestingly is also running unopposed). It just proves that the feminist attorneys & judges in Wichita & Topeka condone misogyny and sexual harassment of women because they are so eager to prove their loyalty to the fascist good old boys. Bill McKean
http://www.wichita.edu/thisis/wsunews/news/?nid=138 Why is it sometimes so difficult for the public to get access to public information? Why are so many local governments around Kansas running afoul of the state’s open meetings law? Those are two key questions for a statewide television broadcast on the Power of Open Government at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 12, at the First United Methodist Church, 330 N. Broadway in downtown Wichita.
The panel discussion will be carried live on Cox Channels 22 in Wichita and Topeka, as well as KWCH.com and radio station KFTI 1070. It will be rebroadcast on KPTS TV Channel 8 at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 3, and around the state on the Public Broadcast System. Kansas recently failed an open government test by the Better Government Association, an independent nonpartisan government watchdog group based in Chicago. Among other things, the BGA researches solutions that promote transparency and accountability in government. “The threat today is real,” said Randy Brown, executive director of the Kansas Sunshine Coalition for Open Government. “We are seeing closed government problems popping up around the state. Some local governments are doing well. But for Kansans who understand that open government at all levels is essential to democracy, things are getting worse, not better.” In recent months, open government violations have been reported or formally charged in Topeka, Lawrence, Thomas County and Chanute. Panelists include State Sen. Tim Huelskamp of the Dodge City area, Wichita Vice Mayor Sharon Fearey, Kansas Attorney General Stephen Six (invited, but not confirmed), Wichita Eagle Editor Sherry Chisenhall and broadcast and print journalist Nickie Flynn. Moderators will be Brown and Susan Huxman, director of the Elliott School of Communication at Wichita State University. The panel discussion is free and open to the public. A reception will follow at 8 p.m. Audience members, who will be able to ask questions, should be seated by 6:45 p.m. Sponsors are the Kansas Sunshine Coalition for Open Government and the Wichita Metro Chapter of the League of Women Voters.
Ron:
I want to thank the Eagle for respecting the importance of free speech. Hopefully if I continue whacking the pinata (specifically you, your wife, Gaye Tibbetts o-director of Kansas Appleseed Foundation, her girl friend – Supreme Court justice Carol Beier, KAKE New Director Dave Grant, his wife – Rachel Pirner (KBA Board Member), former Eagle opinion page editor – Randy Brown & his wife – outgoing KBA president, Linda Parks) we can get an out of state newspaper to expose all of the corruption & fascism that has been covered up for decades by the Eagle and its sister paper, the KC Star.
The only good news is that the problems are just as bad or even worse in Johnson County where judges are merited appointed. IMHO Judges Jim Beasley (Wichita) & Janice Russell (Johnson County) have achieved statewide notoriety and can challenge former Sedgwick County Distirct Court Judge & Attorney General Bob Stephan for being the most dysfuncitonal misgonistic corrupt jurists in Kansas history. (although I would welcome other nominations from the readers about former Judge Sanborn). OOPS I forgot. People who post comments can be sued for slander. Of course there are worse things than being sued for slander: (Just ask Mike Lehr) Like being set up and disbarred for having the courage to defend the constitutional rights of citizens who complain about the dishonesty of prominent attorneys & case managers.
I posted the following comment on your article about the judges responses. I plan to e-mail a response to every candidate to challenge them to openly acknowledge the reality of the corruption. If every one starts accating like big boys & girls, the Eagle can start something really historic. I am very disappointed in Judge Bruce Brown’s response. Judge Brown is a graduate of Oral Roberts University and attended the 8/2007 Pachyderm meeting where Rep. Jim Morrison (Chairman of the House Committee on Government Affairs & Technology) stated that he had a 12″ stack of documented allegations of corruption by Wichita atotnreys & judges. I know that Jim Beasely’s reputed girl friend, Sheila Floodman, was on the nomination committee to choose municipal judges. Does Judge Brown want to the voters to assume that he is city attorney’s Gary Rebendorf’s boy??
Ths is soooo embarrassing. When will the Eagle interview Jim Morrison, Joe Liddle & Todd Wait???
MY COMMENTS ON TODAY’S ARTICLES:
WE ARE LVING IN GLORIOUS TIMES. THIS IS A GREAT REASON WHY THE VOTERS IN JOHNSON COUNTY SHOULD PASS THE REFERENDUM SO THAT VOTERS CAN ELECT JUDGES. ONCE THE CRIMINAL ACTS BY MANY JUDGES & ATTORNEYS WHO ARE RUNNING FOR OFFICE IN THE BARRY SIMPSON, TODD WAIT & JOE LIDDLE SCANDALS ARE PUBLICIZED, THE AUTHORITIY OF THE COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL QUALIFICATIONS AND THE OFFICEOF JUDICIAL ADMINSTRATION TO DISCIPLINE JUDGES & ATTORNEYS WILL BE TAKEN AWAY BY HE LEGISLATURE. THESE SCANDALS WILL PROVE THAT THE KANSAS SUPREME COURT AND ITS SUBSIDAIRY OFFICES CONDONE & COVER UP CRIMINAL ACTIVITY BY JUDGES & PROMINENT ATTORNEYS IN WICHITA. I POSTED THE FOLLOWING COMMENTON ON THE OTHER ARTICLE BY RON SYLVESTER.
I suggest that we take this discusson over to Ron Sylvester’s or Sherry Chissenhall’s blog. If you e-mail me at kiakahahaha@yahoo I’ll respond to your anonymous yahoo account with scanned documents documenting criminal allegations against Judges Henderson, Roth, Friedel, Vining & Rachel Pirner wife of KAKE New Director Dave Grant & former GOP Chairman Mark Kahrs, Trip Shawver Charlie Harris & many other other attorneys. The judges who got the lowest ratings were deamed to be the weakest poltically and had opposition tomake room for new fascists & nepotists. They needn’t worry – they will be back ont he bench like Judge Kennedy serving as judge pro temps. The most corrupt judges (Yost, Fleetwood, Pullman, Henderson, J. Burgess) had no opposition. Why? Because attorneys can not trust the WBA or Slyvester to keep their comments anonymous. Too bad a national organization like the ABA did not do the survey.
I was greatly amused that now Pilshaw has set up her own web site. The facts cannot and have never been disputed. Rebecca Pilshaw,Laura Roberts(Pilshaw’s aide),Christine Ladner,and a former SG county employee named Calene Binns knowingly and with malice violated Federal & Kansas Law.
These four believed themselves above the LAW. I endured the falsely sworn & falsely suborned oaths of this quartet for over seven years. Let any of this element,who violated the LAW and the Constitution stand against me or stand publicly where there wrongful conduct under the color of law can be examined.
These persons do not deserve any power or control over any person in any setting. They are corrupt and without ethic or even lawful conduct. They are the enemy of all people who yearn to breathe free.
“…an officer who had reached into the car about 50 feet.”
wow – who could fight a guy with a 50 foot reach?
GenericPatriot: Two commas can really make a difference. Great thing about online. You can always update and change. Still, a serious matter for the officer. Wouldn’t want to be dragged 50 feet no matter what my reach.
Hi, Bill: I figured you might be showing up here. Why not start your own blog? Then anyone interested in what you have to say could follow you. You could post documents without people having to email you. Just a thought.
To The Family of Michael Gaines:
Please contact me at kiakahahaha@yahoo.com. We are trying to organize regular weekly protests outside of the Wichita Eagle at lunch time. The editors of the Eagle have refused to investigate corruption stories involving high level judges. But why should they becasue Ron Sylvester & former opinion board editor Randy Brown are both married to high level bar association officials or prominent attorneys. I would love to put you in contact with Joe Liddell & Paul Rhodes and e-mail you scanned documents of Joe’s allegatons against Pilshaw, Ware, Ladner, Mark kahrs, Judge Fleetwood, Judge Henderson and many others.
I posted the following comments in today’s Eagle editorial
Bill McKean 316 293-6079
Vote against Jeff Syrios although I don’t know anything about his opponents. Jeff is another hypocritical elitist Daddy’s boy posing as pro life Christian. Jeff denies that the court house corruption exists. Jeff is a typical self-promoting Christian kingdom builder who never used his blog or Eagle columns to help establish the kingdom of God on earth. I sure hope that Bruce Brown is smart enough to become an advocate for reform. It’s going to be so ironic if Ross Alexander wins by default against Pat Walters.
Hey Bill-As rumor has it that you now live in the Dallas area, how are you going to protest on a weekly basis at the Wichita Eagle? Don’t you have a job or anything else to do other than harass the press and legal community? Why do you care what happens in Wichita if you live in Texas? Isn’t there any thing to worry about in that big old state down south?
LITTLE BIRDIE
I’M STILL CONCERNED ABOUT THE CRIME & CORRUPTION IN POTTERVILLE. I HAVE FAMILY & FRIENDS WHOSE CIVIL RIGHTS HAVE BEEN VIOLATED BY CORRUPT JUDGES, ATTORNEYS & COURT APPOINTED FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGISTS. FYI I COPIED SOME INTERESTING STATS ABOUT WICHITA. KANSAS IS NOT A VERY BIG STATE POPULATION WISE & A FEW PEOPLE STILL TAKE MY PHONE CALLS & READS MY BLOG POSTS. I’VE FOUND OUT THAT IF I POST MY E-MAIL ADDRESS TAHT IT’S SOOOOO EASY TO NETWORK WITH CONCERNED CITIZENS TI FIND OUT ABOUT SCANDALS INVOLVING JUDGES & ATTORNEYS WICHITA & JOHNSON COUNTY THAT WILL NEVER BE INVESTIGATED UNLESS WE KEEP ON KICKING THE EAGLE & THE KC STAR IN THE BUTT.
WHY DON’T YOU SEND ME AN E-MAIL AT KIAKAHAHAHA@YAHOO.COM I’D LOVE TO E-MAIL TO YOUR ANONYMOUS YOU SOME DIRT ON SOME JUDGES & ATTORNEYS THAT ARE CURRENTLY RUNNING FOR OFFICE. I’LL EVEN COPY THEM.
NOTE THESE CRIMINAL STATISTICS ON SEDGWICK COUNTY ARE UNDER REPORTED BECASUE THEY DO NOT INCLUDE THE FELONIES THAT ARE BEING COMMITTED BY WICHITA JUDGES & ATTORNEYS.
BILL MCKEAN 319 293-6079
SOURCE – KANSAS LIBERTY 7/25/08
In Kansas, the number of murders went down, while rapes and robberies increased Sedgwick County recorded most murders, rapes and robberies in 2007
For the second year in a row, Sedgwick County, the second largest county in Kansas, recorded more murders, rapes and robberies than any other Kansas county.
According to 2007 crime statistics released by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, 44 murders, 313 rapes, and 586 robberies were reported in the county last year.
In 2006, there were 28 murders in the county, with 265 rapes, and 532 robberies.
Overall in Kansas, the number of murders was down in 2007, when compared to 2006, while the number of rapes and robberies increased slightly.
Kansas City counties were a study in contrasts. Johnson County, a wealthy suburb of Kansas City, had only five murders in 2007. Wyandotte, a less affluent area of Kansas City, had five times as many killings and nearly three times as many robberies – but less than half as many reported rapes.
Wichita, with 350,000 people, is the largest city in Sedgwick County and accounts for much of the area’s violent crime. According to city-data.com, a demographics website, there are approximately 630 police officers in Wichita, 1.8 for every thousand residents. The national average is 3 officers for every 1000 citizens.
Rape and murder statistics for the state and for Kansas’ four most populous counties:
County Murders Rapes Robberies Johnson 5 147 177 Sedgwick 44 313 586 Shawnee 12 62 319 Wyandotte 25 96 520 Ttl Kansas 115 1228 2039
People may not like that Judge Kennedy is the “hanging judge” but wouldn’t you rather have that than one too lenient? I was shocked he was voted out. He has a brilliant legal mind and a great personality, at least off the bench.
Give me a choice between two candidates and I might believe both to be good, yet I can vote for only one. A sitting judge can lose an election for a myriad of reasons. While some people may perceive losing an election to be like getting fired, that doesn’t make it so. Sense101’s comment doesn’t seem logical.
Losing an election is getting fired, pure and simple. No other way to spin it. I like election, for the very reason that a judge may be removed. It tends to keep them on their toes.
Losing an election is not like getting fired. Elections are about more than competency. They are about public perception and financial backing. Would a good judge necessarily have the charisma to win an election?
If Phill Kline is working at all next year, he’ll be asking if you want fries with that. And I think his wages should be garnisheed until that $475,000 is paid back.
Furthermore, it remains to be seen how much money Phill has cost the taxpayers of Kansas AND Johnson County since then. Unfortunately Johnson County is stuck with his anti-abortion politics until next January.
Thank God he is almost gone!!!
why won’t this guy go away?
I wonder how many kids could have been adopted or provided health care for that much money. But there is sweet justice after all, dumb ass coudnt even muster 30% in a primary
This guy has a ton of bad kahrma coming his way. What a wolf in sheeps clothing
Phil Kline is a Hero to all the unborn and the murders who want to kill them. That includes the “mothers”
I understand that times are rough for alot of people now days,but a crime is a crime and it really does not make any diffrence what your situation is. Both men knew what they had done is wrong plain and simple. You cannot steal food just because your house burned down, and you cannot falsify work time slips just because you need the cash. This is a poor excuse for sympathy. I agree with the judge you do the crime you must pay for your time.
I would of went out into the community to seek help and not take the risk of going to jail just for a measley pack of lunch meat and a dried loaf of bread it isn’t worth it. Yes I do have a soft heart and I do feel sorry for both men.
Thinkers, doers, MOVERS, Shockers!
All to common, you’ve got to be kidding.
I also have alot of trouble with the “… all to common” statement. The ‘officer’ in this video must be from the cast of ‘Saturday Night Live’. In real life, in a real court case, any evidence siezed under these circumstances would be suppressed (if the defense attorney didn’t have his/her head stuck way up his/her butt). This video is nothing but an infomercial for defense attorneys.
WAR, I think that’s what Rebecca was saying: while these examples overstep some legal bounds, in her work in the appeals courtsshe sees these kinds of issues come up too often. Should note that cases from all over the state come to her office. That’s why I got the attorneys to weigh in on it before I posted it. And no one said the acting was good.
Yes, bad acting, but great information. I think the video is more like an infomercial for the Constitution, not defense attorneys.
when I took drivers-ed in 1995, we had an officer come talk to us and one of the things he told us was to always cooperate with any officer. And even went as far as to say if they ask to search your car, let them. This would be a good video for any drivers-ed and American Civics class.
So you reject the information in the video because the acting was bad? Excellent approach to constitutional issues. If Woodman had said, “more than they should” in place of “all too common” would you agree with her? Or is an officer of the law attempting to convince a citizen that they must let them search their car or place of residence a rare occurrence? A justifiable occurrence?
I reject the way it’s presented. Lets take the first scenario done the way the ACLU wants you to do it. Done that way the cop would arrest the driver for reckless (speed excess of 20 MPH over limit…this varies by jurisdiction)the officer then does a search incident to arrest of the person and the car, finds the drugs and books everyone. Or he says this guys acting like he has a kilo of dope in the car and calls for a drug dog…and everyone gets arrested for what would usually be a weed ticket. Just enough info here to get someone into trouble but if they are driving around with dope they are already looking for trouble and should take all the HELP they can get, even if it sucks.
The ACLU should say “if you want to smoke weed do it at home and don’t carry it around with you or go drive high because doing so ups your chances of not only getting busted but running into that car with the mom and kids coming home from gymnastics practice” Then the cop gets to hear the dope say “dude where did that car come from and whats will all the screaming and blood man”. Well dude don’t worry about the weed charge cause you’ll be in court on involuntary manslaughter. Maybe the ACLU will come help him out of that mess…or not.
So the police have full access to your house, auto and anything else they wish to look at because, if you are not guilty, you wouldn’t mind them looking? Nice leap to manslaughter from possession. If some one does something bad then they are liable for all bad things or the possibility of all bad things. And those pot wielding kids are potential baby killers so screw that constitutional stuff.
Re-read my post, we are talking about a car not a house. If you are familiar with prior court cases then you know a car has a lesser expectation of privacy and is mobile, which is the reason cops don’t need a warrant to search it. My point about manslaughter is one of advice. If you use drugs, lets even say weed, in your home and you’re not selling it or giving it to your kids to calm them down the chances of the law even finding out are slim. If they did find out it would take a warrant, consent or some exigent circumstance to get in your house and bust you. All that for a joint…not likely. Now climb behind the wheel of a car and get high. Not only have you opened yourself up for arrest by your semi-public possession but you’ve started putting the public at large in danger. It’s all about making good decisions from the get go. The ACLU has a video on how to make good decisions when you have already placed yourself in a jam. It might work for the weed arrest but not for other non-intended consequences like running into someone with your car while high. When that happens they pull your blood, find the weed and you’re done. Not much of a leap there ghost, I’ve seen a little weed do a lot of harm.
By the way I love the constitution. I’m a student of history and the biggest danger to a country as a whole is a corrupt controlling Government who’s force of will is carried out with the barrel of a gun. The police/military are that arm. Government must be limited by the people. The key to a government officials search is that it must be reasonable and legal. Our cops do a great job and the courts weigh in on what they do all the time sometimes ending up giving them more power and other times throwing out the evidence to limit that power. The constitution is a living document that has changing interpretations all the time. Anyone that thinks our cops are “jack booted” thugs have never been to a third world country. I was in the military and saw one of our guys try something close to this ACLU stuff (yes he was drunk and must have forgot he was out of the USA). He was pulled from the car through the window beaten with sticks kicked and everything was searched with no more compliant from us. oh by the way the stop was at a random street side checkpoint. I understand the limits placed on our police but this video portrays the whole thing from the wrong point of view. For starters I would have shown some kids going to the concert without weed and the cop making bad assumptions that lead to a bad search. That would be fair, point out the lessons to be learned and not portray the dope using driver as some hero for stopping the over reaching cop. Ok I better stop for now this is way to long.
The impact of enforcement creates criminals out of citizens every day. Locally, Judge Pilshaw stood up to excessive enforcement and suffered possible retaliation. Some of the very citizens she protected have turned against her. She is the last woman left on District Court.
Lonny that’s like saying the color yellow is yellow. By definition when a crime is committed and the law is enforced the offender becomes a criminal. If you are trying to say that you disagree with certain laws and they make people into criminals then your argument isn’t with cops who enforce the laws but with legislators who draft and make the laws the cops are then duty bound to enforce. And I gave up making critical decisions based on the sex, race or religious background of judges a long time ago. By the way judges are the third branch of government who are given the task of interpreting the laws made by the legislative branch and enforced by the the executive branch and the beauty of it is they are elected (in most cases).
A citizen who trusts enforcement and presumes honesty may be placed at a disadvantage when encountering tricks and misleading statements. This results not from the laws themselves but from the conduct enforcement sometimes feels is necessary and allowable.
My trust in others has never placed me at a disadvantage only my ignorance. The video erodes trust and increases ignorance with its lopsided portrayal.
You think the “gymnastics injuries” response was Olympics motivated? Shawn Johnson, she is not!
the 2 children are probly mine a girl rose born june 13 1989, and boy kelly born sept 10 1990?
My understanding is the Court of Appeals convenes in the Historical Sedgwick County Courthouse, not federal.
Actually, the Kansas Court of Appeals often holds session in both the Old Sedgwick County Courthouse and the Federal Courthouse and that’s what was occurring last week.
The panel held hearings in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten. Judge Marten’s folk band, “The Shoes” also played at the reception, sponsored by the Wichita Women’s Attorneys Association.
Where is the “historic federal courthouse?” Our federal court building is the former post office and is not a historic courthouse. The Kansas Court of Appeals does not conduct court in a federal courthouse. When the Court travels to Wichita it conducts hearings on the second floor of the Historic Sedgwick County Courthouse.
See http://w3.gsa.gov/web/p/interaia_save.nsf/1fd3e688294c3a74852563d3004975f4/6663cdd4abc463d9852565d900539f33?OpenDocument for the historical significance of the federal courthouse in Wichita which has always had a courtroom. Plus, I think the Court of Appeals normally hears cases in the old Sedgwick county courthouse, but this time, did it at the federal courthouse.
As rhodgkie correctly pointed out, you are all correct. I have covered the Kansas Court of Appeals at different times on its visits to Wichita in both the Old Sedgwick County Courthouse and the Historic Federal Courthouse (thanks for the link to the history of the courthouse, sgsja). This wasn’t a one-time thing. Last time, they were at the federal courthouse here, it was an all-male panel.
So he (or his defense attorney) wanted to withhold evidence that he’s capable of being a bold-faced liar? Like that might make a difference? How interesting that prosecutors have so much evidence they don’t need to present those statements anyway.
Have you left out the salacious bits? I’m guessing so since I don’t see why there’s a problem with dancing on a web cam no matter who is the intended audience. Not that I’m asking for the ahem naked truth… just curious.
The better we understand enforcements authority and duties, then the safer they are and the better we are able protect our rights. There is a reason we have these rights that protect us. I am grateful that the video was posted. It is hard to oppose the questions and actions of an enforcement officer. Understanding a situation before you are in it helps.
Cases like this are what separate us from the civil rights abuses of countries like China and Iran.
Thank God that we have the appeals process.
I can’t recall the names now, but the friend who testified against the father of Chelsea Brooks’ baby, didn’t he say one of their ideas was to beat Chelsea to induce a spontaneous abortion? They were trying to come up with a way to keep the father of the baby out of prison for having sex with a minor. Anecdotal evidence surely points to men abusing pregnant women with the idea that a miscarriage would relieve them of 18 years of child support or render any paternity question moot. I’m just thinking there could well be other or additional motivations for the abuser.
Yes, Cindy, you remember that testimony correctly from Everett Gentry. Prosecutors tell me that pregnant women get punched in the stomach, because “that’s where they’re most vulnerable.” I don’t know whether the motivation is getting out of responsibility, or just being jealous of not getting the attention themselves, as the articles I’ve linked to suggest. The articles also talk about pregnant women in abusive relationships being more likely to be killed. In the case of Chelsea Brooks, which you site, prosecutors say that was the motivation: to get rid of the baby. The father of Brooks’ child, Elgin Robinson, is set for trial Sept. 22.
My name is Rose. Who are you, don1964? roserenee34@yahoo.com
This is my mother!?!?!
Judges need to be elected by the people. When a Judge gets gets beholden to whoever hired him the court becomes biased.
There are some biased judges in the Juvenile Court. Who do they owe?
A lack of transparency and accountability in Juvenile contributes to this problem. Evrything is confidential and they can legislate from the bench and deny due process with no penalty to them.
Good luck getting one of them for judicial misconduct…the good old boy system and the bar association will all stick together and the people suffer for it.
We need judges who are fair, firm and above all honest and ethical. Some are not.
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Hello, ma’am. I am a former inmate at ElDorado Correctional Facility. I spent nearly two years in the B-cellhouse Admin-seg unit. I was released in 2005, and have behaved myself and am now a successful business owner. I won’t say which business, obviously, but I am a computer repairman. I want to extend my well-wishes to you, and would like to offer my perspective on exactly how I believe this escape was carried-off so well.
There are rules in practice, and rules in principle. The principle rule is: Prior to going to yard, EVERY seg inmate is to be strip-searched prior to escort to the “yard”, and subsequent to their return, as well. The rule in practice is: We have 150+ inmates to get out to yard for an hour each and we have 32 yard cages. Pull RANDOM or high-risk (or pain-in-the-ass) inmates from every batch going out for strip searches. Now, these searches are performed with the inmate standing in one of six lower-tier shower stalls. These stalls, while they do offer the guard a total view of the inmate, do NOT offer a total view of the interior of the stall itself. I personally smuggled many items of contraband out to the “yard” on many occasions by taking advantage of this fact. It was never, in my 5+ years of incarceration, necessary to conceal anything inside my body.
Conservatively estimating, %35 of the guards at EDCF REGULARLY smuggle contraband into the prison. Three I knew personally. There is a lot of money to be made for an enterprising guard who sneaks in a cellphone, a bag of weed, or something else. I had a cellphone myself for over a year in EDCF. I was never caught with it. This is not un-common. Many inmates have their own phone, but they don’t use it to plan escapes. (More on this later) They use it simply to keep in touch. You may wonder why this would be necessary, since there are phones available for the inmates’ use; but only if you’ve never received a collect call from a prison in Kansas: The bills are ASTRONOMICAL. The policies and practices of the service provider(s) (they change names regularly) border on criminal.
Escape is a scary topic. Inside, the subject of escape is a VERY touchy one. If an inmate is even so much as overheard making a wise-crack, in total jest, about escaping, he is subject to a lengthy stay in Ad-Seg while his security status is reviewed. So people tend to keep it out of their mouths, so to speak.
The guards are treated almost as badly as the inmates. This is true. The only thing that separates the guards from the inmates are the uniforms, the hours, and the pay. That’s it. As far as I&I (Intelligence and Investigations [or even, Idiocy and Intimidation]) is concerned, the CO’s are every bit as un-trustworthy as the inmates. As you can imagine, this practice generates a lot of friction between the inmates and the administrators, with the guards right in the middle. So many guards adopt survival-based techniques to smooth out their days. Most of them go out of their way not to antagonize their working relationship with the inmates, which can cause problems with the administrators up front. It takes a very fine balancing act on the part of the guards to find the happy middle ground…and it’s pretty damn narrow, let me tell you. Relationships of an inappropriate nature are COMMON in just that one facility. When I was there, at least four CO’s were dismissed for having sex with inmates on facility grounds that I know of. This activity is not, as you might be surprised to find out, restricted to female staff. There are a few very pretty boys in prison, and guards can be gay, too.
Four of the six towers at El Dorado are NEVER staffed. That’s right, folks. Rural location combined with high turn-over have kept the facility running at about %50 of the staff she was designed to run with.
As for how the wire cutters, cellphone, etc. were brought to the yard, that is very easy: inmates bring things out/ hold on to things for each other ALL THE TIME. I cannot count the number of times I held one thing or another for some one because they were likely to be stripped. Once out on the yard, it is very easy to relay items to others through the fences dividing the yard cubes.
But after reading everything I could find on the subject, one thing still puzzles me: since “yard” begins after first shift gets on (around 0630hrs or so), and there is always at least one guard on the yard at any given time, how were they able to cut the actual yard fence itself without being noticed by: A. the guard; B. the other inmates, probably half of whom are snitches; and C, the perimeter patrol that makes the full circuit of the facility every 90 to 120 seconds? The road to the shooting range is regularly traveled, and she would also have had to drive right through the guards’ training facility which is adjacent to the shooting range. That road does eventually dump out right behind the B-cellhouse yard, but right onto the perimeter road. That dirt road was re-graded in 2004, and there are no bushes or trees on it capable of concealing a car, so how did her car, parked on this road presumably, escape notice for long enough? Not to mention, she would have been visible to any of the inmates still inside in their cells who had windows facing the yard, which would be half of each side of the cellhouse. And Several stories say this happened at night. There is NEVER yard at night. So unless they were BOTH porters, BOTH outside working, and NEITHER had a guard present, just how the hell did they get outside? The only way out of the cellhouse to the yard is through two solid steel re-enforced doors electronically controlled from a steel and Lucite booth.
In short, I believe at this point that the ONLY way this could have worked was with a LOT of negligence on the part of the guards. Ray Roberts is all about appearances. As long as his facility LOOKS secure, and he looks good, that’s really all that counts for him. I don’t think your daughter’s role was any more instrumental than the wind speed that day. Anyone at all could have done what she did, and in any number of ways. I know lots of dirty little secrets about that facility, as well as Winfield Correctional Facility.
Oh, and not just Dennis Rader is there. I was right between Gary Kleypas and John Robinson. The Carr brothers are also in B-cellhouse.
So not much has changed from 25 years ago when I was a teenager and heard similar harrowing stories? I lived in a small town in SE Kansas yet I heard enough to believe that running away from one’s family would lead to prostitution, drugs, and possibly an early death.
I’m thinking today there are better resources & options for homeless kids, but maybe I’m wrong.
Wait a minute. Inmate74649, are you saying that the El Dorado Correctional Facility is so insecure that people convicted of heinous crimes could escape if they tried hard enough? This is seriously disturbing. I wish you would help someone get this story out in a way that the prisons would be more secure.
That said, I’m also disturbed by the conflict between administrators & guards. Something is really wrong with a system that puts guards in the position of finding that narrow path that allows them to do their jobs while upsetting the fewest people possible.
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This is Tiller’s last gasp attempt at staying above the law. His only hope is that the abortion industry puppet Sebelius will pull some strings of her own at the AG Office. Here’s some more information from kansasliberty.com: Attorneys blame Morrison’s former mistress for convincing him to file charges Tiller lawyers attack Kline over charges filed by Morrison
In a motion filed Monday, attorneys for a late-term abortionist facing 19 misdemeanor counts in Wichita launched a withering attack on former Attorney General Phill Kline, even though it was Kline’s successor, Paul Morrison, who had filed the charges.
The lengthy motion, filed on behalf of Dr. George Tiller, briefly acknowledged that Kline did not file the charges, but said Kline’s actions while conducting an inquisition of the abortion provider had permanently tainted the case.
Tiller’s lawyers sought either dismissal of the case or suppression of the evidence collected by prosecutors. District Court Judge Clark V. Owens has indicated arguments on the motion will be presented in November.
The motion, which was made available on the website of Tiller’s law firm, claims that Morrison only filed the charges in response to pressure applied by pro-life groups.
Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, said he would like to believe Morrison caved in under pressure from various pro-life groups, but admitted that notion was somewhat unlikely, given the substantial donations made by Tiller and his PAC. The donations helped get Morrison elected as Attorney General.
State law requires that before performing a late-term procedure, an abortionist must find a second, unaffiliated doctor to concur that the abortion is medically necessary. The criminal complaint contends that Tiller consulted a second doctor – Kristin Neuhaus – with whom he was financially affiliated. Neuhaus also performs abortions.
“The issue in the case is simple: Did Tiller have a financial relationship with Neuhaus or didn’t he?” Newman said. “All the rest of this stuff is just blame-shifting by Tiller – ‘it’s all Phill Kline’s fault.’”
Newman said the titles might have been lifted from the National Enquirer. “It just fills me with glee when I think how much Tiller had to spend to get this thing prepared,” he said.
On Monday, in response to a request for comment, Kline expressed a concern that the case, which has already been delayed many times at Tiller’s request, might be “side tracked” yet again.
In a statement, Kline told KansasLiberty.com, “Every judge who has viewed the evidence has found probably cause to believe that Mr. Tiller has committed crimes and all this demonstrates is that Mr. Tiller and his attorneys continue to believe that he is above the law. The only questions remaining are whether this court as some others have done will improperly delay or side track legitimate prosecution and also whether the Attorney General will begin to perform his duty and seek additional information from Mr. Tiller. Patient privacy has never been at risk and the women have never been under investigation.”
Chad and Shannon Floyd have waited more than three long years to be cleared of these accusations, and the dismissal hearing on Nov. 24, 2008, can’t come soon enough for them or their families. The Floyds are innocent, and they are anxious to put these trials behind them and move on with their lives. Chad and Shannon Floyd and their families have had to endure three years of accusations, innuendo and rumor that have been absolutely false. The Floyds have had much support from the community, and from that support, they gained strength to fight on. On Nov. 24, 2008, that fight will finally be over and their innocence will now be recognized by the Court. — Dan Monnat, Attorney for Chad Floyd
“No one has ever found the body of Michael Golub, 27″
Hard to get convictions with no body. It doesn’t mean they are not guilty. It means they were not PROVEN beyond a shadow of a doubt to be guilty. They may be innocent. The loser is a boy without a daddy. The lawyer said there was blood and someone should have heard gunshots? Bleeding can be caused without a bullet.
On Nov. 24, 2008, that fight will finally be over and their innocence will now be recognized by the Court.
Unless, of course, they find the body.
These people should have Thanksgiving dinner with OJ Simpson. They seem to have a lot in common.
Monnat’s the Man. Aggressive prosecutors should shiver when they realize they must face Dan with explanations for their actions. Monnat helps keep all of us free from aggressive intrusive government.
Dan Monnat, Attorney for Chad Floyd
Looks like he is bragging. How disgusting.OJ did that also. When Tiller case crumbles for him, we will see who brags.
This is a joke – Judge Fleetwood had no juridiction and made a ruling anyway – the case was in Juvenile Court. How can this man be an administrative judge when he doesn’t even know the law? Of course he will be the administrative judge over the so-called judges that don’t know the laws either – he’ll fit right in. With him in charge – no one will have to follow the law – after all – how will he know different? It’s all about who has the money – that’s the way the ruling goes – whether legal or not. He’s part of the corruption in the courthouse.
How sick. This lady gives pro-life people a bad name. I despise Tiller, but I despise this lady just as much. Shooting people is NOT pro-life. I say let her rot. People who are truly pro-life need to resist violence, which Tiller definitely does not when he sucks the brains out of live babies.
That does seem like a longer sentence than weather underground bombers get.
“right-to-life terrorists, ” said Dan Monnat,
What about the right to abortion terrorists? The innocent baby gets a death sentence.
seven, I believe a lot of unfortunate humans have been given death sentences. The “Weathermen” were interested in the following injustice:
Please tell us what injustice these unborn babies are paying for. 46 million babies died.
Weather underground is not in charge of “carrying out justice”
“Weather underground is not in charge of “carrying out justice””
And neither is Operation Rescue.
I would have never guessed.
Where do plumbers rate? I certainly hope it is ahead of builders whom most are constantly fighting against safety as being too costly. I’m disappointed but understand the low rating of labor leaders because business spends $100’s of millions of dollars every year to PR and legal firms to discredit workers and their leaders. Attorney’s have an almost unbelievable strict code of ethics that most are unaware of. When attorney’s fight hard people do get hurt but it keeps us a nation of laws.
I don’t trust the public.
The other day I was about to send my boss an email when I paused and wondered if the information really belonged in the system. I’m new to this job so I really didn’t know for sure. Rather than take any chances, I did something radical. I got up from my desk, went to my boss’ office, and talked with her face-to-face.
I’m sure anyone who comes across this comment will be in shock. I could have just picked up the phone, but I wasn’t sure if meaning would be lost. I had information in my hand that might help if I was face-to-face with my boss, so that was part of the reason I decided to be so bold. (Yes, I’m being a little sarcastic.)
People need to think twice about what gets put in emails, text messages, and on the Internet. Those words are accessible for years and years. You think they’re buried and gone until the day arrives when someone drags them up to haunt you.
For me, the best insurance is to be civil, honest, genuine, and sincere. OK, I did violate that standard above when I was sarcastic, but I was honest.
“Attorney’s have an almost unbelievable strict code of ethics that most are unaware of.”
Lonny … did you mean that most people are unaware of the attorney’s Code of Ethics or that most attorneys are unaware of the attorey’s Code of Ethics?
Most people. Receiving my Juris doctor in 2002 but not taking the state bar I still like to read the Kansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals cases. Lawyers are punished almost monthly. You can read the restrictions from the state judicial site. Some of the things I think they are too strict on is that they frown on attorneys collecting money owed to them, that even if they have a clients money in a trust fund they cannot use it to pay expenses of the client in most cases, they can’t represent someone they have had a relationship with, etc. There are active ethic committees in most large communities in additional to the state committee and they investigate even somewhat ridiculous complaints to which the attorney must respond. There are all sorts of 10 and 20 day time limits on filings and even if an attorney is running 50 to 100 cases at a time they jump on a lawyer for missing a filing. I sense that attorneys are twice as strict on themselves than any other profession, including doctors, bankers and securities. They do so because they recognize the publics poor perception of their profession.
Lonny … yes, I know. It wasn’t really a serious question – I was trying to be humerous as much as anything. Several attorneys have served me well with personal matters in the past – all of them took care of business. I’m retired from law enforcement after 35 years and I can honestly say in my entire life I’ve encountered only two attorneys who were unscrupulous. Do you remember to good old days when attorneys were not allowed to advertise their services in the media? I can’t remember – were they also not allowed to advertise in the yellow pages?
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They were not allowed to advertise. It was considered unethical. However attorney’s are not allowed to practice in areas they have no experience. The problem for citizens was they didn’t know how to tell what attorney’s practiced in what areas. Enforcement is a difficult area and I appreciate your 35 years. You don’t get paid sufficiently for what you must risk and encounter. It is also a burden for your families.
Here’s a novel idea…how about people stop committing crimes!!!
Almost 5,000 cases. Wow.
I rounded them off, but here are the exact numbers from the Department of Indigent Defense Services for the caseload for the Sedgwick County office. Remember, the office handles felonies and probation violations only:
FY 08: 4342 FY 07: 4250 FY 06: 4062 FY 05: 3866
He was stealing Hopes and dreams, preying on fools, so as far as Jail Time, none, this is no more than any church, when they pass the plate, so you soul can go to heaven, or no more than the DEM or REP, when they ask for Cash, so the they can wright all the wrongs bye the other side, no more than the Banks, who made loans to people who could not afford them, are all jobs going over seas, this is just the American Way, but if he did not pay Taxes on the money he stole, then bury this guy under the prison, and give him life. OJ him.
Two years. He operated in the open. Why did the government wait so long to make it clear to him and others that it was wrong? It seems similar to allowing companies to prepare legal filings for citizens, advertise it and then years later charging them for operating as an attorney without a license.
Mr. webber was in California for many years doing the same thing but he did not focus on illegal aliens. He served time for child abuse yet was allowed to register and an Indian home and take in Tribal children. Mr. Webber has been cheating and harming people since 1980 that I know of first hand. He needs to pay for for the damage he has done. He will continue this sham somewhere else if he is not stopped.
It’s always interesting to get the rest of the story. Thanks, Ron.
I’m glad to read a solution has been found for the interim. Sounds like this was just a fluke and when the office is properly staffed, they handle the load just fine. I hope I interpreted the situation correctly.
Who needs Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer when we have Emory Goad.
So glad he’s healthy…wonder if he thought about Goad’s health after he shot him?
Hmmmm … out so soon after an attempted murder. It just doesn’t seem that justice was done in this case. It seems that out judicial system misses the target quite often in serious criminal and civil cases and we just stand around with our jaws dropped on the ground. And we wonder that we haven’t been able to weed our way through the controversies of the death penalty?
How come Dr. and Mrs. Schneider are being tried outside of the courtroom by the judge and prosecution without chance to defend themselves?
As I have said in the EAGLE’s comment boxes previously (why are those comments not attached hereto?) … I never talked to Dr. Schneider but I did observe him making rounds at the Haysville Nursing Home.
Visiting my mother there, I noticed that Dr. Schneider was unfailingly polite and interested in all people he talked to at the nursing home whether his patients or not. In fact I recently asked a former nursing home staff member at a Haysville store about this and received a positive endorsement.
Accolades were certainly not give to most doctors who visited patients in the nursing home. In fact, most doctors refuse to go to nursing homes. Patients have to be transported to the doctors’ offices or hospitals no matter how much pain they are in.
There is probably easier kinds of medical practice than dealing with the elderly, veterans who abuse drugs, other people who somehow become addicted, etc. Of course people are patients in nursing homes for all kinds of reasons, age, strokes, health failures of some kinds.
Even so, the staff do try to make nursing homes as cheerful as possible under the circumstances.
Thanks to doctors like Dr. Schneider with an upbeat, caring personality, these end-of-life cases are made as comfortable as possible for these people whose lives are dribbling away and who only want to pass away comfortably at the end.
Why can some lawyer who apparently has a mind prejudiced by lack of knowledge and experience go after one person or persons he views as having done something wrong and wring the case out in public?
The number of deaths is inconsequential. Many if not most of these very suffering people are going to die sooner, not later, in nursing homes or by themselves in agony of some kind.
If I hadn’t visited my mother regularly in the nursing home and still visit there on Sundays long after my mother passed away, I wouldn’t be aware of this sub-world of physically and mentally hurting patients … and not all elderly.
Thankfully there are a few doctors like Dr. Schneider who actually visited these nursing homes, injured veterans, elderly patients, etc., to assist staff to try to maintain “hurting people” in some kind of terminal comfort.
They are not being tried “outside the courtroom.” These are pretrial hearings, and the defendants are always present and represented by counsel. In this case, this was a hearing upon a motion filed by Linda Schneider’s lawyers. Their trial begins in February.
Thanks for leaving the comments. We have heard many former patients, and colleagues, speak of Stephen Schneider’s skill as a doctor and caring bedside manner.
This case involves accusations that there were also careless prescription practices at the Schneider Medical Clinic that led to harm of patients. A jury will have to decide the merits of those accusations.
Good for her…the WPD officers ae rude to the female citizens…I can”t imagine working with that bunch!
Ron Sylvester If male law enforcement treats their female co-workers with insults and offensive terms – how do you think they treat female victims or mothers of children that have been abused? What would you say if I told you that an EMCU detective threatened to throw a mother of a child that reported sexual abuse thru a door 3 times? Threatened to prosecute her personally if she didn’t shut up about the abuse of her child. There is a problem in Sedgwick County with the attitude of (not all) but of many police officers. If they are ok with foul treatment of co-workers (and I can just image what they call them) can you imagine what they say to tax paying citizens? This is what we have working for the citizens of sedgwick county.
Wichta is a bad place to be a female cop I have been stopped in traffic and harassed for years and nobody wants to hear my side of the story. The Wichita police department should all be fired.
I was working 3rd shift doing a maintence run when I was pulled over at aprox. 2am. Officer wouldn’t even walk up to my truck. Soon back up came as they hollored at me from across the road callin me the f word, told me to keep my mouth shut when I asked why I was pulled over. Yes i’m white and yes the five officers who showed up as back up were white. They were very proud of their arrogance. Total waste of tax payer money and I have NO respect for the City of Wichita Corrupt Cops. I say fire the Cheif of Police for lack of oversight! The harassment in this city is awfull. Call me for jury duty some day.
Looks like Goad was wrong in trying to take the car.
Sylvester’s remarks are fairly stated concerning Pilshaw’s service. Losing her is a significant loss of protection for the community. It is also a win for those that wanted all females off the courts. Will they now go after our minority judge to eliminate all diversity?
NOW JUSTICE FINALLY PREVAILS & DARKNESS DOES NOT PREVAIL OVER THE LIGHT. I see to the last that Pilshaw makes comments which devalue men which she despises with such animosity.
This one MAN DID NOT BOW before her unlawful acts and violation of the Constitution. Did she really believe in her diabolical hatred she could knowingly and with malice accept, and manipulate falsely sworn testimony solely because it was created & suborned by women?
She talks of her lengthy years, what of the long years of her falsified warrant which she wrongly maintained to avoid JUSTICE? The LAW had no meaning; she convinced herself she was above the LAW. No one could sanction her, how dare any mere MAN stand with evidence that did not advance her vile objectives.
I told Pilshaw many years ago that the day would come when the light of justice would shine again. In the end analysis her wickedness did not prevail. The determination (in accordance with US Law) was made that it was WRONG & UNLAWFUL to order any man or woman to pay 76% of their monthly income to Pilshaw when they had a family and other children.
It was WRONG TO KNOWINGLY AND WITH MALICE PUBLISH ON NCIC THAT A MAN WAS A CONVICTED FELON WHO ESCAPED FROM PRISON WHEN HE HAD NEVER EVEN BEEN TO TRIAL,HAD NEVER BEEN IN PRISON,OR EVER HAD ANYTHING MORE SERIOUS THAN WRITING A NSF CHECK (in another state) FOR $40 ONCE IN A LIFETIME.
Pilshaw knew all too well that Court Service Officer Binns lied under written oath, that Ladner and Ware were nefarious and vile conspirators seeking to destroy any hated man who dared stand. There indeed needs to be women judges, one of the most knowledgeable judges in the land is a woman on the US Supreme Court. Unethical and wrongful conduct under the color of law should not be tolerated regardless of gender.
Pilshaw and all the corrupt forces she could muster DID NOT PREVAIL against one rather insignificant man and non lawyer from out of state. When a cop in my home state nearly killed me at weapon point in my own driveway (based on Pilshaw’s falsified warrant) I saw the icy fingers of the wicked judge on the trigger.
Do you hear laughter Pilshaw? It is the laughter of the afflicted who bore your criminal and wrongful conduct under the color of law. I think it is only fitting that the words of a woman bring to an end your foul “reign”:
“Talk no more exceedingly proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up. He will keep the feet of his saints, and THE WICKED SHALL BE SILENT IN DARKNESS…”
ALL MY CHILDREN despise your name Pilshaw, your attempts to destroy my family failed and your wretchedness is an example for them to avoid. The official and court documents stand as a testament to your wrongdoing. I may never find one honest person to publish or evaluate the 135 pages of evidence which proves beyond any doubt the unlawful acts I endured from you.
It doesn’t matter, Pilshaw, YOU and the entire criminals dressed as SG county officials complex KNOW YOU LOST to one MAN. I rejoice that your downfall is now complete and that I was a small part of the equation. NO ONE WILL EVER HAVE TO CALL YOU YOUR HONOR AGAIN; it is fitting since your whole “reign’ was about DISHONOR.
I will sing unto the LORD for he has triumphed gloriously the horse and the rider thrown into the sea!
“The state of Kansas can never prosecute a case based on illegal evidence.”
How laughable can you be…they change,taint,and manipulate the evidence and get SG county officials to falsely swear under oath to fit into the lie they are waging. You are really naive Sylvester.
I imagine Foulston hiring attorneys from the Public defender will make it easier for her office to destroy civil rights and have inside knowledge to convict someone falsely accused.
If you are in SG County those numbers should be A LOT lower,perhaps minus 50% trust for attorneys,and 0% for scaredy cat journalists. I notice you did not say anything about crooked judges,probably have to go into the minus kelvin scale for them!
I now know why you would never report the truth about Pilshaw…your wife is an attorney. It makes perfect sense why you hid under the couch.
1) HOW PILSHAW CONSISTENTLY VIOLATED THE LAW:
COMMUNICATION TO PILSHAW & CORRUPT SG COUNTY OFFICIALS,DT 10 DEC 04 @ 1249 HRS/ VERIFICATION OF RECEIPT CONFIRMED/EXACT TEXT SENT TO PILSHAW:
A Calene Binns, a court services officer (CSO) submitted a sworn affidavit to Judge Pilshaw’s office. The affidavit by Binns swore that:
“THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT,WHO WAS RELEASED ON PROBATION FROM THE CONFINEMENT PORTION OF HIS SENTENCE…”"AFTER HAVING BEEN CONVICTED OF THE CRIME OF NON-SUPPORT OF CHILD (FELONY)”
The sworn statement which is in your files (dated 26 July 99) was witnessed by Ms Laura Roberts and a warrant was sworn out by Judge Pilshaw on the basis of this sworn affadavit. CSO Binns had the file on the case,she swore to a false statement:
A) I was never convicted of the crime of non-support.
B) I have never been convicted of a felony in Kansas or anywhere else.
C) I was never sentenced on the crime since I never went to trial.
D) I was never released from the confinement (prison) portion of any sentence on probation.
So what is the difference right,wrong! Imagine a crooked judge who knowingly and with malice posts a falsified felony warrant nationwide. You are riding in a friend’s car and pulled over and nearly killed because the policeman believes the crooked judge and thinks you are a threat to him.
At one point the nationwide bulletin listed I was armed and dangerous. So what really happended? Pilshaw was mad because I could not pay 76% of my monthly gross income to her and the band of criminal officials in SG county. They had arranged to receieve up to 19% of the proceeds in a non-TANF case,so it was THEIR money in THEIR CRIMINAL MINDS.
Why couldn’t I pay her and the SG county criminal officials? I broke my neck in service to this country so apparantly criminals like Pilshaw could act as absolute evil from the bench.
Astute legal types may notice that 76% per month is in violation of US law,good observation,you see the LAW had NO MEANING to Rebeccca Pilshaw.
SO WHAT DID I DO NEXT:
I filed a pro se motion for redress on the record,ah,but Pilshaw and her evil cohorts were way too smart in their nefarious conduct. She simply would not allow pro se motions on the record as evidenced in the following exact text email from the Clerk of Court:
I received this e mail from Judge Pilshaw’s aide just moments after we spoke (see note below). I apologize that I misspoke regarding our pro se motion policy. Apparently, Judge has changed her policy. Consequently, your motion has not been filed with the court as of yet. Judge will review your motion and send it back to us to be set up for hearing, or it will be returned to you if it has not been filed properly. Again, I am sorry for the misunderstanding. Thank you.
Crystal TCC IV (316) 660-5720
I’m not sure who I should send this to, so if you could, please make sure it gets passed on to the necessary people.
Any Pro Se Motions (whether they have a Notice of Hearing attached or not) that are being filed by defendant’s or litigants that require a hearing date from Judge Pilshaw, please do not accept filing immediately.
Please place the Pro Se Motion into our 11th floor box. Judge Pilshaw will review the paperwork to see if it complies with statutory requirements and local court rules.
If it does comply, it will be returned to the Clerk’s Office by me for filing along with a hearing date. If it does not meet requirements, I will prepare a letter returning the paperwork to the person who submitted it telling them it does not comply with requirements and that it will be reviewed again should they desire to submit further paperwork. Only paperwork that meets requirements will be allowed to be filed.
Judge Pilshaw believes in the long run it will save a lot of time for your office, the DA’s office and our office.
Thanks, Laura Division 14 Judge Pilshaw’s Court
You see these unlawful and wrongful persons ALWAYS are one step ahead in their crimes towards citizens. TOO BAD Pilshaw was publicly reprimanded for this practice.
Note to non legal folks: You see what this did was make sure nothing would get on the record and Pilshaw and her fellow criminal officials could win. Pilshaw knew that pesky Constituition required that motions were to be filed and heard,but she did not like the law or the Constitution,after all she was Pilshaw and we all were simply cattle to be slaughtered in her court,ESPECIALLY THE MALE CATTLE.
NOW FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WILL SAY PILSHAW DID NOT KNOW OF HER UNLAWFUL CONDUCT UNDER THE COLOR OF LAW HERE IS A COMMUNICATION THE EVIL ONE RESPONDED TO DIRECTLY DATED 15 AUGUST 2005 @ 1151 HOURS:
Your Honor,with all due respect, I find it very difficult to surrrender to a warrant based upon a false sworn statement in violation of 18 USC 1001. I have a copy of the warrant order sworn and subscribed by Court Services Officer Calene Binns,on 26 July 99. It was witnessed by your aide,Laura Roberts.
The sworn affadavit by your CSO states that I was convicted of the crime of non support (felony) and that I was released on probation from the confinement portion of my sentence,that I am a convicted felon.
Your Honor,you signed this order establishing this warrant which declares me convicted of this crime,when I have never even been to trial. The document is in the case file.
AND SO WHAT WAS THE RESPONSE OF RECENT CAKE & PUNCH CONSUMER PILSHAW? SHE LEFT THE KNOWINGLY WRONGFUL AND UNLAWFUL ACT TO STAND FOR ANOTHER TWO YEARS.
In the end it was not Pilshaw who DISMISSED WITH PREJUIDICE ALL COSTS TO KANSAS. It was a unilateral move by the ethically challenged SG County DA’s office.
So what have we learned? Every time my case and ordeal is mentioned it is said it is too complex to understand or well you won what more do you want?
I also hear how Jordan from the SRS is going to investigate wrongful acts…PLEASE don’t insult me and the other parents who suffer through the myriad of criminal acts your officials commit.
Everyone knows SG County is crooked,how about hearings under oath and we will see who the real criminals are!
I hear the legislators sometimes say it will take God to bring about change. Hey legislators,GOD is going to help the afflicted…YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BRING ABOUT CHANGE AS THE INSTRUMENT OF WHAT GOVERNMENT IS SUPPOSED TO BE,AND STAND FOR THOSE MISTREATED.
Lastly directly to Pilshaw,Ware,Givan,Fleetwood and all the criminals dressed as government and court officials I say this dated from August 14 2005 @ 1238 Hours:
I want you to know something,I’m not Rodrock,(check the Internet for reference) I am a hard rock,and my rock is my God & Christ,my King,who always hears the cries of slaves and the afflicted.
So we return now the blog to the Eagle who can hunker down in their hiding place under the couch. Many of pharoahs,er pilshaw’s “reign” are no more…Binns went to work in a ministry probably to forget the criminal officials of Sedgwick.
The spurrious SRS lawyer went to work at a small town bank probably handing out toasters for new accounts. Ware lost her job and the election,I guess your character flaws were discerned by the voters.
What a pack of lies that Pilshaw was voted out for being “tough” HAHAHAHA,are you high Sylvester?
Pilshaw was reprimanded for not allowing motions on the record,for conduct in violation of the judicial canons and for yelling & threatening jurors. THREE PUBLIC REPRIMANDS FROM THE STATE.
Sylvester how exactly are you related to Pilshaw? Quick let me get the smelling salts for Sylvester so he can wake up and realize that Pilshaw can’t hurt him (OR ANYONE ELSE) anymore.
I am sure the lawyers had “no sign of hard feelings” IT WAS NOT THEY WHO SUFFERED FROM THE WRONGFUL ACTS UNDER THE COLOR OF LAW FROM PILSHAW,they got paid either way!
So for any who doubt WHY NOT HAVE an investigative hearing under oath WHERE these matters would be examined. I will bring myself and the 135 pages of undisputed court record and evidence which trounced these foul & vile persons and they will finally be where they belong —in prison.
We could have it on a warm spring day so the criminal officials implicated could jump out the windows and run to a get away car to have waiting Eagle reproters write a fantasy ending to their crimes.
Just make sure it is not in SG County. I probably would be stabbed in the back 42 times,worst case of suicide ever seen in SG county or Foulston would declare martial law and have all parents placed in concentration re-education camps until they signed a statement saying she created the universe and is their new demigod.
They really would not need to sign it I guess…just get a crooked court or county official to falsely swear under oath,that certainly IS ALWAYS EASY ENOUGH TO DO!
You think the cops are bad wait until you get to see the DA and the Court. The you lie and we will swear to it mentality is very thick with these crooks.
If you get the right attorney you can pay the usual bribe,and for an extra couple thousand they will invite to the annual gathering of crooked officials at their song and dance perjury gala!
Congrats to all bloggers who are still alive and living in SG County Kansas. The fact you are still breathing with the corruption in this county is testament that people can endure under even the most diabolical regimes.
I don’t know about fake chiefs,how about fake ex judges who are corrupt like Pilshaw? She should get the max whatever it is!
Geez – Iowa Joe…move to a country where the evil “SC criminals” can’t get to you….Judge Pilshaw and the other judges work pretty hard to keep real criminals off the streets…if you had that many problems, maybe it would have been prudent to hire a professional (lawyer) rather than try to do it pro se……lets see, they have a college education and 3 years post college education in the LAW and deal with it everyday…. duh…… don’t you think that if you can’t get anyone to read the 135 pages of ranting and raving, maybe the problem is not with the system………
This hearing is about Morrison. It seems they would have questioned him. He was the one filing charges of tillers Misdemeanors. Tiller spent a lot of money buying his election.
It certainly is hard to weed our way through the convolusions of human nature to resolve justice. But, I guess that shouldn’t really surpise us – it’s not like Morrison and Carter committed original sin. Is it likely now that other defendants/respondants will come crawling out of the woodwork asking for new trials and hearings claiming that Morrison “… was acting out of character” when he or his staff filed on them?
Iowa Joe = Bill Weeks our local blog ranter? I think so.
I must have created a misunderstanding. Hmmm…I guess under your line of thinking holocaust survivors should not BURDEN any of you with what the Nazis did so you don’t feel uncomfortable.
YOU WISH QUOTE: “maybe it would have been prudent to hire a professional (lawyer) rather than try to do it pro se……lets see, they have a college education and 3 years post college education in the LAW and deal with it everyday….”
I can assure you that Pilshaw,and the rest of the nefarious criminal officials DID NOT think it a “rant” when it was filed on the district court record. They actually had a QUICK response within three days.
The 135 pages were defined differently than a blog,indeed there was a lengthy motion,but most of the filing was evidence against Pilshaw and her fellow criminal officials. Funny,NO ONE denies the evidence to be fact yet I am supposed to say nothing? I think not.
I WENT TO COURT AND WON,not because it was a “rant” but because the years of SG County criminality melted away like cowardly snow. They dismissed completely less than three days after the filing. Do you think that was a coincidence?
I did move to a country where the evil SG officials could not get me…it is called AMERICA AND THEY LOST VERSUS poor little ol’ me. The point of my lengthy blog was to correctly identify that Pilshaw is a corrupt person,not some mild cake eating judge.
Your idea regarding Pilshaw’s work with SG county was not shared by the Kansas Supreme Court and the higher level officials who ISSUED THREE PUBLIC REPRIMANDS AGAINST PILSHAW. A judge does not get a pass to be a judge in several cases and then totally abandon the LAW and the JUDICIAL CANONS in other cases.
Hiring a “professional attorney ” in SG county is more than laughable. No attorney in Wichita WOULD have accomplished what I was able to do in these matters. The idea is to pay,pay,pay for a crooked lawyer when the corrupt judge will not even examine or admit the evidence. If it is not on the trial court record it cannot be admitted at the next appeals level.
PILSHAW AND THE DA WOULD NOT ALLOW EVIDENCE AND FACTS ON THE RECORD BECAUSE IT DID NOT ADVANCE THEIR MONETARY OBJECTIVES. The law,the facts,the TRUTH, IT HAS NO BEARING. I would remind you that Pilshaw was PUBLICLY REPRIMANDED FOR THIS VERY ISSUE IN ANOTHER CASE!
Your blog praises the level of education of these foul officials,perhaps you assume I am uneducated which I assure you is not the case. The very reason you quote,the day to day interaction between lawyers and the judges is the very fabric WHY THE OUTCOME IS PREDETERMINED REGARDLESS OF THE EVIDENCE OR FACTS. If you are from out of state they circle the wagons and in a unified manner violate federal and state law.
It is a double win for them. IF you have wealth, they will prolong the issue to extract your life savings. If you do not have the money to fight, they will destroy your life because you have NO advocate. I WANTED THESE VILE PERSONS TO KNOW BY THIS BLOG THAT THEY LOST,WHICH OF COURSE,THEY ALREADY KNOW.
So for me to REJOICE at the forced termination of this vile person who for YEARS violated the law and harmed me is appropriate. THE FACT IS I have established evidence which without dispute,proves Pilshaw and several others knowingly and with malice committed wrongful acts under the color of law.
The idea that because the press is scared or lazy to report the issue does not change the FACTS AND EVIDENCE. The reason for the length of the evidence was not to “rant” it was because the criminal officials kept committing further criminal acts under the color law that had to be explained in detail and defined by case law.
You can’t go to COURT on the record and cite that a District Court judge is a criminal WITHOUT extensively explaining the position,the applicable case law,and the evidence. I dealt with over eight years of SG County official criminal acts under the color of law…it was a lot to explain.
The TERMINATION of this vile person (Pilshaw) should be denoted and celebrated. The EAGLE presented their “side” of that event. I presented a different perspective which has extensive evidence and facts proved on the official & court record.
THE EAGLE KNOWS there were wrongful acts under the color of law in this and other cases. No amount of what the judge had for breakfast,fluffy, and paralyzed with fear reporting will change that outcome.
The head of the Kansas SRS has publicly stated there is coercion from SG county in matters involving children. If the head of the Kansas SRS really wants a case to prove the point I have the irrefutable evidence and the all important DISMISSED WITH PREJUIDICE,ALL COSTS TO KANSAS case to fell these evil persons.
Some Kansas legislators spend a lot of time trying to set up hearings to examine the white washed sepluchre that is SG county. So go back and have some more cake and pretend that injustice does not exist in this corrupt county,it will be better for you that way.
The other blog entry questions that I am someone else. I am not “Bill Weeks”. I don’t know who “Bill Weeks” is. I can assue you that your now terminated judge and the other criminal element in this county know exactly who I am.
I had a lot of contact with these criminal officials over a lengthy period of time. I wrote governors,and the entire federal and state complex over these issues and I WON. I AM SURE THEY WON’T FORGET WHO DEFEATED THEM at their own crooked game!
Well Joe, if you had paid your child support there wouldn’t have been a problem, would there?
I would have done the same thing. Those flying rats are a hazard along the coastline. War bird beaters.
Anytime the prosecutor and his staff appear to have tainted the process due to their own behavior or beliefs, it should be questioned.
But with that said, if the charges against Tiller is that he did not have a separate second physician sign off on the late term abortions, which is what the law requires, then that is what the actual trial should be about – not the behavior of the prosecutor and his staff. And those charges should be able to be proven by the actual medical records.
Word to the bird: beat it!
More to the point, perhaps Mr or Mrs Djuric were traumatized by watching Hitchcock’s “The Birds” and were in terror? The infliction of suffering upon these people requires some kind of redress, but how does one sue wildlife?
Perhaps the city of Laguna Beach can sell “gull insurance” to compensate you if you are attacked?
Tis much easier to lampoon this than try to find the humor in senate confirmation hearings or analyzing the probable FCC Chairman appointment..
Have fun, kids!
That’s absolutely the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. So, defending yourself against a flying menace is now “animal cruelty”?? Florida is known for its stupid laws (and even stupider population), but this takes the cake.
Gulls are obnoxious, overpopulated pests, nothing more, nothing less- and under the same curcumstances I would have done the same thing.
WHOKNOWS – in response to your comment, the only obnoxious, overpopulated pests on earth are humans. And there are only a few caring humans that try to protect animal from us. Because of our arrogance, there are no animals safe from the majority of us unless someone passes a law. You sound like one of the pests.
to whoknows. this was in california so i don’t think florida law had anything to do with it.
shortcut- what about the poor cow who gave the milk that made the ice cream that was stolen by the white vulture? you gotta be kiddn me
I remember a group of 20-25 of us going to Bush Gardens in Tampa years ago. We would have fun throwing handfulls of popcorn at eachother to get the gulls to attack for us.
I actually just returned yesterday from a vacation in Long Beach, CA, and had a few run-ins with obnoxious seagulls. I found waving your arms and yelling at them is a pretty good deterrent–there was no need for violence. Those wily pelicans, though, they’re a whole different story
Why does it take so for a case like this to convict and sentence a sick jerk like this? he does not deserve to breathe the air we do he so deserves the DEATH PENALTY!!
I haven’t checked lately, but last time I looked, men were presumed innocent until proven guilty. If Adams was HIV-positive during the time the alleged rapes occurred, how can the girl not be HIV-positive? Unless he used 100% effective condoms, not likely.
I think he is deservedly getting some kind of punitive sentence. If the birds were so much of a nuisance to our intrepid partygoer, why didn’t he and his wife merely go indoors?
As a society we should be ashamed for not protecting young girls from such abuse. Instead of letting Attorney General Phill Kline help such young victims, the messenger was attacked, even by the press. Pro-abortion forces in Kansas would rather protect abortion than such young victims, and society looks the other way in many cases.
Hey Iconoclast, last time I checked there was no mention she doesn’t have HIV, but she does have a privacy act to protect her, HIPPA. And last time I checked most children don’t fabricate those kind of lies. Just admit that the step father could be guilty and try not to hard to defend the kind of garbage that rapes children. Believe it or not, these things do happen and he will get a trial. You should try working in the health field and you would be shocked at what happens to children in the real world. We give people who mistreat animals more jail time than we do child abusers.
This has nothing to do with Phil Kline – he was more interested in reporting teenagers having sex with each other and using teens who had sex as a means to get to Dr. Tiller than a genuine interest in protecting victims of sexual abuse. The brutality of this man’s alleged acts is no platform for canonizing Phil Klown. The public saw through his charade.
if the notion that a man is innocent until proven guilty is real, why then do we lock these men up until trial? children however are innocent as they have not been trained yet how to bullsh!7 their way through our legal system. further more carying the hiv virus does not mean you will transmit it every time you contact a noninfected individual. I would not recomend gambling with that though. I also suspect that a group of educated people reveiwed these charges when they were leveed before formaly charging this creep. should there be some doubt, let me speak with ths guy and I WILL CLEAR THIS UP FREE OF CHARGE.
There is no justice or honest prosecutors or defense attorneys in Wichita. Alice Osburn ran for judge as a GOP candidate in 2004 against Bribeesca and is married to the Chief Public Defender, Steve Osborn ran for the Wichita School Board in 2006. (I guess his state job did not keep him busy) Corruption is never exposed because everyone wants to advance their political career or their spouse’s political careers. The corruption in the Wichita legal system extends from the district court judges to a clique of dishonest family law attorneys, forensic psychologists & case managers, to Nola Foulston’s district attorney’s office, to the public defenders or legal services offices, to the Wichita Bar & Kansas Bar Association officals and unfortunately probably to the prosecutors in the US Attorneys Office. The local FBI law enforcement agents who cover up this corruption should be be fired or transferred out of Kansas. I wonder if former US attorney Eric Melgren helped find Scholtzman the job at Hinkle Elkouri??? I think that Sebelius, Brownback & Tiahrt will have a lot of explaining to do before the next primaries. I hope some opportunistic reform politicians should take advantage fo the scandals to promote their own careers. Joe Liddle is ready to testify before Rep. Jim Morrison’s committee about Christine Ladner.
“The girls’ mother has been convicted of aggravated child endangerment for knowing about the abuse but not reporting it to authorities.” ………. This indicates to me that there would have to be enough merit to the charges to proceed with a trial. It’s kind of unusual that someone charged anncillary to a primary defendant would be tried prior to the primary defendant. (If step-father is found not guilty of the abuse charges, how can mother be guilty of not reporting a crime that didn’t happen? She very likely made a plea agreement to testify against the step-father.) Here’s another one for the books from Wichita. Abuse of a young child is bad enough, but when it is so violent … What must the rest of the country think of Wichita, KS with the Herrman case and this case making news?
The mother should go to jail just as long as the man. A lot of women turn a blind eye to these type of happenings because they are more concerned with their own welfare than the childs. As I was repeatedly abused by my uncle, my aunt just ignored everything and when it all came out, she stayed with him till they died a few years ago. Neither one of them belong on the face of this good earth.
My heart
My heart goes out to this poor little girl!!!
This kind of crap is just happening far too often i our society anymore. What is wrong with these low-life women that allow men to sexually abuse or any other kind of abuse, their children without doing one thing to help them? It’s just another instance of how low women are becoming. And, yes, I’m a woman, but I’m certainly not very proud of my gender when I read about stuff like this happening.
Call this Karma. As a neighbor of Mr. Djuric, he deserves everything he gets. He has a tendency to want to do things “his way” and finds loopholes to get his way. I’m sure he’ll figure out how to get out of this.
Well TigerLily if I would not have broken my neck in service & defense of this country perhaps that would have happened. You see “TigerLily” people do not go to foreign lands in defense of the country to come back and suffer SG county type criminals dressed as court & government officials.
The facts are are these: PILSHAW is OUT & DISGRACED— NO neo nazi mentality is bringing her back
There are always a few who believe that INJUSTICE & CORRUPTION are fine until it affects them. The rationale of a person who would think that criminal acts by court & government officials is okay reflects a belief in wrongful acts.
You live in SG County where this is the status quo. The ENDS DO NOT JUSTIFY THE MEANS,MORE PLAINLY SPOKEN THE COURT & GOVERNMENT CANNOT BECOME CRIMINALS (AS THEY HAVE IN SG COUNTY) TO “WIN”.
The EX who faslely swore under oath also embezzled money for four years from her employer. Criminal acts and evil begin at one point and grow into worsening acts,it was nothing for the criminals I endured to commit unlawful acts…it was their standard operating procedure. Where does tolerated corruption begin and end?
Maybe the next time you have a traffic ticket the cop should beat you senseless to gain a conviction and money for the STATE…you think it can’t happen?
Eleven states in this country held that because of the Klan that it was acceptable for a person of color to resist police authority in wrongful race related actions.
Do you think court and county officials committing felony acts,and suborning violations of federal and state law is fine?
Pilshaw & Ware are out of a job,I wonder if there are lots of jobs for knowing,criminal violation of Federal Statute?
I am sure the Constitution and State Statute have no meaning to you. If you knew the ending of this story you would realize that Pilshaw is THE/A LOSER. My legal ordeal ended years ago,Pilshaw,Ladner & Foulston LOST. My children have all come to know the criminal acts perpetrated by officials in these matters,that was more important than any corrupt judge or DA.
With all their feigned importance they could not beat ONE MAN because they committed criminal acts in their duties. Their hatred of men consumed them to the point they were willing to suborn wrongful acts. THEY ALL TOOK AN OATH TO DEFEND AND SUPPORT THE LAWS OF KANSAS AND THE CONSTITUTION,which they collectively abandoned. It is humorous to note that their mocking wrongful acts were the very fabric which brought about their defeat.
I assure you darkness is not light and evil is not good…unlawful acts by government & court officials are WRONG & UNJUST every time,regardless of any blogger,gender,or other factor.
I am sure someone else will pipe in a comment and perhaps I will respond. If that does not occur it is fitting that since I endured knowingly wrongful & unlawful felony acts laced with malice from these persons that I am the one to turn the lights off on this so called “reign.”
These persons who embraced wrongful & unlawful acts are NOT ABOVE THE LAW. It may appear for a season that no one will ever bring them to justice. They believe we are all weak,and insignificant.
I know there are many people who do not believe in GOD. I tell you truthfully that I awoke in years past to face the full brunt of the “power” of these corrupt officials. I came to know that no one but a GOD could right the satan like conduct of these criminals dressed as government and court officials.
How many families were destroyed because of the fear of these evil doers? An unjust balance will not go without punishment. I without hesitation know and am thankful that GOD brought about victory over these nefarious persons and that NO other person (male & female) will EVER have to suffer glaring injustice from these same persons.
I have commented on Dr. Schneider before but my comments seem to disappear into thin air. In any case, I want to repeat my main points here once again.
To my knowledge, I have never spoken with Dr. S. nor his wife nor his medical staff.
My mother was a resident of the Haysville nursing home for several years. So I often saw Dr. Schneider visiting the nursing home to see his patients there. It was my observation that Dr. S. was always friendly and courteous to the residents whether of not they were his patients. Likewise he treated staff and visitors (such as me) with courtesy and a wave of the hand.
I saw few if any other doctors in the building. Most doctors would not waste time visiting the nursing home. They ordered the staff to take residents to their offices or to a hospital so the doctor would not have to go to the nursing home. Most likely more fees and who knows whether the doctor actually saw the patients.
I recall one patient, a little younger than regular nursing home patients. Probably 40 or so, I think a transfer from the VA hospital which happened from time to time, well llked by other patients and staff. He was a patient of Dr. S. He must have been a veteran of Iraq, confined to a wheelchair for some reason. He confided to me that he had a drug addiction problem. I don’t know what happened to him, I suspect he returned to the VA hospital … or passed away.
My point with the above is that the fellow was out of control and no doctor or anyone else was going to control him to any degree.
Since Dr. Schneider has received media attention, I have noticed the prosecution continues to release inflammatory information but I don’t see any rebuttal by the defense. I presume the defense is “muffled.”
I have made it my business to talk to people and staff in Haysville about Dr. S. I find he as well respected and everyone I talk with feel he was a good person and medical practitioner. I think a jury of his peers, friends and acquaintances in Haysville would give him a strong thumbs up.
I wonder whether the fact he is a DO makes a difference. I know some about the osteopathic training program and think it is up to par with M.D. training. Like any field of education, the quality of the student is as important as the buildings, curriculum, trainers, etc.
Almost everyone I know can tell stories about bad services from the medical health care industry.
So I question whose ox is being gored in this situation.
Get some help there Iowajoe……
yeah this is a joke. He is currently working a case right now of which I will not divulge any confidential information, but he is allowing a sex offender to have shared custody of a baby girl. Tell me that isn’t sick.
I appreciate your concern ruffkat,no worries,I had plenty of help versus the criminals from Sedgwick. I know the vile officials who were thrashed and defeated in this matter read these blogs so I thought a little song was in order on the splendid occasion of celebrating the demise of Pilshaw.
I am providing the musical link from you tube and here are the new lyrics,everyone sing along!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FBFJ6D2i1o
Well, Old Fleetwood was a man and I’m sure that he meant well But I pray for his disciples lest they wind up in hell And I’m sure that old Givan thought he knew the way But it won’t be Foulston’s minions we stand before on The Judgment Day.
No, it won’t be old Pilshaw that’s sitting on the throne and it won’t be old Ladner that’s calling us Home And it won’t be Foulston’s minions that plays that trumpet tune And we’re going to see The Son, not Sedgwick doom!
Well, I don’t hate anybody so please don’t take me wrong But there really is a message in this simple song You see there’s only one way Jesus if eternal life is your goal Meditation of Ballinger it won’t save your soul.
No, it won’t be old Pilshaw that’s sitting on the throne And it won’t be old Ladner that’s calling us Home And it won’t be Foulston’s minions that plays that trumpet tune And we’re going to see The Son, not mormon doom!
Well, you can call yourself a jurist and not be born again A falsifier and a liar and still die in your sin You can even be a sadistic, shout and dance and jail a few But if you hate your brother you wont be one of The Chosen Few.
Cause it won’t be Kansan jurists that’s sitting on The Throne A Presbyterian or crooked lawyer that’s calling us Home And it won’t be these sadistics that plays that trumpet tune So let’s all just live for Jesus because He’s coming back real soon.
No, it won’t be old Pilshaw that’s sitting on the throne And it won’t be old Ladner that’s calling us Home And it won’t be Foulston’s minions that plays that trumpet tune And we’re going to see The Son, not SRS doom! And we’re going to see The Son, not SRS doom, not SRS doom!
Trying to get message to Ron Sylvester. Did story on August 8th with title Judge postpones jailhouse marriage in domestic violence case. If you go to poncacitynews.com today on front page is the ending to this story. BTW it is Jennfer Gregg not Gragg.
I’m sick of anti-death penalty crybabies whining. Justin Thurber is a piece of excrement who deserves exactly what he’s getting. He showed Jodi Sanderholm no mercy as he brutally raped, beat and strangled her, making her suffer. Thurber is a walking piece of filth who is getting off far easier than he let off Ms. Sanderholm. I hope someone at El Dorado treats him the same way he treated Jodi.
It’s about time someone get the death penalty. I was sick to my stomach when Kelsey Smith’s cold-blooded killer got life. I still am sick over that one.
Here in Kansas, the method of execution might still be by hanging. There are stories in the old West, where problems occured with hangings … toes touching the ground, broken ropes, etc. Gas chambers might leak … killing the observors by mistake. Lethal injections might miss the artery/vein. Firing squad members all firing over and around the head of the prisoner.
I’m convinced that death by guillotine is probably the best method. Its sure to work, quickly, with few problems possible. Saves on electricity, chemicals, poison gas and bullets. Advertising possible on the guillotine structure. Patents to Dr. Guillotine have probably expired by now.
Sue Norton absolutely makes me want to vomit. She apparently does not have children because if she did she would surely understand the death penalty being justified in this case in particular. I personally think MONKEYBOY (Thurber) should die in the same manner that beautiful young lady died. If he were put to death tommorrow it would not be soon enough, and certainly would not be a loss to society. Jodi was obviously the loss as I watch from a distance. MONKEYBOY could have worked all his life and not made the contributions to the community or society that Ms. Sanderholm had to offer. As for the Christians in Cowley County I would bet there are some Christian Country Boys in Cowley County that would love to help MONKEYBOY die in the same fashion Jodi died. I hope he enjoys his time in prison while he appeals, that should be fun too!! I can see how he could have handled Jodi, but he doesn’t look like much of a match for a grown man.
Fry that Neanderthal lookin’ sob.
It it not up to Ms. Norton to decide whether executing Thurber will give the Sanderholm’s peace. Jodi was not her daughter and Norton needs to keep her pignose out of their business. Thurber should be put down just like a dog. I’m sick of Kansas being so pacifist and all of the anti-death penalty liberal whining. If this would have happened in OK or Texas, Thurber would have been dead already and nobody would have thought twice.
I don’t think the name-calling is an appropriate use of this forum. This is why comments aren’t allowed on our crime stories, but we’d like to keep a civil discourse open here.
This kind of language hurts your credibility. You claim to have sensitivity for the Sanderholms. Yet you attack Sue Norton, who also suffered a great loss in a brutal murder (read the link to the story of her crime) simply because she holds a different political view.
We like to offer opposing views, which is why comments are always welcome. But let’s leave personal insults of it, please.
I should also clarify one point: if this happened in Texas or Oklahoma Thurber would not be “dead already.” As Norton pointed out, it took 13 years in Oklahoma to put her father’s killer to death.
What I’ve learned in a decade of covering these kinds of terrible crimes is that the emotional toll transcends politics and pain is bi-partisan.
Ron, What about complaints to the police about Thurber before the incident. Could they have one more?
I wasn’t in the courtroom, but the details we had of the Carr brothers murders when I was an intern made me not want to be a re porter anymore. I hope that you (and everyone else involved) can find some peace.
It will be interesting, now that better laws are on the books, to see if small communities will start enforcing PFA’s and PFS’s. I’m aware of several situations where law enforcement just flatly refused to do it.
I agree with you, in regards to the emotions. I was not in the courtroom, and I have admiration for those of you that were. Our justice system needs plenty of witnesses. I, like you, shed a lot of tears after the “Death” sentence. And, if anyone deserves it, Thurber certainly does. However, his family were drug into this, and I feel bad for them also. No matter what their son did, they still love him.They can remember when he was a baby, toddler, teenager, to adult. There had to be plenty of good times. I hope the System studies his brain or lack thereof, etc. before he is actually put to death. My heart breaks for his family/friends as well as for the Sanderholms. What a loss to them and to the community. I believe there will never be a satisfactory reason for any of this.
Thank you.
LEJ
the 52 years in prison, will send a message to all would be robbers, that Kansas will not put up with useing a Gun in a Crime, and save other Victims for 52 years, the 12 years they will be Gang members if not now, and harden criminals, possable killers, the next time they need a few bucks, and wont work for it, they wont be just out having fun the next time.
are these dudes even US Citizens?
These are not men, they are scum. Please refer to them as such.
I’m shocked how progressive Judge Marten is for allowing twitter. Seems like it took over a decade for them to allow fax filings. Causes me to ask if courts are allowing email filings now.
Filings are done electronically in 99 percent of U.S. federal court (that’s one area where Kansas state courts are playing catch-up).
Read more: http://www.uscourts.gov/cmecf/cmecf_about.html
So if this guy HAD been an officer, would she be in trouble for resisting him? Had she refused to go back into her home with him, what would an officer have charged her with, or done to correct her?
redbud– if he’d been a real cop he’d have shot her, maybe the kid too. And then there would have been a major a88kissing cover-up investigation absolving everyone and everything except the dead. Sorry, but after watching those kinds of things for 50 years I’ve gotten pretty cynical.
I think what she did was very brave despite how it could’ve turned out! The fact that she had the courage to fight him off to save her life & protect her child speaks volumes! Also, to take a stand in court & face him again says a lot. What he did was inexcusable & I’m glad the judge showed no leniency for this piece of trash! I hope she can close this chapter of her life & move on to greater things & hopefully her child won’t be scarred by this anymore than she already has been. No child should have to witness such a thing…
Fleetwood is not governed by Federal or State law. He takes his marching orders from out west. This guy has real issues. He is dangerous and out of touch with the law and life.
Count yourself lucky Fleetwood,your crooked decisions will be reviewed by a much higher court and falsely sworn oaths and suborning perjury will not prevail on that day!
Check out my CARTOON about this story at: http://www.pcdisorder.com/2009/03/trial-by-twitter.html
“A $12.5 verdict is being challenged…” as in twelve dollars and fifty cents?
No, as in six zeros. Dropped the key word “million.” Fixed it. Good crowd-sourced copy editing.
Thanks, Skippy
It looks like we need to use her definition of “work” Rubber stamping the primary docs abortion. Now she says she doesn’t work. She got caught with her misleading testimony. No wonder we ned to get parental consent for abortions. she is one to keep daughters away from.
Ron, congratulations on your recognition in The Guardian newspaper over here in Britain. Enjoy following your trial work, always interesting to see how our systems compare.
In relation to this line of questioning, while of course the short clip doesn’t give us the context of questions and answers up to this point, any confusion appears to be squarely at the feet of the prosecutor.
This lady is quite right to say that the original question was specific, “have you had any similar experience where you could not see your patients except through someone at the hospital” – when she answers actually yes there was, when I worked for Dr – the prosecutor then suggests that she has said her work for that Dr was similar to her work for Dr Tiller. She didn’t say that and the confusion is caused not by her answers but by the prosecutor.
In his defence I would not like to have my every question filmed and scrutinised – but I also know that my questions are being scrutinised by judges who would have involved themselves at this point and made it perfectly clear to the jury who was at fault for any confusion.
Keep up the good work
Interested Counsel
Thanks for your interest from Britain. You have some good powers of observation. From what I heard later, the doctor was not happy with the way the questions were being asked.
I’m sorry, but I just do not relate to this Twitter stuff. It appears to be little more than a list of spur of the moment disjointed stream of consciousness. It can never take the place of a well reasoned and comprehensive news article. Or maybe that is just the point, it does not have to be reasoned or comprehensive. But, wait a minute, maybe that is also the point and why it is a waste of time.
The reaction we’ve gotten is very positive. People feel they’re getting more detail from my Twitter reports throughout the day, making it more comprehensive than what they might find in print. I am able to report much more through Twitter than I can manage to get in one newspaper article.
That said, I am glad I have the opportunity to pull all the information together for a “well-reasoned” story at the end of the day. But I can tell when I post to Twitter I think about the information I need to provide and what would best serve those following me. Because it’s a social networking tool, I can also answer questions people may have and interact with them in a way I never could before. In those cases, I believe the tweets are “well-reasoned.” I don’t sacrifice my professional standards just because I’m using a different medium.
I’ve also had people tell me that they don’t regularly read the newspaper, or even visit our web site, but they get the information I provide on Twitter. I look at this as just another avenue to deliver news.
I hope this helps.
I also hope we’ll hear from those people who find Twitter useful, who will explain what they get out of it.
Twitter is useful only if one follows the tweets throughout an event, such as a trial. If one tried to pick up a tweet or two and expect to get the whole story, they would be missing out on a lot of information much like catching a radio news story midway. I see twitter (as it has been used in recent trails) as a written version of a radio or television news story. In addition, the news public is accustomed to learning the story after the fact, twitter does it as it is happening. Sorta like a live news conference that we see on televison.
Personally, I use twitter for the awesome, awesome links that users post (primarily photography related. Plus I have learned about some great new places to hang out in Wichita.
Hi Ron,
note: I made this user name a long time ago; considering changing LOL;
You know me as @corporategreed on twitter. I agree but doubt our locals will spend any money or resources proactively. Another serious worry of mine as a local family man is the robbery spike…
that the carr brothers(animals) are still alive is proof positive that Kansas system of justice is a FAILURE…my sympathies for the victims families….they will be unmercifully dogged by this crap for ????? years
I don’t understand how your knee effects your fingers but I do feel it’s important to know about the justice system. It speaks to how we should treat each other and the impacts for even accidental actions.
I am personally offering $100 to the commissary account of every inmate at the El Dorado Correctional Facility on the day either of the Carr brothers dies, regardless of their cause of death.
I realize that inmates are traumatized when a fellow inmate dies. So I’m offering money so they can buy potato chips and twinkies to make themselves feel better.
Regardless of their cause of death. $100. Every inmate’s commissary account.
Why haven’t they been prosecuted under federal law? I’m no fan of federal intervention in most things, but since this was a kidnapping/murder that involved a firearm and stolen ATM cards, it seems the feds could prosecute as well. Since they actually execute people (unlike Kansas), it seems a better course to take…?
Maybe we should always ask to see the search warrant before we open the window or allow anyone to force us into a situation.
Ron, I thought of you and what you have to endure to report these court stories for us, when I stumbled across an ad-laden blog titled “Parents Behaving Badly” with the tagline “Parenting so bad, it’s criminal”. The blogger gets so many tips that she created another blog, “Bad Breeders”, for links to news stories she doesn’t have time to blog about.
I landed on the site because I’d heard that a woman had recently been sentenced for murder; she had microwaved her baby. I thought that must be an urban myth. No way would anyone do such a thing. Sure enough, that blog confirmed it had happened.
I flipped through a few posts, enough to see that it’s an active blog with plenty of comments from regular readers. I clicked away. I get enough of these stories right here in Wichita. I don’t really want to hear about how these terrible crimes occur in communities across the country.
Ron, I am grateful that our community has professional journalists who write about these terrible crimes with respect for the victims and without adding speculation, sarcasm, or personal views of a crass nature.
I don’t know a lot about journalism, but I know that the way you write a story makes a difference to me because of what’s left inside after I finish reading. Rather than simply disgust for the crime & despair for humanity, my feelings are more complex. While sad, I’m also left believing somehow I can make a difference, and I have hope that good will triumph over evil.
This is my wordy way of saying thanks, Ron. And if my gratitude helps you sleep better… bonus!
Additionally horrifying is that it was almost not known that this child was doused with lighter fluid.
Knowing people appreciate the information makes it worthwhile.
JUSTICE!
She meant she didn’t mean to get caught and go to prison.
Theres another mouth to feed
Raining now. Here’s hoping for some thunder!
If she got a life sentence, why even bother with parole?
It could be the rest of the convict’s life if parole is never granted. However, should the convict live long enough to complete the minimum number of years and go in front of a parole board, then they can decide she has served her time and have her released. Misty Tague won’t go before a parole board for at least 27 years.
Nichols is a Fool!!
Amazing how fast No-File Nola moves when it happens to one of her own.
Arrested in April and already being sentenced? That almost never happens.
Yeah, they never found who stole my identity and opened several long term accounts. lol Seems like a cell phone account would have several ways to follow up leads.
can’t fix stupid!
To Ron Sylvester, the judge’s name is Eric Commer. Have a nice evening.
Too bad I wasn’t treated with same proiority as the DA’s own
April Fool, Mr. Nichols. LOL
mopar — I would think that the fact that he pled guilty probably made things move a little faster.
Once again, it’s who you know for the law to work. Government doesn’t help the people, only themselves. I’ve been robbed, knew where the stuff was, including a new $1200 computer and the police wouldn’t do anything. I knew the location, my serial #’s, had the receipt… Oops that was only the crooked cop that helped steal it, not the DA’s office.
Be careful who you steal from. If my identy were stolen I would still be sorting things out a year from now. The government takes good care of themselves.
Sometimes justice happens. I’m glad they caught these two.
It would be enlightening to learn how this happened. My presumption is that a lawyer has advantages in protecting against loss. What can we all learn from this? What will Sally do differently now?
Ron… I love this idea! I think having this kind of approach is a great use of the online resources and it will, hopefully, go even further toward helping us normal folks understand what’s going on. I have enjoyed your blog for a while now and am very excited to see what you’re got coming next!
One I think could be interesting is addressing how mental and emotional health is addressed for those working at the courthouses. Attorneys, judges, stenographers, ect….. Such as are therapists made available as part of the government budget? Employees on their own with weak coverage on their health plans? What are the divorce rates? Especially compared to law enforcement jobs not centered in the courtroom.
These are excellent videos. Please produce more. Much more. These first ones seem “soft”. I’ll be interested in the harder impacts future videos may show.
It is very comforting to see this video of a public defender. However I resist the temptation to feel that others care when you encounter our justice system. Lives are destroyed easily.
Another excellent insight into the Judicial system. I think it is good for the public to see behind the scenes of the dangers, the drama that never gets exposed. Now Ron, give us some of them goofy moments in Court
These clips are great. Makes me wish they were longer.
Agreed! Great job!
Take a month. These clips are great and word is just beginning to spread. This is a hot new way for a newspaper to get out valuable information many of us have not gotten before.
I do not have facebook….so how can I read the page?
If you click the link above, you should be able to read the page. It’s public.
If you want to post comments or participate in discussions you do have to have a Facebook account. Signing up is easy.
Here are step-by-step instructions, if you’re interested: http://www.ehow.com/how2031192sign-up-facebook.html
Thank you Ron for all the work on this and also a thank you to Mark Bennett and his team for shining light into the darkest corners.
Secondly, in any other discussion, you guys talk about government healthcare as being a nightmare. ,
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