Though most will say this is not a big deal. I film police doing ‘little’ things wrong because it exposes the double standard police have. If it’s no big deal to be parking in illegal spots then why do they write so many tickets for them? Why are they allowed such privileges?
Better yet, where does this exemption stop? Is it just for parking while on duty? Or can this officer cruise by the store to do some shopping as well? Are officers exempt from the drug, gun and alcohol laws? Don’t get me wrong I wish all these things would disappear. I ask officers to be ticketed or treated like they treat others because I feel that’s the only way for them to realize the cause of their actions.
Was the officer standing or parked?
Why are you policing the comments?
You are a real Douche Bag. What are you doing “Saving us from the Man, Man?”
This site is a Joke!
I’m here reading this because I’m a photographer and interested in police abuse. I can, however, make a case for the need for police to be near their vehicles and to be allowed to double park when on police business. I can see their need to not park a block away from their car when, for instance, they want to pop in a grab a donut (seriously). I can’t see it for them going in to a dept store for 20 min of personal shopping. I think it’s a very hard thing to draw a line here. I agree with their need to follow the law but would not object to a law that allowed them to double park for 5 min. here and there…They almost live in their car and knowing how time consuming it can be to find a legal parking space I can see their need to park illegally at times. Perhaps my solution would be to rewrite some laws but even that would be challenge. Your video crusade is a good thing and it’s worth bringing this to light because it’s also symptomatic of a larger “cops can do as they please” problem where even worse liberties are taken by police. Thanks for your willingness to expose yourself to potential harassment.
What a joke. Who is he protecting?
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“You must have some kind of issue”, “You’re being silly” … ah, so standard.
The blogger is calling up the officers deptment and making allegations he parked there. Was the cop in the car or was the vehicle parked? Is the officer in his car?
Is there a traffic issue with this intersection? Are people running lights? Speeding?
I have no problem with holding officers accountable when they abuse their authority. In this case though, it appears that the officer is positioning himself at this location for either some type of traffic enforcement or to be in a highly visible location as a deterrent. Either of these reasons would be a legal and acceptable justification (in most jurisdictions) for a police officer to park in a ‘No parking’ zone.
It’s not a ticketable offense. He’s not parked. He’s standing, Adam. I appreciate what you’re trying to do, and I agree that police often form their own double standard, but throwing stuff up like this and wasting that much time for something that’s not even a violation of law is a little ridiculous. Postings like this are one reason why movements like yours don’t gain greater support. And I know what you’ll say, “If that were an ordinary citizen, the cop would come over and demand that he or she move.” Maybe, maybe not. He wouldn’t have a basis to make you move, and if he did that would be worth fighting. I guess its just a case of picking your battles.
lol what a joke. The cop is standing, not parking. When you stay with the vehicle it’s called standing. And MAYBE it’s a no parking zone so emergency vehicles can park or stand there. This is no different than those U-turns spots in the medians of highways that say Authorized or Emergency Vehicles only.
Every here in the comments section seems to enjoy ridiculing Adam for mistaking “standing” for “parking.” Funny how no one besides Adam has the guts to point out that cops like the ones in this video are being funded with stolen money. Or how the cop on the phone clearly stated several times how officers are above the law.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Chief William Hart of the Londonderry Police Department Under Investigation by Attorney General’s Office Criminal Investigation Bureau
Londonderry, NH—William Ryan Hart, the Chief of Police for the Town of Londonderry, NH along with four of his officers and one detective (Glenn L. Aprille, Jason M. Archambault, Kelly W. Kulig, James J. Freda and Detective Donald A. LaDuke) are under investigation by the NH Attorney General’s Criminal Investigation Unit for civil and constitutional rights violations.
The ACLU is also investigating this case. We are watching it closely to make certain no additional abuse occurs and that the NH Attorney General investigates this case fully.
This is not the first time Chief Hart has been investigated, back when he was a county attorney Hart seemed to skirt the law with his actions and abuse of power:
Judge Muirhead expressed his opinion that the plaintiff has an excellent case and that it seems quite clear that both the Londonderry Police Department and Rockingham County Attorney William Hart-whom the judge claimed to know as the source of numerous problems and errors-had acted inappropriately in their dealings with Mr. Coltin. Frankly, I have never observed Judge Muirhead to be quite so free with his criticisms and opinions as he was during this particular conference. Obviously, in light of the magistrate judge’s strong feelings in favor of the plaintiff in this case, we did not agree to have this case assigned to Judge Muirhead as we had previously
discussed.
We are watching this case and Chief Hart to make certain justice prevails.
When I read a great article I do some things:1.Show it to the close contacts.2.keep it in all of the popular social sharing sites.3.Be sure to return to the same site where I came accross the article.After reading this post I am seriously thinking of doing all of them…
Tami Plyler Executive Editor of the Union Leader In Criminal Misdemeanor Violation of NH State Law being investigated by NH Attorney General’s Office
Friday October 8, 2010
By: Cara Stevens
Manchester, NH— Tami Plyler the new Executive Editor of the financially strapped Union Leader is already in trouble with the law after less than two months in her new job for a violation of NH State Law RSA 651.V.XII, which is a criminal misdemeanor.
Edward C. Domaingue, the licentious former Executive Editor who was forced out by the Union Leader last month ran a series of stories in 2009 and again in 2010 that were written by Trent Spiner, a junior level journalist who has since also fled the beleaguered tabloid.
The issue is that an innocent man was charged with crimes by the Londonderry Police Department brought by Jennifer Keller of Nashua, NH who was refused a rental apartment by the man because Keller had a criminal record, was a drug addict and worked as a stripper. The woman filed assault and criminal threatening charges against the man and the Londonderry NH Police Department failed to investigate the evidence in that case; evidence that would have exonerated the man early on and in many respects attempted to railroad the innocent man. The charges against the man were dropped when Keller fled NH when pressed to testify. Keller had attempted to file similar charges against three other men in the past five years, the Londonderry NH Police Department knew this, yet failed to investigate that evidence.
Chief William Hart and four of his officers and one detective are currently being investigated by the NH Attorney General’s Office Criminal Investigation Bureau regarding numerous violations surrounding this case. The officers and one detective include (Officer Glenn L. Aprile, Officer Jason M. Archambault, Officer Kelly W. Kulig, Officer James J. Freda and Detective Donald A. LaDuke). Chief Hart could not be reached regarding a comment. The criminal allegations against Chief William Hart and his officer’s range from abuse of power; violations of the Fourth Amendment, false arrest and detention and excessive use of physical force. All the charges against the innocent man have since been expunged by the Rockingham Superior Court; in essence the incident did not occur.
The NH law RSA 651.V.XII makes it illegal to report information on an individual who has had charges brought against them but where the charges were either dropped or a non-guilty verdict was reached and where the arrest and charges were later annulled and expunged.
RSA 651.V.XII, reads as follows: A person is guilty of a misdemeanor if, during the life of another who has had a record of arrest or conviction annulled pursuant to this section, he discloses or communicates the existence of such record. The piece from Jo-Ann MacKenzie published as Editor of the Derry News and continues to be found online falls into this violation of NH State Law.
“Basically Tami Plyler is in violation of this NH State law, as the articles are not correct and the information contained in the piece are downright lies written by Trent Spiner and approved by Ed Domainque and continue to be allowed to be run online by Tami Plyler,” said Jane Dunn, a journalist for the Fifth Estate. “I have read over the Union Leader’s articles and the facts of the case and the articles are sensationalistic, the facts distorted and no real balanced substance regarding the facts exists in the articles, basically something a cash strapped tabloid would write to sell papers,” said Dunn.
Tami Plyler was notified of the violations of NH State law but refused to remove the articles. The Union Leader’s attorney Gregory V. Sullivan of Malloy & Sullivan, Lawyers, 78 West Merrimack Street Manchester, NH 03101, provided the following written response to the violation of RSA 651.V.XII:
“I represent the Union Leader Corporation and its employees and agents. I do not agree with your opinion regarding the duties of media following the annullment (spelled as written by Sullivan) of arrest or court records, said Sullivan. “ I will be pleased to discuss this matter with you, or your representatives, at any time, “ said Greg Sullivan.
However when contacted Mr. Sullivan refused to respond or to comment on the articles and the violation of the RSA. “Mr. Sullivan seems to think he can overwrite the law on the books in NH without any regard to due process,” said Casey Clark, a close family friend of the man.
“Tami Plyler and Ed Domaingue have purposely destroyed this man’s life by reporting information about the unidentified man that he was falsely accused of back in 2009, the man was cleared of all charges and received an annulment by a NH Superior Court,” said Clark. “Tami Plyler should be held accountable for her actions in destroying this man’s life. He has lost everything because of this case and continues to be persecuted by the Union Leader. He lost his job, his house, could not find a job and the worst thing out of everything is the depression that followed where the man attempted suicide, it’s disgusting what this woman and her so called news organization have done, I hope she is convicted of the misdemeanor,” said Clark.
Clark also stated that she believed that Tami Plyler did not run articles about bad cops being charged with crimes.
“There was a case where Londonderry Police Officer Jason Archambault was arrested in Manchester in January of this year and charged with assault against his girlfriend. This is a charge that the public has a right to know about, yet even though it was reported directly to Tami Plyler, she never ran the piece. It is obvious that she will not run stories, the truth about the police, because she is in bed with the police, that is clear,” said Clark.
http://ny-free-press.blogspot.com/2010/10/tami-plyler-executive-editor-of-union.html
Al Getler, Tami Plyler and Jo-Ann MacKenzie are guilty of violating RSA 651.5.XII, the Attorney General’s Office s investigating these violations as well as the misconduct of the Londonderry Police Department and the officers who engaged in dereliction of duty. The truth is the truth—As the Rockingham Superior Court has already proven against Officer Glenn Aprile.
You have proof that this man was anything else—prove it. Otherwise stop hiding like a coward; if you have something containing the truth then state who you are. Or crawl back into your hole Al Getler.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Falsely Charged by the Londonderry NH Police Department Cleared of All Charges—NH Attorney General is Looking into Londonderry Police Misconduct
By Jane Dunn & Cara Stevens—NY Free Press
Sunday October 3, 2010
Londonderry, NH—, a Londonderry man who was falsely accused of simple assault and criminal threatening by the Londonderry, NH Police Department in 2009 has been cleared of all charges and the associated arrest record has been expunged by Rockingham Superior Court.
The Londonderry NH Police Department and Chief William “Bill” Hart are now the subject of a criminal investigation by the NH Attorney General’s Office. The investigation involves multiple allegations of police misconduct involving Tufano’s case. Some of the allegations include: excessive use of force, false arrest and imprisonment, abuse of power, violations pertaining to perjury under oath involving Officer Glenn Aprile, intimidation, violations of RSA 651.V.XII, violations of the Fourth Amendment and numerous procedural issues with information Officer Glenn Aprile placed on a search warrant request that is now in question.
The officers under investigation include: Chief William Hart, Officer Glenn Aprile, Officer Kelly Kulig, Officer Jason Archambault, Officer James J. Freda and Detective Donald LaDuke.
In one instance of gross misconduct and a blatant violation of Tufano’s Fourth Amendment rights, the Londonderry Police (Chief Hart) dispatched a Londonderry Police Officer to Tufano’s home posing as a town assessor. This illegal search occurred one week after the second of two searches that were carried out by the Londonderry Police. In the second search, the Londonderry Police led by Officer Glenn Aprile (using a SWAT team) stormed Tufano’s home with automatic weapons, traumatizing Tufano’s fiancee and step daughter. No illegal contraband was found in either search.
“The Londonderry Police is a joke under Chief Hart, a scary joke,” said Casey Clark, a close friend of the Tufano family. “The Londonderry Police think they can get away with NAZI like tactics against innocent people with no recourse, well they are wrong. People are fed up with this type of behavior by the very people who are sworn to protect us,” said Casey.
In another example of the Londonderry Police Department’s apparent lack of judicial procedure is the unauthorized search of Tufano’s home by a Londonderry Police Officer posing as a town assessor. Tufano had a scheduled appointment with the Town of Londonderry Assessor’s Office run by Karen Marchant for an abatement that he had filed. Steve Hannen, one of the town staff assessors showed up on that day in May of 2009 along with a man who Steve Hannen identified as a Londonderry assessor in training. The man, it was determined (through the Londonderry Police Department’s own internal report) was in fact, a Londonderry undercover Police Officer named James J. Freda. There was no search warrant issued by a judge to authorize a police official being in Tufano’s home that day.
“The officer never identified himself to Tufano as a police officer, but rather was wearing a fake ID that stated he worked for the Londonderry assessor’s office,” said Clark. “Additionally, no search warrant was granted or issued to the Londonderry Police by a judge for the search and no exigent circumstances existed for this police officer to be in this man’s home without his permission. Again, this was a NAZI type search, illegal, with a total disregard for the laws of the United States and NH,” Clark said.
The incident that perpetuated the Londonderry Police Department’s involvement with Tufano began with Jennifer Keller, a woman from Nashua, NH who attempted to rent an apartment from Tufano. Keller was refused a rental of a two bedroom apartment by Tufano after a background check reveled that Keller had two criminal convictions, one for assault and another for shoplifting. Keller’s own MySpace page proclaimed her to be an admitted drug abuser who worked as a stripper. After Tufano refused to rent Keller the apartment she propositioned him providing sexually revealing pictures of herself. Tufano refused the offer but kept the pictures as evidence, which he turned over to the prosecutor’s office after Keller filed assault and criminal threatening charges against him.
“In the last three years Jennifer Keller attempted to file similar charges against three other men. The Londonderry Police and more specifically Officer Aprile knew about at least one of these cases, but never even bothered to make a phone call to investigate Keller’s apparent history of filing false charges against men,” said Clark. “Philip’s private investigator uncovered this information about Keller through Officer Glenn Aprile’s own police report where Aprile questioned Keller about her past and was confused about certain allegations she was making. Tufano’s private investigator spoke with Michael Mcaelwain of the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department in Indiana who was the lead investigator in the case Keller filed there by Keller,” Clark explained.
The lead investigator stated that Keller had lied numerous times and that she was not willing to take a stress test to prove that she was telling the truth. The authorities in Indiana did not believe Keller based on her numerous lies and inconsistencies, this was almost identical to what she was trying to do in Londonderry.
Mr. Mcaelwain said that “we thought it was bogus, she lied on numerous occasions and would not submit to stress test to see if she was truthful in her allegations,” said Michael Mcaelwain in a written statement to Tufano’s investigator. The case was sent to the prosecutor but was denied for prosecution in Indiana. Perhaps if the Londonderry Police had done a more thorough job of investigating the case in Londonderry, that case would also have been denied for prosecution.
“The Londonderry Police and Chief Hart were trying to railroad Tufano for some reason. Hart held a press conference the day after the second search of Tufano’s home detailing the investigation and accusing Tufano, never once using the word ‘allegdged’ in his wording. This coming from a former prosecutor,” said Clark. “It’s funny how one week later he was awarded the position from acting chief, to chief of police. This is something that I find very disturbing and I can bet that Chief Hart now regrets that press conference.This alone made the Londonderry Police and Chief Hart look pretty damn stupid. Hart I believe was looking to railroad Tufano for his own political agenda, this is pretty clear,” Clark asserts.
What is clear and indeed disturbing is that there were many questionable acts perpetrated against Tufano at the hands of the Londonderry Police and Chief William Hart that are hard to justify. Officer Glenn Aprile and Kulig testified at the resisting arrest trial against Tufano, both officers claiming to be at the same exact spot when arresting Tufano at his home, yet both with much different stories. The jury returned a unanimous verdict of not guilty within twenty minutes of deliberation. Presiding Judge Kenneth McHugh also had his doubts, dismissing all the charges against Tufano involving Keller.
“The Rockingham Prosecutor Lisa Cerulli insisted on trying Tufano for the bogus charge for resisting arrest, levied against him by Officer Aprile, and the jury saw through this false charge as well,” said Clark. “This officer Aprile is a real contribution to the law enforcement community, stating to Tufano on the night of his arrest that the reason he was being charged with resisting arrest was so that his bail would be high enough so that he would have to spend the night in jail,” Clark said.
It appears that Judge Kenneth McHugh who presided over Tufano’s trial also had deep reservations about the charges against Tufano after viewing the evidence.
“The ‘alleged’ victim did not appear. Accordingly, the court is compelled to dismiss them (charges) for lack of prosecution, said Judge McHugh in a written statement to the clerk of the Rockingham Superior Court. “The procedural history of these cases is important, as the alleged crimes took place on April 21, 2009 and almost immediately after reporting them to the police the victim became non cooperative. She (Keller) failed to appear at a District Court hearing in 2009 and she moved to the mid-west in 2010. The state located her and she was sent a airplane ticket to NH. However, she refused to board the airplane. Thus, the state cannot go forward and the defendant is here, with counsel ready for trial, said the honorable Judge Kenneth McHugh after dismissing the charges.
Keller fled to Indiana in 2010 after being pressed to testify against Tufano. She found work there at JT’s a strip club in Indiana. Tufano’s private investigator tracked Keller to Indiana and Tufano’s attorney Adam Bernstein passed on the information on Keller’s location to the prosecutor’s office, that’s how they apparently located Keller.
“Right, someone who committed a crime against another person is going to spend $10,000 to locate the supposed victim to have her at trial, that is exactly what Tufano did,” said Clark. “He wanted her at trial, he wanted to prove that she was a liar and that he was innocent, she fled because she knew that the evidence against her would be overwhelming at a trial, Clark said. “I mean he (Tufano) even had a witness, a Comcast tech who was at his home the day Keller said that Tufano committed crimes against her. The tech was at the court house the day of the trial to testify on Tufano’s behalf, Clark said. “The Londonderry Police Department violated Tufano’s civil and constitutional rights. How can the public place their trust in people who would commit criminal acts while carrying a badge? Where is David Caron, the Londonderry Town Manager in all of
I believe that this guy tufano was highly screwed over by the Londonderry police. He has a good reason to have a beef with them…But it seems many journalists are involved in spreading his story, as I have heard about it here in FL.
Also, sounds like that chief Hart or that officer April may have written that post om here about this guy. Are they not in enough trouble already? Damn, some people never learn.
Nice story, very compeling. Hope they get kicked off the force.
Disgusting, the Londonderry Police falsely arrest this guy, the two officers beat him up in front of his wife and kid, throw him in jail, charge him with awful crimes…Then, storm his house with a SWAT team, then the police can’t even get their lies straight at trial, are now being investigated by the attorney general and the response from that idiot who wrote several posts ago that “they were just doing their jobs?” This must be one of the idiot officers who did this to this guy, no one else would be that stupid. Except of course the press.
When we track you down through IP information and file charges against you for violation of RSA 651 V.XII and after that you you get hit with a civil suit and your house is taken away from you in court, let’s see how smug you’ll be.
Interesting, we have the IP Address as: 24.62.223.22 NEW HAMPSHIRE, BEDFORD COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS INC.
We will have a subpoena to Comcast by the end of this week to get the name of the individuals computer assigned to this IP and then we will take legal (both criminal and civil) action against them. We already know who the individual is, we just need confirmation from Comcast to pursue this through legal channels,
Thanks for providing this opportunity, you are even more stupid than we initially believed.
What are these threats from “Investigator” about? Why is this strange back and forth playing out in the comments here? Where are the URL’s for these huge copy-pastes articles? Does anyone have any idea what’s going on here?
i left new hampshire years ago but am not surprised by tales of small-town police departments in new hampshire taking liberties with the rights secured by the US and New Hampshire Constitutions. I defended allegations like this regularly as a public defender in NH and fully believed that some police officers, including senior officers and prosecutors for the local police departments, were willing to violate constitutional rights to obtain a conviction. Not all police officers violate individual rights, of course – many police officers tried to do the right thing, in my experience. I’m particularly chagrined to read such negative comments about Bill Hart, the former Rockingham County Attorney. While I never thought much of Bill as a prosecutor, I didn’t have any reason to doubt his ethics. these articles about him aren’t flattering. who knows what the truth really is. law enforcement officers who violate constitutional rights deserve to be punished.
http://behindthebluewall.blogspot.com/2010/12/nh-londonderry-police-officer-jason.html
Having worked at the same company, I can confirm that Mr. Tufano is a dangerous man. First he gets in a road rage and threatens the man, soon before the scheduled trial the man is killer, now we can say coincidence, but then he gets into an altercation with the girl he allegedly raped and soon after she moves far from him after he threatened her while at the same time he was renting to a couple that moved out when the incident with the young girl happened, how much trouble can an innocent person get in, or maybe he is not in fact innocent. I am not the first to defend the police but I sincerely doubt Mr. Tufano’s innosence. Who goes around threatening the media as well, I mean who in their right mind threatens everybody, I know the mafia and gangs do, so what is he?
Please get all the facts before we judge both Mr. Tufano or the police so we can get the nonbiased truth. I hope for the victim’s sake she stays anonymous or else she will wound up dead like the guy from the road rage incident. Sad.
Post #13 cites a statement made by a federal judge about Londonderry Police Chief Bill Hart in a case I filed. I continue to seek justice and bring you up to date with the following article posted in Blue Hampshire: Will the truth come out about Ayotte? http://www.bluehampshire.com/diary/13035/will-the-truth-come-out-about-ayotte
Will the truth come out about Ayotte?
by: davecoltin
Thu Jun 30, 2011 at 06:55:32 AM EDT
In May 2007, Federal Judge Joseph Laplante ordered the US attorney to conduct an investigation of Kelly Ayotte for obstruction of justice for refusing to release witness statements in a longstanding federal lawsuit that would have implicated numerous state prosecutors and judges in a cover-up.
The US attorney closed the investigation in June 2009 but was not able to provide the witness statements in question.
The Executive Council questioned Kelly about the federal investigation during her March 2009 nomination heaings. Kelly responded in a long, evasive email circumventing the fact that state prosecutors fabricated witness statements and destroyed videotape evidence.
The Attorney Discipline Office found for Kelly in a ruling on June 22, 2011 that there was no misconduct. The Office, however, refused to ask Kelly to provide the witness statements she addressed in her response to the council in 2009.
More importantly, Kelly was given two opportunities to turn in the documents but she refused to do so. The buck did stop at Kelly’s desk on this one and questions must be asked as to why she would not make the minimal effort and submit the documents in order to show that there was no cover-up.
Has she already forgotten the FRM scandal and the numerous investigations that told us these matters would not happen again?
On June 22, 2011 nomination hearings took place for Neals-Erik Delker, who has been nominated to become a judge in superior court and Anne Rice to replace “Bud” Fitch as Deputy Attorney General. Both serve under present attorney general Michael Delaney, who also has been refusing to respond to Right-to-Know requests for the same documents for the past two years.
During the Delker/Rice hearings the issue of this cover-up was addressed. The Council agreed to look into the matter and has asked for a finding from Attorneys Delker and Rice. Based on the information they provide, the Council has also agreed to speak with the governor and the attorney general.
The promises made by Executive Councilor Ray Burton on behalf of the council can be heard on the Executive Council’s website:
http://www.sos.nh.gov/g&cheari...
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Delker hearing: June 22, 2011 52:20
Rice hearing: June 22, 2011 28:00
These same issues were addressed at the nomination hearing for Chief Justice Linda Dalainas on November 30, 2010. 39.30
There have been nine professional conduct committee complaints submitted to the attorney discipline office and not once has the Office asked the attorneys involved to respond with documents.
The Delker/Rice responses will not only tell us whether they are fit for office, but they will also tell us a lot about how attorney complaints are handled in this state.
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Bigger than Ayotte. (0.00 / 0)
The issue is bigger than Ayotte. The issue is whether prosecutors can continue to claim “absolute immunity” from liability/oversight for their behavior in office under the premise that their functions are merely ministerial. That is, that because they simply provide or transmit information from law enforcement to the judiciary, prosecutors should not be held to account for the accuracy of the information, nor the completeness and accuracy of their performance. There is awareness that this claim to immunity serves as a potential shield for shoddy/unlawful? work by people with ambitions for personal advancement. However, it hasn’t been addressed by legislation, nor by Supreme Court decisions.
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Yes, Hannah, this is much bigger than Ayotte (4.00 / 1)
Thank you for bringing this up for my ultimate aim is to help the Supreme Court settle the issue of whether or not judicial oversight and state disciplinary boards are an effective deterrent to prosecutorial misconduct.
The Supreme Court took on a case last year out of Pottawattmie County, Iowa, but it was settled before the Court had an opportunity to issue an opinion.
In the second paragraph under Summary Of argument linked below, the issue I mention above is cited.http://www.justice.gov/osg/briefs/2009/3mer/1ami/2008-1065.mer.ami.html
It is interesting to note that the brief in part was written by Elena Kagan, former counsel to the president and now supreme court justice.
Certainly due to Ayotte’s involvement, media coverage would get noticed by the Court and should provide a strong declaritive statement that these deterrents do not work. It should also nudge the Court to taking on another case sooner rather than later.
I would appreciate all your help to get this covered. Call your councilor,the governor,and the media and demand that this be an open and honest investigation.
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Note: Attorneys Rice and Delker blew me off as did the Executive Council. I suspect the Attorney General’s Office investigation of Philip Tufano’s complaints met with the same results. Since 2000, and numerous investigations, the state has not been able to provide even one witness statement to back up the charges Hart brought against me. Even though I was promised a full investigation by the Executive Council on tape, they have refused to get back to me and will not answer my calls, letters, and e-mails.