Sorrell
Viewpoint - Legal
Justice Reform
For the first time in American history, the dark and ugly secrets of the lawyer dominated American judicial system have been revealed. Author Sammy Sorrell, a judicial researcher and national director of United Citizens for legal reform, reveals the facts about justice in America behind closed doors. The shocking truth is revealed in this special book; "Justice In America, Legal Secrets Revealed." These secrets reveal the unbelievable course and direction of a lawyer-dominated justice system gone amuck, cranking out victims daily in almost every court in the land and putting all Americans at great risk with the "revolving door criminal justice system." Find out exactly how American citizens have become the victims of a judicial tyranny. The Scandalous State of Justice
in America A few years back in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a state district court handed down the largest judgment in history. The facts of the case were scandalous and irrefutable. This case brought to reality the joke that one lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand criminals with guns. The judgment was $21 million against a lawyer who handled a woman's trust estate, left by her deceased husband. After the husband's death, information was kept from the woman about the value of the estate, which ultimately grew to over $20 million dollars. All the while the woman was receiving $150 per month when she should have been receiving at least the interest in the trust amounting to $78,000 per year. She died in a rest home with her son having to borrow money to pay for her funeral services. Where the lawyers (with robes) have taken society Let’s be very candid about where these judges (lawyers with robes on) have taken our society during the past 100 years. From the Supreme Court of the United States, down to the federal courts, and on down to the state courts, our lives have become a maze of “case law” (rulings by lawyer-judges) that couldn’t possibly be deciphered until well into the next millennium. Under the Constitution, only the legislative branch of government has the constitutional power to enact laws, with the executive branch of government seeing that the laws are carried out and the Supreme Court interpreting those laws. Yet our lives are continually ruled by “case law” and judicial discretion, which is the brainchild of lawyer-judges. These judges appear more eager than ever to rule on any facet of our personal or professional lives. They will rule and have ruled setting up new case law on everything from matrimony to palimony; from school busing to gay parenting lifestyles; from surrogate mothers to life termination devices, including when life can and cannot begin at abortion clinics. Now they are entering an area where angels fear to tread! They rule on the question of children’s rights with respect to biological and adoptive parents. In one state, a judge ruled a grandmother is the proper parent because her daughter’s lifestyle as a lesbian renders her an unfit parent. Only one week later, in another state, a judge of a different political persuasion removed a small girl from her biological mother (who admittedly was a very fit parent) and gave custody to the woman’s ex-companion, who had lived a gay lifestyle for the past 27 years. Recently, Andrea Yates—who is now serving time for killing her children—had her conviction overturned by an appeals court. The reason for the overturn was that a witness (a psychologist) lied in court. At the same time, Martha Stewart is serving her prison time and a judge ruled that it was not substantive or significant that a government witness lied in the Stewart trial: and the witness is now facing a charge of perjury. These lawyer-judges have piled law upon law until there really is no law remaining. Because of these rulings, no legal action is ever really final; no appeal ever really ends; no judgment is ever really collectable; no jury is totally respected; there is no predictable protection against wrongs; there are no sacred rights; and no statute really means what it says because of the myriads of “case law” and judicial discretion. The “people” have lost access to a system of equity and justice. The bottom line is that we no longer have a system of equity and justice in America for the masses. Some examples of lawyer-judges in the criminal justice system Since judges are lawyers with robes on, just like leopards, they do not change their lawyer spots! The robe merely covers the spots. Let’s look at some of the documented cases. It is decisions like these and thousands more like them which cause the masses to cry, “Foul; we are ruled by a dominant lawyer political culture which mixes with crime like oil and water.” Case
#1: the double standard A lawyer
in Valencia County, New Mexico, acting in the political capacity of
District Attorney and County Attorney, for years prosecuted defendants
and sent them to prison. While this lawyer was serving as Valencia
County attorney, a dispute arose between Valencia County and one of its
business citizens. The basis of the dispute involved high taxes. The
business citizen entered into negotiation with the county attorney over
the taxes. A bribe was offered the business citizen by the county
attorney to lower the taxes for a $5,000 fee. The business citizen then
notified the FBI, who set up the transaction to proceed. $5,000 was paid
to the county attorney, with the FBI agents waiting outside the door to
count the money and arrest the county attorney. An indictment followed.
The county attorney was bonded out and months later the case came to
trial. The lawyer with a robe on in this case was a local state judge.
Verdict: 3 years probation, $1,000 fine and 150 hours of community
service. Final comment by the lawyer-judge: “It would serve no useful
purpose to place the defendant in prison.” Case
#2: the lawyer fraternity A lawyer in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, acting in the political capacity of Assistant DA, was caught with his hand in the “grand jury jar”. He was accused of manipulating grand juries with “private instructions”, such as “you do not need evidence to return an indictment, only a strong suspicion”, among other illegal instruction. Subsequent events offered proof that this had actually happened on numerous occasions, resulting in the indictment of many defendants. When the local media broke the story, the DA, who obviously wanted to get some distance from this lawyer acting as assistant DA, dismissed the lawyer. Following that dismissal and publicity, a clamor arose from a number of lawyers whose clients had been indicted by the “tainted grand juries”. The DA followed this clamor with a “veiled threat” that plea bargains would be cancelled if other lawyers “pushed to throw out the indictments”. The violation was so blatant that over 100 indictments were dismissed in the courts. The actions of the accused lawyer who tainted the grand jury were sent before the New Mexico Supreme Court for review. Verdict: remanded to New Mexico State Bar; no action taken; details of court decision kept secret; State Bar comment: “Bottom line is, no action taken and the details of the court decision will remain secret.” Is Dracula in charge of the blood bank here? Do we have a double standard—a dangerously dominant lawyer culture; some with robes on? Case
#3: Lawyer love spat continues to the bench Case
#4: Lawyer deception catches up with New York presiding judge Deception may
be the single descriptive word for the weird world of lawyers. That
deception is a large part of the profession, which begins as an
analytical mythology in law school, where right or wrong emerges as the
by-product of the most persuasive side of an argument. Right away this
“situation ethics” places lawyers in a class by themselves. Fraud,
misrepresentation and deception are merely tools of the trade and are
unbelievably characterized as “attorney privilege” rule in the
judicial system. One has to wonder how citizens of principle in our
great nation have permitted such a culture to evolve and dominate a
system of equity and justice where right and wrong should be, but is far
from the most important question Sol Watchler ran the largest consolidated court system in the USA. Under his supervision were 13,000 employees and 3,400 judges. He controlled an estimated budget of nearly $1 billion dollars. One of the most powerful and respected judges in the USA, Watchler had a picture-perfect home life, with a 41-year marriage and grown children. Hollywood could coin a title and showcase this man and his family as the all-American example. Then deception—that constant companion of lawyers—caught up and the world of Sol Watchler started to unravel. The judge succumbed to an unbelievable case of fatal attraction with New York socialite Joy Silverman. Seventeen years younger than the judge, Joy Silverman became the centerpiece of the judge’s life of deception. Living the dual life, the judge continued to maintain his home and family life but Silverman became the judge’s lover. Then came the day when Silverman pushed for a permanent commitment. The judge, looking at his other world, refused to go beyond the boundaries of an extra-marital affair and Silverman ended the romantic relationship. Then, a New Jersey lawyer came into Silverman’s life as the “other man”. This was apparently too much for the power-filled world of the judge. Power works that way: when you’ve got it all, you want to keep it all, regardless of the lives involved! The crux of Judge Watchler’s crimes began with his harassing, anonymous “hang-up” telephone calls to Silverman in an attempt to get her to come to him and solicit his help to trace down the telephone calls and stop them. When this ploy did not work, the judge then created a fictitious character and started to send letters to his ex-lover under the name of the fictitious character. The judge even sent Silverman’s 14-year-old daughter a card with a condom in it, telling her she should use this before entering into the act. The judge invented yet another character: this time a Catholic woman figure that lived in New Jersey, where Silverman’s new lover was involved in a legal battle. Letters from this character threatened to expose Silverman and her lover in photos of sex scenes. Finally came a blackmail and extortion attempt: the judge demanded $20,000 be left at a designated place by Silverman to pay for non-existent, compromising photos. Unbeknown to the judge, Silverman had long suspected him as the phantom culprit. Silverman had already notified the FBI, who had been tracking Watchler’s moves for 2 months. Then came the arrest of the judge by the FBI. Watchler faced the nation with Barbara Walters on the popular 20/20 television show. Although extra-marital romance, adultery, and deception in marriage vows were the foundation of Watchler’s problems in the instant case, Watchler refused to talk about that. It was obvious he used the 20/20 show as a forum to build a social defense for his actions through discussion of mental illness, prescription drug use, pressures of his job and other imagined illnesses. Mix all of this with the old lawyer ploy of bringing on an “expert” witness (a psychiatrist for the defense, who appeared on the 20/20 show on Watchler’s behalf), plus a timely appeal, fixing blame upon others by family members, and the judge came off with a pretty decent defense! Prosecutors apparently still have a different view of the judge’s crimes. Acts of “anger”, “intimidation” and “grotesque control” are the descriptive words used by the prosecutors for the judge’s actions. Truly a sad day for the judge and his family! Perhaps it was an equally or greater sad experience for Joy Silverman and her daughter, who were terrorized by Watchler’s acts of violence. As one reflects upon the prosecutor’s words that the judge was in full control of his actions, the judge’s crimes beg the question! Did lawyer deception once again catch up in this case? Joy Silverman is one who rejects Watchler’s defense of mental illness. Watchler has now been released from prison and has written a book. The book appears to be a major attempt to attain redemption of his crimes by highlighting the disease of manic depression, which Watchler used as his defense. Of course,
this defense begs the question: should judges be subjected to
psychiatric examinations prior to taking the bench? New York State Appeals Court made the following ruling in February, 1992: “Mugger” Bernard McCumming was awarded a $4.3 million judgment because police shot him during his mugging of an elderly man in a subway station. As a result of the shooting, McCumming was paralyzed. Lawyer David Breitbart argued that even though McCumming was shot mugging someone, he shouldn’t have been sentenced to life in a wheelchair. The lawyer-judges agreed! Case #6: Ruling of Virginia judge on drunk Indians A lady walking down a Virginia street with her baby was assaulted by a drunken Native American (Indian). Another lady driving by noticed her plight and stopped, screaming for her to get in the car. As she managed to get into the car, the drunken Indian came to the driver’s side of the car and began to assault the woman driving the car. Judge’s ruling: short jail term because Indians have a genetic predisposition toward alcohol. Case #7: Incompetence, irresponsibility and a shroud of secrecy Where do the judges of our nation come from? They come from the ranks of lawyers: where else! Ex-Supreme Court justice Warren E. Burger stated that between a third and a half of the nation’s trial lawyers are incompetent (Wall Street Journal, November 27, 1973). Operation Greylord, in the early 80s, in Cook County, Illinois, is a matter of public record. In July 1985, a jury in federal court found Judge Richard F. LeFevour guilty of 59 counts of racketeering, income tax evasion and mail fraud. The jury heard the testimony of 163 witnesses. The offenses included payoffs by litigants subject to fines and jail time. Two other judges in the investigation were sentenced to 10–15 years. A total of 20 judges, lawyers and law-enforcement people were indicted as a result of the investigation. The chief prosecutor in the case said, “Judge LeFevour embarked on a course of judicial corruption that is unequaled in the annals of corruption.” The judicial system is enveloped in a shroud of secrecy, with only minor outside discipline, if any. As a result, only the scandalous acts of judges become public knowledge. The lawyers have such a stranglehold on the judiciary, the great bulk of transgressions by lawyer-judges, which could fill a large volume, are only published in the hearts and minds of judicial victims. Because of the shroud of secrecy and lawyer domination of our judicial system, lawyer-judges are chosen from their own ranks and are about as hard to dislodge from the bench as digging up a concrete pier with a shovel. Case
#8: Judge cost California County $600,000 on sexual harassment The Yolo
County Board of Supervisors in California had to scratch and dig to come
up with $600,000 to pay legal fees and agreement terms to get Superior
Court Judge James Stevens off the hook in a sexual harassment case.
Stevens gave a court reporter a “rotting zucchini”, which she said
was unmistakably a phallic symbol. Stevens fired her when she
complained. The case was settled out of court, with the county having to
pay the damages. Special TV magazine shows are beginning to showcase the scandal ridden dominant lawyer culture. Sixty Minutes, Prime Time, 20/20, Dateline and other major network shows are devoting specials to highlight lawyer misconduct, judicial abuse, judicial ad-hockey and prosecutorial abuse in the Judicial system. Newspapers are devoting special sections to subjects relating to the lawyer based American judicial system. Over 200 legal justice reform groups in America are hawking agendas to change lawyer domination and government rule. President Bush (Father of George W.), during his administration, commissioned a study on civil justice reform and returned a report with dozens of badly needed changes. Those needed changes quickly disappeared in the Clinton White House where trial lawyers were the largest contributors. All these happenings signal a crisis resulting from lawyer domination in American government and particularly the American Judicial system. The Very Real Dangers Revealed There are real dangers in the very foundation of the American judicial system today. These dangers confront serious moral, ethical, constitutional and economic questions. An increase in crime of 350% over the past 40 years is largely the result of the American judicial system. While we cannot allude to the actions of the lawyer based judicial system as the basis of our total moral decline in the USA, we can document it's contribution to those problems, including the flourishing, largest criminal culture on the planet, that has changed the lifestyle of the great American nation. In a nation with over 70% of the world's lawyers "policing" themselves, Justice In America-Legal Secrets Revealed makes the case for immediate concern and legal justice reform. While there are many fine people in the American Judicial system who have devoted their professional lives to equity and justice, there are a great number who have not been so noble. In fact, the American Judicial system in large part has become a business opportunity for lawyers first and foremost. Client benefit, true equity and justice have been and are being subordinated to the business opportunity concept. Equity and justice is for sale to the highest bidder. Because of lawyer monopoly of the legal services profession, 75% (American Bar Association estimate) of the lower income Americans cannot afford the cost of the legal system and therefore are denied access and their shot at justice. Prosecutorial (lawyer) abuse is rampant. Political persecution under the guise of judicial prosecution is the order of the day with many political lawyers in the state offices of District Attorney and Attorneys General. Many prosecutorial lawyers seek high profile cases and manipulate the media for name recognition as they climb the political ladder moving to a higher political office. A prosecutor victims graveyard stands as a monument to prosecutorial abuse in most states, created and maintained at the taxpayer expense. Bar associations literally operate the control tower of the Judicial system. Lawyer discipline is a joke. Lawyer deceit, misconduct, malpractice and theft is cloaked in a shroud of secrecy. Discipline is almost non-existent even in states where discipline is administered by a committee under the state supreme court. Dracula is in charge of the blood bank! Government bureaucracies are largely controlled by ambitious and egotistical lawyers either in charge or high at the top with authority and influence. State legislatures are being dominated by lawyers running as high as 50% lawyer members. The US Congress is comprised of 60% lawyers. Occupants of the executive branch have been lawyers over 57% of the time. The judicial system enjoys 100% lawyer domination. What we now have are lawyers making the laws, lawyers judging us in the laws, lawyers prosecuting us in the laws, lawyers defending us in the laws, lawyers interpreting the laws and lawyers administering the laws - is this a constitutional nightmare? Civil litigants entitled to their day in court under the constitution have to pay a ransom to lawyers to access the system. If you are a rapist, murderer or other felon then you don't have to pay the ransom. Just get a court appointed lawyer and the taxpayers pick up that expensive tab! We watch as our system of civil justice evolves into an expensive, ludicrous, self-serving business opportunity for the lawyers. We watch as defendants or plaintiffs who have millions of dollars at their disposal literally buy equity and justice. In this system lawyer judges create a maze of case law daily until there is really no law remaining! No judgment is ever final. No jury verdict is ever safe. No legal argument is ever totally without flaws. Lawyers and lawyer judges alone have created the "case law" mess for their own self-serving financial and political purposes. Any unsuspecting litigant can fall victim to malpractice, fraud and politics in any given court. Survivors can no longer bury their dead in peace if they were the victims of disaster, accident or other demise where deep pockets are a likely target by the lawyer culture. Just the mention of a toxic liability will bring lawyers swarming like bees with retainer contracts using the hood of a car as a desk to capture the instant business opportunity. This is a lawyer based problem. Finally, when a system of equity and justice, which should be the goal and objective of every court in the land is converted to an arena of merchandising of technicalities, time, legalese, manipulation, deception, fraud and plea bargains, society loses. A murderer or rapist under this scenario may be set free even when identified in a line up. Every one in the court may know that the suspect is guilty- but a legal technicality can set him free to go on his felonious way. The same technical sham of justice can easily convict an innocent party. Your lawyer can be derelict in his duty to you for whatever reason, as thousands of them are, and your dream of a simple solution can turn into a horrible costly nightmare. I am personally acquainted with a man who was sent to prison on a self-defense shooting. He spent time in prison in large part because his lawyer was dosing off through important phases of the trial. If your lawyer is derelict in his duties to you and you set out to find another lawyer to take a mal practice case, it is feasible the millennium will overtake you before you find a lawyer willing to breach the fraternity and confront this dominant culture. Certainly if you appeal, this appellate group of lawyer judges will quickly inform you that lawyer mal practice is not an actionable defense or cause that can be raised. You may file a complaint with the state bar against one of the lawyer fraternity and your effort will be met with a computer generated answer, "we find no wrongdoing." Dracula is in charge of the blood bank. Justice In America-Legal Secrets Revealed tells you what you can do yourself. It is the hope of the author that this expose of the American judicial system from the perspective of many of us who have experienced the system may share our scars. Hopefully the reader maybe enlightened that the very system designed to protect our rights and freedoms may have evolved into a monster that can easily take away those rights and freedoms through a nightmare of self-serving bureaucracy. Ultimately, it is the hope of the author that Justice In America-Legal Secrets Revealed may show what happens even in a free democracy when any arm of government is permitted to operate in secrecy, behind closed doors and act as it's own policing agency as has been the case with the American judicial system. Truths Never Before Revealed The truths in Justice In America-Legal Secrets Revealed have a singular focus and that is lawyer domination and unrighteous dominion! From that lawyer domination flows all the ills that has caused a failed equity and justice system. Fraud, misrepresentation, politics, civil rights violations, obstruction of justice, greed, abuse of the legal process and limited access to the system are all lawyer caused problems. After two hundred plus years, this nation's justice system resembles a giant law factory. No expert at the federal or state court level will attempt to guess the total number of laws in existence in the United States. Laws have been piled upon top of laws reaching into the heavens. It is highly possible you cannot leave your home in the morning and return in the afternoon without having broken some law that you don't even know about. Yet with all these laws, America has
become the most violent society on earth. Americans have been the victim
of 159,000,000 crimes during the 13-year period ending 2002. Crime in the past forty years
has risen over 350%. Dew's continue to kill more citizens than all wars
combined and many of these homegrown terrorists are back out on the
street with as many as 50 prior arrests.. Our citizens are victimized by
a revolving door criminal justice system. Felons are bonded or plea-bargained
out as they continue to rape, burglarize, plunder, maim or kill and hide
young victims in shallow graves. The judicial system points the finger
at the lawmaking bodies. This is pure BULL! It is not the lawmaking
bodies who have failed to use the thousands of laws on the books it is
the lawyer dominated judicial system who develop schemes to evade the
laws. Several years of study, experience and research is the basis for Justice In America-Legal Secrets Revealed. The conclusions are based upon hundreds of nationwide interviews. Those interviews have been down in the trenches with victims of the Judicial system, non lawyer pro se litigants, lawyers in the system and disenchanted lawyers who have left the system, legal reform groups and other parties interested in the subject. The conclusions are based upon exhaustive study of the operation of the Judicial system and individual case law files. The conclusions are based upon extensive research in the law libraries on subjects vital to the operation of the legal system. Finally the conclusions are based upon the personal experiences of the author of Justice In America-Legal Secrets Revealed. His experiences in the civil justice system are priceless, both with lawyer representation and as a non-lawyer pro se litigant fighting lawyer fraud and judicial abuse from the local courts to the appellate courts to the federal courts and on to the US Supreme Court. America became a great nation because of the great principles of it's people, their moral responsibility, their interchange of faith in each other and in their God. It became great because of great producers of goods and services. If we are to remain great it will be because we continue to build upon those principles and that same foundation. Lawyers are not producers, their forte is to gravitate to the misery spots in society and cut up the pie - getting the largest piece possible. The American judicial system through it's dominant lawyer culture has taken us away from the true foundation, creating a new foundation in negatives, politics, dishonesty, character assassination, fraud and deception. Simply because the system is an adversarial system does not give license to the players to reach new heights in immorality. We can ill afford to allow yesterday's immorality to become today's morality in such a vital part of our lives and watch it ripple out into society. Lawyers (including the ones wearing robes) have turned this nation into a system of massive litigation for financial and political business opportunity and gain. Insult to economic injury is immediately added by their presence. Trickery and mischief that can be placed at the doorstep of the lawyer culture have cost American taxpayers untold billions of dollars. Justice
In America-Legal
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