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Read the lessons when you have quality time to real well, several times to make
sure you get the message presented. If you don’t understand something form a
question in a special file where you know where it will be and if that question is
still unanswered at the end of the course, bring them out then. So please hold
your question to the end but do put them in a file so you won’t forget.
Always, no matter where you go or what you do, carry a pen and paper with you
so that if you get inspiration, you can write it down right away and review it later.
Don’t rely on memory to hold it, memory is flighty. You will find you will not
waste that rare moment when out of the blue a revelation comes to you and no
matter what or when, be prepared to record it in some meaningful manner. If you
are driving, pull over to the side of the road and take a few minutes to note it.
Some of my most notable revelations has come during time I was either driving,
in bed or on the toilet. Even at night I would at relevant times get out of bed and
write it down before going back to sleep. Don’t miss the opportunity because you
are too busy to note it at the time.
You might want to print out the lessons to read them. Often it is easier to read in
printed form and you can make notes on the paper. I would suggest that you
also print out the file Proc.txt and the individual files that are listed there and put
them in the sequence as set out in Proc.txt, then carefully read them for a fore
knowledge. If you have used them already, then review them.
If you have some time visit the law library and read about common law defaults.
You might even find information on law procedure in your local library. Visit a
traffic court to see how make hundreds of thousands a day moving tickets. Get
on the net and find a copy of the court rules including “local court rules” and the
code for future reference. You will need both. You will need to be familiar with
the rules for courts of limited jurisdiction and at least the general outline of your
state code, in particular the Motor Vehicle Traffic Rules and code or statutes.
Start building your own law library in your home. Seek out good used law books
at second hand stores. Remember that those books you pay a couple of dollars,
were bought for hundreds of dollars. While you may think old law books
discarded for new ones are outdated, think about that outdated common law we
brought with us to this country from England still exists and those old law cases
that we use everyday to support our contentions, including 1886 Yick Wo. Don’t
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pass up a good thing because it is old, some of those books may inspire you like
they did me to dream up winning strategies.
Please be responsible and save these lessons in a secure place for future
reference and back them up as you should the L series files. They will always be
available as long as I am alive in case you lose them, but don’t count on me
always being around.
The material in this course and the application can be used in many and varied
circumstances. The procedure is ancient in origin and well founded in all law. It
is so powerful in the hands of a skilled opponent who is supported by
foundational law; it is a threat to government which most often works from an
inferior position (founded on deceit) and law. The key is to lay the foundational
facts out in such a way as to show that the opponent’s case is without merit.
For years we fumbled our way through traffic courts. We met as an organized
body several times a month to discuss and review what we had learned during
the interval between meetings. We had found valuable tools but nothing that was
consistent or easy to use. There were specifics for various infractions but
nothing generic. For instance if the cop lost sight of the vehicle, we could usually
win those cases. Failure to file the ticket in 48 hours was an easy win as well,
but we still lacked a good method.
Then, along came the “tacit procreations” which looked good but were hard to
enforce. Usually the prosecutor ignored them and just did his little introduction
and examination of the officer on the stand and the judge would rule against us.
It seemed as if it were rigged against us and there seemed no way to beat them
at the game.
One day I was shopping for law books as I always did in used book departments
of second hand stores and bought a Federal book on Forms and Procedures. I
started using it for the forms and procedures in it and found it a good general self
help of endless examples of forms. Eventually I run into the “Default Judgment”
part of the book and it hit me as being the long sought after procedure for put the
prosecutor in his place. To set the stage for a default, I would need a good
affidavit which couldn’t be rebutted. Then it was simply giving notice of the
default with a chance to cure it, a Final Default and Praecipe to the clerk to enter
the default as laid out in the Federal Forms book.
But I knew by this time how clerks work, they go to the judge to see what they
should do if it is out of the ordinary and then the judge will instruct them as to
how to handle the situation. I had seen this played out in my experience with the
court clerks. I knew the judge would tell the clerk not to do it because they don’t
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want to allow it. I also knew that there had to be a way to force the clerk to do it,
and I knew the remedy was Petition for Writ of Mandamus. I also knew the judge
would not want to rule on the Petition unless pressed into doing it. So, I had to
come up with a way to let the Judge off the hook in a collateral way, leads to the
Motions to Dismiss, which gives him a good excuse if he is so dumb he can’t
come up a reason to dismiss the whole thing on his own.
It wasn’t long before my Friend Dana Beaver an American Indian came to me for
help with his ticket. I told him about my ideas and he said let’s try it. I prepared
all the paper for him in about two hours and told him to file it on the dates on the
paper. He came back several weeks later and told me they dismissed without
him saying a word. I was shocked because this court was notorious for being
corrupt. Soon others came and went, coming back telling me their cases were
dismissed as well. One even told me the Judge wrote a Findings of Facts and
Conclusions at law upon his false arrest and imprisonment. I was totally shocked
and continued to do the paper for all who came to me, and they were all winning.
One prosecutor even admitted in open court a driver’s license was not required.
Always keep in mind, the motions are fluff, the meat is the default and the
tool that makes it work is the mandate.
The motions to dismiss also give you good cause for Writ of Error to the Trial
Court should the judge not dismiss your case on the default alone. What you
don’t bring up in the trial court, can’t normally later be brought up in any other
court. This just puts more pressure on the judge as these issues are issues he
doesn’t want you to pursue.
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is the author and source of law; but in our system, while sovereign
powers are delegated to the agencies of government, sovereignty itself
remains with the people, by whom and for whom all government exists
and acts. And the law is the definition and limitation of power.”
Then I asked if I could go to the board and draw out the chain of command in our
country. I drew what you will see in the file “law.jpg” in L1.zip which both
concepts were verified by the professor to the class. This would prove to me and
the class that I was not some radical but had a true rational concept of the law. It
also demonstrates that they know the secret and while on the bench deny it in
the most hypocritical ways to the injury of those who trust them to make
righteous judgments. I am sure this judge and professor knew exactly who I was
and that I had observed him on the bench in the past.
He obviously knew my reputation based on the fact that he knew what I would
say, before I said it. He also must have known that he was giving away a
professional secret which he himself had abused. Obviously however, he also
knew that I was the only one in the class who knew, that he knew what I
suspected he knew.
Natural Law is the highest form of Law because it is The Law of our Creator.
The Natural law of prudent Man is He shall defend his claims or actions. One of
the earliest recorded demure was in the Garden of Eden when Adam was
confronted by God and where he confessed but tried to shift blame to the
woman. All unalienable rights emanate from our Creator and are carried into
society by long honored and generally accepted law. Natural being that which
exists in Nature, or in other words, established in Society as custom and not form
any statute or man made law. Thus natural law is the highest order of law, some
of which has been codified as is some of the common law.
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indeed that a legal system which cannot be so justified has no authority.”
Collins Dictionary
More basically, God's law is never changing natural law as differentiated from
man made law subject to constant change. There however are overlapping
aspects of each form of law. Constitutional law is basically derived from the
common law and natural law or sometimes called the law of nature.
"Hence also, the origin of all civil government, justly established, must be
a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled; and must be liable
to such limitations, as are necessary for the security of the absolute rights
of the latter; for what original title can any man or set of men have, to
govern others, except their own consent? To usurp dominion over a
people, in their own despite, or to grasp at more extensive power than
they are willing to entrust, is to violate that law of nature, which gives
every man the right to his personal liberty; and can, therefore, confer no
obligation to obedience."
"When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are
necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the
proper end of all laws, and so become null and void." Alexander
Hamilton, 23 Feb. 1775
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Revolution, Nov. 7, 1973 quoted in Faretta v California, 422 U.S. 806
(1975).
Justice Souter has numerous times dissented on the Natural Law. The following
is the last time he has done so and it is a very interesting case to read for the
principles involved, its discussion of common law and natural law, and the
Constitution. It demonstrates how closely related these different forms of law are
related and sometimes difficult to distinguish from each other, if such a distinction
is really important in the first instance.
"In these cases the common law adopts the principle of the natural
law, and finds the right and the justification in the same imperative
necessity." Burlem. 145, sec. 6; id., 159, c. 5, secs. 24-29; Puffendorf, B.
2, c. 6. Bowditch v. Boston, 101 U.S. 16.
These cases show the close relationship between the natural and common law.
Indeed the first book in the course of study in the Constitutional Law Class was
the Bible as a reference to show the origin of most of our fundamental law.
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"It must be interpreted in the light of Common Law, the principles and
history of which were familiarly known to the framers of the Constitution.
The language of the Constitution could not be understood without
reference to the Common Law."
U.S. Vs. Won Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649, 18 S. Ct. 456.
Much of the natural, common law and of course Constitutional law has been
codified in the statute or codes of various states and the USA. In fact our law is
much the same as those of all other countries of the World.
Traffic acts with the exception of vehicular homicide in general are Malum
prohibitum as opposed to common law crimes which are said to be Mala in se
(intentional homicide for instance). Such prohibited crimes or infractions are
victimless for the most part.
Infraction or crime is mostly dependent upon state laws. In states that have
“decriminalized” infractions, normal traffic infractions are not crimes, however
reserve protection from abuse of courts as if they were in a sense criminal. This
leads to a perverse concept that they are in essence criminal but there is no solid
evidence that is the case when the intent to introduce a new form of offense as
an infraction was to effect the purpose of “decriminalizing” the various acts of the
states.
For instance, Texas traffic violations are petty misdemeanor crimes, while
Washington’s are mostly infractions and civil in nature. However, some acts
might be infractions of criminal law but criminal acts are never infractions. The
distinction here is that the use of the word as a noun means the act, where used
as an adjective or verb is equivalent to breaking of the law. So it is easy for
some to read law and come to wrong conclusions based on the use of the term
“Infraction”. The infraction scheme is nothing more than a tax and revenue
method today and for this reason does very little to effect safety which is the ploy
used to justify the common tax.
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A good lawyer, if there is such an animal will always frame his paper to box the
victim into either defending or defaulting. Thus it is common to always put
reciprocating acts into a time frame, such as you must act by a certain date or
some action will befall you.
“Once a defendant is served, the next step is for the defendant to either
answer the lawsuit or have its default entered. Entry of Default is a
separate step from obtaining a default judgment. The entry of default
merely cuts off the defendant's right to answer. This is a relatively simple
step which occurs by following a one-page document. In a simple case
based upon a book account, the clerk can enter judgment with little
documentation. However, in a more complex case involving a bad check,
lease payment, etc., the attorney may need to obtain an affidavit or
declaration under penalty of perjury signed by the client along with
appropriate supporting information.” Commercial Law by Steven Lovett
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JUDGMENT OF NOLLE PROSEQUI, is a judgment entered against the plaintiff,
where, after appearance and before judgment, he says, 'he will not further
prosecute his suit.'
JUDGMENT OF NON PROS. (from non prosequitur,) is one given against the
plaintiff, in any class of actions, for not declaring or replying or surrejoining, etc.
or for not entering the issue.
See http://www.lectlaw.com/def/j009.htm "Judgments"
"The principle which governs the practice in both these courts is that [93
U.S. 153] the defendant stall not be taken by surprise, but shall have
sufficient warning before a decree is entered against him by default."
O'Hara v McConnell, 93 U.S. 150, (1876)
"It is also contended for the appellant that if the truth of the general rule
must be admitted, that he who seeks judicially to establish a claim based
upon an alleged default of his adversary must affirmatively establish by
proof the facts which justify his complaint, and that the burden of proof, as
a principle of general jurisprudence, is assumed by the plaintiff, unless the
cause of action is confessed or admitted judicially by the defendant; yet it
is also true that if the defendant accompanies a general denial of the
alleged cause of action with the admission of such facts as in law
constitute his liability, the plaintiff's case is in fact admitted without other
proof, and that in this aspect the libellant was entitled to a decree below
on the basis of certain admissions of fact in each of the answers
inconsistent with the general denials of fault." The L P Dayton, 120 U.S.
337 (1887)
While we are defendants in a traffic case, the same principles apply as if it were
a counter complaint. The intent of the above reference is to show that the
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burden is upon you however in this case the Plaintiff will never defend and such
is fatal to any claim he may have made.
The default naturally implies bars and estoppel on the order of lach against
further action on the part of the party who neglects or fails to defend. The only
remedy in case of outright misrepresentation is to “set aside the default” so it isn’t
fatal till the point the failure to defend is sealed by the defaulted party in his
neglect to motion to set aside the default for good cause, then proceeds to
announce his good cause to the court. The court then has discretion to set aside
the default, but until that time the default can’t be ignored because it is a
ministerial duty to enforce it as a matter of law.
Traffic infractions and lesser traffic crimes are held in courts of limited jurisdiction.
The name limited jurisdiction is determined by code to have limits in value
amounts generally and in certain matters, traffic offenses being one of the
matters. Often misdemeanor crimes are heard and adjudicated in courts of
limited jurisdiction while mala in se crimes and felony matters are held in the
courts of general jurisdiction.
Appeals from these courts of limited jurisdiction are generally heard in the courts
of general jurisdiction. You need to be familiar with your state law to know where
the appeals are heard. Always be several steps ahead of the game so that you
are prepared to move your case quickly with anticipation of what will likely
happen next.
Normally the one who is supported in law and the moving party is the winner in
any case. Learn to move your case and make the other party work for every inch
of ground they retain. This is one of the secrets of success of the default process
and changes roles for the prosecutor as he now becomes defensive and few will
defend. I have only heard of two times when the prosecutor tried to defend and
in those cases the defense was obviously flawed by personal opinion without any
facts being established. You can proceed with the papers as if you don’t expect
any action on behalf of the prosecution because it will be rare indeed if they
move against you. Later we will explain why even if they answer, they don’t
establish any facts.
In our country, courts are courts of common law and equity at the same time, but
traffic courts are notorious common law courts. If you don’t know the difference
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between common law and equity, then you need to read the file “Basic Equity” in
the files section of the lawwork group webpage. You will also find files on the
common law and other subjects which will magnify your knowledge of law in
general. Ignore those who claim the courts all rule in equity, these are those who
don’t know the difference between the common law and equity. One of the
maxims of equity is that it always follows the common law, that is, where there is
no remedy in common law, equity will provide a remedy.
Conclusion
The default is well supported as a basic principle of law in Natural, Common and
statute law. It is based on notice, opportunity to defend and judgment based
upon failure to defend Nil Dicit (when plaintiff or petitioner) or Nolle Prosequi
(defendant or respondent) in the case where the prosecutor fails to prosecute the
case, both comprising Default Judgments in general.
You must not be passive to win, you must move quickly in your case in all
instances. The prosecutor will rarely if ever defend his position so you can move
without making any assumptions that you have to modify your paper in any
significant way. Thus you can calculate the time in advance for each paper and
date them accordingly, file them in the proper order and wait for the hearing.
Always remember the judge knows the law, he knows you are right, and he has a
ministerial duty to give some kind of judgment in your favor. Show confidence in
the courtroom like you are a professional who can’t be buffaloed with non sense.
The courtroom is yours, bought and paid for by you either directly or indirectly, so
make it your home for the time you are there.
Make wise use of the resources on the lawwork AND lawworks group web pages
especially the files section and former messages on lawworks where only I post.
Some of the best of the best messages are located on the lawworks group. Build
your own library from published works from attorneys libraries donated to second
hand stores.
Always carry pen and paper everywhere you go. Save any questions on this text
in a special file till the conclusion of the course, so you won’t lose them.
Hope for the best, but be prepared for the worst. With the knowledge you
receive in this course, you should be an expert in your cause.
The lesson will cover the basic necessities to be prepared for the stop and to lay
the foundation for your case. It will also cover the legal aspects of the stop and
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how it plays in with the overall process of preparation for the default depending
on your personal situation. You will be given some choices of approach
depending on your nature and disposition at the time. What you do here could
mean you win or have to go to court to win.
The lesson covers your choices with or without license and how to set the officer
up for the administrative review or contest of wits in court better known as
contested hearing. You should be mentally prepared for the traffic stop after this
lesson.
Your homework assignment is to visit and become acquainted with your local law
library. At least learn how to find Yick Wo v Hopkins in the United States
Supreme Court Case Citations. If there is a handy librarian available, ask her to
give you a tour. If you are fortunate to live near Olympia, go to the State
Supreme Court, visit the library and ask Dawn at the reference desk to give you
the grand tour and tell her Clyde sent you. Dawn is one handy woman to know
and if you need something urgently, she will help you all she can, even if you are
from out of state. By the way, she is on our side.
http://news.yahoo.com/fc/us/supreme_court
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Lesson 2 THE ARREST
Don't try to get tickets to test this process; drive the best you can. The rules are
good cause for orderly traffic flow, but are not law in the respect which are meant
to be broken for good cause. In other words, you drive on the wrong side of the
road to pass, or it is acceptable to speed to pass, so you can clear the lane. This
is the reason they are called “Rules of the Road”, even in the code.
Please do not use this process for inherently evil crimes or drunk driving cases
because it will be abuse of the process and will surely cause its demise in the
long run as well as yours. Use it responsibly as it is a powerful, plain, speedy
and effective remedy at law. I have had one fellow that abused it and ended up
much worse off than if he had never used it. Remember the sword of justice cuts
both ways, which means it can be a powerful tool for you and against you, so
bottom line is be responsible.
I use Washington code herein because I am most familiar with it, because I must
use some code and because to list all the state codes would take untold volumes
of paper and time. Please be familiar with your own state codes, court rules, and
cases so that you can properly help yourself and others. For your own
occasional use, it may be impractical to make a detailed study of your state
codes but you should be at least familiar with the court rules and a few code
provisions to adequately defend, even though the papers are largely generic to
the extent you can use most of the material without much reference to your
codes or court cases. The more you know, the better you will be able to put
together some good motions to dismiss and the more the merrier is my motto.
The Court reasoned that, although the stop was unquestionably a seizure
within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, such traffic stops typically
are brief, unlike a prolonged station house interrogation. Second, the
Court emphasized that traffic stops commonly occur in the "public view," in
an atmosphere far "less `police dominated' than that surrounding the kinds
of interrogation at issue in Miranda itself." Berkemer v. McCarty, 468
U.S. 420438-439.
While playing word games the court distinguishes the traffic stop like the Terry
stop which assumes probable cause to detain you for questioning and to issue
process against you. The Terry being a walking stop and the traffic stop usually
a moving stop. So, how many times do you find “arrest” in the following
Washingtoon code?
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RCW 46.64.015
Citation and notice to appear in court -- Issuance -- Contents --
Written promise -- Arrest -- Detention.
Whenever any person is arrested for any violation of the traffic
laws or regulations which is punishable as a misdemeanor or by
imposition of a fine, the arresting officer may serve upon him or her a
traffic citation and notice to appear in court. Such citation
and notice shall conform to the requirements of RCW 46.64.010, and in
addition, shall include spaces for the name and address of the person
arrested, the license number of the vehicle involved, the driver's license
number of such person, if any, the offense or
violation charged, the time and place where such person shall appear in
court, and a place where the person arrested may sign. Such spaces
shall be filled with the appropriate information by the
arresting officer. The arrested person, in order to secure release,
and when permitted by the arresting officer, must give his or her
written promise to appear in court as required by the citation and
notice by signing in the appropriate place the written or electronic
citation and notice served by the arresting officer, and if the
arrested person is a nonresident of the state, shall also post a
bond, cash security, or bail as required under RCW 46.64.035. An
officer may not serve or issue any traffic citation or notice for
any offense or violation except either when the offense or violation
is committed in his or her presence or when a person may be arrested
pursuant to RCW 10.31.100, as now or hereafter amended. The detention
arising from an arrest under this section may not be for a period of time
longer than is reasonably necessary to issue and serve a citation and
notice, except that the time limitation does not apply under any of the
following circumstances:
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Effective date -- 2004 c 43: See note following RCW 7.80.150.
If you said arrest or some form of the word appears 16 times, you are probably
right and as such there should be no doubt that the law defines the traffic stop as
an arrest and subsequently a seizure in all respects. The real test if you ask if
you are free to go and the officer will say, “No”. If you ask him if you are under
arrest he will say, “No” as well. Don’t do this however unless you want the stop
to drag out and the officer to become suspicious that you might be savvy to the
law.
To him and the court it is not an arrest, they think real arrest is custodial arrest
which is a constructive flaw in law. But is not a restriction of your liberty an arrest
no matter where or when it occurs? This is one constrictive flaw in law which you
can exploit as you will see, later when we talk about trial.
Notice also it calls the ticket a “Citation and Notice”, but the actual name on the
paper ticket in this case is “Washington Uniform Court Docket” which explicit
term is found nowhere in a digital search of the code.
Here is the part of the code which defines who must have a driver’s license.
Notice all you have to do is declare you are a “resident” to get a license. They
make it really easy for you. Now, just what does welfare have to do with the
license? You might want to ask yourself if you intend to live or be located on (in)
state property.
RCW 46.20.021
New residents.
(3) For the purposes of obtaining a valid driver's license, a resident is a
person who manifests an intent to live or be located in this state on more
than a temporary or transient basis. Evidence of residency includes but is
not limited to:
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(a) Becoming a registered voter in this state; or
(i) The Food Stamp program under the federal Food Stamp Act of
1964;
(iv) Any other program that does not meet the criteria of (a)
of this subsection.
Now, don’t you only want to be transient to state property? Notice you can
participate in Federal Programs run by the State with impunity as far as liability
for license. However and unfortunately, most of the state has fallen for this
ambiguous code and lulled into thinking they are required to obtain a license
because they are residents.
Who is a resident? When I was a dependent of an Air Force Major Officer, I was
instructed to answer the phone with: “Clyde Hyde’s Residence, Clyde Jr.
speaking”. This was not our permanent home, it did not belong to us, it was
military housing on Federal Soil. It was a temporary home and we were
residents, just like the Governor is resident, when he lives in the Governor’s
mansion during his term of office.
The term is used to describe everyone today no matter why or where they live or
who they are. This is a misleading and abused term to bring you under
domination of that government who claims everything within the outer limits of
the state. You are absolutely not a resident unless you live on state owned
property. While this is a point of fact and law, it is difficult to establish that fact
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and law in arguments, because the term is used both as a term of art and term of
law in the same breath.
Terms of art and terms of law are very confusing till you understand the concept
and usage. Often it helps to diagram a legal sentence to discover the true
meaning so if you were sleeping in English lessons, you are definitely at a
handicap when working with law. Some terms are used as descriptive terms and
some as nouns and you need to know the difference. Terms of art are usually
common terms, thus abroad an American Citizen may be called a national as a
descriptive term but can not be a lawful “National” as a noun. US Nationals
come only from unincorporated territories of the US (Samoa) and states have
Citizens.
There are only two Constitutional justifications for registration which are law
enforcement and commerce. You are engaged in commerce if you drive a
vehicle with goods belonging to someone else for profit. Any other application is
a scam revenue enhancement scheme. It is no different in the interstate
commerce Federal jurisdiction realm and similarly abused as shown in the
famous Lopez and Jones cases.
As we know to transport your self and your goods upon the dedicated Rights of
Way is inherently a basic right and not a privilege which can be licensed.
Commercial use of the highways, are licensable activities because that is a
secondary purpose and a privilege. The highways are called RIGHTS of Way
because they are used by right or upon license for privilege use, however our law
has been covertly perverted.
RCW 46.04.405
Person.
"Person" includes every natural person, firm, copartnership,
corporation, association, or organization.
RCW 9A.04.110
Definitions.
(17) "Person", "he", and "actor" include any natural person and, where
relevant, a corporation, joint stock association, or an unincorporated
association;
Compare the definition of “Person” in the criminal code (9A) and the traffic code
(46), then ask, why is it different? Remember there are inherently evil crimes,
“mala in se” and those which are prohibited, Malum Prohibitum and herein lies
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the reason for the difference as “he” is applied to Men. It is to misguide the
unwary to think “natural person” is different from the artificial entities listed. Why
couldn’t they say, here “Man, Woman, Child, he, or actor? The last two terms
appear in the definition of person in the criminal code, actor of course being the
artificial entity or the people behind the mask of incorporation.
RCW 46.63.010
Legislative intent.
It is the legislative intent in the adoption of this chapter in
decriminalizing certain traffic offenses to promote the public
safety and welfare on public highways and to facilitate the
implementation of a uniform and expeditious system for the
disposition of traffic infractions.
[1979 ex.s. c 136 § 1.]
In some states the traffic offenses are criminal and in others it is civil so it is up to
Man or Woman to know the intent of their state as to whether it is civil or criminal.
Most states have decriminalized the traffic tickets and offenses.
The severability clause is the most obnoxious of all code because it makes the
code bullet proof, as every person and circumstances makes an attack on it,
virtually impossible. It would take a suit by all People and under all
circumstances to defeat it which is a practical impossibility.
If you don’t know what a term means, look it up in a law dictionary or even in a
normal home dictionary which often defines words where the meaning differs in
law and medicine as well as other disciplines.
It would be wise to invest in a good Law Dictionary but in a pinch, you will find
online dictionaries on the net. To find them, just do a search for “Law Dictionary
Online”, then if you like the page, mark it as a favorite, so you don’t have search
again. The web can be a good reference source but you have to be really careful
quoting sources from the net as some cases are condensed, usually by design
omit and misquote parts.
The best Dictionaries are those which cite relatively recent cases and landmark
Supreme court cases for reference. Barron,s Law Dictionary by Steven M.
Grifis, a second source is a must and this one is compact sized and priced right.
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Don’t pass up used book stores for old editions of Law Dictionaries at a fraction
of the price of the new volumes.
Although there is a story about Black’s Law Dictionary starting out as a poking
joke at the legal system, today it is used by the Supreme court, comes in paper
back editions and is reasonable in price. Older volumes are premium because of
the changes in the definitions over time which often give expanded meaning to
the words and show the evolution of the definition with changes in society. A
used Second Edition is a prize worth finding and having.
In the law library often you will find a series called “Words and Phrases” which
will give you many case cites for special words and phrases and is valuable for
collecting cases on certain terms and further research. Having a small law library
of your own is desirable, especially if you want to do more than just your own
cases.
RCW 46.63.060
Notice of traffic infraction -- Determination final unless contested
-- Form.
(1) A notice of traffic infraction represents a determination that
an infraction has been committed. The determination will be final
unless contested as provided in this chapter.
If you had any doubts about where the actual trial is held, this should dispel those
doubts. This is where the scam revenue scheme starts and falls on its face. To
Contest is to Appeal the determination of the officer. To pay it admits a default.
What you say at the stop to the officer will be noted by him, so it is imperative
that you be really careful what you say. My wife was shocked that I talked my
way out of two speeding tickets in the same day, one on the way into Olympia
and one on the way home because I understood this concept. Never admit to
anything and deny any infraction since we know we are not subject to that strict
liability statute code.
There are two extremes which are fatal mistakes that some People make at the
scene of the arrest (stop). The first is to make statements about your guilt and
the second is to argue with the officer or use abusive language or gestures. You
should find some middle ground and be really careful what you say and how you
say it. First, you don’t want to tip him off about how much you know and second
you want to maintain some control over the situation. If there is any doubt it is
better to keep your mouth shut and only answer his questions without admitting
guilt and proclaiming your innocence.
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There are also several approaches each with its drawbacks and each with its
positive attributes. Which you choose, should be determined by your knowledge
of the law and you willingness to take a chance on offending the cop. You may
just allow the stop to be casual and non threatening, but you may want to
challenge the stop with some questions of your own. If it is a bad day for the
officer and he is itching for a fight, it might be well to back off if you denote any
antagonism.
And/or
Why did you arrest me? His reply will likely be, “I didn’t arrest you”.
“Am I free to go?” Reply: “No”
“Then I am indeed under arrest, right?” Reply: “No, but you can go as
soon as we finish this business”.
Right here, you have made the record that this officer doesn’t know what he is
doing because arrest is mentioned 16 times in the code definition of the stop or
arrest. This makes him look really bad.
“What was your probable cause for the arrest?” His reply will probably tell
you why he stopped you.
It is important to establish this reason for the stop quickly so he can’t later claim
he stopped you for something he didn’t see, like no license, registration,
insurance, etc. If he should leave out the primary offense, then it appears he had
no justifiable reason to stop you.
In any event you will likely get the citation. At this point you might ask:
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Remember, I told you to always carry pen and paper to make notes on. This is
the time to be recording and/or making notes of everything that is said and done.
This is the time to start writing down questions that come to mind or questions
you should ask the cop if the case goes to trial. Even if it seems insignificant
write it down and decide later on the significance of the question.
When the cop comes back with the ticket and asks you to sign it you have
several options, again each with consequences. You can sign the ticket with
your name followed by TDC for threat, duress and coercion, like it was part of the
name. You can ask:
Do you have a crystal ball that you can consult to let me know that I will be
alive and well such that I could make a promise that I don’t know I can
keep? He is going to tell you to just sign the ticket or he may threaten you
with custodial arrest if you don’t.
It is good when you make them threaten you because you have lawfully
established the fraud, threat, duress and coercion. Then you can either sign it
under TDC or not sign it. You might want to ask the cop what he will do if you
don’t sign it.
If you don’t sign the ticket, you better know the law for sure. In Washingtoon the
case is Port Orchard v. Tilton, 77 Wash. App. 178 (1995) that you have no duty
to sign a “Washington Uniform Court Docket” because the code says literally
"Acknowledgment of Receipt of Notice of Infraction" which is not the promise
to appear or notice of infraction.
RCW 46.61.021
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Duty to obey law enforcement officer -- Authority of officer.
(3) Any person requested to identify himself or herself to a
law enforcement officer pursuant to an investigation of a traffic
infraction has a duty to identify himself or herself, give his or
her current address, and sign an acknowledgement of receipt of the
notice of infraction.
RCW 9A.60.030
Obtaining a signature by deception or duress.
(1) A person is guilty of obtaining a signature by deception or
duress if by deception or duress and with intent to defraud or
deprive he causes another person to sign or execute a written
instrument.
If you do not sign the ticket, be prepared for a free ride as the cops don’t know
the meaning of, “acknowledgement of receipt” and they could care less.
However, if you want a wrongful arrest and imprisonment suit, this is a good way
to get it. You will likely find out what “custodial arrest” is but it will be false unless
the Tilton case has been overturned which it can’t be without modification of the
code.
Now, you should be getting a real feel for the fraud built into the code by the
deceit of the legislature. What the code says and what happens in practice are
like night and day. It is important to know at least some of the code before the
traffic stop and after you will want to look up the specific elements of the
complaint against you.
For instance, I was stopped for a defective tail light at night in the city. Because I
was involved in fighting traffic tickets, I looked up the code for tail light
requirements before the stop to see if the car complied with the code. The code
says you need two lights which can be seen for 1000 feet at night. I had four tail
lights and only one was defective so it complied with the code.
At the stop, I asked the officer to show me the law because I knew upfront what it
said and she said she would. What she showed me was her cheat sheet that
said merely, Tail lights $35. I told her to show me the law book law and asked
her if she carried it with her and she said no. I warned her that I had read it and
that what she was enforcing was not the code or law. I told her to go back to the
office and read what the code said. She warned me that if she ever caught me
with that defect, that I would be ticketed. It was no use to argue with her, she
had her mind made up that the car had to be to factory specs.
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I continued to drive with the lens off the tail light and the bulb removed and she
stopped me in daylight conditions and ticketed me for it. Of course tail lights
aren’t required during the day. There was also at the time an old warrant for my
arrest for animals at large so she took me to the jail. I am not going to continue
with the story because it is long, but the point I am making is that the cops don’t
read and know the code they enforce.
If your state is one of those Criminal traffic states you either need to reduce the
traffic offense to elements of the crime or get a copy of the “Patent Jury
Instructions” for foundation of case “elements of the crime”.
If the state has a modified form of defense this may not be necessary, and
generally is not. However this has no bearing on anything other than the motions
to dismiss, unless you go to trial and the court rules specify introduction of jury
instructions.
Be Prepared
Time the traffic stop and voice record it when able without being obvious (wire
your car and have a switch to start the recorder). Be creative in how you do it
ahead of time. Obviously it isn’t practical if you are only stopped on the average
of once every five years.
You might want to have on hand at least in Washington the Tilton case and a
copy of your declaration of status in case you want to challenge the authority for
custodial arrest for not signing a traffic ticket. In any event think ahead before it
happens just what you intend to do and how you are going to handle the stop so
you are prepared when it happens.
There are limits to jurisdiction, for instance private property search needs a
warrant for lawful entry except by normal route (on unposted ground) to the door
of a dwelling or in plain sight of the party if outside. A car is not much different,
they can’t go through the car without permission to search and you would be
surprised how many fools who shouldn’t, will allow permission to search.
Technically, you can’t be ticketed for rules of the road on private property even
open to the public. You need to be aware of your rights ahead of the
confrontation.
Code and court rules define the filing of the ticket in the court after being issued
to you. This filing of the ticket is timely probable cause determination, without
which they can't demand a payment, generally. The civil infraction being
decriminalized is found within the never-never no Man’s land of civil and criminal
but is declared civil for law purposes, however still contains some criminal
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procedure and so in the Washingtoon courts, they have to be filed within two
court days or specifically 48 hours of issuance. You would be surprised how
many don’t do it.
If you are one of those rare cases that haven’t run right down to DMV,
proclaimed your residency and procured a driver’s license, then you have
another choice after getting a ticket. No matter if it is criminal or infraction, you
can choose not to appear as you have no duty and nothing to loose. Make them
come and get you, which they might or might not do. They will usually hope to
pick you up at a traffic stop. If you are a careful driver, you might go well past the
statute of limitations before they catch you which is another motion to dismiss. It
is usually one year for infractions and misdemeanors.
In one criminal case, I waited them out on a warrant then got the warrant
quashed on a letter to the judge (see stilz.txt in L.zip). Later another warrant was
issued by another stupid judge and I let it ride because I was hoping they would
come and get me as the law was clearly not criminal. I waited till well past the
statute of limitations (one year for misdemeanor) and was thereafter arrested and
imprisoned for 6 hours.
I am not going into the disposition of that case except to say I easily won it
without even getting to the plea part and it was dismissed for failure to prosecute
and failure to charge a crime. The main point is just because you are
summonsed doesn’t mean you necessary should run down and put yourself on
the chopping block. It is their duty to come and give you a taxi ride to the court
and they will likely not make it easy for you.
It is much easier to just do the paperwork and make an appearance, if you want
a controlled contest. My waiting made it impossible for them to try me without
coming up with a gross misdemeanor because of the statute of limitation and the
fact they couldn’t toll it because I wasn’t hiding out, but going to work everyday
as I always did. You need to know you do have this option and don’t have to
make it easy for them.
What they have been doing to try to overcome this limitation of their law, is to
issue you a license file and then suspend the license to make the infraction a
crime. This however is blatantly unconstitutional because it is like an obvious
fraud to impress something upon you against your will. This cheap trick you
need to be aware of if you deface and send your license back to them.
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Next Lesson is: Administrative Review of Acts of the Officer
This lesson will cover your “contesting” the ticket and how you should prepare
your paperwork. It will teach you how to file the paper and serve the prosecuting
attorney.
It will also cover special situations and some logical solutions for them.
The lesson will cover the first paper which you can send with the ticket, the
“Refusal for Fraud”.
A good homework assignment here is to cross reference your code to the ones
demonstrated in this lesson 2, to see how yours compare. This can be done by
word search in your code.
Note: If the use of “Washingtoon” on this paper bothered you, it is intentional that
I used that word, as its administration is literally “Loony”.
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Lesson 3 ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW OF ACTS OF THE OFFICER
During the two days after the traffic stop (arrest) you should have found and
studied the court rules for the court you are invited to appear in. I say this is an
invitation because that is exactly what it is. You are going to walk down at the
appointed time and defend provided you have a driver’s license. If you don’t they
will put out an arrest warrant for you and if that doesn’t work they will demand the
license back.
When they did this to me, I gave it back cut into three pieces along with big red
felt tip pen “VOID” on the registration and certificate of title, and with the plates
cut corner to corner through the yearly numbered tab. I don’t advise anyone to
do this unless they are prepared for what can happen. Things can get pretty ugly
if they want to press the issues, as they have the guns.
If they extracted a promise from you, you had better go and you want to be ready
to make that appearance but it will be a special appearance. Under the common
law, you could make a special appearance only to challenge jurisdiction. If you
make a motion, you accept jurisdiction.
Also see Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Ed. (1990), p. 97, title: "Appearance".
Court Files
Check to see when the ticket is filed after a couple of days or the time designated
by the court rules and/or code. Check the court file regularly to make sure you
don’t miss something you didn’t get in the mail. For instance if you file a default
when the prosecutor has filed papers that you didn’t know were in the file, it will
void the default, so check the file before you file.
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You can either check the file in person, which is the recommended way, or you
can call the clerk and ask if there has been anything filed by the prosecutor. You
just can’t trust the mail, prosecutor or sometimes even the clerk. Although we
don’t expect anything, always make sure the unexpected isn’t going to sneak up
and bite you on the butt.
If you signed the ticket under TDC (threat, duress and coercion) you already
have one excuse to refuse the ticket. There are others as well to wit (short for
witness):
Bail or Penalty amounts are more than authorized by code = Fraud and is a
little tricky because it requires some research which should be done ahead of
time you need it. For instance the cops like to boost the cost to pad the account
but there are only code authorizations for certain extra tax (statutory
assessments) upon the tax (penalty for acts). In Washington those are generally
“Jural Information System” or JIS tax of $25. In some cases an EMS tax of $5
and Restitution Tax of $20. The legislature abrogates their responsibility and
asks the Supreme Court to fix the amounts. Those amounts are listed in the
court rules for courts of limited jurisdiction as rule 6.2 or local court rules.
For instance here is an auditor’s report from Oklahoma. You might want to
demand under the common law right to know and your open public records acts
an audit report on any report having to do with traffic monies.
Audit report
VI. CONCERN: Possible irregularities in traffic ticket monies.
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fine and costs, which is greater than that established by statute for the
same offense. The maximum fine for traffic-related offenses relating to
speeding and parking shall not exceed Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00).
For all other offenses, the maximum fine shall not exceed Five Hundred
Dollars ($500.00).” (ea)
“The monies are not being deposited in the appropriate account after the
fines have been paid.” END OF REPORT
It is difficult to find the justification for “statutory assessments” but not impossible.
Over the years these assessments as well as the penalties themselves have
been given greater latitude such that it causes a lot of research to keep the
municipal governments honest, so much so that few will challenge the amounts
because of the hidden factors of assessments. For instance for those infractions
not listed specifically in (infraction rules) IRLJ 6.2 (c) “…..Penalties for those
infractions are established by statute or local court rule, but shall be consistent
with the philosophy of these rules.”
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As if there wasn’t enough fraud or abuse of law, there are others as well which
qualify right up front for initial motions to dismiss attached to the Refusal for fraud
which gives justifiable reason to not join in the matter.
Always obtain the officers report for several reasons. One, so you know what
notes they will have before them if you go to trial, but also to condemn them for
their violations of the law. An officer can only violate the law in the “emergency”
mode which means with lights flashing or siren for warning others to move out of
the way. In one case the officers said they were sitting at the side of the road
under the overpass by the “No Parking” sign. I guess you can guess that these
rogue officers were illegally parked before the chase so were violating the code
and as such are not competent to enforce the same law they are violating.
In another case a lawyer representing marijuana growers got the court to throw
out the case because they had walked through the woods, approaching the
house from the back, stepped over a broken down barbed wire fence and looked
over a board fence around the back of the house and discovered and
photographed root balls. Since this was grounds to suppress the evidence for
illegal entry (trespass) onto the property and illegal search (without warrant) the
case was dismissed as there was no longer any evidence.
False Reporting
False reporting is a crime and in one case the officer wrote me up for defective
tail light in daytime conditions. The officer should have known that tail lights are
not required during the day. False reporting is a crime and barratry as well.
The only reason for delay in bringing action on a cause is further investigation.
Some infractions or crimes inherently don’t have cause for further investigation,
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so an action brought at a later time is harassment and barratry and void for delay
as such a fraud.
Oaths of Office
You can use the state open public records acts to obtain copies of oath of office
for judges, police and other officials involved in your case. Failure to file as
directed by law a current oath of office is usually a gross misdemeanor offence
and leaves the office vacant per the law. You have to find the codes in your state
law and apply them.
When the local nuke power plant was abandoned retraining was offered the
workers and one of my friends acquaintances went back to school and got a law
degree. We went to her office and chatted with her and she expressed that the
Constitution was an outdated document and of little use today. She eventually
became a pro tem judge for the city and I eventually got a ticket for driving with a
suspended license. We affectionately made reference to her as Cottonmouth
because her family name was Cotton.
Because of the animal at large case and its subsequent arrest and incarceration
on a false warrant and my involvement with the city judge on the tail light issue, I
involved him in the federal suit as well as the city and that was part of the reason
they laid to pick me up on the driving without a license charge as they knew I had
sued because of the fraud.
Since I had sued the judge, I recused (fired) him right off the bat with an affidavit
of prejudice. All you have to say is that you don’t think you can get a fair trial with
the judge and he should step down, then another judge or pro tem takes over.
You can only do this once in a trial normally per the rules and it has to be done
before any motions are submitted to the court.
Knowing how Cottonmouth felt about the Constitution, I checked for her oath and
there was nothing in the file. Just before the last hearing I submitted to the court
a letter from the auditor saying there was no oath on file. Neither did the
prosecutor have an oath on file, so they were actually by law impersonating
officers, a gross misdemeanor. They both moved right along as if I never
exposed them and the jury found me guilty. I moved to the void the trial with a
Petition for Writ of Prohibition and then added a Petition for Writ of Quo
Warranto. Because of the legal problems this generated Cottonmouth got fired
and I never paid anything and kept driving without license and without further
trouble with the city. So, it pays to investigate those who are involved to see that
they are clean because unclean hands can’t point out the faults of others in real
law. See file QW.txt in L.zip.
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Defacing the Ticket for Fraud and Return to court
Before you deface the ticket make a copy or two of it. After you deface the ticket
make a copy or two of it. If you need other copies later you can get them from
the court clerk, but you need at least one copy for your files before you deface
and send the ticket back to the court.
“Refused for Fraud” should be written diagonally on the ticket in very prominent
permanent ink. Defacing a document to void it destroys it acceptance by the
party in possession of it. Common law voiding is done by verbal renunciation,
defacing, destruction by burning, tearing, cutting or otherwise making the
instrument clearly voided or unrecognizable, but the best method for lawful
purposes is to void it by defacing in writing on the face of the instrument.
Return the ticket within a few days with a cover letter briefly listing any fraud
noted thus far and with a demand to quash it for fraud, alternatively demand a
contested hearing and speedy trial with subpoenas for any and all witnesses.
Superior Sovereign
The concept of Sovereignty is nothing new to most of the members of our group
however the term “Superior Sovereign” may not be so it deserves some definition
at this point for a clear understanding. Since the code doesn’t address the status
of the People generally in all cases, some codes do where specific rights are
applicable to the People.
"The people of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies
which serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their
public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and
what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining
informed so that they may retain control over the instruments they have
created."
California Government code §§ 11120 and 54950, RCW 42.30.010;RCW
42.17.251
In the codes codifying the common law right to know or Open Public Records
and Open Public Meetings Acts this relationship is spelled out in the intent of the
legislation. The courts have likewise made it clear not only in Yick Wo, but other
cases as well.
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Congress that the Constitution had empowered. Seminole Tribe v.
Florida 517 U.S. 44, 153 (1996) Souter dissenting
Thus, we see that the “true sovereign” is the People because all governments
are created by the People and the source of the law is the People, all else being
but artificial in nature. However most law, in all sources, makes reference to the
government as the sovereign.
"We tend to overlook the basic political and legal reality that the people,
not the bureaucracy, are the sovereign. Our Federal Government was
created for the security and happiness of the people. Executives,
lawmakers, and members of the Judiciary are inferior in the sense that
they are in office only to carry out and execute the constitutional regime."
Schlesinger v. Reservists Committee to Stop the War, 418 U.S. 208,
232-3 (1974)
Here there can be no doubt as to who is the inferior and who is the Superior
Sovereign. This is important when bringing an action before the court to prohibit
assumptions as to who is the inferior as you should see in the following case,
speaking on government sovereign immunity.
“The reason usually assigned for this prerogative is that the sovereign is
not answerable for the delinquencies of his agents. But whatever the true
reason may be, such is the general law -- such the universal law except
where it is expressly waived. The privilege, however, is a prerogative one,
and cannot be challenged by any person inferior to the sovereign,
whether that person be natural or corporate. Metropolitan Railroad
Company v. District of Columbia, 132 U.S. 1, 11 (1889).
You must assert your status as the Superior Sovereign in writing and submit it
before the court so there can be no assumption to the contrary.
Natural “person” or People can occupy two offices at the same time which puts
different duties and responsibilities upon them and changes the character of their
immunities and privileges. Thus the President may be both a natural person and
a inferior officer or public servant to the People. As soon as he leaves office, he
becomes a Superior Sovereign.
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The “Natural Law of Creation” as expressed in Yick Wo, universal in nature and
is accepted like the common law from earliest of times in our society, and the
Creator can not be taxed (ticket is another tax) by his created government.
"All subjects over which the sovereign power of a State extends are
objects of taxation, but those over which it does not extend are, upon the
soundest principles, exempt from taxation.....
The sovereignty of a State extends to everything which exists by its own
authority or is introduced by its permission, but does it extend to those
means which are employed by Congress to carry into execution powers
conferred on that body by the people of the United States?" McCulloch v
Maryland, 17 U.S. 316, 429 (1819)
The Refusal for Fraud can be included in Affidavit of Truth if done within 5 days
of the ticket and can be put on the paper either before or after the Affidavit and
(not or) may also be a part of the Affidavit itself as a fact. For instance, if you
signed the ticket under TDC or with U.R. Fraud for a signature, you can say that
the signature appearing on the ticket is not your signature (because a signature
in law is meant to ratify the instrument that is the object of the signature). If you
signed U.R. Fraud you can claim there must be an identity error as that is not
your name.
The Refusal For Fraud can incorporate motions to dismiss as well or these
motions can be separate entirely from the refusal. The motions to dismiss are
based upon the frauds previously mentioned for excuse to return the ticket to the
court defaced. There are also others which may be obvious from the ticket itself.
For instance the ticket may be unreadable, cite errors of law, may have incorrect
data on it, may be made out to the wrong name, wrong address, claim a violation
of law that hasn’t any or all of the elements of the indiscretion, and any number of
other errors in law which would lead a reasonable man to question the nature of
the offense or the facts constituting an indiscretion of the code.
This is where the more critical you are the better. Some errors are called
Scribner Errors which are minor and easily corrected but others might be fatal to
the ticket. In a recent case a ticket was given for speeding in a 65 mph. zone
and the speed was written as 65+. So, is that 65.001, or 65.1, or 65+10 or
maybe 65=100? In my case of the tail light, it was obvious that a daytime ticket
can’t include equipment not required in day light conditions. In another case that
went to jury trial, a man was given a ticket for driving on the highway without a
license but he was not seen on the highway and in fact was well off the highway.
The jury found him innocent of the charge.
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Completely Fed Up
If you reach the point where you have documented the fraud and you want to
divorce yourself from Dept. of Licensing or Motor Vehicles then you can use the
same process as described above to deface, void and return documents and
plates. Warning: This is a serious step and you certainly want to have prepared
yourself before hand for this discussion and it is not to be taken lightly nor
frivolously.
If you decide to return all your excess baggage to DOL or DMV, deface your
certificates of title and registration as the ticket with “VOID” and not refused for
fraud. Cut your driver’s license into three pieces and through the picture with at
least one cut. Cut your plates corner to corner with tin snips, through the tab if
any and tape the sharp edges with duct tape so no one will cut themselves with
it.
Package up the defaced items and send them with a cover letter or deliver them
to the appropriate licensing office in person. Sometimes the look on their face
can be worth a thousand postage stamps. The cover letter should be simple and
to the point, express and explain the particular fraud which gives rise to the
return and that you won’t be a party to it. For instance for me it was a daylight
ticket for one of four tail lights which lost its lens and a direct challenge to the
courts jurisdiction in the matter. Because I didn’t physically appear to defend
standing on my special appearance and the courts lack of subject matter
jurisdiction in the matter, they suspended my driver’s license and demanded it
back. So they got what they asked for a more; I turned the other check, gave
them all their trash back and drove without license, registration, certificate of title,
or plates.
Leave 7-8 spaces at the top of any court papers, before starting the caption,
leaving room for file stamps.
Since you are the Superior Sovereign, always capitalize any reference to you
and make sure that you do not capitalize any reference to the court or any public
servant. This means that if you must use the office or officer reference in the
beginning of a sentence that you start the sentence with “The”, for instance, “The
respondent” (petition), instead of “Respondent”
Don't put exhibits in your initial papers, just describe the document and where it
can be found, in case anyone wants to examine it. For instance if you want to
show your status is a matter of public record, just list the office it was filed in and
the number of the filing. Your verified motions, petitions, complaints are taken at
face value till proved different, and that burden is upon the proponent in rebuttal.
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If there is any rebuttal then you can use an exhibit to prove your point by
attaching it. Do not use originals in any circumstance. Take the original and a
copy or two to a notary and have them certify the copies are a true copy of the
origional and use these for any court filings. A simple copy is sufficient for the
prosecutor. Always keep the origional in your possession.
Don't use personal pronouns in your papers, as they are often ambiguous, but do
use either names (preferred for our purposes), Plaintiff (complaints), Petitioner
(Petitions) or Aggrieved (Injured) Complainant (if complaining).
Try to make your papers to the Supreme court standards and use bookman old
style print for your fonts. Always consult your local rules and state rules for paper
standards as a guide.
Court Rules often give time elements or deadlines for filing of the complaint or
ticket so it is well worth the effort to review them in each case. In Washington for
instance a ticket not filed within 48 hours can be dismissed upon motion to
dismiss.
Any Motions must be noted for hearing or they won’t hear them. So notice in
particular how this is done in your court. Ask the clerk when you can have it
heard or make I it out to be heard at the next scheduled hearing date. Some
courts have an administrator which schedules hearings, so do some inquiry with
the clerk to see how hearings are scheduled if you need to bring something
before a court between the courts scheduled hearing dates.
Court rules and information can often be found on the net, so be sure to make
use of this resource before asking a lot of questions. Most of your questions will
be answered with this resource. As far as procedure is concerned, the law
library and you local library often have books that will help you in that aspect of
your case. In the local library reference law section is generally a book with your
states procedures outlined for you.
Something the court won’t tell you is the speedy trial time starts from the traffic
stop and not the first hearing. Court rules often obscure this fact but it is well
settled law. More will forthcoming on this topic.
Always file a copy of your papers with the Prosecuting Attorney office without fail.
Ask the prosecutors clerk to stamp all your copies received by the prosecutor,
then file your papers with the clerk of the court. Generally they are helpful and it
doesn't hurt to have two extra copies left after both filings. You should also keep
a file on each case with the papers in the order they are filed.
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If you live far enough away or it is inconvenient for you to visit the court, you can
send paperwork to be filed in the mail. If you do this, you must take into
consideration a reasonable amount of time for mail delivery. Court rules often
define this amount of time. Be sure you make allowance for this time. Also when
figuring timing, you want to give the opponent time for mailing as worst case.
When you send paper to the court or file in person, you should have at least two
extra copies with ink signature on them. When you file in person, file stamp
your originals or copies after the clerk file stamps theirs if they don’t offer to do it
for you. If you send originals or copies to the court by mail, ask them in a cover
letter to stamp the two extra originals or copies which you identify as copies on
the top face page and return them in the SASE (Self Addressed Stamped
Envelope with sufficient postage) you provide for that purpose. There are a
number of ways to identify your copies, such as printed “copies” at the top left
margin, sticky notes, or note stapled with the other pages. If they are all ink
signatures there is no need to identify any copies as they are all originals. I
recommend that you make all originals and let them chose the ones they file and
either give you (in person) or send the extras (mail) back to you in the provided
SASE.
The reason you want two file stamped copies, is in case you need them for
exhibits on appeal or further Petition. You need one for your records with a file
stamp on it. The tax court for instance doesn't send the entire record to the
circuit court and often only sends just the order and select papers. They make
the excuse that the court doesn't need all the paperwork and this conserves on
resources. Bologna, this is to hide the record, and that is why you should do a
“designation of clerks papers” to instruct the clerk to send the whole record in any
case. Then you have covered your backside if it becomes an issue. Your extra
originals will be able to fulfill this necessity in any case of application to higher
courts.
Just get into the habit of correct filing habits as outlined here in all courts and in
the court rules as far as times for mailing if necessary.
The whole idea of what you are doing here is to turn the tables on the
government entity and make them look like a bunch of criminals in fraud. The
worse you make them look, the better chance you have of winning your case as
they can’t stand the light of day.
The Next lesson is “Affidavit of Truth” where this paper will be explained in the
detail necessary for you to understand it.
Your homework assignment is to read file QW.txt in L.zip. Using Quo Warranto
is a little tricky as you have to give an opportunity to the prosecutor to do it before
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you can do it yourself by common law. It is the job of the prosecutor to make
sure all is in order in the court as far as the officers of the court. If the prosecutor
neglects or refuses then you are free to bring action against the official as it has
injured you. In this particular case the prosecutor was usurping his office with no
oath so he couldn’t use that argument to defeat my Petition.
Remember, always carry pen and paper with you at all times, look forward to
inspiration in your case and write it down immediately.
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Lesson 4 AFFIDAVIT OF TRUTH
Some have condemned the fact that I call this an “Affidavit of Truth” but I have
seen unscrupulous attorneys use affidavits to lie. It is a common fact in legal
circles that it is permissible under necessary circumstances to get around minor
legal problems and errors. Thus the double implication here is that it is an
Affidavit filled with truth, so be sure it is all truth. If you are one of the nit picking
cotton pickers, then just call it an Affidavit.
In other states you are likely to find the same abuse of process and I believe it is
intentional as the judges hate to see this as they know the truth. We know this
for a fact because we presented a judge an order to sign in about 1994 with “The
State of Washington” written in the caption and he hit the ceiling, yelled and
said emphatically that he would not sign an order with that name on it. If it didn’t
mean anything, why would he object, refuse or make mention of it? He obviously
knew that we knew the process they were using was dummy process and an
outright fraud. So do always use exactly what your state Constitution calls for all
process in the courts to be, in the same case letters as in the Constitution.
“The court reasoned and concluded that what the city did was done
not in its governmental capacity -- an exertion of the police power -- but in
its "proprietary or quasi-private capacity," and that therefore the city was
subordinate in right to the corporation, the latter being an earlier and lawful
occupant of the filed. The difference in the capacities is recognized, and
the difference in attendant powers pointed out, in decisions of this Court.
Vilas v. Manila, 220 U.S. 345; Russell v. Sebastian, 233 U.S. 195;
South Carolina v. United States, 199 U.S. 437; New Orleans v.
Drainage Commission, 197 U.S. 453; Vicksburg v. Vicksburg
Waterworks Co., 206 U.S. 496, 508.” Los Angeles v Los Angeles Gas
& Electric Corporation, 251 U.S. 32, 39 (1919)
I maintain that the states and their subordinate municipalities operate most of the
time by pressing the People with code in fraud in that proprietary mode and they
know exactly what they are doing. Once they think we know by bringing the
process in the real Constitutional name of the state, they drop it like a super hot
potato because they don’t want to take the chance on getting burned over it.
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There can be no doubt that the state has a police power to regulate traffic and to
protect the People but not to use the roads like highway men to extract revenue.
This is a very modern protection racket. While safety is an obviously good
government function, what safe function is intended in most traffic stops? To
stop a drunk who is driving on the wrong side of the road is admirable, to stop
someone for not coming to a complete stop in the middle of the night on a
deserted road is nothing more than revenue generation harassment.
Now, in light of the “Natural Law of Creation”, see what the court says:
“therefore the city was subordinate in right to the corporation”, and there can
be no denial that when we act, we have superior rights and all governments are
subordinate, and if they are subordinate in proprietary acts to corporations, they
fall at the extreme bottom in all rights and interests. The court no longer talks
about this condition, but in light of the facts of what happened about this time
period, it would be to their advantage to keep this information as quiet as
possible. All courts know this and only a stupid judge will not dismiss the case by
sweeping it under the carpet.
In the caption you will notice <sic><misnomer> which makes reference to the
name on the ticket. “Sic” means misspelled generally and misnomer means
wrong name generally. So, in essence you are saying it is not only misspelled
but the wrong name because it appears in all caps. You don’t sign your name in
all caps, nor do you print it that way, and you have a right to be called what you
want and not what they desire because you are the Superior Sovereign.
Also note that “The State of Washington” is the government organization and it
appears that “STATE OF WASHINGTON” is the corporate quasi-private or
proprietary entity which can do virtually no wrong. Thus your name, “John Doe”
is also converted to another form in the ticket, that of “JOHN DOE” and I don’t
believe it isn’t for good reason, just like if I am a cop, I can slap you around but if
you slap me around you will be in jail for a long time or in other words this is the
big bully syndrome. Misidentification is a cause for dismissal.
The term “sui juris” in most cases, simply means you are an adult, have legal
capacity and competent in all ways to testify to the facts of the case. This says
you are over the age of maturity, mentally sound and of good reputation, such
that your word means what you say. There is no real magic to this word like
some want to prescribe to it as you can be sui juris and a public servant as well
as illustrated in Umbehr.
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Justice Scalia dissenting said in condemnation of the court (sui juris) subverting
the Constitution, going on to name recent cases,
“In adopting the restrictions, Congress was not imposing restraints on a class of
persons who were sui juris, but on Indians who were being conducted from a
state of dependent wardship to one of full emancipation, and needed to be
safeguarded against their own improvidence during the period of transition.”
Smith v McCullough, 270 U.S. 456, 466 (1926)
Here we see in Smith that those under wardship are protected because they are
not legally responsible. Now go and read file AG.txt in L.zip. Aren’t you treated
as legally incompetent when you obtain a license and registration? Aren’t you
reminded to obtain new tabs, license before the expiration of those? Aren’t you
told you can have an attorney appointed by the court (court now uses your power
of appointment for you) to make sure you are protected? These are points to
ponder a little to see how playing the STATE game leads you to a Father – Ward
relationship.
The French term “nom de guerre” literally means “War Name” kind of like what
we call “Terrorist” or “Insurgent”, but specifically a name used which gives some
necessity for the government to make war upon the People which is called
“mixed war”. The governments have no right to make war upon their own
People because that is called “anarchy” or lawlessness, akin to biting the hand
that feeds you.
“Both before and after the time when the Dictionary Act and § 1983 were
passed, the phrase "bodies politic and corporate" was understood to
include the States.” "Every sovereign State is of necessity a body politic,
or artificial person" (Brennan dissenting) Will v Michigan Dept. of State
Police, 491 U.S. 58 (1989).
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Of course, the United States were not bound by the laws of the
State, yet the word "person" in the statute would include them as a body
politic and corporate. Sayles, Art. 3140; Martin v State, 24 Texas, 61, 68,
also Stanley v Schwalby, 147 U.S. 508
Joinder, literally “to join in the cause” can be forced by the court but must be
done by open and notorious declaration of the court. If you appear specially
without joinder and not admitting to the jurisdiction of the court, the only recourse
is for the court either to force joinder or dismiss the case. I have never seen the
court force joinder however that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.
“Demurrer” is where you admit to the facts but challenge the sufficiently of the
process or law. Demurrers are motions to dismiss, motion to suppress evidence,
motions for lack of service, due process, valid complaint, proper official office and
powers, constitutionality and special circumstances like the officer lost sight in
the chase or was outside his jurisdiction as well as common law defenses to the
act complained of such as intent or lawful defense.
For instance a clear case of demurrer is when Charlie came to me with a ticket
for assault after he was found standing over the man he decked who was
bleeding from the mouth. Charlie hit him alright but not till Charlie was
threatened with being hit and slammed up against a brick wall. 10 others saw it
and wrote statements in support of Charlie but the prosecutor still moved against
Charlie. Under the common law if you don’t want to be touched and someone
touches you, it is assault and Charlie had obviously done it.
The common law however recognizes defenses to assault and says that if you
perceive a threat (real or imaginary), you are in a place you have a right to be
(sidewalk in this case), you can stand your ground and counter the threat with
necessary force. The wicked prostitutor of law, moved till the time we submitted
the jury instructions with the defenses to assault in them. Had Charlie not put
those jury instructions in the record, he would have obviously been found guilty of
assault unless he got a honest judge (there was nothing honest is this little town
court). Once the jury instructions were in place the prosecutor moved to dismiss.
Charlie walked out of the court with an attorney there for another matter and he
told him that he had a perfect case of false arrest, prosecution and imprisonment.
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“Traverse” is where you have facts necessary to prove you weren’t the one
doing the act. Examples here are mistaken identity, alibi, inability to do the act,
statistical probability and circumstantial evidence.
The main reason to explain demurrer and traverse is because there is a really
serious mistaken saying in patriot circles that you never want to traverse, always
demurrer. While this might work when demurrer is the logical thing to do it is not
wise to shun traverse because each has a place in defense of your cause. This
is a serious flaw in legal reasoning on behalf of many who profess this error.
To demonstrate how serious this flaw is, let’s say you are accused of theft but
you didn’t do it. You are arrested and they won’t believe your testimony that you
had no knowledge of any of the facts they present to you. Now, everyone knows
a common criminal defense is to lie and they think you are evading the questions
with your claims of innocence.
They have a description of the bandito and his car and sure enough you and your
car fit that fit that description, they put you in a line up and you are identified by
the only witness. But how do you prove it wasn’t you, they have found you guilty
without a trial and are threatening you with lots of jail time unless you sign a
confession and plea bargain with the prosecution. Your whole life is a mess
because they don’t believe you. You have also had this crazy thought placed in
your mind not to traverse in the case, so you try to get your case dismissed but
your demurrers just don’t work.
You shun the perfect traverse because you have always been told not to
traverse. You paid for a new shirt with a check, showed your driver’s license two
hours travel from the crime scene and not only the clerk knows you from previous
purchases but a friend was with you as well. Finally you decide to go against
the bad advice you were given and you file an affidavit from your friend and one
you made up and asked the store clerk to sign as well, then you traverse to the
charges with your alibi.
Now the prosecutor goes to the cops and asks what gives here, and why didn’t
you check it out? They say, “Well he was picked out of the line up, his car
matches the description and you know all crooks lie, it wasn’t worth our time to
check out what appeared to be a lie with the solid facts we had in the case. The
prosecutor calls the clerk at the store and sure enough he says it was you in the
store and you have been buying there for years, he knows you on sight and the
prosecution obviously has the wrong man. The prosecutor goes in and makes all
kinds of excuses for the cops but in the end motions to dismiss the case because
he knows when the two witnesses get on the stand and testify against a stranger
who picked a stranger out of a line up, he knows who the judge will believe.
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If you remember nothing else, remember: “There is a time to demurrer and a
time to traverse and many times an opportunity to do both.”
In the default we will do both. Later I will show you how you can have a little fun
with this concept during any trial.
Standing Armies can make mixed war upon the People and the founders knew
all too well how they could be used to force obedience to any command so it was
necessary to limit funding for Armies to two years as no conflict should last more
than two years. For today, it should only be two months if you use Iraq for an
example. The purpose of the minutemen Militia was to provide trained Men who
could be called up on a minutes notice to defend the nation. Only a Navy had
permanent appropriations as needed to protect our shores and shipping
interests.
Since all states are basically subject to this common law principle, the same
application to Washington of these limits is applicable to other states as well
under the restriction of standing armies principles. Notice how opinions of judges
compare the laws of other states. See the AGO (opinion) in Prohibitum.zip in the
files section of the lawwork group homepage. Thus you can safely use this for
your paperwork. In your affidavit of truth you might want to affirm the facts of the
police arrest (stop=detention) by notice that the cop wore a gun and was armed
with other weapons (MACE, shotgun in patrol car, billy club) of war as well.
“Pro Se” means you are representing yourself, so why do you need to represent
yourself, if you are yourself? This makes absolutely no sense unless you are a
lawyer called before the bar to defend yourself.
The attorney for the Plaintiff may want to call you “pro se” but it matters little as
you have already made it plain you are not a party of the body politic or corporate
and you are indeed a Man taking care of your own business. Don’t let yourself
be drug into a go nowhere argument, and when you are right there is no need to
argue anyway. A cheap trick is for the other party in a suit to lead the arguments
off the track and get you engrossed in something utterly senseless. Just
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because they call you a worm doesn’t mean you ARE 20x longer than your
diameter, round and pointed at both ends? Don’t fall for cheap tricks of the
attorney, stay on point and don’t move off solid ground. Stay on track and let him
make a fool of himself.
You have to ask yourself, does this really make a difference in the issues before
the court? If you can answer no or it is outside the pleadings, don’t make an
issue of it.
“Pro Per” means in your proper person which is getting a little closer but what is
“Person” as we have previously explained and defined in lesson 2. This is also a
dangerous term to use as it is ambiguous.
In other words, Life is doing what you want to be doing (govern yourself) and not
what someone else thinks you should be doing. Life, Liberty and Property or
Pursuit of happiness are all so intrinsic as to be almost one in the same.
Liberty is closely related and inseparable, in that you lose the liberty to proceed
to travel to your intended destination in the time you intended. Liberty interests
are or should be most cherished above all other temporal interests.
Property is rights and your property interests (rights) are taken from you at this
point under threat of severe penalty for failure to stop upon signal of the powers
that be. Part of property is the right to use your property (car) as your needs
require, on the rights of way (property) dedicated for that purpose. Property,
constitutionally implies the pursuit of happiness and if anyone enjoys a traffic
stop they are masochistic. In that particular case, give them back at least the
plates from your car, so they will stop you more often.
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Preparation of Affidavits
All facts are expressed in first person experience with all the “W” words, what,
when, where, who, ect, writing only facts relevant to your case.
Upon information and belief can be a basis for facts that are not concrete on their
face. In other words, I have searched the law for penalties and have found none,
so upon information and belief, I don’t think a penalty exists.
Sometimes you may have cause to “fire the judge” and you do this with an
affidavit that essentially says you can not get a fair trial with this judge because of
his bias and prejudice. If you have good reason you should include them, such
as:
He is named in a suit that you are involved with, has personal knowledge of the
facts or is a material witness of the case, has expressed an opinion of the case
or has been council for either party in the past.
He has a conflict of interests of any kind, such as you personally know or have
known him, he has represented you in the past, he has common friends, his law
business has had commercial dealings with you in the past, you have the same
last name even if not related or he or a relative have some kind of stake in the
outcome of this case however remote.
You believe he has some bias or prejudice against you, which could be racial,
business related, even general misdemeanor or any condition where "impartiality
might reasonably be questioned." See Liteky v U.S., 510 U.S. 540 (1994) and
your state court rules annotated.
The next time I came in his court, I was mad as hell and he knew it. I demanded
he produce the warrant that I was arrested on, he recused himself and
threatened to throw me back in jail. I turned around and walked out. He had
issued the first warrant and then recalled it because I had written him a letter
(stilz.txt in L.zip) over the issue that the complaint failed to charge a crime.
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A second judge had then taken up the ball and reissued the summons and I
again challenged the courts jurisdiction and again I only appeared by paper
specially and a second defective warrant was issued. This warrant, I made no
effort to quash because I figured it would sooner or later move to a showdown
with a false arrest which I could sue on in Federal court.
Generally per the rules of the court, you have to file the affidavit of prejudice
before any hearing or motions are made. Not every judge will step down but it is
a point of contention if he doesn’t. If he doesn’t step down, then just move on,
after objection.
Now, let’s take the Affidavit (AFT.txt) one bite at a time and explain the contents:
“district court of Thurston county” The only name here is Thurston which is
why it is capitalized and all the rest is descriptive of an artificial body belonging to
Thurston which is the name of the People collectively. “Of” has special
significance in law, it is indicative of ownership.
Thus you would say this is the house of Jack or Jack’s house. A citizen of the
United States is owned by the United States, where an American Citizen is
described as American, the name of the People collectively living in the USA.
The venue of the Affidavit is defined by the next few lines to wit:
This represents the venue where the affidavit is signed and sealed (witnesses,
notary or other official of competent authority)
The first paragraph of the body contains, “declares and affirms” which are
powerful words for several reasons. As a Superior Sovereign you have a right to
declare and you can affirm without an oath. Affirmation is an oathless statement
of truth to accommodate those who are admonished not to swear by religious
belief.
In the first fact you identify yourself in the manner that Christians normally do and
state who your Creator is and your capacity as a flesh and blood (leaves no
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doubt) Man or Woman. This is to counter any presumption that you appear as
an artificial entity subject to law.
You then state for the record that you are not the all caps entity which has been
invited to the court, which is a misidentification.
Three, you state you have never been known by that name to further support
misidentification.
Four, you declare your Creator and the law you are subject to by inference.
Five and Six, establishes you have no contract or agreement which could form
an equity court and give the court discretion.
Seven, breaks any assumption that you are any kind of public servant subject to
the law as a body “politic or corporate”.
Eight, breaks any presumption that you have voluntarily joined in the cause. The
court now must either force joinder or dismiss as there is no personal jurisdiction
till you are joined. See your court rules on joinder.
This comprises the bare necessities of the Affidavit in its simplest form. At this
point it is not necessary to express more unless you want to play, or are
expecting to have to go to trial. If you have reason to express something special,
for instance to support a motion to dismiss on say for instance the cop lost sight
in the chase it might be better to do that later in the motion by verification if the
case is not dismissed.
You might say: I have read and understand Yick Wo v. Hopkins in particular
the plain words of the first paragraph on page 370 which says:
"Sovereignty itself is, of course, not subject to law, for it is the author and source
of law; but in our system, while sovereign powers are delegated to the agencies
of government, sovereignty itself remains with the people, by whom and for
whom all government exists and acts.
And the law is the definition and limitation of power.”
By affirming your first hand experience you can introduce law into an affidavit just
as you would affirm anything else, however it would be an error not to speak in
the first person from fact on the issue. Only very general applications of law and
few should be put in the affidavit if at all.
“Further Affiant saith naught” concludes the body of the Affidavit and prevents
any further additions to it. The Jurat follows as your affirmation that the facts are
true and correct.
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“Seal" is positive identification which you might want to use if you have been
fingerprinted. It is your right thumb print over the end of your signature. This
seal is always with you and can demonstrate proof on the spot if need be. It
adds a BOLD touch to the document showing clear intent and positive motive.
“De Jure Soli, Sanguinis, Coronea” These terms are Citizenship specific which
defines your right to immunities. De Jure literally means “real”. “Soli” means
born on the soil or “natural born”. “Sanguinis” means born to Citizen Parents
anywhere in the World. “Coronea” means you are of royal birth by virtue of being
Sons and Daughters of the King of Kings.
“near (98589)” Is a way to use the zip code which breaks any possible
presumption that you live in a federal area defined by such numbers. Putting the
number is prentices or brackets, effectively keeps it outside the document or
isolates it. You generally live on private property not within the confines of any
government property unless you work for such government and have housing on
government property.
Under the common law, you could have witnesses acknowledge your affirmation
and signature. This has the same effect as a notary but you can use a notary in
leu of witnesses. Where we lived we had meetings a couple of times a month
and in these meetings we would pass the documents around the room for
witness signatures. It turns out looking like the Declaration of Independence with
all the signatures upon it. Indeed every one of these witnesses would appear in
court if necessary to attest to the fact that you signed it and you were who you
said you were by personal knowledge of those facts.
While two signatures by disinterested parties are all that is necessary, many
signatures shows power in numbers. When those same parties walk into the
court room with you, it is impressive. In some cases it scares the Hell out of
judges, like seeing someone taking notes among the People waiting for their
case to be called. Having a large number of witnesses also intimidates the judge
into thinking about what he is doing, taking him out of his comfort zone.
After the witness signatures is the challenge to rebut and time for rebuttal. In this
example they are given 15 days. If you are really pressed for time to complete
the default, then you would give less time, but never less than 10 days generally.
Don’t procrastinate here as it can mean the difference in winning or losing of
course, get your paper moving. Stipulation means they accept it as true.
“joined the true party of interest” Now remember there are two capacities for
government which is one party and you are the other party. You and the
government capacity are not the all caps representation they have prescribed to
you and it and you have made this clear as well as you positive status. You and
it have not voluntarily joined and therefore the court must join you per the rules.
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So, it appears as there are no parties and if there are no parties there is no case
and it is a void proceeding.
“sua sponte for failure to join an indispensable party, rule 19, rule 12 (b) (6),
and as such relieves the court of jurisdiction over the parties under rule 12
(b) (2).” When the court acts on its own accord it is called sua sponte. When
the court sees it has no properly identified and joined parties it lacks jurisdiction
and must dismiss by its rules.
The last paragraph is a protest of the way the traffic court acts upon the people
generally in mixed war with summary judgment in proprietary manner and
capacity, akin to a dictatorship.
“suae potestate esse” is Latin and means the lawful competent power exists
herein with reference to the signer or literally his power exists. In other words
the Superior Sovereign.
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Lesson 5 Motions to dismiss, a way out for judge.
The motions to dismiss are primarily to give the judge an easy way out of his
mess without attaching a smell to himself. They are additive to, but not an
absolute essential part of the default.
Additionally, read your state constitution and see what the prescribed process
name of the state is. Then determine if they are following the constitutional
process by specified name (exactly in words and spelling case). You might need
to look for a traffic ticket, not on the road hopefully, but ask your friends if they
have a copy of one for you to look at. If you are in a group, that might be the
best place to ask.
If worse came to worse you could take your digital camera down to local police
station and ask them if they would show you an example for you to photocopy.
This will give them something to talk about for a long time and ponder why you
are interested. Please don’t tell them the secrets you know, it is better for them
to be dumb as a post, as they obviously are.
If you can’t find another way, when you see a cop in a reduced speed zone or
school zone, just step on the gas, be sure to squeal your tires if you can or honk
the horn if you have ABS brakes so you get his attention and you will get your
own copy of one. Make sure there is no one who can get hurt when you do this
however.
A safer way would be to take off your plates, drive to the local police station and
park crossways in the middle of the road straddling the yellow line and blocking
traffic in both directions. Honk you horn from time to time or activate your
antitheft alarm and wave an American flag out your window to get those inside to
look out. Be sure that the back of the car faces the police station for maximum
effect. This should also give them something to talk about around the water
cooler for some time to come.
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Lesson 5 MOTIONS TO DISMISS, A WAY OUT FOR JUDGE
Motions to dismiss give a easy way out for judge, in case he needs one. They
have virtually nothing to do with the default itself, but they do bring the law into
the case.
The two cases represented in the files in Mtd.txt and Mtd1.txt were Dana Beaver
(an American Indian Citizen) and Wendy Dixon a driver without a license who
never had a Washington license to drive and traveled by right.
Due Process
Don’t dwell on this issue however as it is only necessary to object. When you
object, you always explain why. A naked objection is without meaning and only
amounts to a veiled protest. It is grounds for dismissal in case for failure to
prosecute.
Motions themselves are consecutive so if you did motions in the refusal for fraud,
you need to start here with the sequential appropriate number if the motions have
not been heard yet.
Some of the common motions made in the refusal for fraud are:
Misidentification
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Lack or failure to establish probable cause for the stop.
Using forms or acts not authorized by code or statute during the traffic
stop.
All of these Motions can be established within several days after the arrest, some
before the fact by research in anticipation of the event. I recommend that you do
some basic research in your codes to see and be aware of what they say before
the event. For instance you can run a form search in the code for the name of
the ticket. In Washington it is a “Washington Uniform Court Docket” which
appears no place in the code, so they can’t have authority to issue it. Remember
the law is to limit and DEFINE government. They have to have authority for
everything they do.
As I explained earlier, the code describes the process of the ticket by the officer
who makes the complaint and in this case, it says that the arrested person will
sign a “receipt of notice of traffic infraction” and such doesn’t exist, so you are not
required to sign anything. Most of the code is this way, it misleads you into
thinking you have to do things that aren’t actually what you could be required to
do. They know this, they could change it but they won’t because it works 99.99%
of the time and doesn’t infringe on individual protected freedoms.
The legislature does change things though when it starts impacting them
financially at times for instance they removed the definition of money because
too many were using it to show them their money fraud. They really didn’t
change a thing, they just took the definition out of the code but it still exists in the
Federal code, since the Feds really control the money supply.
Be sure to be familiar with the court rules and determine if the hearings are
criminal or civil as the protections are different for the two and the procedure as
well in some states. Most states have reduced these acts to a bastard
somewhere between the two called infractions. It is not important what they call
it as long as you know the court rules.
In infraction cases the probable cause portion is fulfilled with the filing of the
complaint by the officer or his representative. In criminal cases you are entitled
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to a probable cause hearing after any arrest. They will not likely give you one
and it mostly a waste of your resources unless you want to press a point, or
move for a preliminary dismissal with a strong point or two at issue.
The same goes for Bills of Particulars, which is nothing more than the elements
of the offense. In criminal trials jury instructions are a necessary part of the
establishment of what the jury will hear. Both the Plaintiff and the Defendant
should submit instructions by filing them with the court clerk prior to hearing,
according to court rule. Jury instructions then are joined by argument for and
against specific parts by the judge into a package.
There is a book called “Patent Jury Instructions” usually in the law library but
sometimes on the net, which you can use for a reference for the crime charged.
You can add your own made up jury instructions for special issues in the cause.
You need to object to any disapproval of your instructions on foundational
grounds of law.
As I explained earlier in the case of Charlie who was accused of assault, these
are vitally important in all criminal trials. It can make the difference in winning or
losing. In Charlie’s case he forced the court to consider the defenses to assault
which caused the crooked prosecutor to drop the case.
Motions to Dismiss
The Motions to Dismiss is to give the judge a way out with grace. It also serves
as points of contention and foundation in which to appeal or petition and enforce
the lower court Petition for Writ of Mandamus. You can’t appeal something not
brought up in the lower court, so this lays a foundation in law in case in the rare
instance the judge is a revenue agent. It is up to you to force him to move your
way, and weak undemanding paper never accomplishes the relief pleaded.
A word about pleading and argument. These are two words you never want to
use in any paper. Only lawyers argue, plead and pray, People do not. Lawyers
are required to represent artificial entities because an artificial entity obviously
can’t represent itself because it is a fiction. Artificial entities are creations of
government therefore need to bow and pray to their creator (god), pay tribute and
beg for relief. There is no need for the Sovereign Man to argue, there is no
argument but there may be logical reasoning. Whatever you do, don’t use
lawyers trash like, “Comes now” which means nothing.
In addressing judges, don’t ever call a judge, “your honor”, talk to them like they
were your public servant. Likely there is no honor in the judge although rarely
you will find one that should be called “your honor” by attorneys. Talk to the
judge like you would talk to your child and you will find you will be respected for
not kissing butt, like lawyers need to do because they make their living there at
the pleasure of the judge. A judge can ruin an attorney but he can’t hurt you,
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unless you get out of order and there is no reason for you to kiss his boots. That
doesn’t mean however that you can abuse the relationship anymore than the
relation with a friend. Behave yourself and expect the public servant judge to do
the same.
Public servants, need to be called such so they are reminded often what their
role is, this includes prosecutors. Use those words in your paper freely and
liberally. Even the court recognized this relationship to wit:
"We tend to overlook the basic political and legal reality that the people,
not the bureaucracy, are the sovereign. Our Federal Government was
created for the security and happiness of the people. Executives,
lawmakers, and members of the Judiciary are inferior in the sense that
they are in office only to carry out and execute the constitutional regime."
Schlesinger v. Reservists Committee to Stop the War, 418 U.S. 208,
232-3 (1974)
The motions start off with identification and intent, state conflicts in law, facts and
objections. For instance in the case of Wendy Dixon, notice she appeared
against her will by TDC, the reason was to protect life, liberty and property
(interests) and she is objecting to the fact that the prosecutor was not there for
the arraignment, so a breach of due process right to adversarial trial was noted
for the record. Notice she is now injured (aggrieved) and the court is now without
immunity because it was done in private party capacity outside official duty, thus
the court lacked jurisdiction.
“Wendy Dixon, having appeared under threat, duress, and coercion, only
to protect Aggrieved Defendant's interests, without any appearance of an
adverse party, where the Judge was not an impartial party, but also
prosecution, which is a conflict of interests and gives rise to violation of
due process rights of the alleged defendant, who is now aggrieved
because of such impartiality, and as such this court has lost immunity and
any preconceived jurisdiction.
This particular case was a criminal case of driving without a driver’s license but
that was all that was cited, so they couldn’t have known that before the stop. I
think they made the excuse there was a headlight out. Notice in this case we
asked for a bill of particulars which we never got. Notice also that we specify
what the elements of the crime should be in all cases, an injured party and intent
which are requirements for all mala in se crimes as opposed to malum prohibitum
crimes. The prosecutor is well aware of these two classes and he isn’t going to
let the cat out of the bag by admission that it is a malum prohibitum crime
because he can’t make any excuses that he didn’t know the difference. Further
he knows that only artificial entities are subject to this class of crimes. Refer to
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Prohibitum.zip in the files section of the group homepage. The link is at the
bottom of every group email for your convenience.
If you are not given a bill of particulars, you wouldn’t understand the crime you
are accused of and without that knowledge you can’t prepare an defence, so you
would be prejudiced (hampered) and indicates that the prosecution doesn’t have
a case against you or he would draw one up real quick and get it to you. Notice
we use “Aggrieved Defendant” which is evidence that Wendy is already injured.
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Probable cause determination in this bastard infraction jurisdiction is done by
filing the ticket in a reasonable amount of time. This is necessary for two
reasons. One the clock starts running for all process from the time of the arrest.
And second, there is only so much time before the court must conclude the
hearings or face dismissal for lack of due process, speedy process and trial. The
court rules call for dismissal if the ticket isn’t filed timely, so we always check and
about half the time they fail to file it. The same process applies to these quasi-
criminal and traffic civil citations. Even a criminal conviction for driving without
license will not show up in a criminal record unless things have changed recently,
which shows they are not really criminal but they make the show to scare People
who are ignorant of the facts.
Here, we let them know, we know what they are doing under the common law
which they know is the only law that can apply to the Man or Woman. They will
never admit it was an arrest or seizure because that sounds like an affront to
life, liberty and property, but it is true and if you read the code it will tell it like it is.
99.9999% of the People are ignorant of the code or even the meaning of these
terms. We also let them know we are injured by a criminal act of obtaining a
signature under TDC, which we have already discussed at length.
Here we incorporate by reference to the motions not having been heard from the
Refusal for Fraud if you did one, into one giant group of motions which is
overwhelming to most prosecutors and judges. You should be able to come up
with a dozen or more motions in most cases and a few more in an insurance
case which is discussed later in this lesson. So the first motion would be “Motion
4” in this case.
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for hearing on the merits.”
Lack of due process loses court jurisdiction in the cause so we remind them and
in this case it is demanded according to court rule and the court knows it.
The court is cutting a fat hog, at least trying to cut corners to make the court
more profitable by using the judge without an adversary as required by due
process, thus the prosecutor having failed to establish jurisdiction in the cause
gives rise to the motion to dismiss.
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arresting officer. The court will make a findings of fact and
conclusions at law as provided by Rule 3.6. Included in such
finding of fact and conclusions at law will be some lawful
justification for the city of Tenino to blatantly violate
Article 1 § 24 of the State Constitution, which declares that no
corporation shall hire and maintain an armed body of men. Such
constitutional abuse of war powers is further grounds for
suppression.”
Again this motion is set up in the Affidavit of Truth. The reference to the Flag is
that I printed a color picture of a flag on the upper right had side of the paper
above the caption. No government has a right to make mixed war upon the
People.
In every criminal case the judge must by rule and law explain the cause to the
Defendant (notice capitalization of all reference to the Superior Sovereign). You
must understand what you are charged with to understand how to defend. The
Bill of Particulars does this in great detail, but if the judge neglects to ask you in
open court if you understand the charges it is fatal to the cause. The only
remedy they have upon realization of this fact is to start with arraignment all over
but if there isn’t enough time for a speedy trial, they must dismiss.
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“Aggrieved Defendant further motions the court to inform this
Citizen of the penalty to be sought and such statutory authority for any
assessments over and in addition to those amounts of bail prescribed by
Rule 3.2. (m) (4).”
The legislature removed this code from the law because of our shoving it down
their gullets, however removing it does little as I have said because it is codified
from the federal code and common law. This puts them in a bind because you
can ask them for a specific order in what kind of money they will accept, FRNs
not being one of them, thus they can be set up for a very interesting default and
void judgment which they often don’t want to chance.
Here once again we have discussed the fact that there are “zero hits” in the code
on the form the cop issues which therefore is evidence that he has no authority to
issue it. If he issues a form for which he has no authority to do, he actually voids
his acts by acting in private capacity without office and has arrested and seized
you without authority in law.
If you don’t note your motions for hearing the court has no duty to hear them per
the rules of court process. This can be done either in the motion with a note to
the clerk in the caption, or in the paper if body if there is already a hearing
scheduled by the court. It can also be a separate captioned paper devoted solely
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to that purpose. Be sure you serve a copy of everything to the office of
prosecutor.
The above motions are noted for hearing on 30 October 1996, with
oral argument, however if the court deems a more
appropriate time before or within a week of the 30 October
hearing, Defendant will allow such latitude, as the time to hear
twelve motions with oral argument and witness testimony may be
considerable.”
Here we hit them where it hurts, we subpoena our witness who is going to testify
as to his criminal conduct. We double our bet with a prescription for a long
hearing and trial which is going to take away he profit motive. The court rules
generally require you to apply to the court for any subpoena because you are the
Superior Sovereign although they claim that attorneys have the power and you
don’t. The truth is, the court is duty bound to do it for you but not attorneys.
“SUBPOENA OF WITNESSES
Here we object generally to the way the court operates and that we will exercise
our right to take the matter another step higher which reduces the profit motive
and ties up the prosecutor in low priority cases which he hasn’t the time to
effectively prosecute. You lay the foundation by objecting specifically to the
actions of the court letting them know due process is lacking. Just the fact you
do this, lets them know you are serious and gives them incentive to dismiss.
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This one is based on the speedy trial rule in Washington called the “Striker Rule”
from the case by the same name where the court outlined the speedy trial rule
based on Supreme court decisions. The important part of the rule is that time
starts at the time of arrest which in traffic stops is the stop itself.
Notice this is a little different than Wendy’s motion in that we call into account
their knowledge that they must know what they are doing as they are trained in
the law and we label it as a racket and fraud with intent to injure and that we
intend to file a criminal cause against the court and all other actors. This is a
pretty powerful motion and sure to draw some serious thought of what could
happen to them if the right prosecutor got a hold of this and they all have
enemies. They also don’t know who you know and certainly don’t know that you
know no one who could or would go after them, but the uncertainly will likely
weigh in on what they do with the consequences of their actions. In Dana’s case
they decided to dismiss and this court was known as being one of the worst.
Insurance cases give rise to some interesting motions to dismiss although there
are no examples here, these are the most noteworthy.
Indemnification is important so you ask the court if they are willing to indemnify
an insurance company so you don’t waste any of your resources on one. If the
law requires you to buy insurance it should make sure to indemnify it so you don’t
loose any value in your assets. They won’t of course.
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know none are, and they never will do the fair thing and recommend a perfect
one.
Limited coverage is only available for a reasonable price and you certainly can’t
afford a full coverage policy and they don’t require it. So, the fact that it is limited
means you still could loose everything you own because of that limitation so the
whole concept loses creditability and they have no answer as to how you can
effectively unlimitedly cover or effectively cover anyone.
The general idea here is to tell the court you are perfectly willing to obtain
insurance if the court will Indemnify the company, recommend one which is
approved which won’t bankrupt you in the process of a claim, which is certified
reputable, stable enough and in which can satisfy any claim.
Wendy’s husband got a $500 ticket for no insurance and he used my paper and
the judge didn’t allow him to say a word (fortunately) and dismissed quickly.
Once time has expired on rebutting the affidavit, then you need to notice your
adversary that they are in default and need to cure their neglect or refusal or
experience a final default. We are totally upfront with what we are doing to them.
They have adequate notice and have a ministerial duty to show us where we are
wrong, otherwise they don’t prosecute the case and it is dead.
Your homework assignments is to see if you can find any reference in your state
codes defining “money” and report to the lawwork group what you find for your
particular state.
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Since I have already done this for those in Washington, your assignment is to
find and report all the statutory additions which are defined in the code which can
be added to bail amount as prescribed by the Washington Supreme court in the
CRLJ rules.
Note: that the Supreme court often compares the laws of other states in cases it
decides, so you can as well to establish your points of law.
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Lesson 6
Should the prosecutor defend, which is rare, you need to be aware of what the
court has said about Rule 56:
Motion to dismiss or for summary judgment are dispositive issues because they
prevent remedy in the matter. Note that there has to be some certain amount of
discovery or some facts placed before the court for the court to make a
determination on the dispositive motion. Thus the affidavit of truth and the
motions to dismiss themselves are supported by facts necessary for them to
granted.
Plan your time frame to be as liberal as you can. Remember if the case falls into
an equity situation, you want to be with clean hands and giving equity, however it
should stay naturally on the law side of the court. Don’t jump the gun here, while
the prosecutor rarely responds, they certainly can if they feel frivolous or have
some time on their hands to play with you.
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“Notice is hereby given that a default exists,
upon failure of the prosecution to rebut the Affidavit of Truth
of Aggrieved Defendant submitted the 19th day of March 1997,
with lawful evidence to the contrary of this affidavit, within
TEN DAYS.”
If there is no rebuttal, the affidavit is the facts of the case. There is a fault here
as the affidavit gives reason to suspect the sufficiently of the complaint and
summons
The court rules on default, very often lay the responsibility upon the clerk to enter
the default when it appears by affidavit that the default actually occurred. That
isn’t hard to show in a case such as this and the only remedy is to set aside the
default for good cause. Good cause might be evident from a materially false
affidavit, some violation of the court rules, lack of due process in gaining the
default, or it could be because of some disability upon the office of the prosecutor
but such is rare indeed.
The only real issue in which the judge needs to get involved is where there is a
monetary judgment to be made, such as a tort complaint. The rules make
provision for a trial to fix the amounts of such complaints so the clerk is relieved
of the duty in that case. The reason for this is that it is the duty of the court to
protect the property of the People from being taken advantage of by unrealistic
judgments.
For an example of this kind of situation, let’s say you don’t pay your rent, but
refuse to vacate the home and the landlord brings an action against you for
eviction and judgment on the bill you owe. You default on both accounts, so it is
necessary for an order from the judge giving authority to the sheriff to displace
you and collect the debt.
However, in a complaint, the landlord could very easily inflate the amount of the
debt to an unreasonable amount upon which the judge would inquire as to the
amount being excessive. When you default, the remedy asked for in the
complaint is granted without trial, but if it is out of line, the judge must stand
accountable on implication in any fraud.
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It matters little if the court is administrative or judicial in reality as the process is
the same in fact. To illustrate this fact the FMC case is one of the best, although
there are others.
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rule [535 U.S. 759] upon offers of proof . . . and dispose of any
other matter that normally and properly arises in the course of
proceedings.
This shows us the administrative and judicial rules are mostly identical as a
means to effect due process. As I have mentioned before the traffic stop
administrative judgment occurs at the traffic stop with the officer and the trial is
merely a quasi-appeal of that judgment, is a de novo proceeding as it is assumed
that the officer’s complaint is final.
The summonsed party can convert the complaint to administrative judgment by,
simply defaulting on the provision to demand a trial on the issue and paying the
fine to the court. In this manner, you judge yourself, and default on any defense.
This provides easy money for the court and a self judgment.
Notice also the standard for actions not spelled out in the regulations are to
follow to the rules of civil court rules. Thus a default of the prosecutor can be
applied to this cause and any other administrative (does IRS ring any bells)
cause if such is not presented in the regulations or code, simply default by court
rule.
We exploit the opportunity to be heard on the issues. Our issues are not so
much the facts of the case as the law of the cause. In all cases of default, it is
necessary to exploit the weaknesses of the adversaries fact and law in the case.
The first step is to draw up specific issues which box the adversary into a position
of compromise, where they can’t win if they participate.
You should by now see the implication of this process to many other
controversies in which we are forced into by government. In prior lessons on the
affidavit, we brought out the fact that we claim not to be a party to the body
corporate or politic. In lesson 4, we showed where there are two capacities to all
government, that of the corporate proprietary side and the government side. It
should be obvious by now that this procedure exploits the corporate proprietary
side and that the government police power side is not the source of the
complaint.
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Under the common law, you were free to move about freely as long as you didn’t
hamper or injure your neighbor or fellow man in the process. That law has not
really changed today but because of the expanse of corporate existence and
greed for revenue, we have used the excuse of prior restraint to justify frequent
stops under some of the most trivial of excuses. These laws are nothing more
than taxation laws for the most part provided by corporate entities by-laws which
codes are an illusion of real law (see code.txt in L1.zip).
PRIVATE LAW
In the court rules you might see rules about pleading private law. To understand
what private law is we need to look at what the court has said about it, lest we
even be unaware or ignorance of its existence.
While this case is talking about a British case, it is none the less generic to this
lesson to show the nature of private or quasi-private municipal corporations
which function with some degree of government authority. You should be able to
see now that what we perceived as government police power is not what it
appears to be, but in some cases is an application of private law.
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rendered invalid simply because those whom the regulation is designed to
safeguard may elect to forgo its protection. New Motor Vehicle Bd. v
Orrin W. Fox Co., 439 U.S. 96 (1978).
Thus we see that privilege and such laws to protect enterprise such as landlords
are private law as well as law which allow for enforcing damages to private rights
(1983 civil rights). Lien laws for mechanic liens are private law, as well as
mortgage laws to protect lenders. Some private law is readily identifiable, but
some is obscure.
If body politic doesn’t ring a bell here, it should. As shown in these cases there is
private law and public law. There is proprietary law and government police
powers. Don’t let the name “police” equate to all law enforced by law enforcers.
There is positive law to provide for the protection of society such as the criminal
code and there is proprietary law meant to protect, limit and define agencies of
government such as the Internal Revenue Code.
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These words of Dr. Whewell, which occur in his vill and in the statute
regulating his professorship, undoubtedly contain both a condemnation
and a direction. International Law in its earlier stages was developed by a
method of treatment which has been applied to many important subjects
of thought when their growth has reached the point at which they are
included in books to theology, to morals, and even, in some cases, to
positive private law. International law lecture at Neuschwanstein
Castle - Bavaria, Germany - McMaster University Archive for Economic
Thought.
THE rights, the powers, the duties, and the privileges of ambassadors are
determined by the law of nature and nations, and not by any municipal
constitutions. For, as they represent the persons of their respective
matters, who owe no subjection to any laws but those of their own country,
their actions are not subject to the control of the private law of that state,
wherein they are appointed to reside. The Rights of Persons, Book 1
Chapter 7 Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England
For instance the Washington Constitution gives the People the right to make law,
not the legislature, at least since just after 1910. I think the People didn’t trust
the legislature and made the amendment to destroy their power. All Washington
code is traced back to the Remington Revised Code which was the territorial
code at the time of statehood. The lawmakers in Washington are nothing more
than puppet code revisers. The reason I call them puppets, is because they work
largely at the pleasure of the AG, Governor and Sec. of State to do their bidding.
I have already given you an example of this when they deleted the code
definition of “money” because of the trouble it was causing being quoted in
numerous law cases.
The fact that the judge in a case got extremely hot when we used Constitutional
process on him was an indication that he was supporting nothing but “private
law” and not public law. This case was a child custody case which of course
deals with the state interest in protecting minors from a marriage corporation
which was dissolved in divorce. The process defined by the Constitution is, “The
State of Washington” and the process they use is, “STATE OF WASHINGTON”.
In light of what I have said, does it now make sense they are acting on the
corporate side?
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Now think of the case in Lesson 4 about the two capacities of government, the
specified constitutional process specified for the state, and the Clearfield
Doctrine and see if you can’t tie them all together in your mind. It should be
rather obvious that the reason you think the courts are corrupt is because they
are supporting the legislature and its corporate by-laws while you think the court
is sitting under constitutional law. Now that you know the difference, with this
process you can exploit the weakness of the proprietary capacity of the courts.
Of course all this is largely unknown by the People at large, but understanding all
the complications of the law system is the key to knowing how to use it. While I
don’t advocate we use this information directly, it does help you to understand
the fraud involved and to counter it with knowledge that you are right. Being right
and confident in what you are doing shows in court and it is this confidence that
causes a loss of confidence in what they are doing.
Even if you don’t know what you are doing, you need to show confidence in what
you are doing. If you don’t believe in it, then study it till you do, which may mean
going far beyond the bounds of this course. Some of the study tools in the L
series files and on the lawwork group files section as well as the lawworks group
posts which are only my posts will help you in this quest.
It is essential that you know at least the basics of your codes, like who is a
resident for license and registration purposes, what the traffic stop actually
represents (arrest) and what the limitations are on the actors who bring a case
against you including the court by its own rules.
When you walk into the court room, be alert and listen carefully to what is
happening and the demeanor of the judge and prosecutor. Most People are
there to plead for mercy, but they know you are there not to so plead, so they will
likely save you to last. If they call you earlier, it probably means they are going to
summarily dismiss your case with just a few words and you won’t be called upon
to defend.
It is to their advantage to keep what you are doing from the general knowledge of
the People in the court room, so by quick dismissal it prevents any discussion on
the matters before the court. Can you imagine how it would look for you to
demand your due process because you defaulted the prosecutor instead of him
prosecuting you, in a packed court room?
So, when you go to court, try to have a support group established to pack the
court. You would be surprised how this helps your case especially if they are
taking notes. Let there be a lot of witnesses.
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When your turn does come, be prepared to look like a polished serious
contender. You will walk up to the defense table like it is your courtroom (literally
is) and sit down relaxed and confident. You will open your folder and lay out your
papers for ready reference should the need arise. Do not rise to talk like the
prosecutor will, stay sitting and if you can recline a little in the chair. This could
be a preliminary hearing like arraignment or it could be later in the proceedings,
but hopefully by this time you will have the prosecutor in default.
If you don’t have the default finished at a preliminary hearing, it will just be a
matter of saying you are not guilty of any violation of law. If you have the default
finished you will be concentrating on the Petition and nothing else. It is temping
to bring up the motions to dismiss, however you want to refrain on that score till
you take care of the Petition for Writ of Mandamus as that is the deciding issue at
this point. Remember, I told you the motions to dismiss were just a way out for
the judge, so don’t dwell on them.
Do not at any time address the judge as, “Your Honor”. It should be evident that
there is no honor in most judges and even the few that have some, still abuse
their office.
In a later lesson we will explore the objections for refusal to honor your Petition.
Many of these objections are self evident.
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Next Lesson 7: THE FINAL DEFAULT AT LAW
The final default is the “coup de grace” of the process because you have
succeeded in your goal to default the prosecutor, which puts you in command.
The one who moves his paper is usually the winner in any case. Remember,
don’t sit and wait for something to happen, take the lead away from your
opponent.
Homework assignment is search for any reference to private law pleading in your
court rules and code. If you don’t know what the Clearfield doctrine is, look that
up as well.
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Lesson 7: THE FINAL DEFAULT AT LAW
The final default, “NOTICES the prosecution that a FINAL DEFAULT is noted for
the record.
In this case, they didn’t join JOHN WAMBOLT because no such entity exists.
This is affirmed in the affidavit of truth. JOHN WAMBOLT would be an
indispensable party to the case and they know the entity doesn’t physically exist
nor is it registered as a corporation with the state. The fiction nor the Man are
proper parties to the suit.
If no such entity exists, then they fail to state a claim upon which relief can be
given. You can’t make a claim against a pure fiction, like making claim against
Mickey Mouse who only exists as a figment of someone’s imagination. They
could claim you were Mickey Mouse but it would be ridiculous to the extreme.
Thus the claim they make is an outright fraud. In other words, try collecting a
judgment from Mickey Mouse.
The court has claimed jurisdiction to hear a case against JOHN WAMBOLT but it
(entity) is nowhere to be found, so there can’t be personal jurisdiction and if there
isn’t personal jurisdiction, there is no subject matter nor rem jurisdiction either.
The state or its subdivisions have no war powers but they perpetrate a state of
mixed war upon the People. In other words, there is no constitutional or statute
authority to wage war against you at any level of government.
Again we show them that John Wambolt is severable because his law is not the
proprietary corporate law of the state and its subdivisions, but only of his Creator.
We have backed up all the facts by affidavit, there is nowhere for the court to turn
as there is no foundation laid by the prosecutor and instead he has defaulted.
We will cover “severability” later in this lesson.
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“Wherefore in the interest of justice the court must dismiss
the case sua sponte. Any refusal to ministerially dismiss shows bias and
prejudice and perjury of oath of office, causing an
actionable injury to the Defendant through and by use of war
powers.”
The term sua sponte means on the courts own power or prerogative. Here we
also show an injury with open intent, if the court doesn’t dismiss by ministerial
duty. A ministerial duty required by law or logical reason can be effectively
mandated by Petition for Writ of Mandamus.
Once a final default is found there is no more representation by the default party
by law. It is finished, done and can only be set aside by motion with good cause
shown.
Severablity
All governments have instituted severability clauses to protect its law (code) from
challenge, and fraudulently apply its law against the Citizen, who is not subject to
its venue or jurisdiction, without a First Amendment complaint of injury. Such
severability clauses make it impossible for the Citizens to attack the code as
unconstitutional, not applicable to People generally or outside the lawful exercise
of government powers.
The severability clause is not part of the law but an addition to it to protect it from
judicial attack, such that every Citizen in the land would have to attack it and
every aspect of it to remove it, creating impossibility in law and outright fraud.
“Severability -- 1977 ex.s. c 336: "If any provision of this 1977 amendatory
act, or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the
remainder of the act, or the application of the provision to other persons or
circumstances is not affected." [1977 ex.s. c 336 § 8.]”
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“Relying on BCRA's severability provision,{FN 80} the court held that
invalidation of the executory contracts subsection did not render the
balance of BCRA's amendments to FECA § 304 unconstitutional. 251
F.Supp.2d at 242 (per curiam).
FN 8. § 1870.19 SEVERABILITY
Should any provision of this Chapter be construed by any court of
law to be invalid, illegal, unconstitutional, or otherwise unenforceable,
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such invalidity, illegality, unconstitutionality, or unenforceability shall not
extend to any other provision or provisions of this Chapter.”
Akron v. Akron center for Reproductive Health, Inc., 462 U.S. 416
(1983)
Thus we can see the clause is found in all levels of code and ordinance, is
rampant in effect and gives the law 99.99999% mortality in fact. If the court finds
a part unconstitutional, it then goes about an analysis to determine how narrow
the severable part can be, such as not to destroy any more than absolutely
necessary so the rest can stand.
One of the colonists worst fears was loss of life, liberty and property and such
was to be protected in the new World. To be sure they purposely and expressly
set out in our common law to set limits of the abuses of government. Of course
everyone knows today, as they have throughout the history of this nation, speedy
trial is a basic right.
Recent events have lead to a steady breakdown of those long established rights
with many exceptions to the rule of law. Court rules are purposely misleading
and economic necessity moves unscrupulous prosecutors to fudge on the rule to
make a heavy workload generated by overzealous police actions into a
manageable schedule.
Speedy trial is not only a part of the trial itself but all phases of the prosecution
from the start to the finish of the prosecution involvement in the case. “Failure to
Prosecute” can be fatal to the cause as well as failure of the court to hold
hearings on matters time limited by rule and long establish practice.
Thus “Speedy Trial” is not just the culminating assembly of witnesses and proof
offered for conviction, but the whole process started from the moment in time
there is a threat to life, liberty or property. Failure to Prosecute is the common
denominator of the default itself and is evidenced by prosecutions failure to abide
by the rules of common law.
Several court cases show this progression although the rule still holds by threads
and it is our duty to support and defend that rule by expounding it when the
opportunity is at hand. Not only is actual trial itself subject to the rule, but
bringing the case to the court in the first place, arraignments and probable cause
hearings as well. As promised in lesson 3, we will now examine Speedy Process
or Speedy Trial Rights.
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Bringing the complaint; immediate within two days with the only justification for
delay being investigation.
In Washington as well as most states, if you are physically arrested, taken into
custody and placed into confinement, you can’t be forgotten under the law of the
land. Within two days, you are to be brought before a magistrate for a probable
cause hearing.
This probable cause hearing should be immediate however in the case where
false arrest is maintained by logical reason and notice, it is imperative. Because
judges don’t like to work around the clock as they used to, they often delay the
hearing till the last minute to fit their schedule. However the common law
demands otherwise.
“It was the purpose of the Fourth Amendment to put this matter beyond
time, place and judicial predilection, incorporating the traditional common
law guarantees against unlawful arrest. The Court says not a word about
these guarantees, and they are determinative. Gerstein's approval of a
"brief period" of delay to accomplish "administrative steps incident to an
arrest" is already a questionable extension of the traditional formulation,
though it probably has little practical effect, and can perhaps be justified
on de minimis grounds. {FN2} To expand Gerstein, however, into an
authorization for 48-hour detention related neither to the obtaining of a
magistrate nor the administrative "completion" of the arrest seems to me
utterly unjustified. Mr. McLaughlin was entitled to have a prompt impartial
determination that there was reason to deprive him of his liberty -- not
according to a schedule that suits the State's convenience in piggybacking
various proceedings, but as soon as his arrest was completed and the
magistrate could be procured.
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FN 2. Ordinarily, I think, there would be plenty of time for "administrative
steps" while the arrangements for a hearing are being made. But if, for
example, a magistrate is present in the precinct and entertaining probable
cause hearings at the very moment a wrongfully arrested person is
brought in, I see no basis for intentionally delaying the hearing in order to
subject the person to a cataloging of his personal effects, fingerprinting,
photographing, etc. He ought not be exposed to those indignities if there
is no proper basis for constraining his freedom of movement, and if that
can immediately be determined.” Scalia J dissent in County of Riverside
v McLaughlin, 500 U.S. 44 (1991) quoting Gerstein v. Pugh, 420 U.S.
103 (1975).
The common law requires, and is codified in the state codes, upon a warrantless
arrest, you will be taken directly and without delay to a magistrate for probable
cause hearing. This doesn’t include booking or any other processing. Here
Justice Scalia echoes the common law. This procedure however is seldom
followed law because the judges do not want to service the system all hours of
the day or disrupt their schedules. Liberty is no longer so sacred as to require
around the clock service but enforcement is so important that it does require it.
This modern concept sets up dictatorial draconian standards of due process.
As one lawyer put it, this prays upon those too weak either in knowledge, time or
ability to defend themselves and is abused by overzealous enforcers. This was
in response to a complaint against a Korean POW veteran who had had a stroke,
heart attack and had to walk with a walker but lived independent. He had put a
tarp over his driveway to keep it dry to aid in secure footing and had been
ordered by a code enforcer to remove it or face daily fines.
At one time, I was arrested on a bogus warrant and taken to jail to be transported
to another county. I demanded to be taken directly and without delay to a
magistrate or judge to explain why the warrant was defective, but the cops
refused to take me anywhere but jail so they could get back to work harassing
the populous. I sued them in Federal court and never had a problem after that,
even though I lost the suit.
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Federal Speedy Trial
The landmark decision which established the rock solid right to speedy trial is
Klopfer v. North Carolina, 386 U.S. 213, 221-222 (1967), and notice this was a
case of failure to prosecute.
“We, too, believe that the position taken by the court below was
erroneous. The petitioner is not relieved of the limitations placed upon his
liberty by this prosecution merely because its suspension permits him to
go "whithersoever he will." The pendency of the indictment may subject
him to public scorn and deprive him of employment, and almost certainly
will force curtailment of his speech, associations and participation in
unpopular causes. By indefinitely prolonging this oppression, as well as
the "anxiety and concern accompanying public accusation,"{FN 6} the
criminal procedure condoned in this case by the Supreme Court of North
Carolina clearly denies the petitioner the right to a speedy trial which we
hold is guaranteed to him by the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution of
the United States.”
The common law time for speedy trial is established (codified) by Congress in the
Speedy Trial Act as explained by US v Rojas-Contreras, 474 U.S. 231 (1985)
(Emphasis added.) It is clear that Congress knew how to provide for the
computation of time periods under the Act relative to the date of an
indictment.”
Thus we can see the application of the rule, the time starts at the filing date when
the Man first becomes amendable to the court which is normally when the arrest
is made or information / indictment is filed with the court. The later reference to
appearing before the judicial officer is in reference to a probable cause hearing
upon a warrantless arrest. In any event, the time between these events are
generally negligible.
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Any delays between filing of the information or indictment and trial are dealt with
on the basis of expression of rights and damage factors. Also a speedy trial
doesn’t mean immediate, the federal law requires at least a 30 day preparation
period for the Defendant-Respondent so there is no railroading to trial.
“We can do little more than identify some of the factors which courts
should assess in determining whether a particular defendant has been
deprived of his right. Though some might express them in different ways,
we identify four such factors: length of delay, the reason for the delay, the
defendant's assertion of his right, and prejudice to the defendant. {FN 30}
The length of the delay is to some extent a triggering mechanism.
Until there is some delay which is presumptively prejudicial, there is no
necessity for inquiry into the other factors that go into the balance.
Nevertheless, because of the imprecision of the right to speedy trial, the
length of delay that will provoke such an inquiry is necessarily dependent
upon the peculiar [407 U.S. 531] circumstances of the case. {FN 31} To
take but one example, the delay that can be tolerated for an ordinary
street crime is considerably less than for a serious, complex conspiracy
charge.
Closely related to length of delay is the reason the government
assigns to justify the delay. Here, too, different weights should be
assigned to different reasons. A deliberate attempt to delay the trial in
order to hamper the defense should be weighted heavily against the
government. {FN 32} A more neutral reason such as negligence or
overcrowded courts should be weighted less heavily but nevertheless
should be considered since the ultimate responsibility for such
circumstances must rest with the government, rather than with the
defendant. Finally, a valid reason, such as a missing witness, should
serve to justify appropriate delay.”
Barker v Wingo, 407 U.S. 514 (1972)
Thus we see on the federal level that the time runs for speedy trial at the filing of
the complaint, but you can’t be railroaded to trial before 30 days and the time for
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trial is within 70 days unless you waive the right to speedy trial in writing or there
are justifiable and non damaging delays.
States have likewise conformed to the speedy trial rule based on the Federal
common law codified example. Most of the state rules cite federal law but differ
to some degrees in times and process.
"Speedy trial" rule of subsection (g)(6) of CrR 3.3 mandates "due diligence" by
state to obtain presence for trial of defendant incarcerated by federal government
or other state. State v. Anderson, 121 Wn.2d 852 (1993)
Speedy trial rule of CrR 3.3/Striker -- "due diligence" of state, or lack thereof,
irrelevant when delay between charge-filing and arraignment is fault of
defendant. State v. Bryant, 74 Wn. App. 301 (Div. I, 1994)
CrR 3.3/Striker speedy trial rule's "due diligence" requirement met with mailing of
notice of arraignment. State v. Hunsaker, 74 Wn. App. 209 (Div. I, 1994)
Note that the notice is rebuttable and if you want to run the statute of limitations
and are not hiding from the authorities, all that is needed is an affidavit that you
didn’t receive it. However if you signed you name to a return receipt, you can’t
say you didn’t get it, because that itself could be rebuttable by the prosecution.
However if you signed it, “UR Fraud”, it would be hard to rebut without producing
an actual witness.
Speedy trial rule of CrR 3.3/Striker not satisfied where summons sent by certified
letter and letter returned unclaimed. State v. Williams, 74 Wn. App. 600 (Div. I,
1994)
"Speedy trial" clock starts with citation issuance, even if citation not filed.
Seattle v. Bonifacio, 127 Wn.2d 482 (1995)
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Bonifacio reinforces the concept that the time starts running from the citation,
thus they can’t come back several months later and try to file the matter, it must
be done timely in all cases. Normally this doesn’t happen where the ticket is not
filed, except in rare cases where something out of the ordinary happens between
the time of citation and the time when the ticket would have been filed. The
important aspect of this case is the time when the clock starts.
Striker speedy trial rule: due diligence lacking where defendant moved back and
forth between Alaska and known residence in Seattle during pertinent time
period. State v. Jones, 79 Wn. App. 7 (Div. I, 1995)
Striker speedy trial "due diligence" failure where state didn’t follow up on
unclaimed certified letter to known or probable addresses. State v. Bazan, 79
Wn. App. 723 (Div. I, 1995)
Striker speedy trial rule deems out-of-state person not "amenable to process".
State v. Cintron-Cartegena, 79 Wn. App. 600 (Div. I, 1995)
Speedy trial: no due diligence problem if address given police is wrong. State v.
Vailencour, 81 Wn. App. 372 (Div. I, 1996)
Nonincarcerated out-of-state time, and in-state time where state does not know
defendant’s whereabouts, don’t count under striker speedy trial rule (CrR 3.3).
State v. Monson, 84 Wn. App. 703 (Div. III, 1997)
"Speedy trial" rule of CrR 3.3(g)(6) for persons incarcerated out of state -- state
failed to exercise due diligence to bring defendant to trial. State v. Simon, 84
Wn. App. 460 (Div. I, 1996)
Electronic home detention not "jail" time for purposes of speedy trial rule. State
v. Perrett, 86 Wn. App. 312 (Div. II, 1997)
These cases show various situations out of the ordinary course of process and
reasons for tolling the statutes and common law on due process. Thus if you are
traveling and get a ticket, you will still be held amendable if stopped in the state
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on a subsequent travel and likely held in jail for trial or subject to release on bail.
In any event, they will get their tax from you. However if you avoid the state you
may have problems with your license and registration in your home state by state
compacts and agreements to support each others process.
Most states have interstate compacts and report all citations and warrants to
other states. While it won’t be worth their efforts to extradite you, it may force
you to submit to trial when it comes time to renew your license and registrations.
You can always try to arrange telephonic trial or paper trial although they might
not agree to it. It would be best to default them anyway, just in case it comes to
an issue.
Line Up Identification
Since we are laying out the law of pretrial process, if the state in discovery
reveals a witness there should be a motion for line up identification with
witnesses in the room with the prosecutor. Obviously, if you have a witness of
your choice with the prosecutions witness when the line up produces the positive
identification there is no room for fraud.
It should be obvious that when a party is put on the stand and you are sitting
alone at the defense table that the witness is going to point to you to identify you
as the guilty party. Prosecutors use this trick constantly and it hangs innocent as
well as guilty Men. The way to stop the abuse is the line up and you should be
aware of that procedure in case it may be necessary.
This line up tool was helpful in one traffic case where a man was ticketed in his
home on a complaint of a stranger several blocks away, when he wasn’t even on
the road at the time. So, it is necessary to know for many cases and someday
your very life might depend on it.
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Lesson 8 ORDER THE CLERK TO ENTER THE DEFAULT BY WRIT
WRIT OF PRAECIPE
We start the Writ by giving a brief history of the case showing the default was
initiated by affidavit, that the errant party was noticed they didn’t prosecute
against the affidavit, they failed to cure their fatal error and now time is over and
you are entitled to have a default judgment entered into the record of the case.
Notice the example, which was a real case which was dismissed by a court
considered “fixed” (to always win) by others, and The Writ says:
This shows the times were appropriate, adequate notice was given and there
could be no good cause to set it aside. In this case we were in a hurry so only
gave 10 days to rebut the affidavit. Normally, you would give more time and give
some time for replay in case it was done by mail.
Next, we order the clerk to enter the default, certify it and notice all parties of
what has happened. If there is some error, this gives the other party notice if
they want to motion to set aside the default and if they don’t, they accept it by
silence. If the clerk does its duty, then you will know it because you will get
notice. This is an extremely easy procedure and not difficult to understand. If
you don’t get notice that the default is entered, then you can be sure it isn’t
however you still need to check the court file itself to make sure of the fact.
It is not necessary to cite court rules as the clerk knows the rules. It is only
necessary to show the record which the clerk can check and see if it is as you
claim, and everything is affirmed so it is all evidence in of the case.
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“3. Seal the Certificate with the seal of the court and send to
parties of interest.”
The certified Certificate of default should bear the court seal. The courts are
reluctant to use the seal and make official records. Evidently the lawyers don’t
want to make real records because they would be open to fault, but by making
records which appear real, they bluff most. Today almost all the courts act
without official paper, paper that looks official but doesn’t bear official seals.
In the rest of the World, paper without wet signature and seal are absolutely
worthless as the paper they are written on. In most parts of the World all officials
have a personal seal, all business do as well and it is used on every transaction
where a guarantee is initiated. All doctors have seals, so if you pay the doctor,
they give you an official receipt with a seal on it. If you don’t do anything official,
you have no trail to your misdeeds, you can always claim it was done unofficially.
VERIFICATIONS
If you claim to be a Superior Sovereign, then you claim penalty under the laws of
the state or US, you are in effect, crossing your claim. Yick Wo claims we are
not subject to those laws but the law of our Creator obviously. So, this is the way
you need to verify and using this it has never been objected to, to my knowledge:
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If you have read your court rules, the last sentence should be familiar because it
parallels the language of the sanction rule 11 and is evidence sufficient that you
can’t be sanctioned because you are not submitting the paper for any malicious
or illegal purpose. Technically, if you use that language you can’t be sanctioned
but in a Star Chamber court.
The famous Star Chamber court in England was so named because it had stars
painted on the ceiling of the court. It was the most obnoxious court in the land
because they ruled strictly on policy and not law. It was a totally lawless court
and thus any lawless court can be called a Star Chamber and all judges know
what the Star Chamber was.
“It is consistent with the history of and the policies underlying the Self-
Incrimination Clause to hold that the privilege may be asserted only to
resist compelled explicit or implicit disclosures of incriminating information.
Historically, the privilege was intended to prevent the use of legal
compulsion to extract from the accused a sworn communication of facts
which would incriminate him. Such was the process of the ecclesiastical
courts and the Star Chamber -- the inquisitorial method of putting the
accused upon his oath and compelling him to answer questions designed
to uncover uncharged offenses, without evidence from another source.
See Andresen v. Maryland, 427 U.S. 463, 470-471 (1976); 8 Wigmore
§ 2250; E. Griswold, The Fifth Amendment Today 2-3 (1955).” U.S. v
Hubbell, 530 U.S. 27 (2000)
Moreover, for the Eighth Amendment to limit cash fines while permitting
limitless in-kind assessments would make little sense, altering only the
form of the Star Chamber abuses that led to the provision of the English
Bill of Rights, from which our Excessive Fines Clause directly derives, see
Browning-Ferris, 492 U.S. at 266-267. Cf. Harmelin v. Michigan, 501
U.S. 957, 978-979 (1991).” Austin v U.S., 509 U.S. 602 (1993).
Once the other party has defaulted, we only send them courtesy copies of the
paper. This is important as you don’t want to give the idea that you defaulted
them and are still serving them what is due them. There is nothing due them and
you are only being nice sending them a copy of your paper, so do make sure it
says “courtesy copy”.
DISCOVERY
There is a rare need for discovery in normal default cases, however there are
always a few rouge judges who want to test you, taking you up to trial, so you
need to know how to conduct discovery to prepare for trial if such is the case.
Discovery is a powerful tool and gives you a wide range of information to defend
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yourself. For instance, in a speeding case, you might want to find out if the radar
was calibrated, who calibrated it last and where it was calibrated which should
appear on paper, so you want a copy of the paper. You also might want to know
the specifications of the gun in particular what the beam width is because there
was heavy traffic at the time. By knowing where the cop was and what the beam
angle is, you can calculate how wide the beam would be at the time he took the
reading.
Sounds a little wild, but in a case we were in, there was a notorious
malfunctioning (arcing) street light at the place the speed of the vehicle was
measured. The light was throwing off a broad spectrum of Radio Frequency
Interference such that FM and other radio equipment was effectively jammed by
the malfunctioning light. You might also want to get repair records of the light in
question. Discovery should be wide open for any defense you plan to use. You
might have to explain to the court why you want some things as the prosecutor
thinks his job is to hamper your defenses which is tyranny but that is another
matter.
See your court rules for the general discovery materials. Also see files in L.zip
for examples Disc-g, Disc-tc and Discdem.txt. Note: Do Not Use these files as
“Boilerplates”, they are only examples and have to fit your particular case in all
respects or discovery will be rightfully denied. For instance don’t call yourself
“pro se”, remember these were written long before we discovered what these
terms really mean.
Of course, the more information the defendant has, the more aware he is of the
likely consequences of a plea, waiver, or decision, and the wiser that decision will
likely be. But the Constitution does not require the prosecutor to share all useful
information with the defendant. Weatherford v. Bursey, 429 U.S. 545, 559
(1977) ("There is no general constitutional right to discovery in a criminal case").
And the law ordinarily considers a waiver knowing, intelligent, and sufficiently
aware if the defendant fully understands the nature of the right and how it would
likely apply in general in the circumstances -- even though the defendant may not
know the specific detailed consequences of invoking it. A defendant, for
example, may waive his right to remain silent, his right to a jury trial, or his right
to counsel even if the defendant does not know the specific questions the
authorities intend to ask, who will likely serve on the jury, or the particular lawyer
the State might otherwise provide.” U.S. v Ruiz, 536 U.S. 622, 630 (2002).
Thus the court controls, by rule, discovery demands which are established for fair
and impartial trials because discovery is necessary for due process as
established by the long established rule of law. However, when the prosecutor
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has evidence that you are innocent and proceeds without divulging it, that is a
different matter as the court has said.
The prosecutor, having taken an “Oath of Attorney” knows that his oath requires
him to be fair and not condemn a Man just because he knows he can. Attorneys
also have cannons of conduct they must abide as well, and abuse of the facts in
a case is abuse of the oath and the law for the attorney.
Most judges are amiable to discovery because it makes their job more
interesting. It is also a ministerial duty to give you access to the records. In one
case the judge told the reluctant cop and prosecutor they would make the
records available to us. We were really grasping for straws but everything we
asked for had a purpose which was explained to the court. Be ready to explain
why you think you need it.
If the judge allows the prosecutor to stall you or prevent discovery, then you can
“motion to compel discovery”. Here you would claim an irreparable intentional
injury if it was withheld because it would prejudice you and your defenses. It
would also be further grounds for a default judgment by administrative or civil
rules quoting FMC:
The general idea being to box them with discovery, so they can’t give it without
exposing their fraud. For an example of that, see the admissions in file
admissions.rtf in L2.zip files. While this isn’t traffic, it should be self evident to do
the same for evidence in your motions to dismiss especially if it appears the case
will go to trial. Admissions are a proper tool for discovery purposes.
Subpoenas
Subpoenas for expert witnesses are a useful tool in some cases. I witnessed a
lawyer doing his own pro se speeding ticket and he brought in as his expert
witness, head technician of the radar gun calibration shop and during the recess
we talked about the trial. Since we both had similar radar experience we talked
on a real technical basis. This technician was full of useful information.
He told me, this lawyer wasn’t asking him the right question which was “have you
ever calibrated and tested a unit on the bench that passed the tests on the bench
and then didn’t work correctly in the field.” He said that had he been asked that
particular question the lawyer would have won his case. As it was, he lost and
paid the fine so don’t feel bad if you lose a case. This lawyer was a big business
lawyer and not a run of the mill type lawyer so he probably worked in corporate
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business and didn’t spend anymore time in traffic matters than we do so he was
equally ignorant of what he was doing.
We always Subpoena the officers who are witnesses and it is important to call
them as “Your Witness” and examine them. The prosecutor calls them first and
they give the same old song and dance, I am JOE BLOW ENFORCER for the
City of FRAUD and I work the streets like a hooker. Anyway when the
prosecutor gets done with his examination of the witness, it is your turn to cross
examine them. This is not the time to ask them about anything other than in
relation to what the prosecutor has asked them, like what their qualifications are
for instance and where in the code does it authorize them to constitute a standing
army. If it is objected to, then wait till you call them as your witness to ask them
these questions.
The founders knew full well what standing armies were and they wanted no part
of it. This part of the Washington Bill of Rights shows us this to the point.
Sec. 24. The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of
himself, or the state, shall not be impaired, but nothing
in this section shall be construed as authorizing individuals or
corporations to organize, maintain or employ an armed body of men.
For your witness you need to cover this sec with questions pertaining to the
elements of their crime. Elements are basic facts which constitute the crime.
Thus you establish he is a member of the body politic and corporate, they are
organized by a municipal corporation, they are supplied the gun and ammo and
trained to be a party of armed body of men.
Jury Instructions
Jury instructions are a part of every criminal proceeding and you better know
what they look like and submit your own so you don’t get put in a pickle. There
are usually “Patent Jury Instructions” for your state law in the law library and
sometimes you will find them on the net.
You will see some federal instructions to the jury on the group files page: “Patent
Jury Instruction for failure to file 27 KB lawworks Jan 2, 2004”
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Be aware however, state jury instructions contain venue and jurisdictional
instructions. How the feds can get away with not including them is pure criminal
and meant to include everyone in their jurisdiction and venue which is not true.
For instance there is no way they can include me, living abroad, unless they
kidnap me and bring me physically to their jurisdiction. The same is true when
they force you into their courts for trial, but that is a species of fraud.
"A party may not assign as error the giving or the failure to give any
instructions unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its
verdict, stating specifically the matter to which he objects and the grounds
of his objection." Ohio Rule Crim.Proc. 30(A) (1989)
You may win on jury instructions alone like we did in Charlie, the assaulter’s case
where we presented the common law defenses to assault in the jury instructions
and they knew to proceed against him would expose their fraud and possible lay
them wide open to suit. They know the sword of justice cuts both ways so they
will stop when you show them you know the law and they are proceeding in
fraud.
This is a case you should read because the way the court tried this Man (like
they tried to try my friend Charlie) as the court said:
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Also review the following files, found in the files section of the lawwork group
webpage:
Again if you haven’t done so, I would advise you to go to court some day and set
in on some trials to see how they go. I would also take a look at the files for
these trials to see what paper is filed in the case. By taking a day off and doing
this, it would be advantageous to you should the need arise to use this
information learned on this little excursion.
Be aware that not every traffic case will have jury instructions, especially if it is
considered civil in nature. Your court rules should contain key information here,
although not all general state court rules tell you about jury instructions. The
local rules should, so be sure to ask the clerk for a copy of the local court rules
which they must give you, so you know how the court works. Generally jury
instructions are either done just prior to trial at a pretrial hearing or at the start of
a trial before the jury is selected. If the court rules don’t tell you, then consult the
clerk or court administrator.
Pretrial Hearings
Pretrial hearings encompass all those short hearings before the actual trial of the
facts and law. They include but are not limited to:
Normally in traffic and criminal cases times for these hearings will be set for you
first by the cop himself at the traffic stop, or by the court thereafter. If there is
something special you want heard on your own innitiative you can set the hearing
up yourself by notice. First it is necessary to find out who schedules hearings,
because in some cases there are court administrators who have that duty and
in others, the clerks themselves do it. The clerk of the court will be able to tell
you who sets up hearings.
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If you don’t “set the matter for hearing at a place and time certain” the matter will
never be heard. This is done with a “Notice of Hearing” which can be in your
paper or a separate paper. If it is put in your paper, you need to call it to the
attention of the clerk, both in writing and by informing the clerk at the time of
filing.
In the caption under the definition of the paper, you would put “Clerks Action
Required” and at the very first line in the paper, TO THE Clerk of the court:
“Please take note that the matter will be heard in the Bumtown Courthose in
court number 0, at 9 am or as soon after as the matter may be heard”. I made
this mistake once and when I brought the matter to the attention of the court, they
other side objected because there was no notice of hearing and the judge
wouldn’t hear it for that reason. It was a bitter lesson to learn. Even though the
other parties had noted their motions for hearing at that time, it never dawned on
me that I need to note my paper for hearing my remedies in the matter.
Even though there is a hearing scheduled, you still note your paper for hearing
on that date, time and place just as if you scheduled the hearing Yourself. Notice
in our paper we always do that somewhere in the paper. In some cases where
we don’t schedule the hearing we bury it in the last part so if they foolishly bring
that argument we know they didn’t read the paper. There is a real reason for
everything we do.
Arraignments
If your court has arraignments, and you are forced into the situation to plead, you
might not make an issue of it and plead “Not Guilty” for the record. If you have a
lot of court experience and want to have some fun, then you can refuse to plead
because you don’t understand the charges against you and the court has no
jurisdiction in the first place. If the court went along with the frauds you have
pointed out, the court voids any due process or jurisdiction it might otherwise
have had. What you do at this time is what you are comfortable with doing.
Here again, if you have the default done and a Petition for Writ of Mandamus
before the court, this is the first issue that should be addressed. If you haven’t
filed the Petition, then just plead, noticing the court your being there, is a special
appearance.
If you have a Petition in the court file, then you need to ask the Judge first to
enforce the Petition which could make the pleading moot. Obviously if the clerk
enters a default, there is no need to plea. As far as the motions to dismiss, it
shows the court acts in a fraudulent manner and as shown in FMC is further
grounds to enter a default.
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The clerks, in this kind of situation of default usually go to the judge, the judge
tells them not to enter a default. The judge is the supervisor for the clerks and
the clerks normally go to the judge on matters of law outside their normal job
function. This kind of process is rarely done today, so they likely have never
seen it before.
Knowing this, the judge most likely knows what you are doing to them, but
doesn’t want to issue a writ to the clerk because he is the one that made the
decision in the first place. That is why his easy way out is to dismiss the case.
Most likely he will dismiss without reason so that he doesn’t entangle himself in
the fraud.
Knot headed judges will sometimes take you to the wire by dismissing the
petition but in doing so they put themselves on the limb. Some want to test you
to the max, so in that case, you pour on the steam. You do this by using the
tools and rules of the court to make sure your trial is one they will always
remember. We will discuss this further in the next lessons, but this is where you
need to start making discovery demands for everything related to the case.
Remember the pen and paper? Always carry it so you can write down anything
that comes to mind. Hopefully you have kept perfect notes till this time and you
want to be thinking about anything that is relevant and allowed by court rule.
Generally the court rule will tell you what you can ask for plus you can expand
upon that. If you are denied, then motion to compel discovery. If you are denied
discovery, be sure to claim in objection both oral and in writing that the court is
denying you due process justice and the ability to defend yourself and your
property causing you intentional irreparable injury. Remember do everything you
can to make this the “Mother of all Trials, which we will further discuss in Lesson
10 in detail. “The squeaky wheel always gets the grease”. The one that no
longer squeaks doesn’t annoy anyone and is forgotten.
Dockets
Courts nearly always keep a docket of the cases and these are brief outlines of
what happens in the courtroom each day. These are important if you think you
might need to sue on the case at a later time, so even if you don’t think you will
sue, get a copy of it anyway. There are several ways to get the copy, for
instance you could ask the court clerk to give you a copy, which is a good way to
do it. If you are serious about taking the matter someplace else like to complain
about the conduct of the judge or appeal, get a certified copy from the clerk.
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I lost a minute of liberty (I lost 6 hours). There were about 16 prosecutors
involved and several judges in this case. The case file completely disappeared
but I had a copy of the docket which I took the next day after the court dismissed
the case they arrested me on.
I even hired an attorney to go look for the case and he said it didn’t exist. You
can’t trust these slime snakes because when they know they are in trouble, they
will do anything to sweep it under the carpet and if you have no record of the
case it is difficult to be able to name slime names and fix dates to all that was
done. The best thing I ever did was pull that docket for my records.
Where you live close to the court, it is advantageous to check the court file in the
case on a regular basis. The prosecuting attorneys are not there to help you, so
they will use every dirty trick in the book if they think you are moving against
them and preventing them from winning. They will send out regular mail notices
and other filings then claim they sent it by affidavit.
They are not beyond lying or misrepresenting facts because they are not likely to
get caught and most everyone will believe them over your testimony any day.
So, do check the court record regularly to make sure they don’t slip anything in
on you that you don’t know about. “Must have gotten lost in the mail” is a
favorite expression they can use for those occasions when they didn’t send
something to you that they should have. Don’t take any chances, check the
record every time you file papers at least, the more the better.
Your homework assignment are to check out your nearest court rules and local
court rules to see what the process is for traffic cases in courts of limited
jurisdiction, see if the court has a court administrator (you can do this with the
clerks by phone), obtain the local court rules and read them. If you don’t know,
find out if traffic is misdemeanor criminal or infraction civil and if you can obtain
the general court rules on the internet and you have room on your computer,
download them so you have a ready copy. Note, you can use HTTrack (will copy
whole websites with all its links) for this job or if they offer them in a compressed
file, simply download them.
Also, go to the law library and find the patent jury instructions for your state law
and look at some that interest you to see what they read like. Be sure and take
your digital camera or cell phone camera with you to copy a few pages of
interest.
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Don’t think these homework assignments are frivolous, if someday your very
liberty and life depended on this information and you faithfully did your homework
assignments you would likely send me a 128 MB USB pen drive or put flowers on
my grave, hopefully the former.
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Lesson 9 The Writ of Mandamus
Probably next to the “Great Writ” of Habeas Corpus was the Writ of Mandamus
which was used to compel a ministerial duty owed the Petitioner. Thus this Writ
becomes an essential part of the Traffic Default. Without such remedy, the court
could lawfully stonewall any default making the excuse they have discretion to
entertain such a one sided default as all defaults are by nature. There could be
generated a whole raft of excuses for ignoring the Writ of Praecipe and just
steam rolling the case as a Star Chamber court.
While there are a few such steam rolling judges, most are reluctant to allow
themselves to be the object of a Writ of Mandamus and knowing you know what
it is and what it is used for, it is expedient on them to sweep any issues of this
nature under the rug and not take any chances. A Petition for a Writ of
Mandamus is effectively taking the judge to his superior, as if by the ear, for
remedial punishment. I can not stress enough that it has to be established by
foundation that it is a ministerial duty owed you the Petitioner.
All Petitions for Writs are composed of essentially the same component parts.
There should be an order for the judge to sign to order the clerk to issue the writ.
There should be all supporting docs including any lower court papers if any and
exhibits.
Caption
Introduction
Parties
Jurisdiction (Personal, Subject Matter, Rem if in controversy)
Facts
Controversy and Complaints
Memorandum of Law (supporting)
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Logical Reason (not argument as only lawyers argue)
Statement - There is no other plain, adequate or speedy remedy at law.
Remedy
Conclusion
Verification
Affidavit of Service (if not ex parte)
In the case of traffic defaults the process is abbreviated and the petition, because
of the circumstances is very brief and to the point. Those circumstances are as I
said earlier in the lessons that the clerk has probably consulted the judge as to
what to do in this case as the clerk is unfamiliar generally with this kind of
process and the judge has told the clerk to ignore it. Based upon that probable
situation and the fact that the judge is the boss of the clerk and the clerk is not
going to issue a writ against itself, the circumstances require some adjustment of
the full blown necessity to formally file all the required paper parts for the writ.
In this case it is unnecessary to have an order as the judge only need tell the
clerk to do its duty to the law in the case and enter the default. It is unnecessary
to have an actual paper writ as the judge need only verbally communicate with
the clerk. In some states the writs have been replaced by code pronouncement
of using complaints in the nature of the writ, however unless the common law has
been specifically and notorious abrogated or abolished by proper legislative
action it is still in force in the courts. I don’t know of a particular instance where
the legislature has said it is rewriting the common law. Generally speaking on
state laws the legislature leaves the issue open and the use of the writs are
treated by the courts as being in the “nature of” the particular writ.
The Constitution is relatively silent on the Writ of Mandamus but explicit on the
Writ of Habeas Corpus as not being subject to suspension, except in times of
actual warfare where the civil courts are not able to convene. However, that is
not to say that there wasn’t a passive lawful intent of the founders to preserve the
common law and Writs of common law, by the very nature of the law itself and
the complaint in The Declaration of Independence.
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and
altering fundamentally the forms of our governments;”
Declaration of Independence : July 4, 1776
See, if this doesn’t fit today, where one state or the federal government decides
to change the mode of the common law and reduces the use of the Petition
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process and substitutes the complaint - motion process entirely for relief. Other
states follow like it is a valuable fad. Yet complaints still need to express “in the
nature of” the particular Writ because the process is so ingrained in the law, as
the statute law is primarily based upon situations in law and equity. As a matter
of fact the legislatures are so busy trying to cover all the situations that arise, the
codes are becoming so complex the legislature itself often doesn’t understand
what they have done and have to be corrected by the executive or judicial
branches.
Writs of Mandamus can also be used for abuse of discretion but have limited
value in this regard. The Ninth Circuit has placed the following burden upon such
Petitions for Writs of Mandamus:
“(1) The party seeking the writ has no other adequate means, such as a
direct appeal, to attain the relief he or she desires.
(5) The district court's order raises new and important problems, or issues
of law of first impression.
Bauman, 557 F.2d at 654-55 see also Cordoza, 320 F.3d at 998. Those
guidelines "often raise questions of degree[,]" and "[t]he considerations
are cumulative and proper disposition will often require a balancing of
conflicting indicators."
Even in ministerial duty cases, it is good to keep these guidelines in mind. While
there is a lot of discretion in such abuse of office or discretion in cases, there are
some important points to these guidelines which if used makes your Petition
more effective. For instance you have to understand some basic concepts about
being forced into using the courts in the first instance. Appeal is not an adequate
remedy because of the time involved (sacrifice in life, liberty and property), thus
you can excuse the first (1) guideline with such a statement generally.
When you are forced to bring a cause before the court, you are being continually
injured in your rights to life, liberty and property by doing so as well as the injury
already suffered of which you might complain. Thus, the second (2) guideline
being very closely related to the first, gives logical reason that if you have to
appeal you will be further damaged and thus you need a quick and though
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remedy to minimize the damage. In other words, there is no way damage can
be repaired upon appeal and the time it takes to appeal. If you don’t state these
it could be assumed you won’t be damaged.
Number (4) relates to lower court error or disregard for its own rules which is
often hard to show, although not impossible in most cases. This guideline
becomes especially apparent in relation to guideline (3) abuse of law itself or
abusing the law specifically, whether that law is common law, natural law,
statutory law or court rules. Such abuse of law gives rise to pointing out such
errors to justify Mandamus upon this guideline.
Any side stepping important issues leads to expanding issues and complications
beyond reason justifying guideline (5) where it has failed to solve the problem
and brings new issues before the court. Issues of “first impression” are those
issues that haven’t been ruled on by the court and have no precedent. The
court thrives on “balancing” issues so this guideline fits the regime. These
guidelines only apply to Mandamus to cure abuse of discretion which is hard to
prove but does give insight into some ramifications of the forced reliance on the
courts in the first place, which if used will improve your cause.
“During the discovery phase of the Nevada lawsuit, CFTB filed a petition in
the Nevada Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus or in the alternative for
a writ of prohibition, challenging certain of the District Court's discovery
orders.” Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt, No 02-42 (2003)
The FTB case shows how versatile these Petitions for Writs can be, where in this
case the state used them to try to force a dismissal based upon a ministerial duty
to decide jurisdiction in the cause. This was done well into the case as it was
during the discovery process. You can use them at any time even if you haven’t
started your case by Petition but by complaint and then need to use the Writ.
There is no limit to the number of actions you can instigate during the course of
another action.
Not only are executive officers controlled by Writs of Mandamus but Judicial as
well. This is the prerogative right of the People to so control all branches of the
government through Petitions for such Writs.
“The King's Bench exercised significant collateral control over inferior and
rival courts through the use of prerogative writs. The writs included
habeas corpus, certiorari, prohibition, mandamus, quo warranto, and ne
exeat regno. 1 Holdsworth at 226-231 (7th ed.1956). Most interesting for
our current purposes are the writs of prohibition and mandamus.{FN 9}
The writs issued against a judge, in theory to prevent him from exceeding
his jurisdiction or to require him to exercise it. Id. at 228-229. In practice,
controlling an inferior court in the proper exercise of its jurisdiction meant
that the King's Bench used and continues to use the writs to prevent a
judge from committing all manner of errors, including departing from the
rules of natural justice, proceeding with a suit in which he has an interest,
misconstruing substantive law, and rejecting legal evidence. See 1
Halsbury's Laws of England ¶¶ 76, 81, 130 (4th ed.1973); Gordon, The
Observance of Law as a Condition of Jurisdiction, 47 L.Q.Rev. 386, 394
(1931)…..our courts…..have limited the use of mandamus and prohibition
to jurisdictional issues or to cases where the court has a clear duty to act.
See Roche v. Evaporated Milk Assn., 319 U.S. 21, 26 (1943). See also
Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Holland, 346 U.S. 379, 382-383 (1953);
This case goes on at length to describe the use of Writs and should be read if
your interest is pricked to do so. Also notice, while the courts give judicial
officers broad immunity, that immunity does have limits.
“So there is much irony in the Court's profession that it grounds its opinion
on a deeply rooted historical tradition of sovereign immunity, when the
Court abandons a principle nearly as inveterate, and much closer to the
hearts of the Framers: that where there is a right, there must be a remedy.
Lord Chief Justice Holt could state this as an unquestioned proposition
already in 1702, as he did in Ashby v. White , 6 Mod. 45, 53-54, 87 Eng.
Rep. 808, 815 (K.B.):
"If an Act of Parliament be made for the benefit of any person, and he is
hindered by another of that benefit, by necessary consequence of law he
shall have an action; and the current of all the books is so." Ibid . (citation
omitted). 41
Blackstone considered it "a general and indisputable rule, that where there
is a legal right, there is also a legal remedy, by suit or action at law,
whenever that right is invaded." 3 Blackstone *23. The generation of the
Framers thought the principle so crucial that several States put it into their
constitutions. 42 And when Chief Justice Marshall asked about Marbury,
"If he has a right, and that right has been violated, do the laws of his
country afford him a remedy?," Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch 137, 162
(1803), the question was rhetorical, and the answer clear:
"The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every
individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an
injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection. In
Great Britain the king himself is sued in the respectful form of a petition,
and he never fails to comply with the judgment of his court." Id ., at 163.
ALDEN et al. v. MAINE dissenting opinion, 527 U.S. 706, 757 (1999).
Notice for every injury there is a remedy and this has been the law for ages,
however today that remedy is hard to find and hidden most often in a maze of
laws designed to thwart remedy and aid in governing the People who are
admonished with governing themselves. Never the less this is a good quote for
how it should be in reality.
One way around this problem of absolute immunity is to show they were not
acting in their office, thus their acts are not the acts of the inferior sovereign.
Never sue a judge or prosecutor in their official capacity; it won’t work. Where
In this particular case there was absolutely no evidence against the accused,
only circumstantial evidence so week as to be non existent. Evidently the
prosecutor felt pressured to charge someone and picked a likely handy candidate
but one who just didn’t take the accusation lightly and likely had nothing to do
with the crime.
Civil Petitions for writs can be dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction if
they don’t address the proper issues. There are issues of fact and issues of law,
and a petition upon an issue of fact must generally be decided affirmatively and
“These writs were available to bring before the court that pronounced the
judgment errors in matters of fact which had not been put in issue or
passed upon, and were material to the validity and regularity of the legal
proceeding itself, as where the defendant, being under age, appeared by
attorney, or the plaintiff or defendant was a married woman at the time of
commencing the suit, or died before verdict or interlocutory judgment --
for, it was said, "error in fact is not the error of the judges, and reversing it
is not reversing their own judgment." So, if there were error in the
process, or through the default of the clerks, the same proceeding might
be had to procure a reversal. But if the error were "in the judgment itself,
and not in the process," a writ of error did not lie in the same court upon
the judgment, but only in another and superior court. Tidd, 9th ed. 1136,
1137; Stephen on Pleading 119; 1 Roll.Abr. 746, 747, 749. In criminal
cases, however, error would lie in the King's bench whether the error was
in fact or law. Tidd, 1137; 3 Bac.Abr. (Bouv. ed.) "Error," 366; Chitty,
Crim.Law, 156, 749. See United States v. Plumer, 3 Cliff. 28, 59, 60.
The errors of law which were thus subject to examination were only those
disclosed by the record, and, as the record was so drawn up that it did not
show errors in the reception or rejection of evidence or misdirections by
the judge, the remedy applied "only to that very small number of legal
questions" which concerned "the regularity of the proceedings
themselves." See Report, Royal Commission on Criminal Code (1879) p.
37; 1 Stephen, History of Crim.Law, 309, 310.” US v. Mayer, 235 U.S. 55
(1914).
Thus you must establish and correct the record of the facts in the trial court,
before proceeding to a higher court unless the cause is criminal in nature. Here
is the problem in traffic cases, is it criminal or civil? I suspect you need to treat it
as civil unless you ask and get declaratory judgment to the contrary no matter
what anyone says.
For instance, I stood two criminal driving with license expired but a criminal
record was never generated from those two trials. Of course they were fraud and
it was well known to all that they were indeed fraud, however a criminal history
from the state revealed no criminal history so even though they maybe called
criminal and have even juries making judgments, they may not be truly criminal.
If in doubt and it makes a difference to you, check it out before hand, so you
know.
The whole point here is don’t allow any misconception or misstatement of the
facts pass for the record without strong objection of foul play. Your affidavits
should stand far above any common pleadings by a master deceiver prosecutor
In one case, the judge refused to abide by the Petition for the Writ and told the
Petitioner to take the issue to a higher court. This is an error as the judge is the
proper party to correct the clerk, not a higher court judge. It would be improper to
petition the higher court to order the clerk to do its duty, thus any suit would have
to be taken against the judge. This is something you need to discuss with the
judge on the spot, so he knows full well that you will sue him by petition for
mandamus to issue the mandate to the clerk. He might take a little different view
of what he is doing in that case.
Defenses to denials include equating the situation as having your hands tied
behind back or in other words unfair advantage given the state, equating to lack
of due process, abuse office and discretion because there is no discretion only
ministerial duty, denial of access to law and remedy, your case is not a case of
equity and if it were the prosecutor in default would have unclean hands and
would not be entitled to remedy. Also the prosecutor seeks no remedy in the
case because there is no damaged party. They might claim the state is
damaged but that is a fiction because the state doesn’t exist except in the minds
as an artificial entity, thus the whole game is a game of fraud in the name of
revenue.
The judge will never grant the petition and its only purpose is to box him into
dismissing the case, just like the motions to dismiss give him a graceful way out.
The judge however is never likely to take what you provide him, he will generally
think of his own way to dump the case. Many times the officer, the main start
witness never shows up, sometimes the prosecutor moves to dismiss but most
likely the judge will dismiss without comment.
The Petition
We very simply lay out the history of the case in the first paragraph. Don’t copy
this word for word, put your own case history in it, which shouldn’t be difficult to
do.
“2. The CLERK of the court has been respectfully ordered to enter
a default judgment against the Plaintiff and prepare a
Certificate, with seal of the court, declaring that the
Plaintiff has failed to join the correct party in this suit and
therefore the case is dismissed for failure to state a claim,
and lack of jurisdiction, and send to parties of interest within
3 days.”
Here you lay out the duty of the clerk and the clerks failure to comply with the
rules of the court in a default. The only remedy in this case is dismissal of the
case because there is effectively no case, it is a sham with fictitious parties, in
other words, and the judge knows this. You can bet the clerk is totally ignorant
of what is going on, however she is trained by the establishment to think the role
of clerk is a vital one and that justice is seeing that code breakers are punished.
Of course the clerk has a very slanted concept of justice but so do the hundreds
of people who just pay the court the fines and admit their guilt right upfront
without even so much as a hint of challenge to authority, just like good little
slaves.
I was one of those at one time before I studied law. I actually thanked the
policeman for giving me a ticket once, because I was an habitual speeder, I had
it coming.
Our demand is put before the judge for remedy in the matter, that the writ issue
forth to compel the ministerial duty brought by the natural consequences due to
default of the complaining party. While the officer is the complaining party, the
prosecutor represents the policeman because the policeman is an officer of a
“CONCLUSION
The conclusion like the rest is very simple expressing liability for injury and wrong
which is intentional and irreparable in nature and again puts the ministerial duty
of the clerk now on the judge. He now becomes responsible, even if he wasn’t
involved in telling the clerk not to enter the default. You have set him up and he
knows it. His only out is to dump the case and sweep it under the rug.
Judges however are not idiots and they aren’t going to generally tell you why
they are doing what they are doing. In the case of traffic tickets, it is revenue but
there is a lot of revenue that is easy to take and yours could be really difficult, so
they are going to think twice before they try it. In some cases they will bluff you
into thinking that you have to pay the fine however then they count on your mind
doing the “what if” job which drives most to cave in.
One Man in our group says he hasn’t paid a number of fines, nothing has
happened and they don’t even address the past issues of non payment. In my
situation, one county turned it over to a collection agency and I told them it was
fraud and they wrote it off as uncollectible. In another, I got a bill and refused it
for fraud and never heard another thing about it. In some states if they send a
dun to the licensing department they will suspend your license but a number of
states are now starting to declare these cases unconstitutional because there is
no hearing, which equates to a lack of due process.
Passive people power can break the strongest nation from within. This is a fact
borne out by history but it isn’t a good way to effect change as it damages the
country and takes years to restore.
Some states suspend driver’s license and if there is none, they issue one on
paper then suspend it. The reason for this is that the penalty for driving with no
license is light and the penalty for driving with a suspended license is drastic.
This puts the pressure on those who have just flatly refused to get a license.
This is a blatant and outright fraud and you can’t force a license on anyone. It is
a sign of desperation and abnormal abuse of law to force an issue that there is
no way to really force. If you have no license there is no club over your head,
you can throw away the ticket and never show in their snipe hunt court with
impunity. This is a ploy to bring you back by causing you bigger problems.
Driving without license is not termed criminal generally, but driving with a
suspended license is generally termed criminal. However, as I explained it really
isn’t criminal or it would appear on a criminal rap sheet, which it doesn’t, at least
on mine. If you have a criminal record, you can’t apply for residency in most
countries of the World.
If you are forced to endure a trial, this is your opportunity to get a little hands on
experience at running your defense. While this might seem like a waste of time,
it could mean the difference in freedom or going to jail in a serious complaint
situation. While it doesn’t happen often, no more than 20% of the cases, many
innocent People go to jail because of rotten representation by incompetent
attorneys, courts allowing emotion swaying of the jury and circumstantial
evidence. Some of these cases have been making news because of DNA
evidence that clears them after many years of wasted life and productivity.
Your homework assignment is to find out if in your state, criminal traffic is really
put on a criminal record. This means you will have to find who keeps the record
and call to see if you can get a definitive answer as to what kind of crimes are
recorded. You might also find this in the code however that might be hard to find.
Also, you need to know if your state is playing the “Up the Ante Game” with the
suspending licenses for non appearance at traffic court appearances. You might
have to do a little digging in the codes to find out just what they have given
themselves color of authority to do.
In event you are forced to trial by a dictatorial judge, having been denied
due process by default upon the prosecutor there are a few tricks that you can
use against them. Here again it is vitally important that you be well versed in the
court rules.
Court Rules
Normally all courts have both general (state) and local (court) rules and
you should have a copy of each. The local rules are generally available from the
clerk of the court who will give you a copy upon request. These rules set the
time frame and stages of the prosecution of the case and are usually special for
traffic courts as traffic matters are generally less than criminal and generally
heard in courts of limited jurisdiction.
In the West, courts that follow the federal pattern, which are limited in
jurisdiction, are District Courts and courts of general jurisdiction (everything else)
are Superior Courts. Some states have variations of these courts calling district
courts by other names. District Courts have generally far wider venue than
municipal courts, where the former jurisdiction is generally the whole county and
sometimes even provisions for the adjacent county in special situations. City
courts are confined to the city proper unless there is a hot pursuit situation.
Hot pursuits can and do cross city, counties and state lines and give
special jurisdiction to the officer or officers outside their normal venue. At trial the
“The court further held that Santana's "reentry from the doorway
into the house" did not support allowing the police to make a warrantless
entry into the house on the grounds of "hot pursuit," because it took "hot
pursuit" to mean "a chase in and about public streets." The court did find,
however, that the police acted under "extreme emergency" conditions.”
U.S. v Santana, 427 U.S. 38, 41 (1976).
“Thus, our study of the relevant common law does not provide the
same guidance that was present in Watson. Whereas the rule concerning
the validity of an arrest in a public place was supported by cases directly
in point and by the unanimous views of the commentators, we have found
no direct authority supporting forcible entries into a home to make a
routine arrest, and the weight of the scholarly opinion is somewhat to the
contrary. Indeed, the absence of any 17th- or 18th-century English cases
directly in point, together with the unequivocal endorsement of the tenet
that "a man's house is his castle," strongly suggests that the prevailing
practice was not to make such arrests except in hot pursuit or when
authorized by a warrant. Cf. Agnello v. United States, 269 U.S. 20, 33.”
Payton v New York, 445 U.S. 573, 597 (1980)
This is the reason the Police will always try to get you to come out of the
house or try to prevent you from going in. Your house is a safe heaven or is
supposed to be and they know it. If there is no serious crime, no hot pursuit of a
crime committed in the sight of the officer, or a danger to the public, there is no
“extengent circumstances” which would justify an arrest.
“United States v. Mapp, 476 F.2d 67, 76 (CA2 1973) (listing then-
recognized exceptions to warrant requirement: (i) hot pursuit; (ii) plain view
doctrine; (iii) emergency situation; (iv) automobile search; (v) consent; and (vi)
incident to arrest).”
Signing Papers
There is one exception however and that is if they threaten you, you then
notice them that the act is an act of fraud and by their superior knowledge they
know or should know that they have no criminal authority. Sign it “UR Fraud,
TDC” if forced into the situation upon threat of incarceration or sanctions of
property.
Make a written and filed objection to the fact and cite the criminal code on
forcing a signature on a written instrument and declare it a fraud and void. If you
forget to object to something in court, then it should be objected to on paper and
filed with the court even if an after thought.
Remember, like making promises to appear, you can’t devine the future
and there is no way you can honestly make such a promise. The law is designed
to cause you to compromise your standards and most don’t think twice about
doing so.
No Competent Attorney
Should your case be more serious in nature than a simple traffic stop and
the court wants to assign you an attorney, tell the court you will look on your own
for one. If you get into a situation where you are being threatened in court or
things are not going the way they are supposed to, you simply tell the judge that
you have determined that you need to have competent counsel as it is obvious to
you that the court is not playing by the rules of law and you need to find
representation to help you move the court in the direction it needs to move.
If you move in this direction, you will have to show that you contacted
attorneys to represent you. This will require that you keep a log as a record of
your efforts. Of course you will likely never find competent counsel as none of
them will Petition a higher court for a Writ of Mandamus against the judge. None
will press your default either. So, you will be able to show that you contacted so
many firms, attorneys, and you talked in depth about your case to so many
attorneys and none wanted to take your cause and you are still looking for
competent counsel (will be till Hell freezes over but don't tell that to the judge).
You will want to brainstorm up sharp questions for any attorney you
interview for the job. This is something that has to be done for your case
specific. A minimum would be will you do a writ of mandamus to mandate any
ministerial duty owed to you, especially the default against the prosecutor? Will
you do a habeas corpus if I get thrown in jail? Will you appeal to the US
supreme court if “I” think it necessary? Are you willing to sue the
state/county/city for color of law abuse of law in federal court? You may have
other issues of rights as well, which you will want to formulate questions on. If
you need a list of rights to refresh your memory, see Right&d.txt in L.zip.
Ironically one of the fellows who came to me for help showed a lawyer the
paper in a default case which he won and the lawyer was impressed with the
simple, plain procedure and was quite impressed with the paper. He wanted to
know where he got it from. I seriously doubt if an attorney could get away with
using it, however, as the courts would blackball him.
Interlocutory Petitions
Interlocutory Petitions are a real hassle, but it is a remedy you can employ
to stop harassment and threats by the court while you get your ducks in a row
and you force the judge to either address your paper as a ministerial duty or you
Petition over his head, naming him as lawless and criminally intentionally
inflicting irreparable injury, abusing office. Petitions for Mandamus and
Prohibition fit the process to compel or prohibit respectively depending on the
situation needed for your remedy.
Don’t call the judge, “Your Honor” and save that for the prosecutor as he
makes his living at the pleasure of the judge. Remember the judge is your public
servant and not your king. Don’t act like a lawyer, talk directly to the judge like
you would someone you have known long
time. It isn’t necessary to give him a name, least of all, “Honorable” unless he
has proven it.
You have a right to motion for a line up for ID purposes and you can
complain to the court that the cop is going to look at the defense table and say it
is the man sitting there, as you will be all alone. You must insist on a line up but
the court won’t do it for a minor offense, so you should make a proposal to get
around the problem. This is rather difficult to get around although there is a
sneaky little way to do it and I was asked by a paralegal to do it for him once and
agreed. He however had his case dismissed so we didn’t do it.
The idea is to substitute the accused with a “stand in” just for the
preliminary matters of trial, so when the officer identifies the one sitting at the
table, you can disqualify the officer. The reason a line up won’t work, is the
officer will just get a picture of you and ID you from the picture, but this “in court”
ID is far better. The court will not grant a line up in a traffic case as it is
expensive and the ID matter can occur at trial.
You must also make sure the judge will go along with it, as he has to know
the defendant is not at the defendants place and the officer must be prevented
from entering the courtroom till he is called to testify. This takes some time and
effort to set up but is effective at discrediting the officer as incompetent and not
having enough memory to remember who he wrote up, and none will remember
unless there was something really unique about the stop.
When the cop IDs the wrong one, then you get up and discredit him as
picking the wrong Man and you walk up and take your place, releasing your
stand in to take his place in the spectators gallery.
When you have more than one officer called to testify as either your
witness or witness for the prosecution you must have the court make them wait in
a room where they are not privy to the proceedings so they can’t tell what has
been the nature of the others testimony. If their testimony is different from the
others, then you have grounds to show they acted in error or they are not telling
the truth.
Your Witness
In your paper motion, you should have asked the court to subpoena those
at the stop that have first hand knowledge. This doesn’t mean someone who is
riding with you. If they will witness for you, make a mutual agreement for them to
testify for you at trial. Never subpoena a friendly witness as it make turn them
into a hostile witness.
The prosecutor calls his first witness and usually his only witness, the
officer and examines him. Then you can cross examine the states witness but in
cross examination you can only ask questions relevant to what the prosecutor
asks such that items of interest are clarified which could be to your advantage. If
you ask any questions outside the scope of the examination questions the
prosecutor will object to those questions as not relevant.
If you have any doubt as to how the trial works, take a day or two off and
go to a busy courthouse and sit in on some trials, so you get the feel of them and
understand how they work. You might ask the court clerk or administrator for
some recommendations in this respect as you want short trials and not long
drawn out murder trials. An alternative to this is to get a trial outline from a law
library.
Scrambled Questions
As you assemble your notes and inspirations for questions, invite your
friends to make question suggestions to help you form the list of best questions
to ask. This is called “Brain Storming” and is highly effective if you have others
tuned into the situation.
If you don’t mind keeping the court overtime, then make as many
questions as you can and them scramble them into complete disorder. The
reason, is to disorient the officer and his thinking so that he will make mistakes
as he obviously can’t remember and is going to lie from the stand. Maybe it
won’t be intentional but never the less it will be to your benefit and you have to be
looking for inconsistency in his answers. It is easy to get wrapped up in the
questions to the point you don’t hear the answers, so make sure you understand
everything the officer says and ask him to repeat anything that is contradictory
then discredit him as a witness.
For a good example of this trick read file Trans.txt in L1.zip. In this case,
which you don’t have privy to the visual aids (Map), the officer testified he did a
stop on a dime and turned around in a driveway he claimed he passed as he
monitored the suspect vehicle speed. He also testified that he was effectively the
one speeding and not the suspect vehicle. Obviously, he didn’t have the notes to
cover this and was really being put in a bad situation where he had to make up
the story as he went along. Because the questions were scrambled, he was
making errors as he couldn’t remember what he said. This is human nature if
one tells a story without logical order in it. Of course he doesn’t remember the
minute details of every case, and in fact he probably lied about a lot of other
events as well to show the court he did what he was required to do everyday.
Sec. 24. The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense
of himself, or the state, shall not be impaired, but nothing in this section
shall be construed as authorizing individuals or corporations to organize,
maintain or employ an armed body of men. Washington State
Constitution Bill of Rights
Now you have established that the officer is not a Man of his words, that
his oath means nothing to him and that he defies openly and notoriously the
same Constitution he swore to uphold and obey. This is ground for dismissal
and impeachment of the witness on two grounds.
Be sure and make all reference to the stop as “arrest” in your questions to
the officer to enforce the concept and to make the officer look ignorant of what he
is doing as they don’t like to use the terms arrest and seizure, generally
speaking. You want to play up the significance of the terms at all times and
notice we start this in the initial paperwork with the court and prosecutor.
Visual Aids
In some cases, visual aids are useful in exposing the officer’s lies. In the
Trans.txt file you will read that we placed a map before the officer to mark as to
establish reference for the court as to the location of the infraction. This was
most interesting and revealing as the officer marked the map according to the
scrambled questions and showed that he covered 2/3 of the total distance while
the suspect vehicle in the same time frame only covered 1/3 of the distance.
Obviously from his testimony he had to have been going 2/3 faster than the
suspect vehicle which made him look like the one speeding. When we
scrambled the questions, it also scrambled his brain so he made obvious errors
by making up the story after the fact.
Visual aids are an area of specialty where you have to be creative, but you
want to make it as simple as possible, yet still be able to make the witness look
bad and incompetent. The more incompetent you make the witness look, the
less the prosecutor or the court is going to want to protect them.
In several cases the officers were parked under a “No Parking At Any
Time” sign as they monitored traffic. Of course this is unlawful and an officer
enforcing traffic laws should never show disrespect for the law. Again this enlists
the “Fruit of the Poisonous Tree” doctrine and acts as impeachable cause. The
only justification these kinds of acts bear is emergency situations. Thus one of
our group after getting a ticket, went home got a camera, then drove past and
snapped a picture. They came after him again and made an excuse to give him
another ticket.
Cell phones make it easy today to take pictures almost without others
knowing that is what you are doing. So if you carry a cell phone, don’t forget to
take pictures of any illegal activity of officers. In this case it was very
incriminating for the officers, as it points to abuse of office. I also seeded the
Threats of Sanctions
If at any time you are threatened with sanctions for what you are doing to
the poor officer, then you will want to turn your attention to that threat. First of all,
some judges use it to make you move in the direction they want you to move and
they use it as a means of tyrannical control.
The first thing you want to establish is if the sanction is civil or criminal.
The second thing is what the sanction is specifically. Then you want to object
and show the court where it denies you due process.
In one of my trials the judge pulled that trick and tried to get me to move
off the points I was making in discrediting the sole witness. I asked specifically
what the sanction was and the judge wouldn’t tell me. I told the judge that under
those conditions, I couldn’t continue with the trial because it might mean my very
life. Before it was over, she was begging me to participate because it was
obvious that if she wouldn’t tell me that it might be my life on the line as the
sanction might be execution. I told her that the threat was too great a risk to
continue and I couldn’t take the chance. I sat down and refused to participate
further. They dismissed the witness and proceeded but I sat mute. It was an
obvious error of the court and set up an irreversible error.
Some of these practices cause conflicts in law and violate the cannons of
justice. Other violations include refusal or neglect to file an oath of office as
required by law, refusal of ministerial duty, privileged communications, incapacity
and inappropriate behavior.
Don’t be afraid to complain, as usually the judges with the worst behavior
have other problems as well. One of the most quoted judges in the Superior
court I came to know all too well, was putting many away for drugs and had to
take an attorney who overdosed at one of his drug parties to the hospital to avoid
having him dying in his home.
Hopefully, you will never have to use this information but it is getting
harder and harder to live in today’s society without coming into serious conflict in
some aspect of involving participation in courts. If that time ever comes, it is best
to be prepared. Don’t think you will just go out and hire an attorney because
even if you did, you better know his job better than yours or you are strictly at his
mercy.
Remember in any case, the more pain you cause them, the less likely they
will be to come after you. They like the easy pray, not those who fight back. This
land today is not a safe haven from revenue officers of all kinds and the pressure
they bring to bear is almost enough to break the strongest Man.
After the Trial if you are adjudged guilty by the preponderance of the evidence
presented (very discretionary), you have an opportunity to continue your learning
experience. You need to look at this as an opportunity to progress in your paper
writing skills.
At this time there should be no facts in dispute, as all the facts should have been
presented in affidavit or testimony form before the court and in the record.
Generally, a tape is made of the proceedings and you should obtain the tape and
transcribe it, or at least the relevant parts of it. Partial transcripts are acceptable
to be used generally where the issue is a narrow one. If there are any issues of
facts left, they need to be resolved in the trial court through post trial process.
The court has a duty to resolve all the issues. See the reference to Writ of Error
later in the lesson for proof of this issue.
Issues of law, are issues which are appealable generally and can not be resolved
in the trial court. Very technically speaking, only issues of law should be
appealed, but where the court has refused or failed to correct or determine
issues of fact, only then can it be Petitioned in error. Appeals are generally
traps, unless the case or issues are certified for appeal, where wide latitude and
discretion is available for judgment. If the court merely says they find the lower
court made no errors and affirm the judgment, then they have refused to give you
a fair hearing and have violated the due process provisions of the 4th and 1st
Amendments. There should be some findings of facts and conclusions at law on
all the issues.
Collateral attacks are separate actions on the case. Most collateral attacks come
by way of Rule 60, so that is where you want to start.
Here are some papers to use in Post Judgment Relief. Most are self explanatory
and the one’s which aren’t, are explained.
Motion to Amend/Correct - You might use this to correct any errors of fact,
possibly in tandem with the Motion to Alter Judgment.
Motion for Certificate of Appealability - This is to put the judge on the spot on
the issues, either he recognizes there is an unresolved issue or he doesn’t. If he
recognizes the issue, it is an issue of first impression (never been decided) then
he needs to certify it for review. In any event be sure to demand a findings of
facts and conclusions at law.
Motion to Certify Question - This is getting right down to the individual issues
of question presented in your Petition or Complaint that are left unresolved by the
court. Issues of first impression must be certified to be resolved in the appeals
court as a ministerial duty.
Motion for Leave to Appeal - Generally the Superior Sovereign doesn’t ask for
leave to appeal, but in the case where you need more time to address the issues
or to obtain a statement of final judgment, you might consider this option. In the
Supreme court it is required by rule.
Motion to Vacate
Petition for Writ of Prohibition - As the name implies this Writ is used to
prohibit the adverse party from doing something that is likely eminent or
threatened.
Petition for Writ of Error - Used to correct errors of fact in the trial court when
filed in the trial court or unresolved issues of fact in the appellate court. It is also
used to correct issues and errors of law of the trial court in the appellate court.
Notice of Appeal - Used to give the trial court notice that you are appealing
and the issues which you are appealing.
Notice of intent to Petition for Writ - You can appeal by Petition for Writs, or
in the “Nature of Petition for Writs” in like manner as appeal.
Where a judge neglects or refuses to mandate the clerk to enter the default, it is
appropriate to apply to a higher court for a mandate to force the judge to do what
he should do as a ministerial duty owed to you. In a default, he has no other
choice, he must comply with law of the case. Often your Petition will be
summarily denied, however the damage is done to the judge by the very petition
as it shows he can’t resolve problems. It is obvious to a judge that if you petition
to mandate the clerk, you can just as well do it to him. Most won’t take the
chance and will find a way out, by dismissal of the case.
Writs of error for due process and other errors of the court
Filing a Petition for Writ of Error on the "facts" of the case is proper to do
first in the same court asking for a three judge or en banc (all judges)
panel. If the error is in law, however, the Petition must go to the
appellate court. If the court dismisses your mandamus cause on the
grounds that it is frivolous, then the error is a error in fact and the trial
court should get the first crack at fixing the error. I would however leave
off the "coram nobis" in all cases as it is only descriptive of a particular
writ of error and in adds to confusion of the common law. Petition for
Writ of Error to the trial court is adequate for all intents and purposes
today. Even if you file the wrong paper the court is supposed to treat it
as that which it should be but the last few years they have maintained
that if you enter the court without counsel that you are held to the same
standards of a lawyer. Such standard is absolute abuse of the court
In light of the fact that the courts often dismisses before any facts are
established by the adverse party, there are no facts for the court to
dismiss on, thus the issue is only fact and the writ should go to the trial
court first, then to the appellate court. Thus you give the court the
chance to fix its own error. However, it is not necessarily a legal flaw to
send a Petition for Writ of Error to the Circuit court on the facts and the
law.
In view of the statutory and limited jurisdiction of the federal district courts,
and of the specific provisions for the review of their judgments on writ of
error, there would appear to be no basis for the conclusion that, after the
term, these courts in common law actions, whether civil or criminal, can
set aside or modify their final judgments for errors of law, and even if it be
assumed that in the case of errors in certain matters of fact, the district
courts may exercise in criminal cases -- as an incident to their powers
expressly granted -- a correctional jurisdiction at subsequent terms
analogous to that exercised at common law on writs of error coram nobis
(see Bishop, New Crim.Pro., 2d ed. § 1369), as to which we express no
opinion, that authority would not reach the present case. This jurisdiction
was of limited scope; the power of the court thus to vacate its judgments
for errors of fact existed, as already stated, in those cases where the
errors were of the most fundamental character -- that is, such as rendered
the proceeding itself irregular and invalid. In cases of prejudicial
misconduct in the course of the trial, the misbehavior or partiality of jurors,
and newly discovered evidence, as well as where it is sought to have the
court in which the case was tried reconsider its rulings, the remedy is by a
motion for a new trial (Judicial Code, § 269) -- an application which is
Review Lesson 9 for the component layout of all Petitions for Writs which
includes, but is not limited to Prohibition, Mandamus, Error and Habeas Corpus
(Lesson 12 will contain more on Habeas Corpus). DO NOT USE THE NAME
“coram nobis” IN YOUR PETITION AS IT WILL BE DISMISSED AND IS
ENTIRELY UNNECESSARY. Court rules generally have done away with this
specific common law writ, which is just as well, as it streamlines the common law
and makes it more friendly to the common Man and generally incompetent
attorneys.
Bluff factor is often used by attorneys and the court to force you into compliance
with the judgment. Sometimes if you don’t comply they just sweep the issue
under the carpet. If they can bluff you into paying, it is an automatic admission
that you were wrong and deserved the fine. Be aware that any plea bargain is an
admission of guilt as well as any payment of a fine imposed in traffic court.
Fear factor is similar where they suspend license, threaten you with contempt of
court, arrest warrant and etc. Here, you need to determine your limits by your
situation. If you need a driver’s license to work, then don’t take a chance with the
situation. The overall goal here is to stop them from using you as a revenue
service source. The more trouble you cause them, the less trouble they will
cause you.
If you are married with children, don’t put yourself on the line where you could
lose your job because you can’t get to work sitting in some jail. Do be
conservative in what you can and hope to accomplish. If your wife is afraid what
you are doing is going to harm the family, don’t do it, find a safe way to
accomplish your goals.
Collection agencies are generally used to try and collect traffic fines, but they are
often restricted by law and it is expensive for them to go after small accounts.
Generally if you tell them you don’t need a license and they can stand in line to
collect because you don’t have any money, they will write it off. You can renew
the issues by showing the agency that you were injured in your rights by lack of
due process and outright fraud and ask them if they want to be a party to it.
When you start talking criminal acts, they don’t want to get involved and will often
write it up as non collectable.
The rational involved in a sentence of jail time is you are generally told to turn
yourself in to the jail by a certain time and 99.99% of the People will do just that.
If you value your liberty you would make them come and get you and if you value
your property, you would do the same and not offer it to them. Generally
however traffic matters don’t warrant jail time, unless they are very serious.
Jackson v. Indiana, 406 U.S. 715, 738 (1972) "At the least, due process
requires that the nature and duration of commitment bear some
reasonable relation to the purpose for which the individual is committed".
Quoted in Demore v Kim, No 01-1491 (2003)
In the event you are ever arrested, you can’t rely on an attorney to file a Habeas
Corpus for you and for this reason you should know how to compose one at a
moments notice as well as how to move it quickly through the system if
necessary.
You should also know the difference between the form of a Personal Restraint
Petition and a true Habeas Corpus.
More and more as time goes on, People are driving without a license. If you
have taken a driver’s practical and written test, then you have been adjudged
competent so they can’t use that excuse. Various programs have been
employed to take away licensing that have nothing to do with the actual license
itself. Thus you might loose your license for failure to pay child support which
has nothing to do with transportation or traveling.
Where the code is self protecting with severability clauses, it is difficult to make
a worthy challenge to it. Sometimes any excuse to give it back is welcomed,
such as it was in my case. In Washington and other states, because of the
problem with the growing numbers of those who were boycotting the licenses,
they made a code to allow the Department to issue administrative license in
name only. Thus they created an entity for you much like the IRS does and then
moves on the entity to force the issue by larger penalties and quasi criminal
process instead of civil like most traffic tickets are.
The administrative process didn’t correct the problems as they hoped so they
needed a new ploy. The courts then ruled that the administrative code denial or
suspension of license was not true due process, therefore unlawful and they
changed the law to require a hearing making a new expanded department with a
review board, while all the time giving the impression of being more lawful. Don’t
People are getting smart with the ever increasing leverage to licenses and the
use of them for “other” purposes which were unheard of at the time they were
instituted. The whole license system is a scam by the very definition of the term
and acts of the various departments and agencies.
Ejusdem generis and Expressio unius est exclusio alterius are two axioms,
cannons or rules of code construction which take away ambiguity. The former
being that all things or People defined are related and essentially of the same
character. The later claims an exclusion of any that aren’t named. Thus in
application of these two standards of code construction, if the definition names a
series of artificial entities then you can assume by association that all the
references are to artificial entities and all that aren’t mentioned specifically are
excluded from the definition or code.
The statute, however, uses the term "other legal process" far more
restrictively, for under the established interpretative canons of noscitur a
sociis and ejusdem generis, "`[w]here general words follow specific words
in a statutory enumeration, the general words are construed to embrace
only objects similar in nature to those objects enumerated by the
preceding specific words.'" Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams, 532 U.S.
105, 114-115 (2001); see Gutierrez v. Ada, 528 U.S. 250, 255 (2000)
("[W]ords . . . are known by their companions"); Jarecki v. G. D. Searle &
Co., 367 U.S. 303, 307 (1961) ("The maxim noscitur a sociis . . . is often
wisely applied where a word is capable of many [537 U.S. 385] meanings
in order to avoid the giving of unintended breadth to the Acts of
Congress"). Thus, "other legal process" should be understood to be
process much like the processes of execution, levy, attachment, and
garnishment, and at a minimum, would seem to require utilization of some
judicial or quasi-judicial mechanism, though not necessarily an elaborate
one, by which control over property passes from one person to another in
order to discharge or secure discharge of an allegedly existing or
anticipated liability.
Punishments generally
In the case of drugs, it is necessary to see that the offender doesn’t drive away
after the police have left. Since many times it is late at night in rural areas, it is
not feasible to leave the arrested on the side of the road with access to his car or
possibly a hidden key.
I would strongly advise against helping others with driving under the influence
cases. Anyone who does drive incapacitated doesn’t belong on the road. In
some countries it is an automatic loss of license for a year on the first offense
and 6 months in jail on the second which means you loose your job as well,
which is a sure thing if you work for the government. In this instance the law is
valid to ensure the health and safety of the People. While you can take issue
with a California stop at a stop sign as a valid safety issue, you can’t take issue
with the DUI safety issue.
Your homework assignment is to read all the files in L2.zip with “HC” in the
file name. That means you can search for “*HC*.*” without the quotation marks
and they will all come up for you, or you can look for all which have those letters
in the file name which ever is easiest for you.
Dig out your list of questions and send them to me, so I can pick the best
ones for the next lesson. Remember I told you to keep a list.