ONE THING Jonathan Deputy (a Republican) and I (a Democrat) AGREE ON is that NEITHER of us could vote for Donald Trump under ANY circumstances!!!
July 20, 2018
Good Morning Jon,
Overnight, it occurred to me that there is no reason for me
to set conditions for going to Arbitration. I have plenty of evidence to
support my claims and to seek compensation, so I don’t need any pre-agreement –
or we can simply go to trial. I expect if you are convicted in Court, I would
have to then sue you in Civil Court for compensation, dragging things out even
more.
So, I called D.A. Ben David’s office to discuss this with
them, and the young woman said that we would go to trial this Monday (assuming
you don’t ask for a continuance, which is normally given automatically at a
first hearing), or if we agree, we can arbitrate.
I have realized I will be fine regardless the outcome. I
had been feeling so much financial pressure, I’ve been very tense about the
whole thing, but now I am not. What is different now from a year ago, is that
no one ever called or served me about this hearing/trial that I MUST attend,
and a year ago, I was called and told I did NOT have to attend, but did anyway,
which kept the Prosecutor from sending my Communicating Threats charge against
David Alan Young to mandatory arbitration. But since I WAS there, I was able to
specify what compensation I expected from Mr. Young, he refused, so we were to
go to trial. Without any help or preparation with the Prosecutor, I felt it
would be pointless, as it would be only my word against his – and the
Prosecutor seemed hostile to me.
At lunch break, I decided to drop the charges rather than go
through with a trial under those circumstances, but I was also told by Prosecutor
Alexandria Palombo there was a Warrant for my Arrest, and that in any case, I
would be taken to jail at the end of Court. In fact, it was a Summons, nearly a
year old, that had never been served to me, by a former roommate, Dustin Andrew
Goldsmith, who since then was tried and convicted of several drug and other
crimes, so Court date was set for that, he didn’t show, and it was dropped.
I assured Mr. David’s assistant this morning, that I expect
nothing like that to happen Monday.
After I called her, I checked and Prosecutor and Judge have
now been assigned, and I don’t know the Prosecutor, but I have had at least two
experiences with Judge Chad Hogston in Court and one on the street. Back then, 2011, I
had had the chance to observe him in hearings and trials BEFORE David Nash’s
charge of me of Cyberstalking came to trial, and I had the BEST impression of
Judge Hogston’s fairness to all.
Then, I was beyond shocked when he even said when convicting me that he was overlooking my Freedom of Speech and of Press Rights, and Convicted me anyway, putting me on Probation -- with mandatory Psychiatric Treatment -- that would then force me to take Lithium Carbonate again – something my own Psychiatrist of eight years had taken me off in 2009 saying she had never seen a sign of Bipolar in me.
In summer of 2011, with all these claims of my mental
illness, I went to a publicly-funded Mental Health Evaluation and Treatment
clinic, asked for and got an evaluation. I was told I was suffering from
stress, not needing any drug treatment, but counselling was recommended. I got
on with them for counselling, but the Psychiatrist told me that the State will
NOT pay for counselling unless the person is also on Psychoactive Drugs, so I quit
that.
At that time, my mother, who has since 1978 when I began
talking about the Swastikas on our dinner plates, daily beatings, and
high-placed Republican friends of my parents, INSISTED I needed to be on
Lithium, it acting to cause “soft lobotomy”. Mom had been in touch with either
D.A. David or the Judge (my parents had met in chambers with Judge Linda Warren
Hunter before the trial to make a deal in 1990 in Dekalb County, GA that forced
me to take Lithium).
Also, the trial in Hogston’s Court in 2011 was on a day of
freak cold, and I was held in only jail clothes the whole day until trial at
5:00 PM in unheated (then, at least), holding rooms in the Courthouse and was uncontrollably
chattering from the cold, so looked pathetic on the stand, and Judge Hogston
may have “bent the Law” convicting me out of concern that I really WAS
mentally ill – I certainly looked it.
However, it was so “out of order” that my Public Defender later
forced Ben David to ERASE that and another conviction and drop several pending
charges – because even his assistant D.A.s had been leaking that Ben had NO
EVIDENCE of my ever having committed a crime.
I ran into Judge Hogston on the sidewalk near Court a
couple of years ago and told him I had no ill will toward him because of what
had happened. He seemed confused, but friendly, and as I began walking on after
that, Lawyer Thom Goolsby happened by, saying to Hogston, “Judge, is he giving you any trouble?”
Hogston looked confused by that as well, nodded no, and after he was gone I
told Thom Goolsby I would some day see he is locked up (for other things that I
know) – but he’s not, HA!!!
And two-and-a-half years ago, I also landed in Hogston’s Court. Jennifer McCracken had charged me with a crime, but did not show, so he dismissed it. And that blew the $1,800.00 lawyer’s fee that was non-refundable, despite my lawyer having to work little on the case.
I am not concerned about Judge Hogston handling our trial, and I do not expect I will feel the need to remind him that he once convicted me of the same Cyberstalking charge – but then Ben David had to ERASE it.
So, whatever you decide – Arbitration or Trial – I will be prepared to proceed and trust we will end up with a result that works for us both.
I am copying Gold Walker and her Attorney Oliver Carter III
as well, since you Cyberstalked, Bullied, and Communicated Threats while in
service to her as her apartments manager. I trust I will not have to file any
other charges against you over this incident – something that could be part of
an Arbitrated conclusion which also means nothing would be on your Record.
All best, and I’ll see you Monday morning.
Benjamin and Jon David just before 2011, the first year they both served as District Attorneys.
Back in Gainesville, Fla., where the two grew up, they would still be known simply as “the twins.”
They were best friends and sometimes competitors.
“We took karate together, and we’d have fights that lasted for hours. No one could overcome the other,” Jon said. “We were so evenly matched in so many ways.”
Mother Betsy David said a game of rock, paper, scissors was needed to solve such questions as who is going to take out the trash.
MORE here: http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20101228/david-twins-take-over-five-county-da-duties
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