Nancy Grace: Flashing with the "stars"

Last August, I had some commentary about the execrable Nasty Nancy Grace being part of "Dancing with the Stars," and while I mused about someone "dancing with the Devil," no doubt, I had no idea that Her Nastiness also would engage in exhibitionism.

Despite the protestations that she "was not flashing anybody," the photo below (from the UK Daily Mail) shows that Grace was exposing more than just some cleavage.

I include this post not to show off any of the endowment of Her Nastiness, but rather to point out the obvious: despite being cited by appeals courts for lying in court, Grace is one of the most insufferable self-righteous characters on the tube. Had a female accused of a crime ever worn such a low-cut dress in public, Nasty Nancy (or maybe "Nansty") would have been all over her, claiming that the woman's wardrobe was "proof" that she was a criminal.

So, here we have Nansty wearing a dress that shows, well, a lot of stuff, claiming that what we are seeing is not what we are seeing and that she did not "flash" anyone when, clearly, this is the very definition of "flashing." Gee, Nasty Nancy Grace is lying again. Just shocking. Hoodathunkitt?!?!? (By the way, is it just me, or does Nasty Grace look like Miss Piggy -- with no insult intended toward Miss Piggy and the Muppets?)

This reminds me of the "fundraiser" that the LMJC had for the Children's Advocacy Center -- you know, the place that hires high school grads to do fake interviews of children and then claims they have "discovered evidence of child molestation" when, in fact, they have helped fabricate lies? Yeah, that place.

You will remember that prosecutors Chris "Cruisemaster" Arnt and Len "The Thong Man" Gregor and the rest of the Children's Advocacy Center crowd was claiming that a tasteful photo of Tonya Craft in an evening dress was "proof" that she was "narcissistic" and, therefore, a child molester. During the trial, the announcement was made and the sponsors proudly put out a promotion photo of an Elvis impersonator and two "Vegas" women -- wearing thongs. It was the ultimate example of how the LMJC gives everyone else the middle finger.

(After I pointed out that the LMJC was using half-naked women in thongs to promote a fundraiser, the photo was quickly changed and the women suddenly were wearing pink leotards. Yeah, you can't make up this stuff.)

As I see it, this is more of the double standard that those involved with "law enforcement" are promoting. One set of rules for us, and another set of rules for them.

By the way, I doubt that Arnt, Gregor, Tim "Dirty" Deal, and Alan Norton will tell the attendees at the conference this week about those double standards. No, they will pose as people who "care" about the law, all the while crossing their fingers.

NOTE: If any readers attend the conference, please contact me so that I can prepare a report. Unfortunately, I am 600 miles away and cannot attend and listen to these "dynamic" speakers too people how to lie and get away with it.

Maricopa County: You Cannot Make Up This Stuff

The Jacobson case goes on and on (and on), but there are some important developments. At a recent deposition, the Jacobson attorney deposed social worker Jennifer Ingalls, who accused police of asking leading questions of the children being interviewed. (Yes, I had to pull myself off the floor after hearing this.)

But, it gets better. The Jacobson attorney in his deposition with Det. Terge Boe, the illustrious "sex crimes" investigator in Phoenix, asked Boe if he asked leading questions, and if he had come to a conclusion first, and then tried to frame the questions to get the answers he wanted. Boe answered..."yes."

In places where prosecutors have an IQ of greater than 3, such admissions from the principal investigators would tell the DA's office that this is not evidence, but rather a toxic waste dump from which anyone with any sense would flee. However, this case is in Maricopa County, Arizona, where prosecutors compete with one another to see who can be named the biggest idiot in the state.

The ironically-named Noble Murphy (from now on to be called Ignoble Murphy) is the prosecutor in this case, and he declared to the Jacobson's attorney that he "has not lost a cast in seven years," which is a pretty stupid reason to continue this one.

In other words, Ignoble believes that the whole thing is nothing more than a game, which I doubt he would believe if his own life or the life of someone in his family were at stake. This is the kind of arrogance that permeates not only the DA's office in Maricopa County, but prosecutorial offices around this country.

Protecting the Worst Among Us: How the U.S. Supreme Court Rewards Prosecutorial Misconduct

Camille Tilley, the mother of wrongfully-convicted Courtney Bisbee, sent me the link to a stunning article that has appeared in the Los Angeles Times about how the U.S. Supreme Court protects prosecutors who lie and deliberatly hide exculpatory evidence. If you want to know why people like Chris Arnt and Len Gregor are willing to lie openly in court, hide evidence, suborn perjury, and fabricate documents during a trial, this article lays it out for you.

Perhaps the most chilling paragraph in this excellent story is found here:

Last year, the court heard the case of two Iowa prosecutors who were sued for framing two black teenagers for the murder of a security guard even though witnesses had pointed to a suspect who was white. In asking for the claim to be tossed out, the Iowa prosecutors asserted "there is no freestanding constitutional right not to be framed." (Emphasis mine)

I want readers to sit back and contemplate what the Iowa prosecutors are saying: Because the U.S. Constitution does not explicitly say that prosecutors are not to frame innocent people, therefore, prosecutors are permitted to do so. (However, I suspect that many of those people would claim that even though the Constitution does not specifically say that women have an untrammeled "right" to an abortion, nonetheless the Constitution guarantees that "right.")

While the argument these people used was extreme, nonetheless I believe that it reflects the mentality of prosecutors around the country. Because they know that they won't face any legal consequences for their misdeeds, they feel free to do whatever they want, even if they know they are lying.

Furthermore, keep in mind that the consequences of prosecutorial misconduct are horrific. People are wrongfully sent to prison. Families are destroyed. People are executed for crimes they did not commit.

This sorry state of affairs continues because the Law-and-Order Conservatives believe that prosecutors should be able to conduct their operations without any worries at all, and that no one should be permitted to impede their actions, even if they are pursuing innocent people. Furthermore, the same people who believe that a business should be destroyed because an employee acted wrongfully refuse to hold that same standard to the agents of the state. The LAT article notes:

The high court has taken a dim view of suing prosecutors, and in Thompson's case, the court's conservatives led by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. questioned whether the district attorney's office should be held responsible for the misdeeds of a few prosecutors. (Emphasis mine)

Would Alito hold to that same standard if Wal-Mart were being sued? I doubt it, and his words send a very clear message to prosecutors everywhere: Lie, lie, and lie some more. The Supreme Court has your backs.

I would like to say that a free society cannot withstand this kind of assault, but Americans long ago threw away their freedoms. Instead, we have a surveillance-police state that empowers some of the worst people among us.

Last May, a Catoosa County jury acquitted Tonya Craft of child molestation charges, and jurors even remarked afterward that Chris Arnt had openly lied to them during closing arguments. We witnessed Joal and Sarah Henke committing perjury, unqualified prosecution witnesses testifying, the fabrication of documents, and more perjury from Sandra Lamb and Sherri Wilson.

In other words, in order to bring criminal charges against Ms. Craft, Arnt and Len Gregor committed crimes, and helped others commit crimes along the way. Jurors and others in the courtroom witnessed criminal behavior, yet not one person who lied and broke the law faced any sanctions.

Arnt, Gregor, Tim Deal, and "judge" brian outhouse are still on the job. No one who lied faced any punishment, and no one will be punished for what they did.

Why? They knew that they were perfectly secure in their lawbreaking because the authorities will not do anything about it. For that matter, the authorities WERE the lawbreakers. Let me put it another way, one that perhaps puts all of this into perspective:

Lawbreaking by government authorities is legal because it is the "Law of the Land." The U.S. Supreme Court has said so.

Len "The Narcissist" Gregor -- Again

Remember when Len "the man-Racist-Misogynist" Gregor made hay of Tonya Craft having a photo taken of herself in an evening dress? Remember his "narcissist" accusation because Tonya was a fitness instructor and worked out at a gym?

Well, it seems that "the man" loves to have his picture taken with women in scanty dress, and, as we see below, apparently he believes this enhances his image. Just who is the conceited narcissist? We present, you decide.

No doubt, those women were waiting in line to be photographed with "the man." Since these women are wearing outfits MUCH more provocative than Tonya's evening dress (which, actually, is quite classic and lovely), no doubt, in the future he will find a way to charge them with child molestation. (Hat tip to Jason Whiteside)

More Antics of "Mommie Dearest"

When we last left Sandra Lamb, she was prevailing upon the principal of Chickamauga Elementary School to place letters of reprimand in the folders of teachers who had the audacity to testify in favor of Tonya Craft at her trial.

(Yes, these are private letters, but their being put in the folder of teachers by the principal is tantamount to an official reprimand. I can guarantee you that this is legally actionable. Interestingly, no one from the local Georgia Association of Educators affiliate stood up for the teachers. One wonders just why these teachers bother to pay dues if their union sells them out.)

Well, it seems that Lamb has outdone herself, which is a mighty big feat, given what we know about Mommie Dearest. No, she has not gone into professional wrestling or challenged Tonya Harding to a fight, although we already know that Lamb is a tiger when it comes to her fists.

Instead, she is known to carry around a picture of, get this, her daughter's vagina (which was used as "evidence" during Tonya Craft's trial). Furthermore, she shows it to people as "proof" that Tonya molested her child. I'm not kidding.

Now, for the record, Dr. Nancy Fajman, who really does know more about the vaginas of children than does Mommie Dearest, testified that this little girl had a normal you-know-what. Nonetheless, Lamb insists on carrying around this picture.

Given that she has run of the prosecutors' offices in Catoosa County (during the trial, Lamb and Sherry Wilson spent several hours a week in those offices), Lamb does not have to worry about being charged with possession of child pornography. Nonetheless, the idea of a woman carrying a picture of her daughter's vagina -- and waving it in front of other people -- is sick, just sick.

As we said many times during the trial and its aftermath, you just cannot make up this stuff.

Not a Good Day for Prosecutors

Everyone once in a while, even prosecutors have a tough day, and today (Monday, September 27) was one of them. I begin with the dismissal of felony "wiretapping" charges in Harford County, Maryland, in which one of the country's most abusive prosecutors, Joseph Casilly, took it on the chin. A circuit court judge dismissed charges against Anthony Graber, who had recorded a traffic stop with his helmet cam. (Graber was stopped for traffic violations, and recorded the whole proceedings, and then put it on the Internet.)

Casilly, who was responsible for the false prosecution of Valerie Carlton in a case that had a lot of similarities to that of Tonya Craft (except Carlton was jailed for 13 months before Casilly dropped the child molestation charges), had charged Graber under Maryland's vague "wiretapping" law. In my view, this "law" exists solely to protect corrupt government officials from citizens who might secretly record the officials while they are engaging in extortion or worse. After all, if it is illegal to secretly record a government official committing a crime, then that is one more privilege that they have over the "mundanes" who are not employed by the state. Judge Emory A. Pitt, Jr., actually demonstrated some understanding of the law, something that escapes most prosecutors.

On another happy note, Kenneth "The Prize" Kratz, the Wisconsin DA who apparently gets his jollies by "sexting" crime victims, is going to resign. After the Wisconsin state bar refused to discipline him, the state's governor, Jim Doyle, decided to find a way to remove this miscreant and now Kratz is leaving office and his "six-figure" salary.

Can Kratz make it as an attorney in the real world? We shall see. If there were justice, he would be disbarred.

My last note deals with the suicide of a federal prosecutor, someone who was part of the crooked prosecution last year of the late Ted Stevens, then a U.S. Senator from Alaska. Nick Marsh, a DOJ lawyer with the misnamed "Public Integrity" office, was one of the prosecutor under investigation for alleged criminal conduct in that case, and apparently he killed himself last weekend.

I hate to say it, but the "strain" of what surely will be a whitewashed "investigation" is NOTHING like the strain that prosecutors put on innocent people every day. Marsh was out to destroy Sen. Stevens, and did not care if he had to lie to do it, and I find it ironic that he was not able to withstand what many Americans have had to endure because of people like Marsh. As I noted on a post on the Lew Rockwell blog, had the guy showed integrity a year ago, he would not have been in this situation.

Yes, I guess I feel sorry for his family, although Marsh's suicide to me is like the suicide of Adolph Hitler or Joseph Goebbels. The world is better off without people like that. And, yes, I mean it when I include Marsh in that mix, for Marsh was part of a governmental regime that has declared war on decent, honest people. He believed he was immune to the law, and I guess he was wrong.

Eyes on "the Prize," or Kenneth Kratz's Egotistical Adventure

The more I read about Kenneth Kratz, the sex-crazed Wisconsin DA whose behavior must make Chris "Alberto-Facebook" Arnt and Len "The Man-Racist-Misogynist-Homophobe" Gregor envious, the more I realize he has some pretty kinky ideas about what makes for a great date. According to a woman who has come forward after the original "sexting" conduct of Kratz was made public:

...another woman claimed that during a date with Kratz, he invited her to an autopsy, "provided I act as his girlfriend and would wear high heels and a skirt."

Now, I have no idea if Kratz is into, well, something really nasty that perverts like Ted Bundy have done with dead women, but the idea of taking a date to an autopsy leaves me, uh, cold. (Not as cold as the body being examined, however, but close.)

And if that were not enough, a third woman now is making claims about his sexual behavior, according to the Associated Press:

She recalled him texting while he was on vacation in Michigan with his family asking her to impress him "in between naps." She said he later pestered her when she didn't answer.

She eventually told him she was not interested and he said he would stop. She said she didn't hear from him for months but then got a message in which he asked to meet in person to discuss "a personal matter."

While I don't know if Kratz ever has described himself as "The Man" like another egotistical prosecutor we know, he DID claim that he was "the prize." Perhaps he meant booby prize, I don't know. Maybe he and Gregor can compare notes. For that matter, I imagine that he and Arnt would get along, too.

The latest is that Kratz is on "medical leave." Hmm. Is he getting his Viagra dose adjusted? Has he suffered from carpal tunnel because he has been working his thumbs so hard? It's hard to know. Maybe he can go to the same clinic where Tiger Woods went to treat his "addictions."

Or maybe he can move to the LMJC, as I saw that Buzz's office recently advertised for a new ADA. Oh, he'd be the perfect hire for that place.

The Ordeal of John Mulkey

Police and prosecutors in Georgia are out of control. They bring charges where there are no crimes, and then refuse to back off once the charges are debunked, and because the authorities at the state level refuse even to investigate any wrongdoing, these people are free to act lawlessly and ruthlessly as they engage in criminal activity.

Thus it is that John Mulkey of Cartersville, Georgia, is facing the nightmare ordeal that Tonya Craft, Brad Wade, James Combs, Eric Echols and countless others in North Georgia already have been (or are currently) experiencing. The able Dennis Norwood of The Chattanoogan recently had a story on Mr. Mulkey and I urge people to read it to find the facts of the case. I won't repeat them here, but, instead, will deal with some of the reasons that the authorities will not bend to the obvious and end this man's ordeal.

First, I wish to deal with the weapons charge against Mr. Mulkey, a charge into which the ancient doctrine of mens rea factors. Until U.S. Justice William O. Douglas led a "Progressive" charge against this doctrine and eviscerated it at the federal level, mens rea was the bedrock of American and English criminal law.

This doctrine dealt with intent, that is, intent to commit a crime. The great English jurist William Blackstone, who more than any other person influenced American and English law, called it a "vicious will," in which one intends to engage in criminal activity.

Take, for example, two car wrecks in which someone is killed. In the first, everyone can see that it truly was an accident. Perhaps a tire blows out, a deer runs into the road, or something happens that no one expected. In the second, however, the driver of one car deliberately steers his vehicle into the other vehicle and pushes the accelerator, hoping that the end result - a death - will occur.

In the first incident, if no traffic laws have been violated, almost certainly the authorities won't charge the driver with a crime. However, in the second situation, the authorities see that the driver was using his car as a weapon and will charge him with homicide, and the charge would be justified.

In both situations, there is a death, but in the second, one person acted recklessly in order to visit the injury upon the other party. However, if the authorities were to charge the first driver with murder, then there likely would be public outrage, and the person would appeal to mens rea.

Thus, that is the situation involving the weapons charge against Mr. Mulkey (filed, appropriately, in Catoosa County, where the law disappeared years ago and only venal, criminally-minded police, prosecutors, and judges remain). Since he clearly was not aware that there was an outstanding warrant against him, he could not have known that he technically was in violation of weapons laws.

(In fact, he even told the police officer that he had a weapon in the car, which hardly would be the actions of a man who was holding an illegal firearm. Again, the authorities don't care; they just want to throw people into jail, justified or unjustified.)

So, we see just how men like Buzz Franklin and the magistrates and judges of the LMJC really don't care about legal doctrines. However, this story gets worse, at least as far as Mr. Mulkey is concerned.

As Mr. Norwood's story goes, Mr. Mulkey's wife, Casey, died of leukemia. They had a daughter, and Casey's parents wanted custody of the girl. According to Mr. Mulkey, they allegedly convinced the girl to accuse Mr. Mulkey of molesting her, a charge that the child says she never made. (The actual charge came from the in-laws, who told Bartow County police, when then took out a warrant for Mr. Mulkey's arrest.)

So, that is where we stand. For the time being, there has been no indictment, but the authorities refuse to back down. We need to understand that the authorities LOVE to pursue child molestation cases, and from what I can tell, they really don't care if there was actual molestation or not. Why do they love these charges?

First, there is no need for physical evidence. If they can get someone to give hearsay accusations - even if the person who supposedly was molested denies it happens - then they have a basis for a charge.

Second, there is money in it. States and localities receive millions of dollars in federal money to pursue these kinds of charges, and the more "molestation" they "uncover," the more money and prestige for the authorities.

Third, it is a power game. We now are in an age in which people in the legal system no longer care if the charges they pursue are true or not. The usual line is, "We will let a jury decide," but the laws and rules governing judges and prosecutors clearly state that they are to pursue the truth, not what is convenient to them.

More and more, we are seeing narcissistic prosecutors like Len "The Man" Gregor (who constantly bragged on himself during Tonya Craft's trial, wanting jurors to see him as a Greek god instead of the lying fraud that he really was) taking over. These are people who enjoy bullying others, and the more lives they destroy, the better they feel about themselves.

Today's prosecutors, because they almost never are disciplined by authorities, feel free to break the law and to lie constantly about charges or bring charges that the courts already have said are not legal. In John Mulkey's case, the authorities clearly have no legal or moral basis by which to bring charges, yet they refuse to do what is right.

In my devotions this morning, I read Proverbs 14:34, which states: "Righteousness exalts a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people." Indeed, people like those who have authority in the LMJC and elsewhere in Georgia have become a "reproach" in every sense of the word. They no longer care about right and wrong; they just want to win, and all too often the so-called gatekeepers are nothing more than foxes guarding the hen house.

I will say unequivocally that no society can withstand this kind of official misconduct without breaking down and becoming an out-and-out police state based solely upon fear. The John Mulkey case might seem to be just another Georgia "child molestation" case, but it symbolizes much more, for we have a situation here in which the authorities so far have shown no inclination whatsoever to do what is right - and what the law supposedly requires of them.

A society can withstand people committing crimes, as criminals always have been in our midst. No society, however, can withstand those in authority utterly disregarding the law, for that goes to the very heart of the system.

"Alberto" Arnt: Hmmm, Just Who is a Narcissist?

[Update, July 9, 2010, 9:35 AM]: A number of you have asked me about the recent order by Federal District Judge Harold Murphy to Tonya Craft's legal team to refile Tonya's $25 million lawsuit against a number of defendants and to be "more specific" about the charges. As I see it, this is NOT a setback by any means.

Tonya's attorneys filed the original suit shortly after her acquittal, and at the same time, they also were dealing with her filing in Hamilton County Circuit Court to re-establish custody of her two children. In other words, the attorneys were dealing with three legal fronts at the same time.

Thus, they quickly filed the federal suit, and I strongly suspect that Judge Murphy's order was what they expected to have happen. Indeed, a reading of the suit identifies the people involved in the "conspiracy," but it does not go into the necessary specifics of what they did to promote their nefarious actions. Look for the re-filed suit to be MUCH more specific.

Also, this gave the plaintiffs an opportunity to view the strategies by the defendants on how they will defend themselves (other than commit more perjury). For example, Joal and Sarah Henke claim that it is "unfair" to be sued because this will cost them $20,000 or more. Well, our hearts weep for dearest Joal and Sarah, who helped force Tonya and her family to spend upwards of a million dollars to defend Tonya against the charges that turned out to be untrue and ridiculously so. Thus, one can tell Joal and Sarah, as well as the others, that what goes around comes around.
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During the trial of Tonya Craft, prosecutors Chris "Facebook" Arnt and Len "The Man" Gregor constantly portrayed Ms. Craft as a "narcissist." Interestingly, we found a number of things that would have characterized Gregor as such, including his boasting of being "the man" and his Facebook photo.

However, shortly after the trial ended, someone wrote me with a description of Arnt that simply cannot be kept under wraps any longer. Dear readers, if you wish to see the picture of the Ultimate Narcissist, here it is:

My children have played soccer for years at Redoubt on Bonny Oaks Dr. Last Fall, in November, at the tournament time, I saw this new referee, a guy a little older than me, a referee I had never seen before. 90% of all the refs in this recreation soccer league are teenagers. This guy just oozed with arrogance. (Keep in mind I had No Idea who it was.). So this Spring season that just concluded, he refereed a number of my son's games and I gave him the name "Alberto". The very first game last Fall that I saw him ref, he tossed a coach out of the game....a guy coaching 8-9 year old boys soccer.

So this Spring, when kids would score goals, he would take a notepad out of his back pocket and write down the score. For what, I don't know. Bear in mind, it's recreation soccer, no scoreboards are even at the Redoubt fields. I used to laugh at him all the time, because of the way he strutted around, I mean he walked around like a banty rooster in that soccer ref uniform. Before one game he refereed, he went and changed SHIRTS before the game. Let me explain.

He had on a gold & black striped soccer ref jersey. My son's team wore dark blue and the other team of 8-9 year olds was wearing yellow. So this ref leaves the field right before the game and comes back out wearing a RED and black striped shirt. He changed his ref jersey, I guess he thought he would be mistaken for a 9 year old kid due to his jersey color. Then after "Alberto" reappeared with new wardrobe, he stands at the side of the field, doing this "high stepping" knee exercise....like a damn Tennessee Walking Horse running in place. It was HiLaRiOuS!!!!! I wish I had a tape of him doing that to show you.

He just carried himself every single time as this authoritative type figure and I always give people nicknames, especially if they rub me the wrong way. So I always got a kick out of watching for "Alberto" at the soccer field. Well lo and behold, if I didn't find out who "Alberto" was late last week watching Fox News. It was Chris Arnt. For some reason, I had just read his name and I guess caught footage of The Man and House Of Horrors and not "Alberto". Talk about a NARCISSIST. Now I know why I couldn't stand "Alberto" at the soccer field. Don't you think that's a good name for him, "Alberto"??

Indeed, we can name him Christopher Alberto Facebook Arnt. Narcissism, Arnt is thy name.

New Blog on Brad Wade Case

[Update, Saturday May 29, 2010, 2:30 PM]: I will be off through the weekend. My next new post will be Tuesday morning, June 1. Have a great Memorial Day!

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Ever since a Dade County jury convicted her brother three years ago of child molestation, Angie Granger has worked hard to help Brad Wade appeal the conviction and to put out an account that differs with the one prosecutor Len Gregor gave. (Yes, I know everyone is shocked that The Man would help to fabricate a dishonest account of something.)

Angie has launched a blog, "Brad Wade Justice," and I would encourage readers to visit it and make constructive comments. She and her family deserve our support, just as people supported Tonya Craft.

As I have noted before, the Tonya Craft trial did not occur in a vacuum. For many years, prosecutors on Buzz Franklin's staff have been fabricating evidence and police have lied in court in order to push the "keeping the LMJC safe for children" crusade, one that also has a payout in Mondale Act money. In my view, there really is nothing worse than having government officials like Franklin, Gregor, and Chris Arnt who are in positions of power and trust use their authority in order to push lies.

From what I have read, Gregor's father went to West Point, a place that has an honor code. Unfortunately, the son, who learned none of the lessons of honor, is a man of dishonor, a bully, and someone who knowingly targets innocent people and plays the "let's see if I can convict an innocent person" game that apparently defines the man's career. What he did to Brad Wade was an obscenity, and anyone who saw his performance in the Tonya Craft trial can attest that The Man is a narcissist of the highest order.

Have a great Memorial Day weekend. It is my fervent hope that the people who gave up their lives in service of their country do not have their memories further sullied by bullies like Len Gregor, who have spit on everything decent and honest and true, narcissists who insist that the truth is a lie and a lie is the truth.

The Northwest Georgia Children's Advocacy Centers: Perjury, Inc.

[Update, Friday May 14 1:00 PM]: Channel 12 has interviewed the head of the CAC in Rossville, and -- Surprise! Surprise! -- she is claiming her people did a good job:

The Children's Advocacy Center in Rossville continues to take heat after the Tonya Craft verdict, but those in charge of the center say they had no vendetta against Craft.

Craft's defense claimed there were sloppy interviews and terrible therapy.

C-A-C Director Ione Sells says her employees did their job. She says the center doesn't decide which cases to take to court.

Sells says they expected the heat, and she stands behind her interviewers and therapists.

CAC Director, Ione Sells says, "I don't think it hurts what we do. What worries me is that it hurts the kids, the kids that have been here, the kids that will be here. No parent wants publicity when something like this happens."

Sells says their clients haven't expressed any concern about their services.

Ladies and gentlemen, I hate to say it, but that dog just won't hunt. If the CAC continues to insist that leading questions, failure to document, and outright perjury is the standard procedure for the CAC "interviewers and therapists," then she and the organization are in a lot of trouble.

One important rule in life is that when one is in a hole of one's own making, the first thing to do is to stop digging. Enjoy the fundraiser tonight, folks!

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As I continue to dig and research the "justice" system of the Lookout Mountain Judicial District, I must admit that it is like peeling back a really nasty, putrid onion, and as one comes closer to the center, the more rancid it becomes. This is a system in which one lie after another is pyramided upon a base of greed and dishonesty, and because there is no accountability in the system, the players have become so accustomed to having everything go their way.

That is why the Tonya Craft verdict Tuesday was so shocking. Given the prosecution's "evidence" and the outright stunning behavior by prosecutors Chris Arnt and Len Gregor, and "judge" Brian House, a normal, logical person would not be surprised at all that a jury would vote not guilty. However, this IS the LMJD, and when prosecutors in that district have a 98-percent conviction rate, well, a loss is something quite rare. Furthermore, after seeing these monsters in action, I believe I must say the following: They ain't that good, certainly not 98 percent good.

Yet, the prosecutors and the judge were surprised they had lost and in large part, that was because of the role the Children's Advocacy Centers of Fort Oglethorpe and Dalton. Since the community is going to "celebrate" the role of the CAC by having a fundraiser at Willow Tree Farms, I figure this is as good a time as any to commemorate all of those people in the LMJD who have been wrongfully convicted because of testimony from CAC "interviewers."

During the trial, we saw just how "professional" the CAC witnesses really were. When questioned by the defense, they rolled their eyes, shrugged their shoulders, giggled and looked at the prosecutors for help. Not only did they admit to not having read any relevant literature regarding their chosen professions, but they actually reveled in their ignorance.

When someone clearly is ignorant of the basics of their line of work, and that ignorance is exposed, that person usually is embarrassed. However, when Dr. Demosthenes Lorandos demonstrated to the jury and the court that these CAC witnesses were ignorant of the very things for which the prosecution claimed they were "experts," the CAC staffers were proud of themselves.

Yes, self-esteem is not lacking at the Children's Advocacy Centers of Fort Oglethorpe and Dalton. However, veracity, competence, and humility are not found within those walls.

Another thing that is missing with those CAC chapters is honesty. In fact, as I point out in the title, I believe that we should rename the CAC Perjury, Incorporated, or just Perjury, Inc.

Yes, think of the possibilities. They could use Laurie Evans and Suzi Thorne as their poster children, given that both women clearly lied on the witness stand, something that used to be called perjury, but now is called "testimony" by LMJD prosecutors.

Granted, there is a big, big problem with having a strategy of telling lies in court, and it is this: You had better win every time. In the Tonya Craft trial, however, the CAC associates ran over the cliff with the prosecution, but the problem is that the CAC does not have prosecutorial immunity. (To be frank, I don't think prosecutors should have immunity, either, but I don't want to get into that here.)

That is where the fundraiser comes in. I expect to see Buzz Franklin, Chris Arnt, Len Gregor, Brian House, and the Usual Suspects at that "fundraiser" losing money at the craps tables, ogling the "showgirls" in their thongs (or maybe pink leotards), and opening their wallets to support Perjury, Inc.

To be honest (since someone around these parts needs to tell the truth), the CAC is going to need the money to pay some serious bucks to Tonya Craft. Time to pay the piper.

An Open Letter to Tonya Craft

Well, Tonya, you and the "Dream Team" really did it. This case is over, but it never will be over, not for the rest of your life. Yet, it is up to you to take revenge in the best way possible: living well.

I cannot imagine what you have gone through, and how utterly hard it must have been when reporters were knocking on doors in your old neighborhood asking people if they knew that a "child molester" lived nearby. You declared your innocence, but few believed, and, to be frank, few wanted to believe.

We live in the Age of the Almighty Prosecutor, and the prosecutors of the Lookout Mountain Judicial District have run their offices as though they were fiefdoms, taking challenges from no one. They targeted you and the rest, well, is history.

That utter moment of relief does not make up for what you must have felt during those awful days, when your name was being destroyed by the likes of Channel 9 reporters, which apparently decided from the start that you were guilty and became essentially the PR wing of the prosecutors. Nor can it make up for what you have lost in all of those days in which you could not be with your children. The lost income, the losing of your house, and the losing of nearly everything else must define those days in large part.

However, what they could not take away from you was your own spirit and determination and your will to fight these false charges. You would not give up, and that is why you are standing as a free woman today.

I can only imagine what it was like when people turned their backs on you, and when the gossip flowed like water in a baptismal pools. (Actually, much of the gossip DID come from people who attend churches with nice, big baptismal pools, and where gossip supposedly is sin.) I can only imagine what it was like when that psychopath Nancy Grace told you that you were guilty. Why? Well, you were charged with a crime, and for people like Grace and her good friend Wendy Murphy, that is all it takes.

Good grief, the people who were against you seemed legion. Baptist churches of Northwest Georgia sent people to back the prosecutors and even a high-profile employee of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes took part in going after you. (Note to athletes in the Chattanooga area that are Christians: Think twice before having anything to do with an organization that preaches the Bible, yet violates it in the worst possible way.)

But you continued to fight, and you made that important trip to Michigan to find Dr. Demosthenes Lorandos, and by doing so, brought The Real Man (as opposed to the narcissistic prosecutor at the other table who refers to himself as "The Man") into the courtroom. Men like Dr. Lorandos are rare, indeed, and they are formidable in legal circles, even when they are hog-tied in a courtroom as was Dr. Lorandos and the rest of your lawyers.

Before we speak of the aftermath, let us revisit that "House" of Horrors known as an alleged courtroom where you had to park yourself for the last month. What was done to you was criminal: no other word will suffice. Indeed, if you want to know where the REAL conspiracy was centered, it was in that courtroom, as a judge and his two henchmen conspired time and again to deprive you of your civil rights to a fair trial.

Let me be more specific. House, Arnt, and Gregor were not guilty of overzealousness or even bad judgment. What they did was much, much worse because they teamed up to keep much of the evidence that would have exonerated you out of the courtroom. They harassed your witnesses and then called your four expert witnesses, who are well-respected in their fields (to put it mildly), "whores" and liars.

In a real courtroom with a real judge, a number of witnesses for the prosecution would not have been permitted to give their "I just remembered" testimony. In a real courtroom with a real judge, Joal Henke's sudden "recovered memory" of some alleged lesbian activities on your part would not have been told to the jury. In a real courtroom with a real judge, Tim Deal could not have claimed to be the detective who had witnessed the deus ex machina revelation to Suzi "I Don't Remember" Thorne when nothing like it had been entered into discovery.

In a real courtroom with a real judge, There is no way that "The Man" could have been permitted to engage in the kind of cross-examination (Lord, that word gives dignity to the racist-sexist show put on by Facebook's partner) that you faced just last Friday afternoon. In a real courtroom with a real judge, "He's on cross," or "He's on closing" would never have come from the mouth of the person wearing the black robes. In a real courtroom with a real judge, the prosecutors would not have been allowed to call your respected expert witnesses "whores" and liars.

A while back, a friend of mine was on trial in federal court in Brooklyn in a very high-profile financial misconduct case. Like you, he had some very good attorneys, and like you, the prosecution had a very weak case. Unlike you, he had a no-nonsense judge (age 75) presiding who kept both prosecutors and the defense attorneys on a short leash.

While the trial was going on, I told my friend that the legal show he was seeing was so interesting and entertaining that it was easy to forget the prosecutors wanted to have him put away for the rest of his life. As in your trial, his attorneys put the prosecutors on their heels from opening statements, and in the end, both of you heard a jury declare those wonderful words: "Not guilty."

So, where from here? First, you need a rest, if that is possible. (No, you sure as heck won't get a rest today in the Big Apple making the rounds of the talk shows.) But I mean more than just a "rest" in which you get some sleep or head for a spa for a week.

No, I mean something much deeper. You and your husband, David, have been through the marital equivalent of nuclear war, but now the smoke is clearing and the radiation dissipating. Still, there are dangers aplenty. Furthermore, there are the child custody battles (although a man who would commit perjury on the stand to frame an innocent woman of child molestation should not have custody of ANY children, even his own), and future lawsuits, of which I will speak shortly.

Furthermore, you are Suddenly Famous, and while that may mean money and other things that come with it, nonetheless this kind of quick fame has its downside, and you have to recognize the problems even before they make an appearance. You have a very good head on your shoulders, and I can guarantee you that you need to put that brain on high alert as you move into the time when people everywhere recognize your name.

Nonetheless, you and David need to work out this aftermath, for I promise you that these experiences will continue to bring challenges to your relationship. That is where your friends, family, and church family come into play. There are a lot of people who know you who want this marriage to succeed as long as both of you inhabit the earth, and you will find them as great a resource in that area as you found them to be a source of real strength as they stood behind you despite the charges you face.

As I mentioned before, there is the battle for your children. They do not need to stay in the Henke household for another minute, as both Joal and Sarah were willing to commit perjury to ruin your life. ("Matted hair"? Yeah, right.) While it will be strenuous, nonetheless I believe you will be successful there, too, as no court and no judge in the Chattanooga area is going to disregard you now.

And, now the lawsuits. This should be interesting. While judges and prosecutors have strong immunity (but not total immunity, although in real life it seems that way), the police and the "investigators" of the Children's Advocacy Centers in North Georgia are wide open. I only hope the CAC's "Casino Night" fund-raiser on Friday nets the organization lots and lots of dollars so that lots and lots of dollars can flow from them to you.

I cannot imagine the rich lawsuit targets that exist, and they are going to take up a goodly part of your life for a while. Furthermore, justice is not easily gained; the three wrongly-indicted Duke Lacrosse players still await even the discovery phase nearly three years into their original suit. That is the reality of civil courts, so you have to keep that in mind.

Nonetheless, I believe that some people need to be held accountable, as they were NOT held accountable during this whole disgusting process. There is no way that someone as incompetent and dishonest as Laurie Evans should have been allowed to speak to your children, and the fact that she was a prized "investigator" with the CAC tells us that it is an organization that values lies over the truth.

If you bring action against these malevolent people, you not only will be helping to restore your good name, but you also will be protecting FUTURE families, as these are the kinds of people who are quick to allege abuse where it did not happen. For all of their talk about "selflessness" and "protecting children," no one should forget that the more accusations they make, the more money the government gives them through the Mondale Act. There just is too much abuse of truth and of the system for these people to be permitted to act as though nothing happened.

Accountability is vital here, and you can assure yourself and everyone else that you are suing these people because they were permitted to assault your reputation, you family, and your freedom. Indeed, these things happened precisely because no one in the legal system held the Usual Suspects to any accountability at all.

So, no, you are not a "gold digger," although some will call you that. Heck, you can take that. After all, many of the same people before were calling you a child molester.

You cannot imagine the things you have accomplished through your courage, your faith in God, your endurance, and your will literally to live. You have brought down a racket in which prosecutors claiming they were "protecting children" could go to the CAC for "one-stop prosecutorial shopping," get all of the "expert" testimony you needed, and Tim Deal would try (although not very well, frankly) to put all of it together into a semi-coherent narrative.

The media loved these "heroes," and anyone targeted could not stand up to them. So, because of this racket (no other word really suffices), innocent people go to prison, the press lionizes Facebook and The Man for ridding the district of "child molesters," and the players get their Mondale Act money.

And then you came along with your attorneys (Lord bless them) and threw a nice, big bomb into the whole thing and blew it up, exposing the lies and corruption. For all of the legal talk, let me tell you what you just did: You busted up probably the biggest and most virulent crime ring in North Georgia.

Forget the meth labs and the secret pot plants. The real criminal conspiracy lies with the prosecutors, the police, and the CAC, and all are in a state of shock today. All because you fought back with dignity, grace, and your willingness to bring a gun to a knife fight.

So, enjoy the day, and enjoy your fame. You deserve it, and then there is the rest of your life to live. Better to live it as a free woman than one who is incarcerated.

Week Five: What Outrages are Left?

Week four in the Tonya Craft trial has passed, and week five begins, and once again we find that "Judge" Brian House and prosecutors Len Gregor and Chris Arnt have decided to make up the rules as they go along. Now, most times judges and prosecutors pretend at least to play by some rules, but that is not the situation here.

Instead, we have House determined to play the role of a parrot whenever Gregor or Arnt are bellowing at a defense witness: "Awk, awk, he's on cross! He's on cross! Awk! Awk!" As one prosecutor (who apparently is law-abiding) said, just Gregor's misleading statement in his cross Friday in which he claimed that by Tonya's meeting with police in the presence of a lawyer was "not cooperating" with the investigation ALONE would constitute reason for overturning a guilty verdict.

Now, I don't claim that House, Arnt, and Gregor are exactly brilliant legal minds, but even THEY are not so stupid to know that they have been engaging in a legal scorched earth strategy. Their stupidity lies in thinking that they still can pull off a conviction and not be subject to any consequences.

No doubt, they have had at least one or more meetings together with House playing the Blutarsky role in "Animal House," with Gregor taking the role of "Otter" and declaring, "This requires a really stupid and futile gesture on the part of someone," with House chiming in, "And we're just the ones to do it!" (Note to House, Arnt, and Gregor: the Germans did NOT bomb Pearl Harbor.)

So, we cannot help but wonder what stupid and futile gesture these people will try. House already has told the legal world that he is not up to being a judge, and he prefers to have the animals running the zoo, with Arnt and Gregor playing the role of the caged beasts.

As I outlined Saturday, no doubt the prosecution will try to introduce "new" evidence or witnesses that are going to make wild and untrue claims. (This, supposedly, is unlike the other prosecution witnesses that also made wild and untrue claims.) In a court in which rules actually are kept, as opposed to being created on the spot, the introduction of the deus ex machina witness at this point in the proceedings would trigger a mistrial.

Unfortunately, we are in a forum in which the prosecutors determine after the fact what the rules will be and the judge sits on his perch and squawks out the following whenever the defense objects: "Awk, He's on cross, he's on cross," and when the prosecution objects, "Awk, sustained! Awk, sustained!" They don't even try to hide their actions anymore.

I guess the jury will go into deliberations this week (unless they decide, instead, to hold out so they can get in free at the CAC-LMJD "Las Vegas" gala complete with showgirls wearing thongs and vodka and raspberry drinks). Now, no one with a cell of logic in his or her brain could believe that the prosecution "proved beyond a reasonable doubt" that Tonya Craft molested anyone, but this is not a normal trial.

Are there "ringers" on the jury who are placed there to vote guilty? I have no idea, but I do know that when this trial ends this week, the story does not end. Furthermore, my efforts to see that justice is meted out on Brian House, Chris Arnt, and Len Gregor will not end, either. These are three people who should not be in the positions of power and influence that come with their offices, and I will make it my mission in life to see that they are forced to find other work in which they can harm no innocent person again.

An Open Letter to Area Teachers

[Update, Wednesday 10:10 AM]: Tonya may appear on the witness stand today, although it is up in the air. Laurie Evans (as a hostile witness) and David Craft are scheduled for today, and we shall see when their testimony is done.

[End Update]

I wish to keep this brief, but at the same time, I hope that a lot of area teachers will be in the Catoosa County Courthouse to stand with Tonya Craft when she testifies this week. (The latest news is that she is going to testify on Thursday.)

Keeping that in mind, however, whenever she testifies, it will be brutal. Her attorneys, who have shown a lot of class throughout this difficult trial, will treat her well. Unfortunately, she will have to face two misogynists, Len Gregor and Chris Arnt, who will brutalize her beyond belief.

Because Judge "He's on Cross" House has placed no limited upon whatever the prosecution can ask (while putting handcuffs on the defense), you can bet that the Dishonest Duo will be at their full, women-hating selves. After all, the expert witnesses have flat out told them that their analysis is wrong, that Tonya Craft is not a child molester, and that the CAC "interviewers" did a terrible and wrong-headed job.

Now, most reflective people, having been told by some of the most important experts in the country that they are in error, would step back and examine what they have done. However, the very fact that the experts have demonstrated the folly of their charges only has enraged Arnt, Gregor, and House, and so they will take their revenge out on Tonya.

How DARE she defend herself! How DARE she bring in witnesses who might contradict the CAC? How DARE she say she is not guilty!

With that in mind, Gregor, who in my view is as dishonest and evil a prosecutor as I ever have seen -- and I have done battle with Mike Nifong -- will be in Tonya's face the entire time, screaming at her that she is a child molester. He will screech things like, "Did it feel good to stuck your finger in your child's privates?" and worse. He will call her a narcissist.

In fact, Gregor will do everything but ask substantive questions. He already knows his charges are a lie, but he wants a conviction because he is the self-described "Man," and "The Man" does not lose, period.

Gregor and Arnt hate women, period. They enjoy attacking Tonya, and they enjoy bullying someone they perceive as being weaker.

As teachers, you know that is wrong, and you know that Chris Arnt and Len Gregor are a stench upon humanity. You cannot keep these misogynists from spewing hateful words (and House openly will encourage them to engage in this shocking behavior), but you can be in that courtroom, and you can let Tonya Craft and her family know that you don't approve of what is happening.

Tonya is innocent. Had decent human beings instead of Arnt and Gregor been in charge of this trial (and they ARE running the show; House is just their puppet), the charges would have been dropped long ago. The expert witnesses are united in their belief that this trial is a sham and Arnt and Gregor should go away. Furthermore, I have seen a huge amount of support for the disbarment of these animals, and I can tell you that I will be recruiting a lot of people for this effort.

While your presence probably won't affect the outcome of the trial, you still can send a message. What has happened in that courtroom over the past four weeks has been a disgrace, a sorry spectacle of bullies being protected by someone who clearly is not fit to be a judge. Furthermore, if today's proceedings are any indication, Gregor and Arnt will try to bully you, too. Bailiffs will roam the courtroom, trying to see if they can arbitrarily kick out whomever they choose.

But, you can strike a blow for decency simply by BEING THERE. That is the key. You cannot make House, Arnt, and Gregor act like law-abiding officers of the court; they made the decision long ago that the law did not apply to them. But you can be there and stand for something decent, and stand for something good because you are decent, even if those entrusted with following the law actually despise you and the law they supposedly enforce.

Message to the Prosecution: Cut Your Losses and Drop the Charges Now!

[Update, Tuesday 4:50 PM]: Dennis Norwood of The Chattanoogan has an excellent account of the morning's testimony by Dr. Dr. William "Bill" Bernet, who told the court that Tim Deal's "investigation" was "shoddy." That Arnt, Gregor, and House still are trying to get Tonya Craft convicted after the parade of witnesses shooting down their arguments is a disgrace. If you want to know why I am intent on pursuing disbarment for the prosecutors, look no further than their refusal even to pay attention to these distinguished witnesses.
[End Update]

The most effective way that African hunters go after monkeys is to lay out a hollowed gourd with a narrow neck and fasten it to something solid. Inside the gourd, they put nuts that will attract a monkey to a point where it will put its hand into the gourd and grab the nuts.

Unfortunately for the monkey, the neck of the gourd is too narrow for the monkey's fist, which means that unless the animal lets go of the nuts, it cannot move. At that point, the hunters approach and still the monkey will not let go, even to the bitter end.

I use this analogy because that is what I see Chris Arnt, Len Gregor, and Brian House doing. Even as the expert witnesses -- and these experts literally ARE the people that WROTE THE BOOK on child molestation accusations -- chew up and spit out the false charges against Tonya Craft, they soldier on as though they had a duty to carry out the trial no matter how many times the charges are debunked. Like the proverbial monkey, they hold even more tightly to this case, even as it threatens to doom their careers.

Let us assume that at the BEGINNING of this investigation, Arnt, Gregor and Tim Deal took the three children to be examined by Dr. Fajman, Dr. Hazzard, Dr. Aldridge, and Dr. Bernet. Let us further assume that the three people gave the same answers to the investigators and prosecutors that they have given on the stand: they find NO EVIDENCE of sexual abuse.

What would have Deal, Arnt and Gregor have done? Would they have pursued this investigation further, or would have they told the parents that there was no evidence by which they could -- or should -- gain a conviction? I'll go further. How many investigators in the State of Georgia, if they are told by these four people or at least some of them that there was no sign of sexual or other abuse, would still pursue charges?

That these men continue to push forward despite being told from literally the gold standard of therapists and scholars like this is absolutely telling. They cannot be saying that these witnesses are stupid or are unable to properly diagnose anything.

No, what Arnt and Gregor and House are doing is what no prosecutor or judge EVER should let happen: pursue an innocent person because someone wants to "win." That is not just bad prosecution, it is immoral. It is an offense so terrible that anyone who engages in it should not be permitted to work in that field again.

Michael Nifong's "investigator" Linwood Wilson, seeing that all the wheels were coming off the Duke Lacrosse Case, begged Nifong to get rid of the whole thing, to drop the charges, cut his losses, and move on. Unfortunately, Nifong simply refashioned the charges in a way that was so contrived that law professor James Coleman of Duke University Law School declared that Nifong was "mooning the system."

Indeed, "mooning" was and is a good term for both the Duke and the Tonya Craft cases, as the prosecutors and House proudly are showing their backsides to everything their professions are supposed to be. As I have followed the testimonies of Dr. Fajman, Dr. Aldridge, and now Dr. Bernet, I realize something quite terrible: the prosecution did not WANT people like this to testify because the prosecutors KNEW what they would say, and they would undermine the very testimonies that prosecutors already know are untrue.

In other words, I am saying that Chris Arnt and Len Gregor at VERY BEST were reckless in pursuing these charges and at the worst, knew they were false. This goes against everything for which the courts supposedly stand, and what our forefathers knew about justice.

Furthermore, by attacking these witnesses and trying to tell the jury that ALL FOUR OF THEM are not telling the truth, Arnt and Gregor have set themselves up for real problems in the future. People talk, and especially witnesses like this, who don't take this kind of treatment sitting down.

I realize that these witnesses not only believe the prosecution is wrong, but they firmly believe that the prosecutors are trying to railroad an innocent person into prison, and they are taking that personally. Don't think for a second that they are not going to make sure that prosecutors and judges know about what Arnt and Gregor and House are doing.

While it might be a short-term loss, the very best thing for the careers of these three men is to drop the charges now. Unfortunately, like the poor monkey, they are holding onto the bait with everything they have and refusing to let go. Like Nifong, they "moon" the system and like Nifong, they will find their careers in jeopardy.

Georgia Prosecutor Conduct Rules and the Dishonest Duo

[Update, 8:30 p.m.]: Each day I follow this joke of a trial, I tell myself that Arnt, Gregor and House cannot sink any lower, yet today with the barring of some testimony from expert witness Dr. Ann Hazzard, a well-known clinical psychologist, House demonstrated beyond a doubt that he actually believes that he is supposed to have one set of rules for the defendants, and, to be honest, NO rules for the prosecutors.

The Hazzard affair was especially egregious. Even though Georgia law did not require the defense to prepare a summary of Dr. Hazzard's testimony, the defense did it anyway. However, Gregor told the court that the prosecution never received the documents, which was a bald-faced lie, so he demanded that she be totally disqualified from testifying. (You might recall that two nights ago, I predicted that the Dishonest Duo would try to pull this kind of trick, and I was right.)

Unfortunately, it gets worse, and you can read how Gregor and Arnt sent a SWAT team to Dr. Hazzard's office in Atlanta, which trashed her office and brutalized her and her clients. All in a day's work I guess. (The Chattanoogan article by Dennis Norwood also does a great job in laying out the testimony that Dr. Hazzard WAS permitted to give.)

And, it gets even better (or worse, depending on your viewpoint). While "House of Horrors" did not altogether disqualify her testimony, he DID rule that she COULD NOT tell the jury anything about her interview with the children of Tonya Craft, because the prosecutors did not want Dr. Hazzard to say what she had concluded: She saw NO signs of sexual abuse with either of them.

House's reasoning? Such testimony, he declared, would be hearsay. Now, this is rich, very rich. Almost ALL of the "expert" witness testimony for the prosecution has been hearsay, and House has allowed ALL of it to be entered into the record. Furthermore, there is a long record of testimony such as Dr. Hazzard was prepared to give being used in other courts, including in Georgia, but such testimony might have undermined the lies that the Dishonest Duo are trying to foist upon the jury, and, as we have seen time and again, House will allow NOTHING to get in the way of rigging a conviction.

This most likely was the most shameful moment in a very shameful trial. Furthermore, even someone like House, who observers to a person tell me that takes ALL of his instructions from Gregor and Arnt, must know that this trial is a train wreck, and that even if Ms. Craft is convicted, the guilty verdict certainly will be overturned. Moreover, no matter what happens, Brian House will be defined by this trial, and he never again will have an ounce of credibility as a judge.

As for Arnt and Gregor, I am announcing that I will be working for their disbarment. As the earlier post below demonstrates, their conduct over the past three weeks has demonstrated that they should not be entrusted with charging anyone with a crime, and it is obvious that they have obliterated the rules that are supposed to govern them.

I need to make it very clear: I am going to make it my mission in life to have these men disciplined and have their Georgia law licenses taken away. I may not succeed, but Christopher Arnt and Len Gregor are going to know that they are in a fight for their careers. They made the decision to trash the law and their profession, and now they are going to live with the consequences. [End Update]

As I survey the wreckage of the Tonya Craft trial, what with Judge Brian "House of Horrors" along with the Dishonest Duo of Facebook and The Man running the proceedings, it is time to step back and examine the conduct that so many of you have observed personally while sitting in that alleged courtroom. Today, I looked through the rules that prosecutors in Georgia are supposed to follow, and -- Surprise! -- the Dishonest Duo clearly believes that the rules exist for them to break.

I will list each rule and its contents, and then you, dear reader, are free to make your own judgments. Those who actually have entered the House of Horrors and seen the proceedings for yourself might be the most authoritative in interpreting the rules and the actions of the Dishonest Duo.

Rule 3.3:

(a) A lawyer shall not knowingly:
(1) make a false statement of material fact or law to a tribunal;

(2) fail to disclose a material fact to a tribunal when disclosure is necessary to avoid assisting a criminal or fraudulent act by the client;

(4) offer evidence that the lawyer knows to be false. If a lawyer has offered material evidence and comes to know of its falsity, the lawyer shall take reasonable remedial measures.

4(d) In an ex parte proceeding, other than grand jury proceedings, a lawyer shall inform the tribunal of all material facts known to the lawyer that the lawyer reasonably believes are necessary to enable the tribunal to make an informed decision, whether or not the facts are adverse.

The maximum penalty for a violation of this Rule is disbarment.

Rule 3.4:

A lawyer shall not:

(a) unlawfully obstruct another party's access to evidence or unlawfully alter, destroy or conceal a document or other material having potential evidentiary value. A lawyer shall not counsel or assist another person to do any such act;

(b) (1) falsify evidence;

(2) counsel or assist a witness to testify falsely;

The maximum penalty for a violation of this Rule is disbarment.

Rule 3.5:

A lawyer shall not, without regard to whether the lawyer represents a client in the matter:

(a) seek to influence a judge, juror, prospective juror or other official by means prohibited by law;

(b) communicate ex parte with such a person except as permitted by law; or

(c) engage in conduct intended to disrupt a tribunal.

The maximum penalty for a violation of part (a) of this Rule is disbarment. The maximum penalty for a violation of part (b) or part (c) of this Rule is a public reprimand.

I have covered Rules 3.6 and Rules 3.8 here, and Chris Arnt's Facebook page and his public comments about Tonya Craft's "guilt" are prima facae evidence of his having violated those two rules, which carry a maximum penalty of public reprimand.

The more serious alleged violations come in the breaking of Rules 3.3, 3.4, and 3.5. I believe that both Arnt and Gregor have suborned perjury, and then they covered it up when they prevented the defense from entering the on-line resume of Sandra Lamb's child after Lamb testified that the girl had not received acting lessons.

Furthermore, as I have said many times, the testimony of both Suzi Thorne and Tim Deal clearly was perjured. (Yeah, investigators after hitting the "mother lode" of "disclosures" "just forget" to memorialize the moment. Right.)

Then there is the issue about their "Animal House" behavior in the courtroom. A number of people who have attended have contacted me and told me their observations. Unlike the "testimony" created by the prosecution, these accusations really are consistent. Here are some accounts:

I sat in court yesterday afternoon and this morning. I am completely amazed at how Judge House, the prosecutors, and Det. Deal act in court. I saw on many occasions the Judge making faces at "The Man and Facebook." He seems to be getting all of his cues from them. I also witnessed today, Det. Deal roll his eyes at people in the audience(seated behind the prosecution) as the Defense was fighting to get in Dr. Hazzards testimony. During this time, House also reprimanded Dr. Lorendos(sp??) for raising his voice. Yet, when "The Man" slammed a document down accusing the defense of showboating in front of the jury, no action or reprimand from the judge(no big surprise). It is so very evident(especially as you seat in the court room) that House is aligned with these two and they will stop at nothing to get a conviction!! One other interesting observation. The person that I was with also noticed that the baliffs stare down the defense side of the audience. It is as if they are looking for a reason to throw you out!!

And this:

Gregor and Aren't (my own joke) honestly acted like children -- if they were my son I'd have gone up and pulled him up by his ears and told him to stop acting like an idiot. As the defense questioned a Mr. Walker on the stand, the two of them couldn't sit still. On purpose, of course, they acted like 12 year olds -- they'd put their heads in their hands and shake them, they'd put their arms behind their heads and sigh -- they were like baby monkeys!

And then this:

I was in court today and was able to see this mockery of a trial for myself...I am appalled! No need for a judge because the DA is definitely running the show. Honestly, the judge looks at them everytime just before he overrules the defense team! What are they so afraid of...the defense wants to hear the opinion of a real expert...with credentials...and they continuously object. Mr. Deal was seen rolling his eyes to the prosecutions supporters...the DA Slamming a paper down in front of defense attorney...and House just sits there. He actually looks annoyed to even be there. Nothing but praise for the defense team...they never let this outlandish behavior rattle them.

While it is true that Brian House is supposed to be in charge, nonetheless Arnt and Gregor are fully aware of the rules of conduct for their office. That they consider those rules to be beneath them is not an excuse for their behavior and their bullying.

Important: Some of you who have attended these proceedings and witnessed this misconduct can take out sworn statements and have them notarized. I can get more information about this. The reason I am asking is that I plan to present the Georgia State Bar with this evidence of misconduct. Obviously, that would place you in a position of possibly having to testify against a prosecutor, should the Bar take these complaints seriously.

I can understand why some people might not want to become involved, especially given the ordeal you have faced at the courthouse already. Nonetheless, people who are interested in having sworn statements made can email me.

Arnt, Gregor, and the Rule of the High School Bullies

[Update II]: I read in my devotional literature this morning that today is National Honesty Day in the United States. My sense is that every day in Brian House's courtroom, at least where the prosecution is concerned, is National Dishonesty Day. God help us.

[Update: Friday, 6:10 AM]: I received an email from someone who visited the trial yesterday. This person does not know the people being tried or anyone else involved in the case. This is a description of what this person saw, and it is quite germane to the subject of my post. Read on:

House looked pale and spooked. Other posters aren't kidding when they say he watches the prosecutors for his cues -- he actually watches the prosecutors most all of the time period.

Gregor and Aren't (my own joke) honestly acted like children -- if they were my son I'd have gone up and pulled him up by his ears and told him to stop acting like an idiot. As the defense questioned a Mr. Walker on the stand, the two of them couldn't sit still. On purpose, of course, they acted like 12 year olds -- they'd put their heads in their hands and shake them, they'd put their arms behind their heads and sigh -- they were like baby monkeys!

The (prosecutors) left through their doors -- laughing, joking, waiting on House to leave with them. Tim Deal (that's an entire, scary story all to itself) prissed out behind them, as if begging them to wait up so he could be part of the gang.

I think these words speak for themselves. You have to understand that what this person has described above in the last paragraph is prima facae evidence of ex parte conversations between the judge and the prosecutors. This violates judicial ethics and because House has not reported these conversations with the prosecutors to the defense, he is in violation of the judicial codes that supposedly govern his actions. Food for thought.

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One of the most common sets of complaints I receive involve the behavior of Chris "Facebook" Arnt and Len "The Man" Gregor, who remind me of the bullies in high school who sat in the back of class, made noise, were rude and utterly narcissistic.

Since Gregor has been making much of the word narcissist, I decided to look it up, and here is what it says about someone who is a narcissist:

Narcissism is the personality trait of egotism, often used as a pejorative, denoting vanity, conceit, egotism or simple selfishness. Applied to a social group, it is sometimes used to denote elitism or an indifference to the plight of others.

Yes, I think that narcissism definitely applies to a couple of men who make catcalls, laugh out loud at the testimony of defense witnesses, openly mock the attorneys, roll their eyes, smirk, and engage in the kind of behavior that one might expect at the Delta House.

Why do they do it? They do it because "Judge" Brian House encourages this behavior. Interestingly, when someone from the defense apologized to a defense witness after the Dishonest Duo had been trying to scream at this woman and humiliate her, then House sprang into action and sanctioned the defense team.

A friend of mine who has testified in more than 500 cases, and who is a better-qualified expert than the entire staff of the Children's Advocacy Center combined, told me that she was testifying in court when an assistant district attorney (like the Dishonest Duo) simply rolled his eyes at a statement by someone else, the judge immediately called him out and fined him $500.

Will we see Brian House demand such decent behavior from his good friends, Facebook and The Man? I seriously doubt it.

As a journalist and writer, I have been to a number of trials, and I cannot recall one time seeing a prosecutor act in the rude, obnoxious and bullying manner of Len Gregor and Chris Arnt. I have seen Gary Gerbitz, Frank Groves, and many more, and I can tell you that to a person, whether you agreed with them or not, they were ADULTS.

What is going on in the courtroom of Brian House is nothing more than two bullies pushing around other people who are not permitted to fight back, and you can tell they are enjoying themselves. Arnt and Gregor are nothing but dishonest bullies who apparently get their jollies from falsely accusing people and seeing how far they can push their attempts to frame innocent people.

However, it is not enough for Len Gregor that he is bullying witnesses and acting like a jerk. No, he had to call out Melydia Clewell from Channel 3 because, apparently, she has not bowed down and worshiped him and his "evidence" that is built upon perjury. Clewell's lack of reverence for "The Man" seems to throw him into a rage, snd it is clear that "The Man" really feels most like a man when he is bullying women.

(Someone else pointed out to me that as soon as the Today Show crew left the courtroom, he started his bullying routine again. Hey, "The Man," why don't you show that lady from Today how tough you are?)

This weekend, I will be doing a series on the evidence, and at the end, I think I will demonstrate that House, Arnt, and Gregor are not "mistaken" in their interpretation of the evidence. To a man, each of them knows that they have seen perjured testimony from the prosecution witnesses, and that they have approved of it, and that they will continue to do as they damn well please because, after all, they are like the jock bullies running around.

However, I do recall one prosecutor who laughed out loud, bullied witnesses, rolled his eyes, smirked, and acted as though he owned the courtroom. His name was Mike Nifong, and the last I saw of Mikey, he was in a hearing room bawling like a child because the North Carolina State Bar had stripped him of his license.

Is Len Gregor a Child Molester? According to His Logic, He Is

[Update]: A friend of Kristen Jones Bradley has contacted me and wanted me to know that Ms. Bradley was working on school rosters and the like, not taking notes at trial. I have decided to take down that earlier post. As I have written before, she was one of my students and a very good one, and I will take her word for it, according to what her friend has said.


Len "The Man" Gregor has been involved in an interesting line of questioning with defense witnesses, acting semi-civilized during the cross-examination only AFTER someone from NBC's Today Show entered the courtroom. (Guess "The Man" did not want to look like "The Jerk" in front of someone who is going to put his picture on the TV tube.)

Over and over again, he has been screaming at the female witnesses that Tonya Craft is a "narcissist" because she goes to a gym and is a personal trainer. Other than simple character assassination, which in most courtrooms would not be permitted, this is an irrelevant and highly prejudicial line of questioning. Unfortunately, the court of Brian House no longer is a Court of Law, but rather a House of Judicial Horrors, the Ultimate Star Chamber.

Because Len Gregor's Facebook page no longer is available, I am once again going to post the image of an earlier FB page, the one in which Holly Kittle was shown to be one of his "friends."

If one looks at the woman on Gregor's right (who I guess is his wife), you will see she is wearing very low-cut shorts and a top, showing her midriff. Her left hand is at the top of the shorts as though she is pulling them down a bit for the camera to reveal something (the shorts already are very revealing and the photo makes it look as though she is giving the impression she wants to pull them down even more).

Obviously, the woman is attractive, and wanting to show off, and Gregor is standing there proudly, as though he were the cat that swallowed the canary. It is quite clear that the woman works out in a gym, and I suspect that Gregor spends some time there, too.

Folks, if you wish to see narcissism in action, here it is. I will go further. Gregor is claiming the following syllogisms: (1) People who work out in the gym or are personal trainers are narcissist; (2) Tonya Craft works out and is a personal trainer; (3) therefore, Ms. Craft is a narcissist.

Then, having established that Ms. Craft is a "narcissist," he demands that jurors and the public accept the following chain of logic: (1) Some narcissists have molested children; (2) Tonya Craft is a narcissist; (3) therefore, Tonya Craft definitely molested children.

Neither of these syllogisms actually work, at least when one applies real logic, as opposed to "The Man's" logic. However, since he has established in a "court" the previous chains of logic, and since Brian House has determined that the prosecutors' line of questioning on this matter as something that established "evidence" of child molestation, I simply am going to demonstrate how this logical chain -- that carries the force of Almighty Law in House's Star Chamber -- can be applied using Gregor's FB page:

(1) Len Gregor and his wife work out, and his wife has placed her hand to her very low-cut shorts in a provocative manner, making both of them narcissists; (2) Narcissists molest children; (3) therefore, Len "The Man" Gregor and his wife are child molesters.

Now, before all of the supporters start screaming at me that I have no right to bring Gregor's wife into all of this, all I am doing is just following the logical chain that the Great Brian House Himself has permitted to be established in his courtroom. If you don't like what I have said, ask yourself how I am wrong, given what has transpired this week, and given what Gregor is demanding that the jury believe.

Enough said.

[Update]: A number of people have said that the woman in the picture is NOT Gregor's wife, but rather one of the "Bud Girls" or someone like that. So, who is the narcissist? I cannot imagine having my picture taken next to a woman like this who is posing in a sexually-provocative manner.

However, apparently is OK for Gregor to pose with his arm around a woman who is posing like this, but not OK for a woman to be a fitness trainer. Talk about hypocrisy.