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Yep, just furthers my assertion to go state not fed. Even so that case is pretty harsh New. The argument that a certificate of rehabilitation has anything to do withremoval is false I believe. Maybe wrong though. I think the only thing that is going to have any affect is the evidence as I presented and only if we can force the courts to recognize them, with the repkrts that I have provided a judge would look like an idiot to not take pause and figure out the friggin blantent obvious facts that this BS is punishment,was meant to be punishment for decades, and any reasonable mind can conclude nothing different. I will frigging shame a judge into taking notice if I have to. Go public and make them look like a fool. I bet one of the networks would pick up my story if I brought it to their attention. I don’t just brainstorming here.
Oh, here we go… Orange County (and Face) Register editorial: “Dangerous flaws in Proposition 57 could result in early release of sex offenders” https://www.ocregister.com/2018/04/21/dangerous-flaws-in-proposition-57-could-result-in-early-release-of-sex-offenders/
Here’s an interesting article about Justice Gorsuch that’s worth reading! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/gorsuch-strikes-a-blow-for-constitutional-equilibrium/2018/04/20/78139ef6-43f2-11e8-bba2-0976a82b05a2_story.html
Through out my legal process, which started with the attorney I retained, and through my completion of probation, which included the court mandated counceling, I was not once asked about the circumstances surrounding my offense ( 311.11 1 count possesion ). They all seem to assume that I was intentionally downloading pix. Even when I showed that the pix had no description, only a numerical i.d. , which was not a searchable item, all came from same file, and were in my trash folder. This didn’t seem to make a difference. Not one question was asked about ANYTHING.
Yet I see akl the time in felony trials whare the defense mounts a proven hypothesis for why the accused committed a violent act, asking for leniency. Does the entire legal / political / social system automatically think that you are the worst of the scum without so much as a ” what happened?”. In a one word answer……………. YES!
Yeah don’t get discouraged man, you can do this. That is exactly how I started and although it took me at least two years of prep it is going and I think it will keep going well. Take all my evidence and prove to them you are not a risk statistically by our own government. Wait and lets see how the court reacts to my judicial notice request because I think that could be a big win and incredibly important. Put to rest the hyperbole and misrepresentation of facts real fast….Put whatever you have on that pleading paper I posted because it helps to see how professional it looks, builds your confidence a little. 🙂
Well, had my meet and confer call. Went very well, trial will be set for sometime in December with a multitude of actions in between then and now. The AG states that she will be attempting a summary judgment and/or a motion for judgment on the pleadings, no big deal there. She hinted that she may be wanting to dispose me and that she may be bringing expert witness on recidivism at which point I am going to research to see how I ca get the court to subpoena my own expert witness such as maybe Emily Horiwitze or Catherine Carpenter or some one from the CASOMB maybe, IDK yet still need to research this. Pretty straight forward and although we are on opposites sides of this, and I am not ignorant of this fact, but she is really helpful in giving me exact rules and where to find them and pretty much is working in good faith to expedite the case. Sounds as if she is going t use every play in the book though that is plain. Interesting….
Just emailed Carpenter and Horowitz as well as the ACLU and will continue to press forward and contact all that I can “again” pleading for assistance. I am ready to keep going it alone but some back up would be nice. Hint for anyone who sees this….Here is what I emailed basically with the relevant parts changed of course..
Hello Miss Horowitz,
My name is Michael Richardson, I have filed Pro Se in the Eastern District Court for California (CA) and am embroiled in a fight against the CA Attorney General (AG) and am about to enter into discovery. Although I have included a vast amount of reports from research on sex offender recidivism rates and the efficacy of the registration schemes here in CA and across the country the AG has informed me during our meet and confer conference call that she may very well be calling an expert witness on those subjects. My question to you is: since you are one of the leading experts in this field what would it take to get you to be my expert witness in my case? As a Pro Se litigant I do not have the resources such as the CA AG has at her disposal and I believe that an expert witness in my case that is not biased and basically employed by the CA AG would be a great benefit to my case, if not an outright necessity. I understand that you do not know me and that you are probably a very busy individual but I also think that these issues are very relevant and important to you since you have built a career surrounding these issues. I desperately need an expert witness that can state the facts and counterbalance and even the scales in my case. The actual trial is not to begin until sometime in December since we have just completed our meet and confer conference call, the discovery and datelines are going to be determined shortly. I understand that this is a long shot but my case in California is going to be an extremely important case I believe and if I can withstand and conform to the rules of the court and to Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure that this case can and will affect tens of thousands of individuals in my home state and will set precedent for future filings. So far I have been able to hold my own and have forced the AG to admit that the court does in fact have subject matter jurisdiction to resolve the issues in my case. A complete chronological documentation of my case can be found on my site at http://mllkeys20112011.wixsite.com/mysite
Thank you for your time
Michael
Sex-offender registries under attack for violating ex-offenders’ constitutional rights
(Community safety competes against stringent controls offenders face even after completing their sentences) https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/19/sex-offender-registry-attacked-violating-constitut/
(If this is a duplicate posting here, I apologize. Interesting set of comments)
Gorsuch sounds like exactly what SCOTUS has needed, a new face that isn’t as old as dirt and thinks for himself. This could be a good start to getting our constitutional republic back…..Now only if the 9th engages in the judicial process such as Gorsuch and don’t just defer to the legislature and hopefully even questions questionable precedents.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-new-tool-for-social-control-a-credit-rating-for-everything-1480351590
All this worry about the registry may be pointless if China’s new social “personal credit information system” that aims to rank citizens based on various behaviors works well for the government. The national social-credit system’s aim, according to a slogan repeated in planning documents, is to “allow the trustworthy to roam everywhere under heaven while making it hard for the discredited to take a single step.”
This may be our new future that could spread worldwide. If we had this in the U.S. you know that we would be at the lowest social credit levels and all our activities and benefits would be severely restricted. China will have 600,000,000 camera set up by 2020 to watch and record everything people do. These cameras can also use facial recognition. Any crime recorded, even jaywalking, will take points off your social credit score. What you purchase will also affect your score and of course your social media accounts will effect it. The future looks pretty scary, especially for those that society has already determined to be dangerous. Of course we are not a communist country, so this could never happen here, ….right? Maybe our government wouldn’t construct a system like this, but I bet private companies would love to build this system. China is expecting to use all government and private business information for these ratings. In the U.S. (and the rest of the world), Google and Facebook will make a great start in developing such a system.
Well, if anyone is interested, I finally got a response back from some one claiming to be a staff member of Michigan Senator Rick Jones, concerning the Michigan Registry and why it still has not been revised yet, after being told 6 months ago to fix it. Its not much but this is what they wrote back to me.
Groups are still working on it and it should be fixed by the end of the year.
Staff
In my opinion it should not take until the end of the year, I think they should shut it down until it is fix, and I also think we should be compensated for damages. That will never happen though, RIGHT
Yeah EVA is pretty cool AJ. I never got that far on it. Love how it gives links automatically to every case cited in my briefs….I haven’t delved in yet to see what it has about my case but I am interested if it has the entire case as of now….
She Retroactively Decided She Didn’t Like Their Encounter, And It Destroyed His Semester
An Illinois State University student is suing his school because even though they found him not responsible for sexual assault, a premature suspension effectively punished him.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/04/25/retroactively-decided-didnt-like-encounter-destroyed-semester/
I guess the court pretty much has to take judicial notice of the reports and of the Hanson Declaration…
“Under Rule 201 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, the court may lake judicial notice of the records of state courts [and] the legislative history of state statutes.” Louis v. McCormick & Schmick Restaurant Corp. 460 F. Supp. 2d 1 153, 1 155, n.4 (CD. Cal. 2006). Defendant Becerra requests that this Court do so.” AG Motion to Dismiss p. 3 footnote 2.
“See also Terrebonne v. Blackburn, 646 F.2d 997, 1000 n. 4 (51h Cir.l981) (“Absent some reason for mistrust, courts have not hesitated to take judicial notice of agency records and reports”).” Ibid.
Seems pretty straight forward to me….
Re: Chinas social credit scoring scheme: Banned from flying?Cant buy property?This sounds awfully similar to the SOR. Global communism is the goal, and I always knew that the registry was the beta test and part of a larger future control mechanism.
WOW, did a google search Richardson v sessions and got 4 instant hits. Semi famous AJ. LMFAO…. This one has every filing.
https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/22413828/PS_Richardson_v_Sessions_et_al
way out man….
That is strange I cannot get any hits on my original case even though it went all the way to a habeas in the fed court even though at that point I did not know how to certify it for appeal which you have to do if you file a habeas. BS I can tell you that because I already had one justice in the CA supreme court want to take the case but the other two declined. Apparently there was a problem according to at least one CA supreme court justice. I also had a civil motion for summary judgement as well….Interesting….
“State Senate targets masturbating jail inmates, making ‘sex offender’ tag easier”
“It is aimed at combating what I would say is a pretty extreme brand of workplace sexual harassment that is occurring right now, particularly at Cook County Jail. It’s a growing phenomenon of male inmates exposing themselves to female staffers and engaging in various forms of lewd behavior,” bill sponsor State Sen. Bill Cunningham, D-Chicago, said on the Senate floor.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/state-senate-targets-masturbating-jail-inmates-making-sex-offender-tag-easier/
Guess that site cost money to see the filings though. Man I really like the following. This along with Weems is gold..
“There may be involved no physical mistreatment, no primitive torture. There is instead the total destruction of the individual’s status in organized society.” Trop v. Dulles, supra, 356 U.S. 86, 101, 78 S.Ct. 590, 598, 2 L.Ed.2d 630.
Admittedly, the sole function of the judiciary is to examine legislative acts in light of constitutional limitations to assure that the punishment imposed is exercised within the limits of civilized standards (Trop v. Dulles (1958) 356 U.S. 86, 100, 78 S.Ct. 590, 597, 2 L.Ed.2d 630) for to do otherwise would allow the Legislature to be the sole judge of the permissible means and extent of punishment, rendering the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments superfluous. (People v. Anderson, supra, 6 Cal.3d at p. 640, 100 Cal.Rptr. 152.)
On a side note, I like the thought process Justice Kagan used recently in regards to try sway Justice Kennedy on his decision on Trump’s Muslim Travel ban. Check it out if you haven’t read it. It’s this kind of thinking that we need to be applied to the sex offender registry. She asks if we had an anti semitic president who wanted to ban people from Israel from coming to the US would we declare that unconstitutional. The time is ripe for a supreme court case to overturn the whole registration thing and declare it unconstitutional.
Domestic Travel
I currently have to register in California for CP offenses. We have a family trip planned to New York in a couple months. I’m just trying to plan and to figure out if I’m going to be stopped or hassled at the airport either flying from California to New York or back home. Any comments would be welcome
The Dr’s TV show has a segment on today’s show about the high risk of sexual offenders contacting kids through online video games. They stated that 750,000 child predators are online at any given moment. They stated we need more laws to prevent the recent large increase of sex predators contacting kids through these games. This story is full of myths and half truths. You can watch the full story for free at this link:
https://www.thedoctorstv.com/articles/how-to-keep-kids-safe-online-predators-while-playing-video-games
It sure makes it hard to stop these myths about predators when major news and TV shows keep the fearmongering fresh in the media.
The easiest places in the world to get citizenship or residency, from Thailand to St. Lucia
https://qz.com/1260489/the-easiest-places-in-the-world-to-get-citizenship-or-residency-if-youre-rich/
I feel like giving up. I’m 3 months into the price club and feel like there’s no hope to ever get a job. I have a highly employable skill and have no problem getting job offers until the background check. I even worked in both landscaping and hard labor each for two weeks until the crew found out that they were working with a “pedophile” and threatened to quit unless I was fired. All this over 10 words to a 17.5 year old (how’s your boyfriend in bed I bet you have fun) while drunk. That’s it no pictures no solicitation no grooming no other inappropriate behavior or comments and the age of consent is 16. I lost a PhD fellowship and everything I worked for in my life. What is the point of even trying anymore?
@All RC readers, et al
As we have hashed out IML (HR 515 – https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/515/text), AWA (https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-109publ248/html/PLAW-109publ248.htm), and SORNA (https://www.smart.gov/sorna.htm), the one thing that was never found in any of them was 21 day notification. WTF did it come from?! I wanted to know. If you know already, skip this reading.
So, I was able to finally find where it came from:
Supplemental Guidelines for Sex Offender Registration and Notification (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2011/01/11/2011-505/supplemental-guidelines-for-sex-offender-registration-and-notification)
“Since the publication of the SORNA Guidelines, issues have arisen in SORNA implementation that require that some aspects of the Guidelines be augmented or modified. Consequently, the Department of Justice proposed and solicited public comment on supplemental guidelines addressing these issues, which were published in the Federal Register on May 14, 2010, at 75 FR 27362. The public comment period closed on July 13, 2010.” (https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2011-505/p-8)
Following consideration of the public comments received, the Department of Justice is now finalizing the supplemental guidelines, which do the following:
(3) Require jurisdictions to have sex offenders report international travel 21 days in advance of such travel and to submit information concerning such travel to the appropriate Federal agencies and databases.
International Travel
Part II.A of these supplemental guidelines exercises “[t]he authority under 42 U.S.C. 16914(a)(7) to expand the range of required registration information * * * to provide that registrants must be required to inform their residence jurisdictions of intended travel outside of the United States at least 21 days in advance of such travel.” (https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2011-505/p-36)
“Some commenters objected to this requirement on the ground that it would prevent sex offenders from engaging in legitimate international travel, because it may be necessary for sex offenders to travel abroad for business, familial, or other reasons without being able to anticipate the need three weeks in advance. However, these supplemental guidelines recognize that there may be circumstances in which requiring 21 days advance notice would be unnecessary or inappropriate, and expressly allow jurisdictions to adopt policies accommodating such situations subject to approval by the SMART Office.”
This is a long doc with a lot of background info and justifications of why the DOJ/AG can do what they can do. It also shows that 21 days is not codified in law, but supplemental guidance only at DOJ/AG implementation through the SMART office (which could be the way you fly overseas for family emergency, etc if you can get into the country).