Comment by Joseph Zernik, Los Angeles, CA 9 hours ago
Please sign the petition - FREE RICHARD FINE . Dear Dr Jackson: With all due respect, your comments below, are alarming, since they grossly misrepresent the findings of my study [1]: a) The "underlying papers: are not good. As best documented in the case of Richard Fine. [2] Media widely reported a March 4, 2009 "sentencing hearing". However, no such hearing was ever registered by the court. Media widely reported that Richard Fine was imprisoned based on a "March 4, 2009 Judgment for Contempt", However, not such judgment was ever entered by the court, as required by California Code to make "effectual for any purpose". No warrant was issued in the case either. Furthermore, the Sheriff insisted, in response to official inquiry by Los Angeles County Supervisor on producing fraudulent records, indicating that Richard Fine was arrested on location and by authority of the Municipal Court of San Pedro, which has not existed for almost a decade. In contrast, as part of the habeas corpus petition of Richard Fine, the Sheriff produced a false on its face judgment of the Superior Court, County of Los Angeles, City of Los Angeles, which was stamped on its face "FILED" on March 4, 2009, but signed on its last face by Judge Yaffe on March 24, 2009, and was never authenticated and never entered. b) Regarding any claim that such fraudulent records were the result of shortage of funds - (i) the Sheriff refused to correct the false records, even after their fraudulent nature was brought to his attention - there simply are no valid records for the arrest and imprisonment. (ii) A control study of another Los Angeles County registration system - the catalog of the law library - found it close to perfection. In short: I find it disappointing that you try to make false excuse for the large scale false imprisonments in Los Angeles County, which were documented in official, unofficial, and media reports for over a decade. Your assertions were based on no data at all - only speculations. Joseph Zernik [1] Data mining as a civil duty - prisoners' registration systems http://www.scribd.com/doc/33520723/ [2] The various records in Richard Fine's case are linked in the petition - Free Richard Fine: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/free-fine
Comment by Dr. A. D. Jackson 10 hours ago- Hello Everyone, Lunch Under the OAK and other sources pointed out that L A County's records system for tracking court proceedings and finding the whereabouts of the incarcerated is very inaccurate. Given that California is broke, it's hard to see when that will all get fixed. It does make the process difficult, looking through papers and going from lock up to lockup, but if the underlying paper is good , it does not constitute false imprisonment. Ultimately we tend to fall back on original paper. It has long been a policy even under the old common law to have public trials and not to secrete inmates, so I understand the concern. On occasion we get something like Operation Greylord of the early 80s where some 10% of the judges in the Circuit Court of Cook County (Chicago) were convicted of bribery and other judicial misconduct. Cook County is not the only court system needing probing, and that we don't have more Greylords is unfortunate. Andrew
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