King County Prosecutor dismisses Duvall police officer’s criminal complaint as “unfounded”, and Judge Meyer dismisses John Pennington and Crystal Hill’s complaint as prior restraint on free speech

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Former Director of Snohomish County who killed 43 Oso residents in Oso mudslides CAUGHT RCW 42.56 ( Public Records)

UPDATE:  MORE PUBLIC RECORDS LINKING SNOHOMISH COUNTY’S FORMER DIRECTOR JOHN E. PENNINGTON TO ILLEGAL TRACKING OF US CITIZENS OVERSEAS IN VIOLATION OF 4TH AMENDMENT TO US CONSTITUTION, 1983 AND RICO SUIT COMING

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Good news for First Amendment defenders in Washington State.  King County Prosecutor’s just released a statement stating that Duvall police officer Lori Batiot’s criminal complaint was “unfounded.” In addition, King County releases public records from Sheriff’s Officer documenting gross civil rights violations, domestic spying, and it involves the Port of Seattle, US Customs agent Curtis Chen, King County Sheriff’s Officer, and a police officer from the City of Duvall.

A RICO suit has been filed noting the City of Duvall’s municipal law firm of Kenyon Disend for Racketeering. According to Redmond Districts Court records, Sandra Sullivan (Meadowcraft) was employed by Kenyon Disend when she was assigned to prosecute political appointee John E. Pennington for kicking and punching Anne Laughlin during her 3rd trimester and just three weeks before delivery of her daughter. Instead of Sandra Sullivan prosecuting violent Pennington, she quashed criminal assault charges from 2008-2009 against him.  ( Snohomish County pay stubs document paid administrative leave since Oso).

I spoke to attorney Sullivan seeking comment regarding her lack of objecting to John Pennington’s template motion to dismiss in May 2009.  Sandra Sullivan and I spoke for sometime, and as soon as she realized that we were onto her predicate acts in violation of RICO, she hung up.

Redmond PD     Click to the left to see John E. Pennington’s criminal assault

Pennington Redmond    Click to the left to see Sandra Sullivan’s ( Meadowcraft) King County filing noting John E. Pennington is a dangerous man

Further Gold Bar public records confirm that Crystal Hill Pennington was caught in the unlawful practice of law (on behalf of DEM employee Rick Kamerrer who gave audio statements to us) without a license, costing Pennington and Kammerer’s ex-wives over $150,000.00.

An insider from Mark Weiss’s office as well as attorney Ken Berger confirmed that they too fired Crystal Hill Pennington for the unauthorized practice of law when she worked for them.

According to a Snohomish County Prosecutor insider leak ” in exchange for political favors inside the Courtroom.”

RICO  Issues that we reported about over the last year in “Kenyon Disend’s Dirty Bag of Secrets”

See http://goldbarreporter.org/2015/04/04/attorney-michael-kenyons-dirty-bag-of-secrets-part-ii/

Kenyon Disend and all of its lawyers were contacted for comment but refused comment.

As promised, we would update our readers as to why and how a police officer in Duvall Washington would go out of her way to violate the civil rights of a reporter simply for blowing the whistle on her conduct. Conduct we believe is unbecoming of any public official and amounts to Racketeering.

Well here it is.   Lori Batiot ( aka Harris and Hoffer) has a past criminal conviction for DUI, Whatcom County Washington, 2002.  All this while she was a sitting police officer for the City of Brier. She served 5 years probation on a suspended sentence and attended Alcoholics Anonymous.

pages from 1625_001   click to the left to see Batiot’s Discovery responses to City of Brier admitting to DUI conviction

Most agencies perform thorough background checks on applicants serving in positions of authority because persons with something to hide and/or financial troubles are more subsustiable to bribes.  Question we’re hoping to find out is whether the City of Duvall ran a background check prior to hiring.

Batiot criminal DUI Whatcom Co   click to the left to see Lori Harris’s ( Batiot) criminal docket file from Whatcom County.

I just cannot imagine how Batiot managed to get a job with the City Brier or with the City of Duvall with a past DUI pending for five years while she was a police officer.

Ms. Batiot’s court records are extensive, from Yakima, Skagit, Snohomish to Whatcom Counties. Bigger question for Duvall residents should be how the hell did Batiot get her job.

In 1998, Batiot was a police officer for the City of Ferndale.  2001 to 2005, she worked at Seattle Tacoma International Airport ( connection to Port of Seattle ) as a security guard.

In 2001, while she served as a police officer, Court records from Whatcom document that the police forcibly removed her from an apartment.

In 2002, Skagit County court records document that while she was a sitting police officer with the City of Brier she rear ended a man causing permanent physical injury, and then when she was sued, she refused to comply with basic discovery requests causing a motion to compel her testimony.

The man Batiot caused permanent physical injury to had no idea Ms. Batiot was a cop. According to a recent declaration Batiot filed with the Court, she has been for 17 years. True.

From court records its unclear whether she was drunk, but certainly a person that refuses to answer discovery requests, and refuses to submit to a Breathalyzer, leaves us to believe that something isn’t kosher in Duvall city.

In 2006, Snohomish County records document that she sued the City of Brier after another police officer, Murphy, started complaining that Batiot should not be serving as a police officer because she plead to drunk driving. As a result, she alleged sex discrimination.  Do you see the connection, because we do not.

Public records from the City of Brier confirm that Batiot also requested a large amount of public records on her foes, including Officer Murphy, the man she alleged was sexually discriminating against her.

Batiot conducted background checks on Murphy with his former employer, the City of Dupont.

While at the City of Brier, Batiot was driving a police car with a pending DUI.  Yes, our readers are reading this correctly!  We’re not sure about our readers, but I do not believe that having a DUI conviction qualifies a person to serve as a police officer. But I guess in the City of Duvall it does because they hired her.

In 2006, Batiot files a suit against the City of Brier, alleging guess what?  Stalking and harassment by an Officer Murphy. Sound familiar? Well it should, at least to Gold Bar Reporter Block it does.

Pages from 1620_001 click to the left to view Batiot’s statements that people are stalking and harassing her when she gets exposed for misusing City of Brier police car. Almost exactly the same allegations she recently made against the Gold Bar Reporter.

Court records retrieved from the City of Brier look eerily similar to recent restraining order papers Batiot filed in retaliation against Gold Bar Reporter Block.  In fact, Batiot uses almost identical phrases in her City of Brier discovery responses as she did in recent Shoreline District Court filings.

After reviewing the City of Brier public records, based on the totality of the evidence, we believe that anyone who speaks the truth about Lori Batiot suffers the wrath of her retaliatory ( and illegal under 42 USC 1983) tactics attempting to silence the messenger.

The City of Brier, and its insurance carrier American Association of Washington Cities ( AWC), eventually decided to pay a nuisance claim (42K, plus 12K) hoping Batiot would move on; and she did to the City of Duvall.

Now, most of the time I could care less about a person’s past, but once they conspire with criminals like Crystal Hill Pennington (bank fraud) and John Pennington ( prime suspect in a child rape case), I cannot turn a blind eye to corruption, especially when that person holds a position of authority.  Corruption harms all of us.

These are matters of public concern that we the public have an absolute right to know!

Whether it’s a police officer, public official, politician, or a former Mayor of Gold Bar who is responsible for over $200,000 missing from Gold Bar’s water fund, to allow a person in a position of power to retaliate against a well respected news source  would mean that I condone such criminal behavior from our public officials. Simply put, I do not and will not.

Citizens are the checks and balances to a clean government. It’s our responsibly to expose corrupt public officials regardless of the personal cost to one’s self. Justice has no borders, has no price tag. Corruption harms all of us and must be exposed regardless of the personal cost to one’s self.

Thomas Jefferson said ” the highest form of patriotism is dissent.” This doesn’t mean that I believe our entire system is corrupt.  I do not.

I’m an idealist who believes that our courts are simply one pronge to a healthy democracy. But lately they are failing to uphold the laws instead are hiding public officials crimes. So it’s up to  “we the people” to be the guarders of public agency employees we created and who are paid with the public’s trust.  It’s we the people that must protect the First Amendment from all invaders.  Police officers are no exception, and yesterday, the Washington State Supreme Court agreed with us.  Requesting access to public records, especially emails, is our statutory right.

Corrupt public officials are making criminals out of non-criminals and We must do every thing in our power to peacefully expose the cockroaches whereever they hide.  All too often, they are hiding inside public agencies.

Citizens can learn a lot about  public officlas by requesting access to their emails. I use the Public Records Act to inform the public. It’s Washingtoians best tool to expose the cockroaches where they roam.

I have seen corruption in every branch of government in this state, but I’ve also seen justice in every branch. I have traveled extensively throughout our World, but there is no other place on this planet that I cherish more than America.  Most of all, I cherish the First Amendment more than any other tangible item on this planet.

Sadly, the Port of Seattle released public emails involving gross domestic spying and civil rights violations committed against me, and it now extends to the King County Sheriff’s Office, specifically an officer named Cory Coblantz. Because Cory Coblantz will be named as a defendant in a 42 USC 1983 complaint to be filed soon for causing a TSA London security officer to physically rape me, I will not elaborate just yet.

As for Curtis Chen, the U.S. Customs officer that illegally assisted in the tracking, false imprisonment, illegal search and seizure, and who assisted in the rape of a US citizen on behalf of a dirty cop. Chen will also be named as defendant citing 42 USC 1983. Coming very soon.

After reviewing some of King County Detective Coblantz’s emails, I believe we unearthed another dirty cop who spit on basic constitutional principles that I love more than life itself. Thus, I cannot turn a blind eye, especially after Coblantz caused an honest taxpaying citizen to be physically raped for a dirty cop from Duvall.

To turn a blind eye when a wrong has been committed against any person for simply exercising First Amendment rights is not something that I can do.

One must wonder whether or not police departments are hiring officers with a high school diploma or high school dropouts.  Emails document that Cary Coblantz has soiled the badge by spitting on basic constitutional principles taught in every 5th grade American civics class, and presumably in a Police Civil Liability class.

News flash Officer Coblantz:

Yesterday, Our Supreme Court reinforced Our First Amendment rights to question police officers, including using abusive language.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/jun/25/first-amendment-protects-profanity-against-police/

Contrary to offensive statements Port of Seattle Officer Gilleblo put inside public records (emails), I am not anti-government, just anti-corruption.  Sir, words that you find abusive, may not be abusive to me.  After all, I was raised by two New Yorkers who didn’t believe in censorship. Four letter words were the best way for our parents to let us know when they were upset. It worked well.

I feel fortunate to have been raised in a “free speech” zone, and most of all I am thankful to Thomas Jefferson for bringing the First Amendment back with him from Europe.

As new public records come out involving corrupt officers, I promise my readers they will be posted.  

The bleeding continues for City of Gold Bar, as Court of Appeals rules in favor of criminals

 

Marlin Applewick                 Mary  Becker                 Ronald Cox

Washington Court of Appeals, Division I. Justices just bankrupted the City of Gold Bar rules in favor of criminals over honest taxpaying citizens

Adolf Hilter would be quite proud of our Courts if he were alive

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Crystal Hill Pennington ( used an alias of Berg), bank fraudster ( 2005*) and child abuser  ( Gold Bar, Nov. 2008; Duvall, March 2015)

Bad news for Gold Bar taxpayers. Today, the Court of Appeals rules in favor of City of Gold Bar after a long seven year access to our public records battle.  For over seven years,  Mayor Joe Beavers stole over $1,000,000.00 from the City’s water fund to cover litigation. Last week the Gold Bar city council member Lee Hodo stated that the city will be forced to raise  water rates significantly, presumably to cover up Mayor Beavers theft of the City’s enterprise funds.

In 2014, the Washington State Auditor’s Office cited Beavers for the missing $200,000.00, but according to one former council member,  ” Crystal Hill was stealing a lot.”   Nothing new there; when’s a criminal always a criminal.

John Pennington, prime suspect in a child rape case ( Cowlitz County, WA- 1992). Further public records from King County documented that Pennington was taking naked showers with a six year Old little girl with the witness declaring under oath to this.

With no end in sight to the public records suits now for certain starting next week, perhaps “high as a fuckin kite ” new Mayor Linda Loen will also  be reduced to stealing from the City’s water fund to cover up Michael Kenyon’s involvement in hiding John Pennington rape of a 5 year old child ( Kelso), and Pennington’s criminal assault of his pregnant wife ( Duvall Redmond District Court).
Crimes that Div I continued to cover up for good ole Michael Kenyon, as Kenyon Disend’s attorney Meadowcraft was the Special Prosecutor assigned to prosecute Pennington (2008-2009) for punching and kicking a pregnant woman just three weeks before her deliverly.

In late 2014, during our investigation we discovered that John E Pennington was using a USPS Post Office in Duvall Washington to exchange bribes with a convicted killer named Mark Plivilech. Mark Plivilech is the partner of a WA State Bar hearing officer attorney Lin O’Dell ( who was cited by Judge Monasmsith for stealing from a vulnerable adult in Stevens County in Dec 2014). Plivilech and O’Dell have connections to the Russian mafia.

Lin O’Dell, John E. Pennington, and Mark Plivilech have refused comment. But if they do, their comments will be posted without redaction ( so long as it’s not threatening).  Until then, “silence is golden.”

Then last week one of readers sent us a picture of the man named C. Fleck ( Spokane) who tried to run me off the road in Monroe last October (2014). This man is also connected to Lin O’Dell and another Spokane attorney who shares an office with O’Dell at 1312 Monroe St, Spokane WA, and has a past prior conviction for stealing cars and distribution of drugs in Montana and transporting them across state lines.  More to come on that story once public records become available.

In each case, attorney Michael Kenyon covered up John E. Pennington crimes, amounting to hiding a pedophile.  I suspect if this were his daughter that was raped by John Pennington he might have thought twice, but it wasn’t.

In July 2009, Gold Bar’s then Mayor Joe Beavers said  to another council member ” We have the Courts locked up!”  Well this does appear to be true, but the Court’s decision does not stop anyone from filing a whole new lawsuit.  One is actually already written and shall be filed next Tuesday.

From the Court’s decision, it appears that the Court seemed to be swayed by two declarations written by criminals, Laura Kelly ( caught stealing from the City of Gold Bar in August 2012 *) and Crystal Hill Pennington  ( nee Berg), citing for fraud by WA State for submitting fraudulent claims and passing bad bank checks.

At the time I requested access to records from the City of Gold Bar ( where I reside and pay taxes), Crystal D. Berg ( Crystal Hill Pennington) was charged with passing bad checks up here in Snohomish County, Washington.  She lied on her Financial Disclosure forms to the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission and acted as Snohomish County DEM employees attorney in John Pennington’s and Rick Kammerer’s divorce proceedings.

Crimes Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg) continued while she was the sitting Mayor of Gold Bar, and from WA State unemployment records, crimes she continues as of 2014.

According to our counsel, RCW, felonious crimes make one not only not eligible for public office but also not eligible to vote in Washington.

However, Crystal Berg didn’t have to worry about those silly fraudulent claims and bank checks she filed and passed, or her fraudulent unemployment claims ( which amounted to court judgments against her), or Laura Kelly and her fraudulent CLE classes reimbursement check cashing scheme either, because she had been sleeping with Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon while at the same time she was engaged in an extra-martial affair Snohomish County’s hidden pedophile John Pennington. Out of respect for Gold Bar’s former Chief, we won’t elaborate on her relationship with him in 2008 ( some things are better left private).

Beavers, Hill, and Pennington are being sued for RICO violations, which we believe amount to criminal RICO as well. With each sunrise, the Penningtons’ crimes mount inside public records. The criminal conduct involving agency employees is deep, so stay tuned as a new lawsuit with new updated facts and new defendants, including several employees of the WA State Bar, will be filed shortly.

Reading over 1.5 million emails so far, we know a hell of lot more, and thanks to Joe Beavers thousands of public records from Gold Bar were accidently released to another Gold Bar resident. 

Crystal Hill BergClick to the left to view Crystal Berg’s bank fraud records.

Washington Courts – Search Case Records

In August 2012*, Gold Bar’s city clerk Laura Kelly was fired for stealing from the City of Gold Bar.  Her crimes were actually video taped by the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office inside the Clerk’s office here in Gold Bar.   As a clerk treasure Laura Kelly’s crimes warranted a felon conviction under Washington law.

But instead Gold Bar’s Mayor Joe Beavers obstructed justice, covered up crimes, and gave her a reference for another job at Monroe’s Goodwill. A job she again has access to money. RICO violations.

Gold Bar_clerk_Laura_ Kelly_ steals (2) click to the left to view Gold Bar’s former clerk Laura Kelly’s police files documenting that she was caught via a hidden camera in the Clerk’s office here in Gold Bar by the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Officer.

Unfortunately for Gold Bar taxpayers, the Court of Appeals, Div. I, continued the bleeding ruling for the City of Gold Bar, and new lawsuits will be filed each month until the City complies with the Public Records Act.

Public records that we received from the Washington State Bar premised it disciplinary proceeding against attorney John Scannell for stated that he may have missed one email when the WSBA requested he produce attorney-client protected emails.  But in this case, the Court gave public officials/criminals a pass to evade liability.  Perhaps Supreme Courty Justice Stevens will do what she did in Scannell v. WSBA?

As of today, our pot smoking mayor Linda Loen is a ” high as a fuckin kite” at every city council meeting and is named as a defendant in a RICO suit.

Taxpayers can thank the Court of Appeals for ruling in favor of criminals instead of honest non-criminal taxpayers.  The City’s bleeding will continue as new lawsuits will be filed by next weekend, with more suits to follow.

http://snocoreporter.com/appellate-court-working-with-snoco-to-destroy-the-public-records-act/

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

* corrected dates on Crystal Hill Pennington’s bank fraud originally posted with type as 2007.

* corrected dates on Gold Bar clerk treasure Laura Kelly’s theft accidently posted with typo as 2014, when in fact it was 2012.

 

“Not for ourselves alone”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

My America is not about You or Me, it’s about  “We the people.”   When we lose sight of our values, by placing profits over people, Americans suffer.  America suffers. When we place profits over doing what’s right,  America becomes the land of  ” Ye the few.”

Being a good American is not about winning a football game.  It’s not about lining your pockets with gold.  It’s not about getting even. It’s about righting a wrong, moving forward, not backwards, and most of all it’s about making sure our next generation of children cherish the values that  Our founding fathers and mothers fought so hard to achieve, while asking for little in return.

Being a good American has no price tag. I will spare no dollar to right a wrong when I see it.  I never have nor ever will value a dollar bill more than the Constitution.

I thank Thomas Jefferson everyday for writing the First Amendment.  It’s the only single document that separates America from the rest of the World. Without it, America would be another Saudi Arabia.

Justice is a verb that mandates activism. It’s activists who demand change, accept nothing less.

I am proud to be an American female, and thankful for those people who stand firmly behind the Constitutional principles I love more than life itself.  I have but one life to give and It shall be for the betterment of my society as a whole.  We are not here for ourselves alone.

We must do everything we can to expose corruption regardless of the cost.  I never lose hope that a wrong can be corrected, nor do I lose hope in seeing justice served to those who harm.

“To find yourself, think for yourself.’ Socrates, my favorite professor.

King County Judge basically held, whether Snohomish County Dept. of Emergency Management mitigated or not goes to a jury

UPDATE:  RICO DEFENDANT CRYSTAL HILL PENNINGTON ( nee Berg, convicted of bank fraud 2005 Snohomish County WA) THREATENS DEADLY FORCE WITH GUN AGAINST GOLD BAR REPORTER AND HER INVESTIGATORS AND SHE’S STUPID ENOUGH TO PUT VEILED THREATS IN POLICE REPORT

For those of you who know me, know that I have spent seven years trying to warn the public of just how dangerous a Snohomish County political appointee named John Pennington is. John E. Pennington, a former Executive Aaron Reardon political bum appointed to Department of Emergency Management (DEM) caused the deaths of 43 Oso mudslides residents, and he and Michael Browne are responsible for thousands of deaths in Hurricane Katrina.

John E. Pennington, political appointee who
caused the deaths of 43 people in Oso Washington

According to a former DEM employee, John Pennington spent the majority of county time harassing Gold Bar Reporter Anne Block instead of mitigating natural disasters.

Internal documents from Snohomish County John Lovick’s office document that Lovick gave John E. Pennington full emergency management authority in January 2014. Authority that former Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon was smart enough to withhold as a former Snohomish County employee once close to Aaron Reardon said ” Aaron told me that Pennington had no idea what he was doing… Diana Rose was basically doing Pennington’s job. Pennington is incompetent.”

The former DEM employee said that Pennington was blogging and trolling articles with fake names ( wire fraud), operating his own company JOHN E.PENNINGTON ( failed to pay a single cent of WA State business tax on), worked on obtaining a fraudulent online diploma from American Military University (AMU), an online school Senator Harkin called fraudulent, using county resources and time; criminally assaulted his pregnant wife just three weeks before her delivery, was recently caught leaving three minor children at home alone ( child abandonment/neglect), and recently conspired with a Duvall police officer attempting to shut down the Gold Bar Reporters message. John Pennington is being sued under 42 USC 1983 and RICO.

Pennington emails about Stilly    click to the left showing that Pennington never understood the issue of mudslides around the Stilly River leading to the largest preventable loss of 43 lives in Washington.  But Pennington must be given credit for being able to read and write about what the meteorologists are reporting as to rain. We call this regurgitating.

Anger management Pennington    click to the left to see John E. Pennington’s anger management certificate

Pennington’s prior conviction  click to left to see Pennington’s criminal record showing that he has a PRIOR conviction for criminal harassment, and it sure looks like he should go to LEVEL II Anger Management classes certificate

Lovick approved concealed weapons permit     Click to the left to view Snohomish County Executive signing a concealed weapons permit for a non-Snohomish County resident ( concealed weapons permits are supposed to be issued in the County where you live; Pennington lives in King County) employee knowing that Pennington was not allowed to have guns as a result of a restraining Order King County issued after he kick and punched his 3rd trimmest pregnant wife ( three weeks before delivery)

2009 2006 Pennington First Job Description   Click to the left to see Snohomish County’s 1st job description for Pennington until he lost his Homeland Security Clearance for criminal assault of his wife   Pennigton answers to Laughlin Interrogatories_Redacted  Click to the left see Pennington’s Interrogatory answers confirming that Pennington committed identity theft when stole his ex- mother in laws social security and credit information illegally setting up a credit card in his ex-mother in  laws name.  A federal crime which is believed to amount to RICO violations .

Pennington EMI contracts double dipping on county dime   public records from FEMA EMI documenting that Pennington operated his private FEMA contracts instead of performing functions for Snohomish County DEM.

2007 Pennington Revised Job Description after domestic violence    Pennington’s revised Snohomish County jobs description after he lost his Homeland Security Clearance.

Crystal Pennington – Crystal Hill fraud   click to the left to review copies of Washington State’s judgment against Crystal Hill ( John Pennington’s wife # 4 ) for filing false unemployment claims ( 2014)

Pennington, John E in Duvall, WA _ Contractor Profile     Click to the left to see John Pennington’s over $102,000.00 of additional income he earned, fraudulent and in violation of US government rules that If an agency employee receives any monies from the US government FEMA ( as Snohomish County DEM does), such employees are prohibited from receiving any FEMA EMI contracts. Fraud.

Pennington not licensed in WA State for business   click to the left to see confirmation from the State of Washington Dept. of Licensing documenting that Pennington has not licensed nor paid state business tax for the over $102,000.00 of extra income he received as it pertains to his FEMA EMI contracts.

https://snohomishcountycorruption.wordpress.com/2014/07/04/keeping-it-in-the-family-penningtons-abuse-goes-to-the-office/   Click to left to review Judge Lucas’s statements that John E. Pennington anger is a major problem that he was abusive to Judge’s clerk.

http://snocoreporter.com/city-of-duvall-predicate-acts-against-the-1st-amendment-and-our-newspaper/   click above to see excerpts from over 300 pages of police files from the City of Duvall proving beyond any shadow of a doubt that Crystal Hill, John Pennington and Lori Batiot are guilty of criminal RICO violations ( possibly criminal conspiracy by public officers), and John Pennington and Lori Batiot are guilty of gross civil rights violations pursuant to 42 USC 1983.  The police files from Duvall above speak for itself.  The Gold Bar Reporter will file suit on Flay Day against Batiot and the Penningtons.

There are so many public records proving that John E. Pennington committed gross fraud upon the taxpayers of Washington State, and RICO and 42 USC 1983 violations against the Gold Bar Reporter, but will hold off posting the remainder of the documents until he is deposed. And Justice for Pennington Oso mudslides victims especially the 4 month old baby dragged from the mud who suffocated to death as a result of Pedo-Penny.

John E. Pennington is being sued under RICO in U.S Federal Court.   see http://twitdoc.com/view.asp?id=172712&sid=3P9K&ext=PDF&lcl=RICO-files.pdf&usr=Sunshine2015K&doc=252796214&key=key-vCgcyry8MG3PdTevxTaE

After receiving copies of police reports written, and threatening voice messages, from the Duvall Washington police department documenting that Lori Batiot conspired with John Pennington and Crystal Hill to obtain a prior restraint on free speech – and retaliation presumed under 1983- and in furtherance of the Enterprise, a $1,000,000.00 tort claim has been filed against the City of Duvall, and Lori Batoit was notified on May 4, 2015, that she will be added to Block’s RICO complaint filed in US Federal Court.

2015 05 04 Block Duvall Tort claim     Tort claim filed against Duvall police officer Lori Batiot after she left threatening voice messages amounting to extortion Good news came on Wednesday June 3, 2015, for John Pennington’s victims. A King County Superior Court Judge agreed with the Gold Bar Reporter that the issue of whether or not John Pennington mitigated the County’s damages should go to a jury. The Judge said ” the act of communicating its decisions to residents in the area of the slide, and the (effect) such communication may have had on the residents’ decisions, are not immunized,” the judge wrote.

For those of us who have been trying to warn of the public of just how dangerous John E. Pennington is are ecstatic.

Ecstatic because John E. Pennington will be impeached on the stand as to his every action taken inside DEM, including harassing taxpaying citizens instead of doing his job.  We cant wait to have the sunshine in! And justice for all of John E. Pennington’s victims appears to be just around the corner, and the Gold Bar Reporters will be present in the Courtroom on behalf of all of his victims.

We plan to video tape the Oso mudslide trial.

With no surprise, U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of 1st Amendment

The Supreme Court made it a little harder Monday to prosecute people for making threatening statements, this time on Facebook.

The Court’s decision reversed the conviction of a Pennsylvania man whose Facebook postings seemed threatening to his estranged wife. The court said prosecutors must prove beyond any doubt that poster was aware that he was doing something wrong.

“Federal criminal liability generally does not turn solely on the results of an act without considering the defendant’s mental state,” Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. wrote. “Wrongdoing must be conscious to be criminal.”

The court’s ruling is a victory not only for Anthony Douglas Elonis, but for all of us who use the internet to get our message out.

Steven R. Shapiro, national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, praised the decision as one that “properly recognizes that the law has for centuries required the government to prove criminal intent before putting someone in jail.”

“That principle is especially important when a prosecution is based on a defendant’s words,” Shapiro said in a statement. “The Internet does not change this long-standing rule.”

Elonis was charged with making aggressive Facebook postings, which police said were threats.  Elonis wrote, “There’s one way to love you but a thousand ways to kill you,” Elonis posted at one point. “I’m not going to rest until your body is a mess, soaked in blood and dying from all the little cuts.”

When his wife secured a protection Protection Order from a state judge, Elonis went on Facebook to declare, “Fold up your PFA and put it in your pocket. Is it thick enough to stop a bullet?”

Elonis characterized his postings as “fictitious lyrics” and likened himself to Eminem and other rappers for whom “art is about pushing limits.” Elonis argued that the jury should have been required to find that he intended his posts to be threats.

The trial judge disagreed, and Elonis was convicted on four counts of making threatening communications and sentenced to 44 months in prison. He was freed last year.

Justice Roberts noted that Elonis’ conviction was “premised solely on how his posts would be understood by a reasonable person.” Roberts said that while the ” ‘reasonable person’ standard was a familiar feature of civil liability in tort law,” it “is inconsistent with the conventional requirement for criminal conduct, awareness of some wrongdoing.”

The Honorable U.S.  Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts.

Roberts concluded, Congress, in writing the law about communicating threats,”did not identify what mental state” must be proved for conviction.

Bravo to the U.S. Supreme Court for standing firm on First Amendment issues, again.