Where does state get standing to prosecute you in criminal case?
Tennessee highway patrol officers enforce the commercial transportation law on the state’s highways. (Photo THP) Tennessee and other state governments have a paternalistic view of citizens and no longer serve them representatively to protect their rights. Rather, they seek to lord it over the people for their own good by holding them in commercial subjection. […]
Musician, hairdresser in Nashville sue to legalize home businesses
Musician Lij Saw is suing to overturn a ban in Nashville on home-based businesses. (Photo Beacon Center) Nashville hair stylist Pat Raynor says it is unjust and ugly for city government in Nashville to make her an outlaw for practicing her trade. (Photo Beacon Center) NASHVILLE, Dec. 5, 2017 — Today, the Beacon Center teamed […]
Authorities see policing limits as harassment of homeless adds to jail woes
Homeless man Henry Knotts talks about city government’s evisceration of a homeless camp under a bridge in Jauary 2016. (Photo TV 12 WDEF.com) Chattanooga appears to be more blessed compared to other cities as regards its homeless people as city government is nowhere near as punitive as other cities in police treatment of homeless people. […]
How can Pinkston prosecute without meeting 3 requirements for standing?
Neal Pinkston, district attorney (Photo wdef.com) The state is a religious corporation and a legal fiction that prosecutes criminal cases in its own name and person. It replaces the victims or survivors of crimes and acts as if it were the offended party, seeking redress for having been injured. David Tulis reveals the three requirements for standing […]
People dread traveling; many traffic stops end in cop violence
The only danger to their personal safety and security most people face using the public streets is the police officer. (Photo David Tulis) “Quit resisting.”—Cops yell at compliant young man who was thrown to the ground, beaten, arrested and hospitalized for severe injuries to his face and arm, allegedly in retaliation for “resisting arrest” by […]
‘Driving while black’ in Chattanooga: ‘You’re targeted’
Policing is a social management tool of the executive progressive state, and chiefs of police such as David Roddy of Chattanooga serve the mayor’s office. Mr. Roddy attends a Pachyderm Club event with Catherine Cate White, running for judge of circuit court. (Photo Jenny McFarland, Pachyderm Club) Tensions are high between police and the black […]
Esprit gives educators, families much for which to be grateful
Do sons know how to defend the innocent? Esprit newsletter gives you much for which to be grateful this Thanksgiving holiday season. One is a heritage of liberty given us by our Pilgrims forebears. But do our husbands and sons know how to defend their legal rights — or stand up for victims of abuse? […]
66% inmates in jail unconvicted as system ignores ‘guilty mind’ rule for prosecutions
Accountable to voters, Jim Hammond, center, opens a re-election bid for sheriff of Hamilton County as supporters gather at an event Oct. 19 downtown. Next to him is his wife, Jeannie, mother of their three children. (Photo David Tulis) The refusal of the judicial industrial complex in Hamilton County to uphold Tennessee’s guilty intention (“premeditation”) law […]
Prosecutors, judges, defense lawyers ignore TN ‘guilty mind’ law
Prisoners in Hamilton County often have been convicted without the state’s proving criminal intent for their acts, as required by state law. (Photo Wrcbtv.com) A dirty state secret: Ignore “guilty mind.” Culpable intent is required by Tennessee law, but judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys reject it. (Courtesy Noogaradio 92.7) 2 words from judges Poole, Statom could […]
2 words from judges Poole, Statom could solve jail crowding crisis today
Judge Lila Statom deals with defendant Taylor Satterfield in sessions court in a case that was sent to the grand jury. (Photo Dan Kennedy Wrcbtv.com) Criminalization of non-criminal behavior and examples of bad behavior and misjudgement is pushing Hamilton County into a jail funding and jail crowding crisis, the pressure of which is intensifying. The […]