Former US prosecutor Richard I. Fine exposed and rebuked the taking by Los Angeles judges of “not permitted” payments, which were labeled by media “bribes”. Consequently, the State Bar of California disbarred Fine in 2007. From March 4, 2009 to September 17, 2010, he was jailed in solitary "coercive confinement" in the Los Angeles Men’s Central Jail, albeit with neither warrant nor valid and effectual conviction nor sentencing records.
His efforts to gain his own release through habeas corpus petitions to the US District Court, the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, and the US Supreme Court were repeatedly denied. However, all judicial reviews in the US courts were characterized by the falsification of court records.
The case reflects widespread corruption of the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, the largest county court in the United States, and cover-up of the same by the US courts. Report regarding corruption of the Superior Court, including, but not limited to, the imprisonment of Richard Fine, was incorporated by reference into the 2010 UPR (Universal Periodic Review) Staff Report of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations, with a note regarding “corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California”.
Coverage of the case was mostly left to off mainstream media. Large corporate media outlets reports were incomplete and at times partial.
One of the central recommendations of the 2010 UPR report on the United States pertained to restoration of the right for habeas corpus, with reference to detentions in Guantanamo Bay. As documented in the case of Richard Fine, the right of habeas corpus was effectively denied also on a US citizen, former US prosecutor, in the territorial United States, through effective denial of access to honest courts.
Perhaps the most important insight gained from the case of Richard Fine pertains to the key role of false and deliberately misleading computerized records in the courts and prisons in the United States in the abuse of Human Rights.
Due to the unusual cast of characters, the number of court cases filed by Richard Fine, and the meticulous documentation, the case as a whole provides unparalleled study of the justice system, Human Rights, and civil society conditions in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century.
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[1] 11-04-23 Habeas Corpus in the United States - the case of Richard Isaac Fine
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24729084/ ____
Joseph Zernik, PhD
Human Rights Alert (NGO)
Human Rights Alert - NGO
Human Rights Alert is dedicated to discovering, archiving, and disseminating evidence of Human Rights violations by the justice systems of the State of California and the United States in Los Angeles County, California, and beyond. Human Rights Alert focuses on the unique role of computerized case management systems in the precipitous deterioration of the integrity of the justice system in the United States.
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http://www.examiner.com/x-38742-LA-Business-Headlines-Examiner _____________________________
WHAT DID THE EXPERT SAY ABOUT THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS?
* "...a system in which only the little people have to obey the law, while the rich, and bankers especially, can cheat and defraud without consequences."
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50753639/ Prof Paul Krugman, MIT (2011)
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA?
* "...judges tried and sentenced a staggering number of people for crimes they did not commit."
Prof David Burcham, Dean, Loyola Law School, LA (2001)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29043589/ * "This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states... and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are convicted."
Prof Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Irvine Law School (2001)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/27433920/ * "Innocent people remain in prison"
* "...the LA Superior Court and the DA office, the two other parts of the justice system that the Blue Panel Report recommends must be investigated relative to the integrity of the system, have not produced any response that we know of..."
LAPD Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24902306 /
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA?
* "...corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California."
United Nations Human Rights Council Staff Report (2010)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/ _____________________________
WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE STATE COURTS IN THE UNITED STATES?
* "On July 26, 2010, Laurence Tribe, Senior Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, Access to Justice Initiative, delivered an important speech to the Conference of Chief Justices, challenging them to halt the disintegration of our state justice systems before they become indistinguishable from courts of third world nations."
Prof Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School (2010), per National Defender Leadership Institute (2010)
http://www.nlada.net/library/article/national_dojspeechto%20chiefjustice07-26-2010_gideonalert _____________________________
WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES?
* "More than 100 law professors have signed on to a letter released today that proposes congressional hearings and legislation aimed at fashioning "mandatory and enforceable" ethics rules for Supreme Court justices for the first time. The effort, coordinated by the liberal Alliance for Justice, was triggered by "recent media reports," the letter said, apparently referring to stories of meetings and other potential conflicts of interest involving Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas among others."
More than 100 law professors, as reported by the Blog of the Legal Times (February 2011)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49586436/ _____________________________
WHAT DID CHIEF JUDGE OF THE US COURT OF APPEALS, 5TH CIRCUIT, SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM?
* "The American legal system has been corrupted almost beyond recognition..."
Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, Edith Jones, speaking before the Federalist Society of Harvard Law School (February 2003)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50137887/ _____________________________
WHAT DID THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM?
* In a speech in Georgetown University, Senator Leahy, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee called for a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" on the US Department of Justice.
Transcript of Senator Leahy speech (2009)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38472251/ _____