Justice Delayed... Again

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In January, I published this piece on the continuing fight between me and the City of Ludington over my 2008 bicycle traffic ticket Justice Delayed... without any real updates since then, other than that my attorney presented his case in front of Judge Wadel on March 21st, and these were passed along as updates in this article.

 

To answer the legal questions the judge presented that day, namely 1) whether Judge Raven had the authority to issue orders in the original trial, 2) whether there existed a valid traffic control order on the intersection in question, and 3)  whether a fraud on the court was perpetrated, my attorney put forth the following legal briefs, which I think were outstandingly done and concise. 

Supplemental Memorandum M2D

 

This was countered by the City Attorney (at times) Susan Sniegowski with this brief, which was less outstanding and less concise  SKS Supplemental Brief

 

But it seems eventually to have won the day, because we received late last week Judge Wadel's ruling on the matter, and that is here   6-7-2012 Dismissal Dismissal 

 

I apologize to those readers that have followed along and read each 9 page brief and judgment.  There is a lot of legalese, and conflicting information at times depending on the side. 

 

Believe it or not, I still respect Judge Wadel, even if I dispute his decision here, for the 79th District Court administrator/magistrate messed up in a lot of ways, and he was stuck with the hard decision of whether to incriminate her, and hence his own court, or to make the easier decision, to deny the dismissal and the ensuing reparations that this entity would be entitled to for the failure of the 79th District Court to follow the rules over and over again. 

 

Failures that had me sit three days in jail for civil contempt because they could not be bothered in showing me a simple piece of paper back in 2009 that they never had in the first place!  The City of Ludington is no better.  They tell me there is no traffic control order back in 2010 for the intersection's stop sign, which is mandatory, but then produce one in 2012 when it finally comes to court.  In the meantime, I am paying big fees to my lawyer on this obvious fraud perpetrated on the court and myself to file the brief with that as a fact.

 

I and my attorney are still confident that we have a winnable case, and will continue to push forward on it beyond the county line.  This is very personal with me, and I will continue on this until the true guilty parties acting under color of law and the rules they broke are named and justice is realized.  Even if I someday become like Al Pacino in "And Justice for All":