It only takes once, then you know. There's something going on at the Larson Justice Center in Indio, California. Something that treats the gay victims of electronic harassment differently and unfairly. I knew it the second I made my first appearance there...someone is doing something illegal and it smacks of judicial misconduct.
First, I want to qualify myself as someone that knows different. I have tons of experience in the courtroom. I've been in many many trials and I know what the pretrial situation with a criminal defendant is like. That was the main portion of my job working for the federal bench in San Diego. I was the case manager for hundreds of criminal cases at a time, never did I see what I saw down in Indio. It's exasperating do know that what two commissioners are doing is so illegal and not be able to do something about it. Most of the time, criminal defendants of this kind are treated so unfairly that they don't know what to do. I know better so I can do better.
I've done the research for my friends and myself and what I found is alarming to say the very least.
First, most important, there is relief for those of us that are victims of this crime when it comes to having to appear before Commissioners Best and Cribbs ever again. They have shown a pattern of behavior that is not legal. Someone is contacting these commissioners about these defendants and having the cases intentionally flagged when put on the docket for these judges. That, alone, is a bad thing. It is intentional because it happens when the case is "docketed" which is just a fancy name for recording the events in the criminal case. Flagging is what you do when you relate one case to another. If the cases have no relation, then there is a discrepancy. Cases should only be flagged when they are truly related to one another. Most of the time it is the same defendant that has another case. This case is related to that case because of the same defendant.
So why would someone do that? It is for "special treatment" of that case. Lisa, pretending to be someone else, calls the chambers and tells them, "this is one of those Steven Frey cases" and the secretary or whomever dockets that case then opens the case and relates it to "Steven Frey". What does that mean to the commissioner? That is the real question here. Does it mean that a "Steven Frey" case is about methamphetamine? A gay defendant? A gay defendant that is electronically harassed? Or is it a combination of all three? The answer lies in investigation. A simple call to the secretary that Lisa contacts from both chambers is all that needs to be done. I can tell you some of what I know from the research.
Usually it means several things. 1.) The case is somehow linked to Officer Rae Fernandez and her "special forces unit" that is looking into meth in the gay community. 2.) The secretary knows Rae Fernandez and is not having to come into the courtroom and tell the commissioner anything about them. 3.) In most cases this call is made on their first arrest so the case can be flagged until sentencing; so it has to do with how the defendant is sentenced; it shouldn't be any different than any other defendant, female, male, gay, straight or HIV positive. 4.) The presumption of the court is guilt by the way the commissioner treats him. 5.) There is gas lighting going on between the commissioner and Lisa. She tells the defendant a phrase like, "wake up and smell the coffee" then, in the courtroom, the commissioner repeats it on the record. This, at an arraignment, is illegal. It presumes guilt. 6.) These defendants are usually the last ones called on the commissioner's calendar for the day, as if to set them apart from the other defendants for special treatment.
The funny thing is this. When Steven Frey was really arrested for drugs, the court almost went out of its way to give him the absolute lightest sentence they possibly could. Why? When you look at Steven's case, you notice something fishy. He and I are very good friends, by the way, so I write this for him as well.
Steven, when arrested, had already supplied Lisa with as much methamphetamine as she has ever seen. He was of no use to her any longer. My personal opinion is that he did this for her so that she would stop forcing him to sell meth to her and get her off of his back. In his home at the arrest, they found Ketamine, GHB (lots), methamphetamine and some pot. Here's the thing. I have been working as an informant in his case for one reason. I wanted him to point out who was hurting him before he got arrested. Lisa knew this. What transpired was what I like to call a complete whitewashing of his situation.
Remember, because Lisa told me that Steven "owned lots of property" in the area, I started looking at the County Recorder's office for proof. What I found, back then, was about a half million dollars in federal liens. I want you all to know that I know Steven. I have for many many years. He's not that kind of person. In fact, he lived, pretty much, hand to mouth the entire time I knew him. He was and is, by no means rich.
I took this lien to the PSPD offices because I was an informant and, at the time, they were suppose to be looking into the rape that happened in Steven's home. When I found it, I was shocked! Steven hadn't had a job in years and I knew that someone was forcing him to sell drugs. Let's face it, with that much federal debt, the IRS would easily attach his wages if he did have a job...selling drugs kept a roof over his head. He hated it.
So here's the thing. GHB and ketamine are major scheduled drugs on the list of narcotics sales. In federal court he could have received a life sentence for that much. When he was arrested though, something odd happened. The district attorney, rather than turn him over to the feds for the federal lien, which, frankly looks like the proceeds of drug sales, since he had no job, didn't happen. Why? The D.A. dropped the GHB and sentenced him on the meth, pot and special k. This isn't kosher. When a defendant with that kind of federal debt is arrested with a Schedule III substance, he is automatically shipped to the feds for prosecution. It's like a drug lord that has debt has been captured. The police chief knew about this debt too, I showed it to him myself.
Why, then, when he was arrested didn't someone from pretrial services do a check into his criminal past? The commissioner didn't have any kind of information on this subject. It's a glaring mistake. You see, you can't sentence a defendant if you don't know anything about him, financially and personally. It isn't done! In the long run Steven was given a "surrender date" for prison instead. Another HUGE mistake. This does not happen. An O/R bond was issued? Huge mistake, someone with a half million dollars in missing taxes is a flight risk, big time. You see all this debt has to be explained and a good prosecutor knows that the GHB is the tool to get that explanation.
Why didn't the Larson Justice Center know more about this crime or Steven's IRS tab? I told the police about it and even got an email from Chief Reyes that he was arrested. If I am not the informant in the case, why would he send that to me? I want to know why the Chief of police ignored this kind of debt and didn't kick him over to the feds?
You see, when it is convenient for Lisa and her brother, they "do things" to keep themselves out of trouble. What I've heard is that the drug was planted in his home, and I've seen that before, but someone's finger prints were all over it. When I say that I've seen GHB show up in his home, I mean, one minute it wasn't there, we'd leave, then the next we'd come home and there was a gallon of it sitting in the garage, in front of the door. I've seen that happen. We all know that Lisa and her brother make GHB and put food color in it so they know if this is "Lisa's bottle" or "Junior's bottle". They compete for sales.
There is a strong chance that if Steven were questioned in federal court about the missing monies and the GHB, that it could be proven that Lisa and her brother were behind it all. So the D.A. dropped the GHB and didn't contact the feds. BIG MISTAKE!!!
Consequently what happened to Steven Frey was a complete whitewashing of what his case was really about. They drop the most serious charge and ignore the huge debt then give him a self surrender date for prison on an own recog. bond. Doesn't happen, ever. Never. It is too much of a flight risk for the court to let him out that way. There is no reason for him to have had a bond in the first place with that kind of debt and with those charges.
To top it off, I also found that Steven, at least on paper, owns a home in Cat City Cove at that time. I gave that information to the police as well, but, it too was ignored. You see when you owe the government so much money, they will seize the property to sell off the debt. I literally handed this information to Chief Reyes and pointed that out. He's not the brightest man I've ever met. A $400,000 home in the defendant's name is seized to pay off the $411,000 debt. On paper, means it is Steven's even though Jackson Velin lives in that home and pays for it. It doesn't matter to the court. If the defendant owes money, it is paid for with assets. The odd thing is how Chief Reyes drops the rape investigation, ignores the tax lien, ignores the federal issues and I'm the informant that he notified via email that Steven was arrested. Did Chief Reyes send me that email? Maybe, maybe not. The fact is that if he did, he ignored all of the information I gathered for their department. If he didn't then someone has compromised the City of Palm Springs email service. So which is it Chief?
Either way a crime was committed.
Why doesn't the Larson Justice Center know more about these defendants than they do? It is a simple matter of doing the pretrial work. I had a pretrial officer in my courtroom that had a complete history of each defendant, or as good as we could get, even at the arraignment. In the Larson Justice Center, our defendants don't even know their attorney until then and then we get sentenced at the arraignment. We are given the choice of "stay in jail" or "get out today if you plea to this" when the cases are weak to begin with. It is a total railroading of gay defendant rape victims into the system that is set up for them to fail.
These defendants, on their first arrest, are commonly sentenced to probation and drug diversion classes. This may seem like a good thing, but in my case, that wasn't even a sentence that was allowed. You see you can't get drug diversion when the crime does not involve drugs. I was tested. No drugs. So the sentence Commissioner Best gave me was the "Steven Frey first arrest" sentence. The assumption is "guilty of a drug crime" and worthy of long probation. Why? This was dealt with on my first blog "HateLisa". The reason is simple. Lisa's brother will, if the defendant has a car, take their vehicle and destroy it. No transportation to court or the drug diversion class. You can only miss so many classes without violating the probation. When you don't have a car and you can't pay for the class because Lisa has stolen all of your money, it is almost simple for her to have you in court again with her commissioners to have them send you to jail. In my case, my classes were completed, my fines were paid and as my probation ran out, Lori LaFond, tried to make an end run around the federal stay. She forced a petition for "workplace violence" a bad sounding crime, into a hearing that wasn't legal then into a warrant from that order so that I could be put in jail.
Unfortunately for Commissioner Best, my probation period ran out before he could issue a warrant for me from a "workplace violence" thing...so he couldn't continue my probation or put me in jail. You see it is all punitive. It is all done with the intention of keeping someone from being free from the "second arrest" that puts them in jail. It's really simple. If you are a hanging judge that puts gays in jail that Lisa doesn't lie, you have to keep their mouths shut. I'm not someone that puts up with that. I did nothing wrong, he did. He should have to answer to why he is making favorable rulings for Lori LaFond and the City of La Quinta when he has no authority. Then, when he ignored the feds again, he issued an arrest warrant when there wasn't anything online that dealt with Lori LaFond that she'd complained about. I intentionally suspended that blog knowing that the restraining order illegally granted was her ticket to having me arrested.
There is a ton more too...you can't believe how crooked these courtrooms are.
So I' am going to file a complaint with the California Commission on Judicial Performance based on the illegal practices in Commissioners Best and Cribbs courtrooms. They need to explain themselves and why they are taking proffers for warrants over the phone? This isn't legal.
Here is the complaint form for this problem. A link to the website is also here. Bad judges can be dealt with but it has to be done with the facts:
Here is the complaint form. Here is the CJP website.
In the mean time, I am still looking for an attorney that will take on this task for the gay community. This case is huge and has tremendous implications on what civil rights laws will do with remote neural monitoring in the future. The cases are there. The crimes are made up, most of the time. The surveillance of the gay community through a drug dealer looking for favors is absolutely preposterous. I've lived with her constant commentary on my life now for years and years.
I haven't had sex in almost ten years. I haven't seen my boyfriend in almost ten years. The feeling of being imprisoned by Lori's constant need to deny my life any success is tremendous. All she has ever wanted to do what make me miserable for no reason at all. Someone has to help me.
