Rutledge for Governor sends letter to call for investigation of Amanda Chase campaign involvement in the riot of July 25, 20202 in Richmond, Va!

Info on July 25, 2020 rally with Amanda Chase staff involvement for criminal investigation!

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Merle Travis Rutledge JR <merletrutledge@gmail.com>	2:46 PM (30 minutes ago)
to kimberly.gray@richmondgov.com

Hello members of the City Council of Richmond, Va!

I take no ill will in regards to this e-mail of a public official that we believe is involved and help coordinate the damage in Richmond this past weekend.  Only July 25, 2020 it was advertised on numerous social media sites, as well as Amanda Chase Senator of Va webpage about the Richmond rally which was full of profanity and also stating that it was going to be chaos in Richmond.  We found evidence so compelling to warrant probable cause for a criminal investigation into Amanda Chase and her staff for helping to incite a riot for political gain at the expense of the City of Richmond.  I’m not sure if you are familiar with a Mike Dunn, which is Amanda Chase #2A event coordinator that had an event with the very same groups involved in the riot this past weekend.  Mike Dunn is a member of the Virginia Knights and also a member into a Militia.  This morning we received a communication from Amanda Chase that Mike Dunn was not a staffer and we found evidence that Mike Dunn was not only a staff, but was part of Amanda Chase team of being boots on the ground in Richmond to oversea the protest this past weekend.  As you can see from the video Mike Dunn is leading the protest and also recently before this was terminated from the Department of Corrections, which we have video that was obtained through Twitter and cites his affiliation with the Amanda Chase campaign.  Before the riot, Amanda Chase gives out an alarming warning throughout the week of damage that was going to come from the protest without stating that Mike Dunn was behind not only the protest, but was going to be personally involved in leading what would become a damaged Richmond.  The next morning after the riots, Amanda Chase then gives out a blasting statement slamming Mayor Stoney and other public officials without stating her own campaign staff was involved in the riot.  As we obtained pictures and video of Mike Dunn, Amanda Chase Staffer, marching with the crowd after yelling expletives at police.  It is our understanding he broke away from the crowd and shortly after the riot in Richmond kicked off which is common with these groups that start trouble to separate from the group and then cause destruction which put police in high alarm.   Amanda Chase this morning denies that Mike Dunn is affiliated with her campaign this morning and is not responsible for the damage to Richmond.  However, on the date of this protest, she is far far away from Richmond, Va near Southwest Virginia and Lynchburg having campaign fundraisers and photo ops (alibi), which her campaign staff help in terrorizing Richmond, VA.  There is no possible way for police in Richmond, Va to ignore this and she has also received funding from these very same groups.  It is alarming to know that these riots occurred with a sitting State Senator, which has financially benefited to her campaign, staff participated in leading the march, and she is conveniently out of town when the riot occurs, and then denies a staffer is involved with her campaign.  However, this video that I’m sending dispute that and I ask that on behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a thorough investigation into the Amanda Chase campaign staff inciting riots.  This isn’t the first time Amanda Chase has tried to stir the pot with her erase white history, Antifa and BLM hoax on Chesterfield County which even the local police chief denied her allegations, and constant stoking of flames that is causing Richmond to go into chaos, plus with the very groups involved in her July 4, 2020 rally are also involved in the mess on July 25, 2020.  There is too much probable cause in my opinion that a criminal investigation is warranted into the Amanda Chase campaign using it’s staff to make political talking points and benefits at the expense of Richmond.  This is as much of a traitor to Virginia, as it is to the citizens we all swore to protect.  This video which includes Amanda Chase own posts should alarm everyone.  Mike Dunn has repeatedly stated that he doesn’t care about anyone else, but to get Amanda Chase elected.  Making the City and Virginia in fear through premeditated rallies sounds like the way to do it.

Amanda Chase statement that Mike Dunn is not affiliated with her campaign after throwing him under the bus. Watch the full 2 minute video and that’s all Amanda Chase is a lying politician and just throwing a 19 year old boots on the ground staffer.  The video link is below.

Thank you for your time,

Merle T. Rutledge Jr

Virginia Beach, Va 

P.S Links and Citationshttps://merletrutledge.wordpress.com/2020/07/06/mike-dunn-of-virginia-knights-says-i-could-care-less-about-trump/

2. https://twitter.com/goadgatsby/status/1285701953784356864

3.  https://twitter.com/goadgatsby/status/1285701953784356864

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2017 Danville, Va State Bar and Judicial Review Complaints against Attorney and Judges endorsed by National Coalition Against Government Abuse

Breaking Southside MTRJ and NCAGA News: President Merle Rutledge has filed stocking stuffers of complaints against the Danville, Va Judiciary and select attornies. There are a lot more to come in the near future. First I would like to thank the contributors to these complaints in which NCAGA officially endorsed and mailed out on behalf of Marsha Pritchett and Carla Stevens.

Virginia Judicial Review Commission Complaint Filed Against Danville, Va Chief Judge Milam Jr. Accusations are as follow:

1. Ruling on the case of Joshua Coleman and failing to have jurisdiction over the matter. The incident of credit cards allegations came from a incident that occured in North Carolina on a U.S MIlitary base. Ignoring arguments that showed clearly the court did not have jurisdiction in Danville, Va. Judge Milam ignored his oath and held trial anyway when he knows he should not have. Judge Milam Jr is accused of making public derogatory comments during a hearing in which the defendant was not served properly on September 18, 2017. After being notified by his own secretary and court personnel that the defendant had not been served, but had service accepted at the wrong address and through the accuser acting as if service was performed. Service showed that it was to the wrong address and to the wrong person and that the person he called a liar was correct. However, this was not the first time Judge Milam Jr ruled on matters in which defendants was not served properly through the code of Virginia. In the Alvin Alvin L. Sutherlin Jr. case, the Virginia Supreme Court ordered a new attorney assigned and a hearing to be held to correct matters before the court. Mr. Sutherlin attorney emailed his termination of representation prior to that hearing. A hearing was held without Mr. Sutherlin knowledge and an attorney named James Martin would represent him knowing his client had no knowledge of the matters being held in Danville, Va Circuit Court. James Martin, the Danville, Va Commonwealth Attorney, and Judge Milam Jr are alleged to have engaged in an unconstitutional hearing without the defendant having a opportunity to be heard and for not serving him proper notice of a hearing being held in regards to the matter. Judge Milam Jr is accused of allowing his courthouse to become a pillar of injustice and its lacking of serious oversight from a judicial officer in command. He is being accused as being unfit to stand the office and for losing the public confidence in his actions.

Virginia Judicial Review Commission Complaint Against Judge Adams of Danville, Va General District Court.

It is alleged that he had an ex parte hearing on a FOIA request without putting the case on the docket to be heard and allowing undue influence from clerks to persuade his decisions. It was a serious lapse in judgement. He is also accused of not disclosing his conflict of interest in deciding matters before his court. Also for failure to manage and supervise his clerks as he was put on notice that evidence that was suppose to be filed based off his decisions was now missing from the file. Judge Adams would rule against this defendant in every single case before his court and no longer was his rulings based off the merits of the case, but based off his dislike for the defendant for speaking out about the injustices throughout the Danville, Va Judiciary. He is also accused of having knowledge of Danville, Va Commonwealth Attorney being in custody of evidence and personal property in which he had no judicial authorization. Upon notice, Judge Adams failed to take any corrective measures and his rulings may have impaired a verdict worthy of the public confidence. He stands accused of being unfit for office and taking actions that are detrimental to the judiciary.

Virginia State Bar Complaints filed:

Benjamin White of the Danville, VA Commonwealth Attorney Office – complaint was filed and endorsed by the NCAGA for taking possession and custody of a defendants phone while court was in session, without judicial authorization or process. Also for prosecuting a case in which he knew a serious conflict of interest existed over the very same allegations. His filing goes on top of a Danville, VA Sheriff investigation into improper access of evidence during a criminal proceeding. The primary focus of the allegation is failure to disclose his conflict and for breaking criminal and ethical statutes established by the Commonwealth of Virginia.

 

Virginia State Bar Complaints filed:

Michael J. Mchpeeters of Martinsville, VA – for failure to get discovery before trial, failure to stay in contact with their client through out the legal proceedings, and also making unprofessional and unethical statements to his clients which would make any reasonable person believe that his representation was definitely not in their interest. A phone call corroborates his failure to do basic legal principles and gain discovery before a jury trial which was less then 3 weeks away before he was assigned as defendant counsel. Also for making false statements to a judge for saying his client was ready for trial when in fact he was told not such thing.

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Danville, Va Commonwealth Attorney and police accused of withholding material evidence in Sutherlin vs. Smith et al federal matter!

If you would like to view the no knock and entry raid done on Alvin Sutherlin place then click here and finish reading the remainder of the article.

Pictured below is married couple Bryan Haskins, Pittsylvania County Commonwealth Attorney and Danville, Va Assistant Commonwealth Attorney  Petra Haskins!

 

 

My audience should first pay attention to the search warrant affidavit for Sutherlin by clicking here Doc1.  Within the first 2 minutes of video provided by Officer Landrum in the matter of Commonwealth vs. Sutherlin,  you see officers allegedly exceed the scope of the warrant which is attached to this article in the previous sentence.  This video has never been released until a month ago.  Alvin Lawrence Sutherlin trial was in 2014.   The video below shows officers discussing the raid on Alvin Sutherlin residence prior to the execution of the search warrant.  These officers are discussing not knocking and announcing themselves prior to the search and searching for bootleg dvds, even though the warrant below shows that they have not authority to do so, nor did they tell the magistrate of their intentions.  After the search warrant execution, Sutherlin was found with no drugs on him or his property.  No scientific report even shows at this time that drugs was even found on the property to be searched that was specific to Sutherlin’s involvement.

 

The video was recorded on September 25 2013, moments before the raid.  It also discusses two specific individuals of interest.  However, the warrant stated for the search of a particular room only and all persons present therein.  How in the world did the Danville, Va police department officers involved in this search screw up so bad and why didn’t they give this video to the Commonwealth Attorney or to the defense prior to trial.  It is because their testimony was not consistent with the briefing video.  At trial, Officer Land stated that he waited 15 seconds before entry and announce police search warrant.  However, this video shows clearly this wasn’t the plan nor was it done at the time of the search.  They also testified in Sutherlin’s state criminal trial court by the Danville, Va police officer names of Land, Richardson, and Lancaster that they never abandon their search for marijuana.  However, they abandon their search as soon as their briefing prior to the search warrant execution was done before the raid on Sutherlin place.

Sutherlin called these warrants “General warrants,” which are suppose to be unconstitutional in all person present warrants unless at the time of the search you reasonably can suspect that someone is involved in criminal activity and not just because they are close to the area to be search.  Alvin Sutherlin nor Michelle Owens names was never mention on the warrant, but the Danville, Va Police Supervisor Officer Richardson makes sure to point out to his troops that they are persons of interest during the search warrant briefing.  Shouldn’t he had told the magistrate about this and their search for bootleg dvds or was the marijuana drug search a cover up to search for alleged prior criminal activity not associated with the warrant.   Hum, I let you be the judge, but I know this is a video that they did not want me to have, because they damn sure didn’t want Sutherlin’s defense to have it.

 

A final ruling from the Federal Judge in Sutherlin vs Smith et al. is still pending and all post trial briefs so far has been turned in by July 26, 2016.  Petra Haskins was the lead prosecuting attorney in the Sutherlin state criminal trial and had a affirmative duty to turn over all evidence favorable to the accused and including impeachment evidence.  This video is the smoking gun of impeachment evidence and cops lied because they knew the video had not been turned over before they testified in state court.  Moreover, Defense attornies across the state is just learning about this and it is a possibility that judges was involved in allowing prosecutions that they knew violated the civil rights of defendants within their courts in Danville, Va.

However, I believe the problems are systematic in other jurisdictions which goes with little oversight because of plea deals reached to not test the sufficiency of the evidence before their is actual trial or motions filed that would destroy the prosecution case.  Also, I should remind my audience that Danville, Va Commonwealth Attoreny Petra Haskins handled both the state civil and criminal trial of Alvin Sutherlin, which means she placed a shield of complete control of the case and its facts in her possession.  She also responded to a Federal Subpeonas for evidence stating that the Commonwealth had no more videos or evidence by clicking here ( commonwealth letter from petra haskins to federal courts ). However, how did the briefing video below ever come to the light of day if there was no more videos.

 

Watch the video for yourself of police alleged premeditated actions to violate a citizen civil rights.  I’m sure it is others that are facing the same problem.  However, all convictions based off these general all person present warrants need to be overturned and reviewed on its face.   Many of you don’t know Petra Haskin husbands is the Pittsylvania County Commonwealth Attorney Bryan Haskins.   I didn’t even know this before my trial.  Previously Mr. Haskins has tried to get me indicted on running for Mayor of the Town of Chatham and going on a fishing expedition to see whether I was living in the Town or not.   One of the key questions asked during my state criminal trial was based off this allegation.  It is not hard to speculate that the two that sleep in each other bed every night doesn’t plot strategy on those they don’t like given the proximity of the two areas.  This is about 30 plus miles of jurisdiction that covers Danville, Va and Pittsylvania County (which includes Chatham, Va where I resided.)

I do believe now more then ever that people may have been wrongly and maliciously prosecuted only because they have associated with me in some kind of way.   So Ms. Haskins inspiration have been those that she believes I have helped.  However, the U.S First Amendment should have been her guiding light.   Ms. Haskins conspired in my opinion to help police officers conceal favorable evidence from the accuse and the judges have been in her back pocket helping her conceal her wrongdoing and shortcomings in court.  Most of her cases were only helped or prosecuted because the judges have allowed the misconduct to go on in their courts with no scrutiny.  Everyone that has had a search warrant issued against them should be thanking Sutherlin for his hard work and personal sacrifice.  He never plead guilty and has been fighting since these events took place.   The Commonwealth underestimated him and I am proud to know that it is real people putting in work in your area that is going unnoticed.

Lastly, I challenge the Danville, Va and Pittsylvania County  NAACP, SCLC, and other organizations to step up and back Mr. Sutherlin in bringing justice to the area.    This is a civil rights matter that deals with social change.  How in the world can any organization claiming to be about civil rights ignore it.    Let your friends, family, and more know that these search warrants and alleged confidential informants are going to have answers for them.  Also, I have forgot the magistrates that signed these warrants.  Trust me, I haven’t.  Proof that the video is authentic is attached here in the Danville, Va Police Department Audit Trail of Body Worn Cameras.  It shows all activity of Body Worn Camera downloads and uploads with whom had access.  Look at the dates and look at who actually viewed the videos and you would be shocked.  This briefing video was only turned over to Sutherlin less then a month ago from this date.  His trial was in 2014, but his federal lawsuit is actively pending for a ruling.  Click here for video audit trail –  EVIDENCE AUDIT TRAIL Sutherlin briefing and you can see the briefing video by clicking here Sutherlin vs Smith Et Al – Danville, Va Police Officer Richardson briefing video or by clicking here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc-YZx5h0Fs.  The sound quality may be a issue so hook up a loud speaker, Bluetooth, or listen to the video through your handset and not through speaker phone.

 

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Petition for a Federal Grand Jury investigation of the City of Danville, Va Police Department (sign here)

 

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Merle Rutledge warns City of Danville, Va police to stop destroying or altering video and audio evidence within 60 days.

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In the City of Danville, Va police department manual it instructs officers to rewind over video and audio tapes after 60 days which destroys the right to a fair trial. This is a policy and practice that goes against Virginia law on retention of evidence or public records. I believe the governor should have a executive order especially on felony cases to hold all audio and video evidence for 10 years until the case is clearly over and 60 days is not adequate. I cite these reasons. However, I ask that the police department change its policy because its about a fair trial and nor should their be technicalities for criminals to take advantage of. General Orders or Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that are related to property and evidence are the directives that inform all members of a department of the requirements for the proper handling, packaging, and storage of physical evidence or property that is accepted as either found property or property for safekeeping. Department directives either prescribe or proscribe actions by officers who are booking property or evidence into the agency. The orders or SOPs direct such things as requiring that evidence be booked into the property room or temporary storage lockers prior to the end of a tour of duty; not storing evidence in an investigator’s desk or an officer’s locker; or insuring that firearms have been rendered safe and unloaded prior to bringing them to the property room or placing them in a locker. To illustrate the importance of these SOPs, consider this January 2007 news article that reported that a judge in Florida declared a mistrial in a capital murder trial. The basis for the judge’s decision was the failure of the prosecution to produce all of the evidence related to the case, specifically audio and video tapes. During the trial it was ascertained that an investigator had stored the tapes in his office desk and that he had never booked them into the property room with the other evidence. This story is included to reinforce the need for departmental directives related to evidence, as well as the need for compliance with the directives. How many convictions needs to be overturned for police departments to get the message? I have sent this email to the Virginia Governors office for a response but I feel its more harm in doing this policy than good.  Below is a scanned image directly from the Danville, Va police department manual.  This is public policy by the police department.

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Fat Joe pending divorce is no big deal in modern society

No offense but if Newt Gingrich can be a front runner for the Republican Nomination to the Presidency of the United States of America than Fat Joe has done nothing wrong, and even from Sarah Palin opinion will be able to soar to new heights by having adulterous affairs.  Fat Joe wife should only be mad if she did not know, but other than that, she is not going to meet another guy to marry her more successful than Fat Joe.  If she needs further example:  Michael Jordan wife and all the other ex’s of cheating husbands.  They are single and do not find trying to get back into the dating world as easy as it may seem.  Yes, It is nothing wrong with being a cougar or whatever.  However, A divorce doesn’t make you immune to the same issues unless you decide to bring out the best in you with the next. 

Right now, I think you and Joe should work it out and really decide whether you married for death till you part, or for the financial stability being the “iron clad lock,” on saying “I do” at the alter.  If it is for financial reasons, than Fat Joe didnt do you wrong.  He bought you like he can buy the next.  Marriage has to be taken serious or do not get in it at all.  Crazy ladies, that have been cheated on is the reason why men are not getting into marriages or entering without a pre nup.  We all learning from Kobe, Tiger, Michael Jordan, and the rest that followed in his foot steps and those that came before him. 

Cheating is no longer a valid reason to leave someone that has been taking care of you all or most of your life.  Metaphor to Drake with a Mack twist, “Did you write one Fat Joe hit that has made your life easy and more comfortable.”  If not, than stop complaining about the way he does it, and sometimes that means relieving stress and clearing his mind at the times that it is needed.  Sometimes a annoying wife is not needed during these time frames, but someone that could care more about pleasure than pain. Some ladies feel like a man should have a heart attack stressing about them. 

Trust and believe people wise up and say I rather relieve my stress with someone that is about showing someone a good time than someone that brings stress to them everyday.  People under these conditions will always need something to balance off the nightmare.  Fat Joe wife may find it cool to grab some headlines and become a reality star which seems to be the motive of a lot of women going for a divorce.  However, The lives being protrayed is not going to make the grass greener on the other side.  It will expose the world to every reason to leave you single, lonely, and used up.  A serious relationship will no longer have meaning, and when it comes time for you to start taking one serious, than no one is going to be serious enough to make you the one. 

 

Good Luck and Work on your marriage and not on divorce!  The 26 year old is a jump off not a wife! Fat Joe wife been looking the other way to his exploits for the whole time of the marriage. All of a sudden she wants to look the truth right in the mirror at this time. If Fat Joe wife wants out the marriage than this isn’t a valid excuse. What in the world made you look the other way for so long to start looking now. Unless you are the one looking at other things other than Fat Joe.

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Herman Cain is a Pimp! Sex Harrassment Allegations Surface Comedy Skit by Merle Rutledge

“I believe Herman Cain did it. Now you know if you a black man and you tried to do
anything or even had the appearance of trying to get a white woman to do
anything to you in any way, than they would have been crying rape. Now I
believe something did happen. However how it happen may be different than how
the media protrays it. I believe it was consenual sex including
“oral” though and she used to work as a escort taking on side jobs to
get bye.

She probably had a ad on craigslist or whatever dating site. Now since
he is in the limelight, now she wants to add on to the story. Something doesnt
seem believable about this woman. I don’t support Cain, but don’t say you was
force to do something and you sitting alone in a car with a married man. I was
just saying last week Herman Cain sounds like he used to be a pimp. Now all the
ladies in his stable that have accuse him was bad. Now you saying it is only 4
women accusing him than you know it is a lot more. This guy was a serial pimp.

He probably made so much money he said forget “GodFathers Nasty
Pizza.” “I’m going to the Super Bowl of National Restaurants.”
He made it to D.C and he just couldn’t stay away from the pimp game. If you
know a pimp, anything can cause them to relapse. He just kept relapsing. Also
the guy talks smooth. He will say some shit and even have you believing that he
knows what he is talking about. 9 9 9 plan sounds like pimp game as well. I
could see a client asking him how much it cost for one of his hos… 9-9-9….

Also it looks like he is giving out the pimp eye through the t.v, like he is
talking to his accusers like, “you know what it is about to happen,”
through that pimp eye. Also look at his television commercials for his
campaign. He throwing old ladies around, drinking liquor, and smoking a
cigarette. Now you put all three together than yes that might be a pimp around.
Now I’m not saying all this happen, but if you find that he didn’t do it, than
this is just as believable.” I believe Gloria probably was his best ho.
She quickly decided not to do a Interview for Fox when she said she
would speak out. Herman Cain quickly shut that down. She probably was his
bottom bitch. This was 12 years ago. This is my evidence that Herman
Cain is a pimp.

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Letter in Support of Troy Davis – Stop the Execution of a Innocent Man by Georgia

Dear D.A Chilsom

It is better to let 10 guilty men go free, than to let one innocent man suffer.  It is rare that you will ever come to a decision under these circumstances that will have so much ramifications for all parties involved.  I can not with good conscious under the information that has been presented so far with this case concede that the death penalty would be used in such a way to hide the truth instead of embrace it.  All the evidence that has come with this case has been recanted by clear majority, and all physical evidence given the circumstances of the conviction does not exist, but the events that led to this one horrific night has a conscious.  The conscious of second thought that one of the many witnesses that recanted and the others that have not, that one of them know the true culprit, and right now you are not able to hear the case again, but you are able to hear equality.

D.A Chilsom, if you was Troy Davis, with all the evidence, testimony, recanted statements, and more that has come out.  Do you think it would be fair to have the death penalty applied to you under the same conditions with the shoes on the other foot, or would you hope throughout all this truth that has spilled out onto the courtroom floors that it would be a glimmer of due diligence to recognize reasonable doubt?  Reasonable doubt has not been created, but it has always existed.   I ask that you give a stay of execution until further review on anything that adds guilt, and if it can not add to it than its no truth to it, and not taketh away of guilt can be amended.  If not, than it is our duty under the law to rectify a injustice.

The Innocence Project and many groups alike have shown a complete transformation to how people have suffered over wrongful convictions.   Maybe its time to let one innocent man not suffer for what 10 guilty ones have done.  The witnesses that recanted their story are just as guilty for the murder of the officer as well as the murder of Troy Davis.  They are accessories to the fact along with the state of murder.

Murder is murder whether the state orders it or not, especially based off the totality of the circumstances in this particular case that a reasonable and competent person, such as a public official, should have known that such actions would be against their oath of office or by a clearly establish law and policy.  There are many that have been convicted, but has been innocent, and proof of that is all over the United States of America.  Their is a clear and establish policy of a statute of murder, and just because you are an official of the public doesn’t give you a pass in this life or the next, to order the murder of a innocent man.  This would be a murder by the state, and justice under these conditions is moot, because the case itself has been tainted and this is the poison that comes from the poisonous tree.  (7 witnesses admit to being that poison that does not bear justice.)

Thank you for your time,

Merle T. Rutledge Jr

“All action and not just words!”

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State officials should be prosecuted for their malicious prosecutions of the mentally ill!!

 This is a example of a JJPDA Act that has no teeth in the states, so I decided to use Virginia news article on anti-bias rules.  Their is no point of having state jobs in which the department has no kind of authority to enforce regulations throughout the state, but only make recommendations to policy makers that simple do not care about closing loopholes with laws that address juvenile justice seriously. 

     Furthermore, their are departments that have no teeth is the state corporation office, Virginia Human Rights Act commission, Juvenile Justice, Criminal Justice, and any department that can only recommend and refer others to do a job that will have little effect on the issue.  States can get rid of wasteful spending by eliminating figure head of issue departments.  Figure head departments just means they are only there to say that the state has a department dedicated to specific issues to refer people to, but there is nothing the individual department can do without laws passed by public officials.

     I wish they would just call these offices a place to get referred to a state law maker.  Customer service phone representatives can do the jobs of these toothless departments.  It is nothing wrong with these departments doing studies, but if the raw data is going to be put under the rug because it may compel justices to review in favor of some of our most repulsive criminals, than these departments further the degree of illness, and clearly circumvents preventions and treatment that should be addressed in all four branches of government executive, legislative, judicial, and administrative.  The fourth branch administrative is not a official but informal branch of government.  Critics actually acknowledge it as the fourth branch because it has authority to regulate specific government related matters.

     In a country where we execute the mentally ill, the mentally retarded, and even the innocent people.  Prosecutors should be sued for misconduct and punish in state/federal and civil/criminal courts.  They withhold the most compelling evidence from the defense. 

     The pattern that they tried to exempt and exclude from public records is a custom of punishing the known mentally ill that is so wide spread in the justice system that it is enforced as law.  Prosecutors have prior and constructive knowledge about a mentally ill person when bringing them to trail.  The failure of the state and even the Bar failure to train and supervise the legal system holds them accountable for mentally ill patients.  If the prosecutorial misconduct is exposed that rises above the immunity level and raises a legitimate dispute on the issue, than it would be every prosecutor/judge nightmare. 

      The appeal and overturning of convictions from a justice system that is bias, unfair, not partial, because it discriminates against the mentally ill.  This may be the only way to really have a flawless justice system.  All the studies and research that has been done on this issue, that state and it’s agents have ignored, holds them in my opinion to being a facilitator or accessory to the murder of its own citizens.

Merle T. Rutledge Jr.

Va. juvenile justice board OKs anti-bias rules

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The Associated Press
© June 30, 2011

By Zinie Chen Sampson

RICHMOND

Virginia’s Board of Juvenile Justice retained a ban on discriminating based on sexual orientation at its residential centers, despite concerns that it doesn’t specifically have that authority.

Gay-rights group Equality Virginia and others urged the board to continue its efforts to protect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth who are in custody in the agency’s facilities. The board on Wednesday discussed what steps it could take to provide proper care to young people in the system while following the law.

The board voted 4-1 — with Chairman Barbara J. Myers the lone dissenter — to reaffirm including specific protections based on sexual orientation in Department of Juvenile Justice regulations.

Equality Virginia lobbyist Claire Guthrie Gastanaga welcomed the board’s decision to “stand for what they think is right,” but acknowledged that the issue is far from resolved as the regulations advance toward final adoption. A similar regulation that offers protection against sexual-orientation discrimination in nonresidential centers is set to take effect on Friday.

The group went against advice from a staff lawyer from the attorney general’s office who said the state constitution equally protects all people and that sexual orientation hasn’t been designated for specific protection under the Virginia Human Rights Act.

Lara K. Jacobs said that in adopting the anti-bias language, the board risks creating a right that hasn’t been enumerated by the General Assembly.

Board member Aida L. Pacheco responded: “We’re not creating a right, we’re trying to prevent discrimination.”

The board approved the anti-bias regulations last year, but the agency stripped out the reference to sexual orientation during the final approval process on advice from the attorney general’s office. The board voted June 8 to restore the protections, then called a special meeting Wednesday to address the issue.

The board also discussed the Department of Juvenile Justice’s new offender classification program.

Kate Duvall, a lawyer with the Legal Aid Justice Center’s JustChildren program, said that the new classification program amounts to a major policy shift that doesn’t line up with the department’s stated policies to make rehabilitation and re-entry top priorities.

Advocates have petitioned the board to require the Department of Juvenile Justice to halt implementation of the new classification system, saying it put too much weight on the original offense committed, isn’t based on research, and neglects other factors that would better predict misbehavior.

But Jacobs advised the board that classification of youth offenders is an operational matter. Because the board only can address policy issues, it doesn’t have legal or regulatory power to order the department to suspend the new system.

Department director Hellvi Holland called the classification system a housing system, and said no youth would be denied services. She said via teleconference that department officials met two weeks ago with advocates and parents to discuss their concerns, and another meeting is scheduled for mid-July.

About 800 young offenders are in the Department of Juvenile Justice system on a daily basis.

1.  http://hamptonroads.com/2011/06/va-juvenile-justice-board-oks-antibias-rules

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