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Gov. Dean's Police State of Vermont

by Scott Huminski (s_huminski [at] hotmail.com)
Dean's subversion of the bill of rights in the context of judicial appointees and criminal prosecutions
In a 1997 Vt News Bureau interview, Dean admitted his desire to appoint
judges willing to subvert the bill of rights. Now the fallout from Dean's
appointments are before the US 2nd Circuit at Foley Square, NYC in two
outrageous cases. Docket #s 03-7036, 02-6150, 02-6199, 02-6201 One case is
being prosecuted by Washington, DC first amendment attorney Robert
Corn-Revere against two of Dean's judges for their banishment of a Vermont
"citizen-reporter" for life from all state courthouses because he criticized one of Dean's judicial appointees. The other case features Dean's judges violating Double Jeopardy, First Amendment, State law
and the State constitution. See Docket No. 99-445 (Vt. Dec. 13, 2000), aff’g, Docket No. 167-1-99 WmCr (Windham D. Ct. Aug. 30, 1999) Both cases have been briefed before the Manhattan Court awaiting oral argument.

Below are links regarding Dean's voicing his problem with the Bill of
Rights. He constantly complains about "legal technicalities" (i.e. the Bill
of Rights) as he did in the June meet the press interview.

http://www.thomhartmann.com/government.shtml

http://www..txtriangle.com/archive/1049/coverstory.htm

A link to a story regarding the courthouse banishment case.

http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=13300

A commentary on Dean's subversion of the public defender system.

http://www.talkleft.com/archives/003681.html#003681

Criminal sentences doubled during Dean's tenure as a result of his appointments. I wonder how many of those serving these inflated sentences were also subjugated to constitutional deprivations at the hands of Dean's Judicial appointees leading to their convictions? How many of those serving inflated sentences were prejudiced by Deans' subversion of the public defender system mandated by the 6th amendment? Dean and Ashcroft should do lunch sometime, they are very similar.

Scott Huminski
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