DOMINO EFFECT BACKGROUND AND ITS NOT SUGAR FOLKS!

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LAST UPDATED 11-27-2000 With Minor Changes On 1-15-2003

Perhaps a chronology of some of the events in the last five years leading up to present will enlighten my readers as to what cumulative events created and sabotaged my good faith efforts as a citizen and as a businessman in the community.

On or about July 12, 1995 this company's post office box # 72 held for approximately 10 to 14 years was improperly taken from my use by the Lemont, Illinois United States Post Office. I have been involved in investigations especially in the last two quarters of 1995 and the first quarter of 1996. Formally I have still claimed same post office box for legal and litigious reasons yet to be set forth in another jurisdiction. I have not received proper follow-up from the agencies that handle such criminal activity and resultantly my business activities were crippled, established mailing lists stymied and cash flow hampered.

In another realm I received over zealous negative attentions from my then bank of approximately thirty five years and my bank accounts were improperly closed out without amicable phone notice in light of a mail problem above noted and related to them. My financial end of my business was then crippled as to being able to negotiate customer checks so to pay my bills. Banks in general, when used to cash customer checks at banks of issue, started to be over zealous in their requirements for check cashing and often refused creating further crippling of my efficient operation of my business. Customer checks were frequently being kited further delaying my business. Advertisers were not following through with their contractual obligations as well as amicable obligations to communicate and respond to reasonable concerns.

I was arrested for using a legal series 1950 twenty dollar bill and needless to say defamed in the geography of my business due to over zealous business persons and police in early 1997.

I was then entrapped and arrested in a phony criminal trespass charge on June 23, 1997 by over zealous police officers when I was invited to come to the property of an advertiser, who defaulted on a contract, so to pick up the money that was due me. (See the Dorta Chronicles).

Since June 23, 1999 in pursuit of my defense in the Dorta case I have been harassed and intimidated with arrest by over zealous Dupage County Sheriff's Police in the Dupage County Courthouse especially during same cause of action. (See Harassment: Certain Dupage County Law Enforcement selection).

In the Dorta case I was put through needless research and business loss due to having to present a motion to the first Judge in the case as directed by him. He later denied that motion with the admonishment to go to the public defender supervisor and ask permission. That admonishment could have been the directive in the first place when I requested a substitution of public defender. I had fired his original public defender due to what appears to be his dishonesty with me as to the statute of limitations on obtaining a change of venue of which I had requested.

This same Judge again put me through needless work when he refused to direct the public defender to give me a simple evidence receipt in lieu of the taped evidence I possessed and wished to turn over to him.

Needless to say I moved for a recusal of this Judge who refused to recuse himself but instead took a reassignment to another court.

The second Judge entertained an ex parte hearing with the fired public defender at least a day before my hearing before him. Without even giving proper interview of me he effected a competency hearing on the fired public defender's input in spite of my excellent presentation of the issues in my prior motions of record.

It is also interesting to note that there is question as to whether or not the public defender informed the Judge that the Defendant had fired him. It is evident that the Judge thought that the public defender was my attorney!

The competency hearing was quashed by myself and I moved for a recusal of the second Judge which was granted.(11-9-2000)

In spite of all the complications that had drained and defamed me, the third Judge did not want to hear about same previous issues that directly effected my functioning properly and with Due Process before same Court.

On or about November 1, 1998 just a few days before the trial date of November 5, 1998 I was given notice by the landlord to pay her suddenly inflated bill in total or be out in five days. (10-2-99)

The third Court had me arrested twice, (approximately August 25, 1998: for 23 hours and November 5, 1998 for approximately 26 plus days) , right out of the courtroom, and incarcerated me for approximately 27 plus days in a cause with a non-jailable penalty due to in fact my being merely tardy with prior notice of legitimate delay to the Court.

When I went before the bail bond judge I was not allowed to fully explain the circumstances of my lateness to court and the fact that the third judge had been fully informed of my emergency prior. The bail bond judge simply boiled his refusal to lower my bail from approximately $7,500.00 down to the simple fact that this was the second time I was simply late to court! No sensitive consideration was given to the fact that the arresting court was afore timely informed of unexpected problems of which I was suddenly tied up! And no apparent consideration was given to the fact that the penalty in the case was prior reduced to a non-jailable sentence! (11-27-2000)

During incarceration I received summons in forcible entry and detainer and the Court continued my incarceration. I was led to believe, while I was being incarcerated for 26 days, that the trial was indefinitely continued in spite of my eviction hearing that curiously was scheduled on the same date as the last trial date setting in this "criminal" cause : November 30 , 1998.

I was forced, under great and immeasurable stress, harassment and also deprevation of reasonable civil rights, to try to prepare a criminal trial defense with a very limited access to a jail law library that was clearly not geared to be used by the short term prisoner. Resultantly I did not know all my rights and privileges available to me at trial.

A teacher friend of eight years died in the wee hours of December 1, 1998 while I was incarcerated and I had no knowledge that he was even hospitalized. Resultantly, I was in a bit of shock when I went over to his home immediately after my release on December 1, 1998 and was told by the landlord that he had died and would be waked and his funeral had within the next few days. I attended that wake and funeral.

Just a day or so later I was attacked and threatened in my own office building by a tenant.

A few more days later I was informed that one of the landlord's agents had a gun in his possession.

On December 7, 1998 I had to appear for the hearing on forcible entry and detainer. There after I had to prepare for a sudden eviction if my counter case claiming unclean hands against the landlord did not prevail.

All during this time I had to research and prepare for a rehearing in this case, to overturn the verdict or obtain a new trial in a criminal cause of action with a jury, of which I had never prior had experience.

The weather was so extreme and deathly on those court days that even my bicycle would not operate properly due to same coldness resulting in very laborious and slow progress when used. I believe the chill factor on the week preceding and including December 31, 1998 was around a negative 50 degrees with snow levels that had exceeded record levels in 20 years in which I had to travel in excess of seven miles each direction from and to Naperville to and from the Dupage County Court Complex.

I left my office immediately after calling the Clerk of the Circuit Court Dupage County to verify that indeed they were open under such bad weather conditions at 3:40 P.M. which should have been enough time to arrive and file a timely post trial motion for the overturn of the verdict or ask for a new trial. Same was needed due to the fact that, in spite of tape recorded evidence that clearly cleared my name from the criminal trespass wrap, and the fact that Ms. Dorta and the police officer both lied under oath, I was found guilty.

Same motion was not filed on December 31, 1998 due to my arrival at the court house five minutes after it closed. It then took approximately two and a half hours to dry out my clothes with the permission of the sheriff in charge at the building due to my very wet condition and due to the deathly cold that would have frozen me before I would have reached my office on the way back seven miles on my bicycle.

In December and January I had to rely on approximately only $10.00 for all my financial needs and thus had to use the food pantries for subsistence.

In spite of all the exceptionally negative circumstances the Court refused to allow my late motion which was filed January 4, 1999 the first business day after December 31, 1998. (See Dupage County 97 CM 3583. Same I am now appealing from but have already suffered another set back due to a one day late filing of the notice of appeal due to bad bus connections out of Chicago where I have been staying in a shelter.)

During this same December period noted above I was also entertaining the eviction suit and had to attend same under similar conditions. On December 14,1998 I was threatened by the landlord who told me in the assignment clerk's office that "I belong in a box buried". Same was said in the hearing of courthouse personnel.

I held off the eviction until February 3, 1999 when I was illegally evicted by Judge Moy of whom I understood was the Presiding Judge of the Law Division in Dupage County. I was not given notice of an ex parte hearing ruling the same day it occurred and was suddenly evicted the next morning with only two choices: either leave or go to jail.

Even an attempt to get a Federal injunction was thwarted even though Judge Moy had clearly denied me a duly written request for jury trial, not to mention the right to present evidence, present case law in my favor, belittled my case before the full court as unimportant and wasting the court's time preventing important cases from being heard. As well as forcing me to trial thus "railroading and hog-tying" me, and "violating the laws of the State of Illinois" as he was challenged.(See Dupage County 98 LM 3520).

During the eviction the landlord and her agents were allowed to peruse through personal files and other property over my objection as well as completely disassemble my file, library and other office organization that could have been moved without same disorganization. Privacy was breached and the sheriff supervising same eviction often sat in his squad playing solitaire on his squad computer. Theft did occur and it will take years before I will be able to physically take inventory and reorganize same office to determine how extensive the theft extended.

All my property was hauled piecemeal to the back of the property on February 3, 1999 in the midst of the changing weather and put by a dumpster where I had to make a makeshift shelter so to keep my property from being stolen by agents of the landlord as well as others. Twice during the wee hours of the night attempts were made to steal property. Property has been noted missing. The weather was so cold that I was on the verge of hypothermia during the two overnight stays.

Which brings us to the point where two men came to help me move my property to a storage and help me get to the Dupage County P.A.D.S. facilities. (See Storage Background Scenario).

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