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*** A WORD OF CAUTION: I have downloaded the brief & my exhibits, the exhibits contain photos which may be disturbing to some people as they have pictures of my dogs mutilation. The exhibits file is huge so it may take some time to download or open.
Comes now Brandia Taamu, I swear the following statements are true to the best of my knowledge under the penalty of perjury of the State of Washington & these United States.
1) Ms Trask did do a warrantless search of my car on private property by peering inside, which I realize may invoke the plain view doctrine but by physically placing her hands on the vehicle to “check to see if the vehicle engine was warm” is an act of making a physical search. The vehicle was at his time defendants “home” The search was done initially without warrant by Officer Trask, by her inspecting and “placing her hands on vehicle hood to check to see if it was warm”, unless the city wants the courts to believe that Officer Trask is a clairvoyant & was able to tell that Ms Taamu was going to say she had arrived 20 minutes earlier. (See Exhibit 1,to1-c, 2, 3, 4,to,4-d) The car was not parked on public street, it was in fact located on private property. Alternatively, Ms. Taamu requests that all evidence flowing from this unconstitutional search and seizure be suppressed as Ms. Taamu has a viable due process claim of an inadequate, established procedure by the City of Everett as a result of the unconstitutionality of EMC 6.04 et seq.. There is no pre- or post-deprivation safeguard – in fact it is negligible in preventing the kind of deprivation at issue. The Everett animal impound ordinances fail to adequately define the scope of a humane officer’s enforcement powers – with an ambiguous and unconstitutional grant of authority.
2) Defendant was never given notice of rights or responsibilities in regards to the taking of her animals, the city has no such form as required by state law.
6) After many calls from defendant to the City Shelter manager where she explained her Native American Beliefs in regards to desecration of her terminally ill dog’s remains, she was disregarded, George was mutilated & post it notes placed on or near his internal organs where it took defendant 15 months to find out that said animals was cremated & thrown away immediately (See exhibits 14, to 14-n) like trash in direct violation of American Indian Freedom of Religion act AKA the Public act, not only were defendants rights to bury the dead violated, & her dog’s remains desecrated, but defendant was laughed at by Ms Delgado upon finding out that her dog was dead. “George”, who passed away from cancer after being impounded in the City Shelter, was outrageously necropsied, dissected, body parts tagged, photographed, and his body thrown way by City of Everett veterinarian or employees causing great emotional distress to the Defendant. (See Exhibit 15) Defendant, who held an important property interest in George’s body, as well as my Native American belief and custom that George’s body not be desecrated in such a way and received a respectful burial, has been damaged as a result of these unreasonable and incomprehensible actions by the City of Everett. Even if AIFRA does not have any teeth the cruel & unusual clause of the Constitution of the United States clearly does, this case could be a text-book example to cite in other cases.
8th Amendment In United States v. Bajakajian,524 U.S.321 (1998), In describing what constituted “gross disproportionality,” the Court could not find any guidance from the history of the Excessive Fines Clause and so relied on Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause case law: We must therefore rely on other considerations in deriving a constitutional excesiveness standard, and there are two that we find particularly relevant. The first, which we have emphasized in our cases interpreting the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause, is that judgments about the appropriate punishment for an offense belong in the first instance to the legislature. See, e.g., Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277, 290 (1983)(“Reviewing courts … should grant substantial deference to the broad authority that legislatures necessarily possess in determining the types and limits of punishments for crimes”); see alsoGore v. United States, 357 U.S. 386, 393 (1958)(“Whatever views may be entertained regarding severity of punishment, these are peculiarly questions of legislative policy”). The second is that any judicial determination regarding the gravity of a particular criminal offense will be inherently imprecise. Both of these principles counsel against requiring strict proportionality between the amount of a punitive forfeiture and the gravity of a criminal offense, and we therefore adopt the standard of gross disproportionality articulated in our Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause precedents. See,e.g., Solem v. Helm, supra, at 288; Rummel v. Estelle, 445 U.S. 263, 271 (1980).
See Seguin v Eide, 720 F2d 1046 (9th Cir. 1983), on remand after judgment vacated, 462 U.S.1101,103 S. Ct. 2446 (1983); Wiren v Eide, 542 F2d 757 (9th Cir. 1976). Menkarell v. Bureau of Narcotics, 463 F2d 88 (3rd Cir. 1972); Jaekel v United States, 304 F Supp. 993 (S.D.N.Y 1969); Glup v United States, 523 F2d 557, 560 (8th Cir. 1975). (See FED. R. CIV. P. Supplemental Admiralty or Maritime Claims and Asset Forfeiture Actions Rule A(1)(B)(making rules applicable to forfeiture actions in rem arising from a federal statute)Where a person has been deprived of property in a manner contrary to the most basic tenets of due process, “it is no answer to say that in his particular case due process of law would have led to the same result because he had no adequate defense upon the merits.” Coe v. Armour Fertilizer Works, 237 U.S. 413, 35 S. Ct. 625, 629, 59 L. Ed. 1027 (1915).As we observed inArmstrong v. Manzo, 380 U.S. 545, 552 (1965),only “wiping the slate clean … would have restored the petitioner to the position he would have occupied had due process of law been accorded to him in the first place.” The Due Process Clause demands no less in this case.Peralta, supra, 108 U.S. at 898-99, 900.
8) In a hearing instigated by defendant for return of her property in Animals, (See Exhibits 17 to 17-f) she was never made aware by the acting Commissioner nor the prosecution of a) her 5th Amendments rights to not incriminate herself, & as a result most of what defendant raised at issue at this hearing was in fact what the City of Everett used against her in proceedings. b)The city further argued that they were not bound by the United States Constitution, the Washington Constitution and various state and federal laws as evidenced by the states exhibits of RCW 35.01.010 and RCW 35.22.010 because they were a first class city. c) This was also a the first time they accused defendant of crimes she was not guilty of nor was she charged with by the city attorney. I would submit that this was not “City Business” and as such the fact that Mr Iles stepped in to the prosecutor’s dept shows that there is malicious intent on the part of the city to retaliate against the me, not just as a single agency but as a whole. If the prosecutor’s Office is incapable of writing out their own briefs then I would submit that their competency be challenged as well.
9) City Agents namely Shannon Delgado, Lori Trask-Lemaire-Carlon-Staib & Mike Fisher were sharing defendants personal information some true, some untrue with the city’s witness who was using this to send out emails to more then 500 individuals & to post well over 100 ads on an internet board called craigslist. The harassment was so bad that defendant filed a 15 page police report (See Exhibits 18 to 18-L, please note that some of the pages are missing, it is unknown why) against their witness & sought to obtain a protection order for herself. At another time both of the city’s witnesses did threaten defendant putting her in fear for her life to the point that she ran to the Everett Police Station & once again made a police report. The city was full aware of this as I sent them numerous emails requesting them to stop having their witnesses threaten & harass me. This violates the laws of blacklisting & makes the city liable for the conduct of their city’s witness. Effectively Blacklisting RCW 49.44.010defendant with the help of the City actors & interfering with the ability to do her job, or to enjoy life, or liberty, because of falsehoods & rumors instigated by the City Officers. Clearly making the City guilty of Criminal Sabatoge RCW 9.05.060, or at the very least Aiding & Abetting Ms Adams in the acts of Blacklisting, Criminal Sabotage, Intimidation, Harassment, Stalking as well as Slander & Libel. If they say they have NOT given Ms Adams the info that she is clearly stating they did then what does that say for the city’s witness?RCW 42.52.050 Confidential information(1) (2) (3) (4) RCW 9A.36.078 Malicious harassment — Finding. RCW 42.23.070 Prohibited acts. RCW 42.52.020 Activities incompatible with public duties.
Brandia Ta’amu came to stay at a friend’s home 32 days ago. Also, animal control displayed on their computer that Brandia has actually dumped off dogs at the Everett Animal Control. The last time which was two dogs, a Husky mix, and the other one said “Golden Lab/Retriever.
Anyone who has any questions about WHY Brandia Taamu’s dogs were taken by Everett Animal Control can call them, or they can call me at Ph# 425-750-7126, since they came to my house with a search warrant for Brandia Taamu’s car, and took her animals that were extremely dehydrated! Everett Animal Control had to call me the other day to tell me I have to take all my animals in to be checked, because Brandia’s animals all had Giardia & Worms.
as articulated in Kyles v. Whitley (citations omitted)… and Strickler v. Greene (citations omitted). The government must disclose “information that is inconsistent with any element of any crime charged against the defendant or that establishes a recognized affirmative defense, regardless of whether the prosecutor believes such information will make the difference between conviction and acquittal of the defendant for a charged crime. This also requires disclosure of information that either casts a substantial doubt upon the accuracy of any evidence — including but not limited to witness testimony — the prosecutor intends to rely on to prove an element of any crime charged, or might have a significant bearing on the admissibility of prosecution evidence.Brady v. Maryland, 373 US 83 – Supreme Court 1963 373 U.S. 83 (1963) No. 490. Supreme Court of United States. Argued March 18-19, 1963. Decided May 13, 1963. CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND. This ruling is an extension of Mooney v. Holohan, 294 U. S. 103, 112, where the Court ruled on what nondisclosure by a prosecutor violates due process: “It is a requirement that cannot be deemed to be satisfied by mere notice and hearing if a State has contrived a conviction through the pretense of a trial which in truth is but used as a means of depriving a defendant of liberty through a deliberate deception of court and jury by the presentation of testimony known to be perjured. Such a contrivance by a State to procure the conviction and imprisonment of a defendant is as inconsistent with the rudimentary demands of justice as is the obtaining of a like result by intimidation.” In Pyle v. Kansas, 317 U. S. 213, 215-216, we phrased the rule in broader terms: “Petitioner’s papers are inexpertly drawn, but they do set forth allegations that his imprisonment resulted from perjured testimony, knowingly used by the State authorities to obtain his conviction, and from the deliberate suppression by those same authorities of evidence favorable to him. These allegations sufficiently charge a deprivation of rights guaranteed by the Federal Constitution, and, if proven, would entitle petitioner to release from his present custody.Mooney v. Holohan, 294 U. S. 103.” The principle of Mooney v. Holohan is not punishment of society for misdeeds of a prosecutor but avoidance of an unfair trial to the accused. Society wins not only when the guilty are convicted but when criminal trials are fair; our system of the administration of justice suffers when any accused is treated unfairly. An inscription on the walls of the Department of Justice states the proposition candidly for the federal domain To the convict and punish a person through the inflence of prejudice and caprice is as pernicious in it’s consequences as the escape of a guilty man Lime v. Ok 1 Rider cites to three cases to support his impermissible poverty inference argument.State v. Matthews, 75 Wn. App. 278, 284, 877 P.2d 252 (1994); State v.Suttle, 61 Wn. App. 703, 812 P.2d 119 (1991); State v. Newton, 42 Wn. App. 718, 724, 714 P.2d 684 (1986).
At one point I was 8 minutes late for court and Judge Mitchell entered a warrant for my arrest even though I had called in to say I was going to be late, but only after making me wait for most of the day to tell her me was going to have a warrant, unless of course they can show they issue warrants for everyone who is 8 minutes late for court again showing malicious intent. (See Exhibit 22 & 22-a) The Officer who I turned myself into and the Snohomish County correctional Officers said they had never seen such a high bail for something like this, he apologized to me all the way to the jail as did the Correctional Officers, and said it was 5 times higher than the fines were in violation of excessive bails & fines.
The Judge also refused to let me defend myself until 1 week before trial an refused to give me time to prepare for trial, at that hearing Judge Mitchell struck a hearing for discovery and additional motions so he prevented defendant from any defense what so ever He also canceled the discovery hearing the day before trial even though I called in and asked for them to reinstate the hearing they refused, so I was never allowed to rebut or enter evidence in my trial.
14) There is also the strange matter of if my charge is a criminal charge or citation, if it is a criminal charge there is no designation for it at the Snohomish County Jail. If in fact this is merely a citation then I never should have had my animals taken or been to trial. In looking to the codes no where can I find a clear & concise language in the code.
Everett Municipal Code 6.04.070 Prohibited conduct.
I am a Vegetarian, to me it is IN-humane to cut an animals throat & let it bleed to death & then to salivate over it’s cooking remains, I still will not go into another persons fridge or freezer only to see the frozen remains of what was once a living breathing feeling sentient emotional being, to some it is IN-humane to leave a dog outside, but some who do, love their dogs just the same, to me it is IN-humane to not allow my dogs on the furniture, hence the reason is is called “fur”niture. Others would never dream of letting their dog sleep with them or sit on their couch, my dogs have their own couch. Some consider raw feeding IN-humane some consider any type of packaged dog food IN-humane & cook for their own animals. Some folks consider it IN-humane to leave a dog out in the back yard all day long while at work, others think it is Humane to use a dog to hunt with while some consider that a double In-humanity. To some ear & tail docking is IN-humane but to others it is beautiful. While I understand the need to protect animals, even more so as an animal rescuer, I have seen things no one should ever have to, but there has got to be a very clear line drawn at laws that destroy our Constitutional Freedoms & Rights. In my case I was sleeping/living with my animals in a car for almost 3 weeks, (17days) (See Exhibit 26) knowing it was only a temporary situation because most were senior, instead of dumping them at a shelter to be euthanized, that in my mind is IN-humane. To me these are my children with four legs fur & a speech impediment, they mean as much to me as any human being, would the courts consider it more humane to dump your children because you were temporarily homeless to be killled?
16) This is not a story that begins on January 6th 2011 by any means, it spans over a decade with Ms Trask, or Lemaire, or Carlon or Staib depending on which year I had to deal with her: In 2001 I moved into the city of Everett with 1 pit bull terrier, at which time, my family, children, and myself were harassed mercilessly, to the point that I had to call the Everett Police after City of Everett Animal Control Officer Ms Trask walked into my house without knocking or without a warrant and attempted to grab one of the pitbull terriers. I made the heart-wrenching decision to give the dogs away for their own safety as I was sure that one day I would come home from work and they would be gone. Shortly thereafter I moved from the City. In 2009 I was realizing my dream of starting an animal rescue, and first in line was my dream of rescuing the pit bull Terriers from Everett Animal Services. Years prior I would go sit with the Pit Bull Terriers that I knew were going to be euthanized and sit by their kennels to give them love and human kindness before they were euthanized, promising one day I’d find a way to save them. After receiving many dogs a disturbing trend emerged, all of the dogs were injured, maced or both. After complaining about it, my pulling privileges were suspended without reason, except that one of the animal control officers had complained about the accusations. (See Exhibits 24 to 24-j)Triggering Whistleblower.It should be noted that Mr Fisher the city of Everett prosecutor made a statement claiming that I pulled these dogs using fraud at trial which is technically accusing me of committing a crime I had not been charged with or convicted of while doing my job which is slander as legally defined. He also filed a false complaint against me with the Snohomish County Animal Control telling them I had 20+ animals in my daughter’s home in feces encrusted cages, which he knew not to be true. (See Exhibit 27 & 27a) It is also the second time the city accused me of crimes I was not being charged with & that I was not guilty of. When I demanded very loudly to know if he was accusing me of a crime, & if he was charging me all I got was dead silence. Amongst the many other crimes he accused me of in the entire process of this matter.
19) After trial I watched as some of my, or the city’s exhibits were thrown away but I have not had access to any of the transcripts or court records so I am not sure which it is.
I would reserve the right to file a supplemental brief with the court in regards to evidence I did not have the money to print off, & have not had access to. I have had less then 17 hours to prepare this brief as it is.

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