Source: https://barbed-wire-justice.com/tampering-with-transcripts/
Timestamp: 2019-04-19 23:00:42+00:00

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I did this page because a transcript I had intended to rely on, no longer contained what I remembered Judge Vigil saying. That reminded me that Judge Hall had ignored rules in his eagerness to rule against me and worse, a court mediator had told me that Judge Hall had apparently had a transcript altered.
Judge Hall ~ Read more.
One would think that a transcript discovered to have been tampered with or inadvertently altered could have serious repercussions for a court case and for the reporters and other legal professionals involved. However, if it is the judge who has had it altered then absolute immunity kicks in.
When I was new to acting as a pro se party, I believed that courts were about Justice and acted in the interests of Justice. However, after I tried to sue Jude Hall the reality became clear.
The problem of wrong actions by judges is not new.
The Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980 (the “Act”) was born out of controversy about constitutional means for achieving judicial accountability, preserving independent decision making powers for Article III judges, and the practical ability of the judicial branch to regulate itself. The Act embodies a compromise of divergent viewpoints… Decentralized Self-Regulation, Accountability, and Judicial Independence under the Federal Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980. University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Read more.
A person can file a complaint against a federal judge with the chief judge of the circuit, via the clerks. The complaint is copied to the judge who is the subject of the complaint. The complaint can be judged to be “frivolous”, or the decision can be that intervening events make the complaint no longer necessary, or a committee can be appointed.
The implication is that I could file a complaint re Judge Jacobvitz in Bankruptcy Court ruling on my case based on the record containing a corrupted copy of my Summary Judgement Motion.
I was able to clearly show that the clerks had corrupted my Summary Judgment Motion beyond recognition when they scanned it. After I discovered the corruption and showed the Court (Judge Jacobvitz) the problem, I asked him to reconsider his decision since it had not been based on the evidence I had submitted. Judge Jacobvitz refused.
Corrupting evidence attached as exhibits to a Motion for Summary Judgment is very similar to tampering with a transcript, since in both cases the outcome of the case is affected.
Should I complain? LOL. The question makes me laugh because it assumes that I’ve learned nothing from my experience with courts, Courts protect their own. Retaliation against people attacking judges is likely to be severe.
From my experience, it’s foolish to challenge a judge. But, it’s only by acts of bravery, however foolish, that change can be achieved.
Pangman accused a judge and suffered as a result. Basically, during a hearing but prior to announcing the decision, Judge Gerlach had admonished Attorney Pangman for what the judge considered inappropriate behavior in the courtroom. That admonishment, which Pangman considered grounds for his appeal, did not appear in the reporter’s writing. Read more. The authorities decided for the judge, saying Pangman’s statement was determined to be “false”. Basically, I guess the judge denied it and that was that.
¶2. On the basis of the facts properly found by the referee and the conclusions based on those facts, we determine that Attorney Pangman made statements concerning the integrity of a trial judge that were found to be false with reckless disregard as to their truth or falsity, in violation of SCR 20:8.2(a) , when he accused the judge of having directed a court reporter to remove portions of an official hearing transcript and of otherwise obstructing the availability of a complete transcript, with the intention of “sanitizing” the record and interfering with Attorney Pangman’s announced intention to seek appellate relief. Attorney Pangman also engaged in conduct with the intention of disrupting the court, in violation of SCR 20:3.5(c), and by that conduct and his statements in connection with it he failed to maintain the respect due to courts of justice and judicial officers, as required by the Attorney’s Oath, SCR 40.15. As set forth in SCR 20:8.4(g), an attorney’s violation of the Attorney’s Oath constitutes professional misconduct.
Well, if Pangman got disciplined for saying the judge had the transcript altered, I’m sure that means my chances of being able to prove it are reduced. I mean, who’s going to risk their job to challenge a judge?
“conclusions properly found by the referee” reminds me that I complained to New Mexico’s Judicial Commission about Judge Sanchez whose foreclosure judgment of my condo said I had not answered, when in fact my answer had been filed and was on record. The Judicial Commission responded saying it didn’t matter.
Howard Waco, a Los Angeles County public defender, filed suit in the US District Court for Section 1983 violations by Raymond Mireles, a judge of the California Superior Court, and two police officers.
Waco alleged that after he failed to appear for the initial call of Judge Mireles’ morning calendar, the judge, “angered by the absence of attorneys from his courtroom,” ordered the police defendants “to forcibly and with excessive force seize and bring plaintiff into his courtroom.
The officers violently seized Waco and removed him backwards from another courtroom where he was waiting to appear, cursed him, and called him “vulgar and offensive names,” then “without necessity slammed” him through the doors and swinging gates into Judge Mireles’ courtroom.
Judge Mireles knowingly and deliberately approved and ratified each of the afore-described acts.
“[O]ur cases make clear that the immunity is overcome in only two sets of circumstances. First, a judge is not immune from liability for nonjudicial actions, i. e., actions not taken in the judge’s judicial capacity. Forrester v. White, 484 U. S., at 227-229; Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U. S., at 360.
Second, a judge is not immune for actions, though judicial in nature, taken in the complete absence of all jurisdiction. Id., at 356-357; Bradley v. Fisher, 13 Wall., at 351.
Nor does the fact that Judge Mireles’ order was carried out by police officers somehow transform his action from “judicial” to “executive” in character. As Forrrester instructs, it is “the nature of the function performed, not the identity of the actor who performed it, that inform[s] our immunity analysis.” 484 U. S., at 229. A judge’s direction to an executive officer to bring counsel before the court is no more executive in character than a judge’s issuance of a warrant for an executive officer to search a home. See Burns v. Reed, 500 U. S. 478, 492 (1991) (“[T]he issuance of a search warrant is unquestionably a judicial act”).
Because the Court of Appeals concluded that Judge Mireles did not act in his judicial capacity, the court did not reach the second part of the immunity inquiry: whether Judge Mireles’ actions were taken in the complete absence of all jurisdiction. We have little trouble concluding that they were not. If Judge Mireles authorized and ratified the police officers’ use of excessive force, he acted in excess of his authority. But such an action-taken in the very aid of the judge’s jurisdiction over a matter before him-cannot be said to have been taken in the absence of jurisdiction.
“When Martin approached the bench unasked, the judge told her to sit down, twice. She refused, and the judge sent for a police officer. As Officer Hendren entered the courtroom, the judge ordered him to remove Martin. Some struggle ensued, during which Martin was struck in the face by Hendren’s arm or elbow. Holding Martin in contempt, the judge ordered Hendren to “put the cuffs on her.” Martin tried to push Hendren away. Hendren then flipped Martin face down onto the floor, handcuffed her, pulled her to her feet by the handcuffs and her hair, and led her out of court. Martin required ultrasound treatment for an injured shoulder.
The Duty case is often cited, but it is not a U.S. Supreme Court case, rather, it is from Arkansas. I’m sorry if that reminds me of former President Clinton, and not in a good way.
If I, as a pro se party saw this case used against me in some other circuit I would object because the case is not available on the Internet as it would be if it were a U.S. Supreme Court case. Not that that will make a whit of difference. But, it should.
It should be unlawful to use case law against a pro se party that is not readily available for the party to read. However, given the overwhelming prejudice against pro se parties, the objection will probably be disregarded, which is worse than being ruled against, since you can’t appeal what isn’t in writing.
So far there’s been no stopping judicial immunity, however it’s good to know that it can be lost.
LAS VEGAS—Nevada attorney James Wray docketed a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, specifically asking the U.S. Supreme Court to visit the topic of absolute judicial immunity, which allows judges to evade lawsuits even when their actions are intentionally and deliberately malicious, fraudulent and corrupt.
Wray is hopeful that the petition, Wray v. Johnson (#05-1197), will spur the Supreme Court to overrule the doctrine of total judicial immunity. Petitions for writ of certiorari are issued by a superior court to one of inferior jurisdiction to obtain and review the record of a particular case.
“While the U.S. Supreme Court is not required to hear any such case presented to it, and because they grant only a very small portion of such petitions, we’re hopeful that a national outpouring of letters from the public to support this petition might encourage the court to hear the matter,” Juli T. Star-Alexander,said. Read more.
I find myself wondering as I read this, if a court would change a transcript, then would it be the right body to decide if a transcript had been changed?
2. Chain of Custody – if the evidence is of a type that is likely to be confused or can be easily tampered with, the proponent of the object must present evidence of chain of custody. The proponent of the evidence must show that the object has been held in substantially unbroken chain of possession. The proponent need not negate all possibilities of substitution or tampering, but must show adherence to some system of identification and custody.
3. You do not need a complete chain of custody, all you need is evidence sufficient to support a finding that the evidence is what it says it is. A reasonable juror’s ability to find that.
The question is, if some judge has concealed evidence then how do we know any judge has not concealed evidence? Why wouldn’t they, if judges are absolutely immune?
Equally, why wouldn’t they if a court says, as this one does, that changing the record doesn’t matter, it doesn’t show prejudice?
Mrs. Doerman failed to follow procedure. She argues submitted evidence was omitted from the record, but did not provide a copy of this to the trial court in order to have the record corrected. She argues comments made prior to the hearing were not transcribed, and part of a transcript contains “not audible.” Although only a small potion was inaudible, Mrs. Doerman failed to follow the proper procedure to supplement the record. She further alleges in her brief that the judge concealed motions and transcripts and tampered with the file. She also alleges that ex parte conversations were recorded and she can only clarify the record by calling the participants as witnesses.
# At a hearing on July 17, 2001, the court discussed the various pending motions filed by Mrs. Doerman. Mrs. Doerman wanted to have a hearing to review all of the problems with the transcripts. The trial court discussed scheduling the hearing on September 5 and 6. Mrs. Doerman argued that the court was depriving her of a hearing because she wanted the issue heard immediately. She also argued that the September date would be too late for her appeal. The record contains a notice that the hearing was later rescheduled to another date. No further evidence is contained in the record before us regarding correction of the record.
# It is Mrs. Doerman’s responsibility to provide us with a record that is adequate to support any claimed errors. Universal Bank v. McCafferty (1993), 88 Ohio App.3d 556.
It is unclear if Mrs. Doerman’s motion was specifically ruled on.If the trial court denied or failed to rule on Mrs. Doerman’s motions, she could have filed a motion before this court to have the record corrected. State ex rel. Hunter v. Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, 88 Ohio St.3d 176, 177, 2000-Ohio-285.
# Furthermore, we find that even if Mrs. Doerman had properly raised these issues, and the transcripts had been corrected to reflect the allegations in her brief, Mrs. Doerman’s arguments still fail to evidence prejudice in the trial court’s decision. The failure to provide a complete transcript does not always deny an appellant an effective appeal. State v. Nichols (Mar. 2, 2000), Cuyahoga App. No. 75605, 75606. Many of Mrs. Doerman’s arguments, including those regarding ex parte communications, are merely general assertions that the record is incomplete or incorrect, and do not demonstrate prejudice. Any material alleged missing or incorrect must have been utilized by the trial court in making its decision. See McGeorge v. McGeorge (May 22, 2001), Franklin App. No. 00AP-1151. As such, this court finds the record before it is adequate for review. See Nichols. As previously mentioned, the trial court’s decision discusses the evidence relied upon and Mr. Doerman’s arguments, even if substantiated, would not change our determination that the decision was not an abuse of discretion.
Read this story. Doesn’t our judicial system sound like a joke? I copied the story because of the mention of tampering with transcripts.
Yesterday, some enterprising ~Patriot evidently tried to distribute leaflets of the U.S. ~Constitution in the courthouse. You know, it’s illegal to try to influence jurors, right? Anyway, the judge addressed the jury out loud in the courtroom, as follows: “Have any of you seen this? (She held up a copy of the pamphlet.) If you see one of these, you are to ignore the contents.” Now I just heard that on the radio, so I may have a word or two wrong. But Nancy said this statement by the judge would have to appear on the court transcript. You will note the judge was careful not to say she was talking about the U.S. Constitution! Actually, I’ve read of cases where the transcripts of trials have been tampered with.
To rely on the assumption that judges are men of fortitude and that no judge ‘worthy of the name’ would be influenced in his decision by a publication directed toward a particular disposition of a pending litigation, is to say in effect that the Due Process Clause precludes a State from believing that there may be such a psychological danger, short of the fantastic situation where a judge confesses that he decided as he did because of newspaper pressure, or avows that he came awfully close to being derelict in his judicial duty because of such pressure. Craig v. Harney 331 U.S. 367 (1947) Read case.
I finally found something really specific!
* Differences between the content of the tape and testimony of what was said.
operations for all known recorded events, use of voice-activated features, etc.
* Synthesis: the adding of words or sounds by artificial means or impersonation.
* Critical listening: this involves the use of human analytical capabilities to locate anomalies. The forensic expert listens with proper headphones to the original tape using high-quality analytical equipment. He first performs a preliminary overview of the original tape and notes events, including starts, stops, speed fluctuations, and other variations requiring further investigation. He then examines recorded events and categorizes them as environmental or non-environmental. After examining recorded events, the expert analyzes background sounds. He listens for abnormal changes, absences or the presence of environmental sound. The final phase of critical listening is an extensive audit of the foreground information. He concentrates on voices, conversations and other audible sounds. Here anomalies include sudden changes in a person’s voice, abrupt unexplained topic change or strong foreground interruptions indicative of obscuration. The initial forensic process of critical listening provides foundation and direction for later intensive instrumental tests.
* Physical inspection: the forensic expert next inspects for tampering with thorough visual inspection of the tape itself. She inspects the housing for pry marks, welding, size, label and date, consistent with the alleged recording date. She also measures the tape and assures that the splicing of the magnetic tape to the leader is consistent with a normal manufacturing process. Any other splices are noted as possible alterations.
* Magnetic development: direct visual observation of the “developed” tape is conducted to find track widths, the type of recorder used and the presence or absence of residual speech signals.
acoustic quality of anomalies and identify their source.
* Waveform analysis: a computer generated display representing time-versus-amplitude of recorded sounds in graphic form. With such analysis the expert can often measure signal return time, which reveals how long a recorder had been turned off. He can identify record- mode events, including the measurement of record-to- erase-head distance, determination of the spacing between gaps in multiple-gap erase heads and inspection of the signature shape and spacing of various record event signals.
* Recorder performance: various electrical and mechanical measurements of standard and modified recorders for use in finding possible origins of buzz sounds, hum, etc.
Steve Cain, a forensic tape expert, has a website, with interesting pictures and text. Visit site.
Excessive Force image by Cravens ~ View more.
Suddenly a transcript I intended to rely on no longer contained what I remembered. Following which I wrote this article.

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