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10,000 Signatures Needed to Bring Jailed Mom Home Before Christmas/Hanukkah; Victim of Spousal Abuse, Valerie Carlton Awaits a Decision From NYS Governor Cuomo on Extradition

10,000 Signatures Needed to Bring Jailed Mom Home Before Christmas/Hanukkah; Victim of Spousal Abuse, Valerie Carlton Awaits a Decision From NYS Governor Cuomo on Extradition













Valerie Carlton has been incarcerated and unable to see or communicate with her daughter since February 2009.


New City, New York (PRWEB) November 29, 2011

According to the Committee to Vindicate Valerie Carlton, in 2009, Valerie Carlton, a 40-year-old-mother, was indicted on 28 charges, including 15 felonies and incarcerated at the Harford County Detention Center where she was held on $ 10 million bail (Harford County Circuit Court Case #12K09000935 at http://casesearch.courts.state.md.us). According to court documents, after she had spent 13 months in solitary confinement, the County dropped all but one of the charges for lack of evidence, a misdemeanor protective order violation for sending an email to her daughter’s teacher.

Ms. Carlton now sits in jail in Rockland County, NY, awaiting extradition to Maryland on an assault charge that involved a scuffle with a guard during her incarceration (Harford County Circuit Court Case #12K10000473). Her supporters allege she is the victim of civil rights violations and a criminal justice system gone awry. They believe freeing her will require swift action and 10,000 signatures on a petition to Governor Andrew Cuomo. To read more and sign the petition visit: http://valeriecarlton.com/what-you-can-do.html

Ms. Carlton’s supporters allege that the 27 charges that were dropped for lack of evidence stemmed from a bitter divorce and custody battle (Harford County Circuit Court Case #12C04000452 at http://casesearch.courts.state.md.us) in which her ex-husband Russell Carlton was awarded custody of the couple’s daughter in 2007 even though, just a year before, he was convicted of domestic violence against Ms. Carlton (Bel Air District Court Case #4R00048668). His conviction was overturned on appeal (Harford County Circuit Court Case #12K05002327).

Ms. Carlton’s supporters allege that Russell Carlton is now seeking to terminate Ms. Carlton’s visitation and parental rights with their six-year-old daughter by bringing false allegations of sexual abuse against Ms. Carlton, who has not seen or spoken to her daughter in almost three years.

While in solitary for 13 months in the Harford County Detention Center, Ms. Carlton and at least four witnesses allege she was routinely tortured and abused. According to court documents, toward the end of her incarceration, she was allegedly accosted by a male guard who admitted that he put his hands on her, with no other guards present, in an attempt to lead her back to her cell. He claimed that she “became combative by pulling her arm away.” (http://valeriecarlton.com/incident_report.pdf). However, the following day, the guard allegedly changed his story and claimed that Ms. Carlton stabbed him with a pen when he tried to lead her to her cell. Regardless, she was charged with an assault against the guard, despite videotaped evidence showing that he tackled her, pummeled her, and smashed her head into a concrete wall three times.(http://youtu.be/oQN1jWn5P0Q).

Ms. Carlton was released from jail on June 30, 2010, pending the trial on the assault charge. Fearing for her life and safety, she traveled to New York and was subsequently arrested by U.S. Marshalls, leading to her current incarceration in the Rockland County jail.

A nationally recognized independent forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Mark J. Mills, strongly recommended (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17180901/Affidavit%20from%20Psychiatrist%20for%20Valerie%20Carlton.doc) that Ms. Carlton not be kept in the Harford County Detention Center in light of the abuse she claims she has suffered there. This written recommendation was provided to Governor Martin O’Malley of Maryland. However, no action was taken to prevent Ms. Carlton from being returned to the jail.

According to Philip Murphy, Esq, an attorney working on the case, she currently faces a potential sentence of up to ten years for assaulting a guard (Harford County Circuit Court Case #12K10000473). Yet, despite a videotape of her altercation with the guard and the fact that she was originally incarcerated with no evidence, no Maryland agency has examined the case, and she therefore awaits extradition while NYS Governor Cuomo’s office investigates the matter.

“All those who believe in our civil rights and our constitutional protections, the many victims of spousal abuse, those who have been harmed by persecution and injustice at the hands of a criminal justice system gone awry, please support Valerie Carlton’s fight for vindication and the right to see her only daughter by signing her Petition (http://www.change.org/petitions/the-governor-of-ny-stop-the-extradition-of-an-innocent-jewish-mother-from-ny-to-md),” stated Michael Ettinger, another attorney for Valerie Carlton.

On November 16, Rockland County Court Judge William A. Kelly denied bail for Valerie Carlton (County Court of the State of New York, County of Rockland, In Re the Matter of the Extradition of Valerie Carlton, the Judge is Hon. William A. Kelly, Supreme Court Justice) and postponed a decision until December 8th.

In order to assist Valerie Carlton in her fight to be free and see her daughter again, supporters have established a petition and are hoping to get enough signatures to give to NYS Governor Cuomo before Christmas/Hanukkah in order to get Valerie home. More information can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/VindicateValerieCarlton/ including links to the petition and links for contacting both the Governors of Maryland and New York. Additional information can be found at http://www.valeriecarlton.com.

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Vietnam activists ‘jailed up to 8 years’

Vietnam activists ‘jailed up to 8 years’
A Vietnam court has jailed seven activists agitating for land rights and religious freedom for up to eight years, a US-based group said, in the latest of a series of verdicts against dissidents.
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Jonathan signs FoI Bill into law
ABUJA – AS promised by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Ima Niboro that his principal would assent to the Freedom of Information Bill, FoI, as soon he receives the document from the National Assembly, President Goodluck Jonathan had since, Saturday, signed the bill into law.
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Can Strauss-Kahn buy his way to freedom?
He has bought himself freedom on bail and secured a luxury townhouse in Manhattan where he must drum his fingers until trial. But Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former IMF chief accused of sexual assault, is busy investing in something more vital: the crack defence team he hopes will keep him out of prison for good.
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Posted on June 1, 2011 by , 3 comments

Jailed Father on Hunger Strike to Protest Denial of His Parental and Other Constitutional Rights

Dr. Amir Sanjari, was divorce after a 17 year marriage. He’s a UK Citizen who was originally invited to the United States to Stony Brook University, New York for a research position.

Now he’s destitute and on a hungar strike in jail to protest the unconstitutional denial of father’ rights and more.

Initially, Sanjari and his ex-wife shared equal custody of their children and had similar incomes. Nevertheless he was ordered to pay ,000 a month in child support. Such a payment is the first sign that something is seriously amiss.

But when he lost his job and applied for a reduction in ‘child support’, it was denied. This denial is also not unusual – wrong, but not unusual. His ability in the recession to get a job to cover the outrageous child support payment faded. It brought on hardships for him. Eventually his ex-wife won sole custody of the children, he says, by lying about him while he was out of the country on vacation.

Sanjari, a competent man, was not idle though. He learned the law to fight for his children and his rights to see them and care for them on his own. He fought in the Indiana family court, its district court, and eventually in federal courts. He had to go on the run to stay out of jail for not paying what he couldn’t pay – a common circumstance for fathers under such ‘child extortion’ orders. He spent time helping other parents with their family court cases while he was on the run.

Unfortunately, though well-versed in constitutional and federal legal processes, it became apparent that he’d get no due process to protect rights clearly denied to him. For the child support he couldn’t pay, he’s been sent to jail.

Amir is now on a hunger strike to try to expose his plight and that of other fathers under this tyrannical anti-father system that separates fathers from their children and turn them into criminals.

Sanjari hasn’t had any solid food since March 26, the day he was arrested. Once trim at 150 lbs, he’s now down to 115. He drinks some nutritional supplements with potassium and sodium to keep his brain functioning normally.

I stress that the constitutional denials Sanjari has had to face that set him up for his tribulations are not unusual for fit fathers under family court actions. Yet Amir’s personal sacrifice to garner some public notice is honorable.

The denials he faces are unjustified. He knows it, and many other decent fathers know it. And his efforts will in large part be suppressed by both the courts and all those who profit by the present day denial of fathers rights.

Fathers Rights means basic constitutional rights for a fit father to maintain physical and legal custody of his children to the same extent of a ‘fit’ mother – and then, of course, all other fundamental rights due a free person.

The denial of a fit father’s rights begin in a state’s county family court where his children are essentially kidnapped from him without the required constitutional due process to prove unfitness nor assigning him equal physical and legal custody of his children. The family court simply usurps all his rights by declaring that it will assign custody to one parent and make the other parent pay whatever it assigns as ‘child support’.

And why? Because the court claims it can deny fundamental rights based on it ‘alleged’ right to determine what’s in the ‘best interests of children’ who have fit parents. It’s an absurd claim when both parents are fit and willing to parent fully or at least equally to the other. It’s absurd because it’s unconstitutional.

But since, collectively, a multibillion dollar industry has grown up around the denial of a father’s rights because of the enormous benefits that can then accrue to them. Benefits include child support, collection fees, lawyers’ fees, GAL fees, course fees, extracted directly from fathers.

And then there are additional benefits from enormous government money transfer to family courts systems, state revenue agencies, domestic violence agencies and organizations, and federal revenue collections too.

Who supports this extortion industry?

Just follow the money. And with all that money comes plenty of propaganda to justify what happens based on extraneous reasons and vilifying men or fathers – but always steering clear of the clear constitutional rights violations that this system depends upon.

Unfortunately even the federal courts are afraid to over-rule the unconstitutional family court procedures and orders as is their duty when states’ procedures violate the U.S. Constitution. There’s just too much money and political push to make waves against the ‘divorce and domestic violence industry’.

That’s what Amir Sanjari found out – as other have too. What will you do when it’s your turn to go to court?

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