UPDATE: Read all about the Defamation lawsuits filed against the Herald and Howie Carr, most of them successful in some measure. Carr got sued for naming the wrong guy once, what a tool this guy is.
What will Judge Cratsley say when the proverbial pile hits the fan?
What will Judge Cratsley say when the proverbial pile hits the fan?
Well it's about to. Quick, ping my pals over at muckrock....
Dear Attorney Coakley: Pursuant to MGL 66 § 10:
Please provide the names of the Parole Board employees who resigned or were terminated, and a copy of their personnel files in a manner consistent with Massachusetts Law. As one can see, a Google search this evening yielded no specific names, regarding Governor Patrick's announcement today, yet these are public employees and they're not working at the Pentagon so we need to know who these people are.
PUBLIC INFORMATION REQUEST:
Dear Attorney Coakley: Pursuant to MGL 66 § 10:
Please provide a certified copy of my letter of inquiry regarding the investigative files on the Marinova matter that you claimed you did not, and do not have in your office and your written response relative thereto.
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Here's your background piece #1 and background piece from the Courthouse, with pics and Van Sacked video as #2. This all ties in with the hastily-departed DOC Director Harold Clarke. It also ties in with the Defamation Action of Joanna Marinova v. Jessica Van Sack, Boston Herald, WDHD, Sunbeam Management (Suffolk 2010-CV-1316 IIRC) where everything is developing just as I said it would. That is, with the Defendants taking a serious beating about the head and thorax, and with Herald counsel Brown, Rudnick all camped out in this journal.
PUBLIC INFORMATION REQUEST:
Dear Attorney Coakley: Pursuant to MGL 66 § 10:Please provide the names of the Parole Board employees who resigned or were terminated, and a copy of their personnel files in a manner consistent with Massachusetts Law. As one can see, a Google search this evening yielded no specific names, regarding Governor Patrick's announcement today, yet these are public employees and they're not working at the Pentagon so we need to know who these people are.
Dear Attorney Coakley: Pursuant to MGL 66 § 10:
Please provide a certified copy of my letter of inquiry regarding the investigative files on the Marinova matter that you claimed you did not, and do not have in your office and your written response relative thereto.
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Here's your background piece #1 and background piece from the Courthouse, with pics and Van Sacked video as #2. This all ties in with the hastily-departed DOC Director Harold Clarke. It also ties in with the Defamation Action of Joanna Marinova v. Jessica Van Sack, Boston Herald, WDHD, Sunbeam Management (Suffolk 2010-CV-1316 IIRC) where everything is developing just as I said it would. That is, with the Defendants taking a serious beating about the head and thorax, and with Herald counsel Brown, Rudnick all camped out in this journal.
The whole thing is so wild, and the dirt that they were trying to pull on Darrell Jones and Joanna Marinova resulted in another EOPSS Manager flat out stating "we've got a dirty cop....."
But remember, Governor Patrick told me and several hundred others at a Town Hall meeting that he was going to "get to the bottom of this" as he "does not want a prison system shrouded in mystery." Watch the video below the fold:And it makes me wonder if the primary source of this Defamatory publication ever contacted her lawyers prior to publication. When I was working for the Indianapolis Star -- when Ms. Van Sacked was still learning to type straight -- we would call counsel to go over wording of touchy stories. Did that happen in this case, and if so who are her counsel? Is it Brown, Rudnick or someone else? Because if it's Brown, Rudnick then it had better be someone other than these lawyers on the docket sheet or else they would be material witnesses who are going to get called before a Jury, how messy and ill-conceived is THAT? Civil Procedure 101, folks.
And the coup de gras would be if Elizabeth Ritvo was involved because if Van Sacked gave her all of the information and Rivo just shorthanded it and said "go for it, it's just a nigger inmate and a Bulgarian slut" only to find her ass on the end of a Legal Malpractice Action, hahahahaaa.....
And it's not far-fetched, we all know damn well that the Boston Herald is a racist rag. Remember former Superintendent "Boone the Coon" and Gaines v. Herald 998 F. Supp 91 (1998)?
.......or was it clear enough from the emails from Diane Whiffin to Van Sack prior to publication that these materials were CORI contraband and that no real violation by Marinova was occasioned? They sure did to me and there's no way in hell I would have written what she
.......and where did Van Sacked get her info? There's no shield law in Massachusetts (and if one existed, it should not apply here because the production of the documents was a criminal act that the reporter and her editorial and legal staff should know) so she better start singing or forfeit the case. You know, it's so funny that bloggers catch hell for accuracy or professionalism when I'm busy pointing out how the mass media are certainly not beyond reproach, to put it nicely.
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Anyway, public safety is always an issue, and Darrell Jones knows how to help. He also knows that the issues reach beyond Parole and into the walls of the DOC. His dedication to prison reform and social Justice predicated his appearances on Chronicle and such with the Voices Behind the Walls features. That's why he had contacted Boston Police Chief Ed Davis immediately before busted Woburn heist where Jack Maguire was gunned down the day after Christmas, just down the street from where I worked for American Tower Corp. Here is my offering of Condolences to the Station and the Maguire family.
"The ticket didn't say anything about sexual acts. The officer wrote it was dismissed. This statement needs to be put out because no one is speaking out. The administration should have responded that these allegations are clearly not true.
What we have here is a crooked cop who is not only presenting a lie, but also snuck the information out of the institution which is violating CORI laws and CORI information. If the Herald did their research they would have seen that it was all dismissed. It was the Herald's and Jessica Van Sack's Responsibility as a reporter to look into all the facts. Jessica didn't. She ran the story. So either she got a forged report or she intentionally ran it."
7 comments:
Darrell Jones is a lying, snitch, murdering scumbag and is a poster child for capital punishment. I know him and know what he did before prison and while in prison. Someday the public will learn just what a scumbag he really is. His girlfriend is being duped by this inmate. Let him rot in prison where he belongs.
You don't have the balls to publish my comment!
I'll publish whatever blind vitriol you want to send me. As to why I didn't immediately respond to your monkey ass, I was busy with other matters and enjoying the sunset.
http://christopher-king.blogspot.com/2011/01/kingcast-presents-rose-colored-glasses.html
I find you entertaining.
Not as entertaining as it will be to run my IP addy search and figure out who you are, hahahahaa... are you the monkey ass who sent the D report to Jessica Van Sacked?
Darrell Jones is All Good, mate.
And that's why he has the respect of most inmates, and that's why he was on Chronicle, and that's why he notified Boston Chief Ed Davis about the problems with some of these peeps headed for the streets My Friend.
Look at this system. You got Harold Clarke booting out under load, you got Parole all corrupt and twisted, and you're trying to playa hate on Darrell, you're a tool.
-The KingCaster.
12:24
I'm not done with you yet, fool.
Darrell Jones was set up in his murder case and folks are diligently at work on that and that is all I need to tell you. I'm not going into that just yet but you damn well better know that I will. At a time appropriate.
And snitches don't curry favor among prisoners. You just put that shit out there so you could try to put him down, and try to incite somebody to dance on his head, just as you probably did when you sent the D ticket to Van Sacked.
You bastard.
Don't you ever forget I was a G-Man Attorney so I know the hateful games that you and characters like Kelly Ayotte in NH play, wait for that Hollywood movie about her in the Franconia shooting tragedy later this year or early next, hahahahaa.... Tool.
I may not know who you are (yet) but what you are, is an ass.
-The KingCaster.
Wojcik v. Boston Herald, Inc., 60 Mass. App. Ct. 510
[***7] The motion judge described the identities of the defendant reporters' sources as "central" to the plaintiffs' claim, explaining that "without disclosure of the sources, the plaintiffs will have no way to investigate . . . whether the defendants were reasonable in crediting the accuracy of the information provided to them." 11
It is at this juncture that we depart from the judge's analytical course: the relevance of the sources' identities to the plaintiffs' claim is not apparent to us on the present record, at least so far as the record is now developed. If the articles are libelous in the manner the plaintiffs claim, the libelous character of the articles does not appear to rest so much on the accuracy of what the reporters contend they were told by unnamed sources, but on what the reporters wrote.
If by reference to the assertion described in clause (iii) 13 Silberman contends that [**1266] one or more sources told her that Wojcik took and scratched lottery tickets (as she reported in her article), the plaintiffs are likely entitled to disclosure of the identities of the sources, both to explore whether the sources confirm or contest Silberman's version of their conversations and to determine whether Silberman exercised due care in verifying the information she received from the sources before publishing it. However, if the unnamed "confidential" sources merely told Silberman that Wojcik was suspended pending an internal investigation (the truth of which is undisputed), the identities of the sources are largely irrelevant to Wojcik's defamation claim; if the articles are libelous, their libelous character results from deviations between what Silberman was told and what she wrote.
That is not to say that the plaintiffs were not entitled to some [*516] relief on their motion to compel. [***11] The defendants' responses to the plaintiffs' requests for answers to interrogatories were plainly inadequate. For example, Silberman refused to furnish any substantive response to interrogatory no. 3, which sought, in addition to the identity of each source referenced in the articles, the substance of her communications with them. 15 Macero's responses were evasive and uninformative on the specific substance of his communications with his unnamed sources; whatever question there may be about the importance of the sources' identities, there is no question that the substance of the information they furnished to the reporters lies at the very center of the plaintiffs' claim. Furthermore, without disclosing the identities of the sources themselves it would be illuminating, for purposes of the plaintiffs' claim, to determine whether the unnamed sources were employees or officers of the Lottery (or, alternatively perhaps, of an outside auditor), and whether they claimed to have direct personal knowledge of the information they provided.
In the Honor of Attorney Robert Dushman (lead Brown, Rudnick Counsel in Wojick, supra) I would implore the surviving members of the firm to recognize the law set forth though his litigation:
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The identity of the people who allegedly told Jessica Van Sacked that Plaintiff Marinova was engaging in sex acts is needed here because they are the ones who purportedly characterized WTF was reported.
As a reporter I know that I want to know who the douchebag is, and so too does the chap over at EOPSS who wrote that "we have a dirty cop...."
So we all know that a D ticket had to come from someone on the inside -- an employee -- it's time to start singing or start signing checks when Plaintiff Marinova files for Contempt of Court on her discovery requests. Nothing new here I've been saying that for months now, ever since I dropped her off at Todd & Weld.
And to you detractors who show up in here and trash talk, let this be a lesson. The name of the blog is the name of the game. Not to many people in New England know much more about First Amendment Analysis than I do. And no, I don't have to be shy to say as much because it's the Truth.
And as the Police used to sing in their younger days.... Truth hits everybody... whoa... Truth hits everyone.... take a look at my new toy it'll blow your head in two oh, boy....
Peace.
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