notorial dissent wrote:Merrill, “speedy trial” implies / requires that there actually be a trial, that you had been arrested and arraigned and a trial date set. None of that happened. You had not been brought to court until after you were arrested this last time, so there was no trial or clock to be ticking. The “speedy trial” rules did not come into play until after you are arrested and brought before the court. Unless the statute of limitations on the charge expires before you are officially charged, you can be arrested and tried at any time up until that expiration, so long as you are charged before the expiration tolls. The only thing that happened, was that you are such an insignificance and so incredibly lucky that they didn’t bother looking for you and that you some how didn’t manage to get yourself arrested in the mean time. You just got very very lucky, but if you continue in this your luck will run out, and someone will notice the number and variety of fraud laws that you are breaking and decided to take action against you, and you will either end up as a permanent resident at the Pueblo facility, or as a short term guest at Cañon City where you big mouth will do you no end of good.
Quite revealing.
What happened is that a private court, an office of profit was served a proper abatement for misnomer. From the register of action it looks like SAMELSON decided to honor the abatement but in an
ex parte discussion with the DA decided to defer prosecution for five years and three days on what I call "indefinitely deferred arrest warrant" on the $20M bill for violating my speedy trial right.
A deferred prosecution, as posted definition here, would involve bringing me before the court - which I can prove was as easy as dialing the phone number on the abatement, and informing me of the plan and me accepting terms of this five year probation. Then of course during the course of that term I would need to be charged or convicted of a similar crime to arouse the earlier prosecution.
This social compact, which I have nothing to do with, is not only based on guilt before innocence, it is a family protection mechanism. When the "crime" is obviously not very manacing for example, or there is no evidence or witness, then the objective is to give benefit of the doubt to the accused and let things continue peacefully in the self-governance of the home. In other words, social services of the DA, decides that it would be better to keep an eye on things for a decided term -
deferred prosecution.
As it turns out SUTHERS and SAMELSON took a gamble.
We will be able to convince David to take a week of community service rather than risk going to Canon City for 18 months. David will be like everybody else and gladly plead guilty - whether he committed the crime or not.
They lost. Now there is a lien for $20M against their fidelity bonds.
Regards,
David Merrill.