This would almost be humorous if not for the malicious disruption of my and my wife's lives. On June 29th, 2012, Attorney Baird filed this Motion For A Speedy Trial, which requires that my trial be convened on or before July 29th, 2012 for the charge of Harassment In The Second Degree.
On July 3rd, 2012, we became aware that the prosecution had filed a substitute information on July 2nd, 2012, of Creating A Public Disturbance, which is an infraction, a ticketable offense, not even a criminal charge. One might assume that this would have been good news to us; allow me to explain to you why it isn't.
First, ask yourselves this question: If I really had commited the "awful crime" with which they had charged me, and it really were in the best interest of the citizens of Connecticut to prosecute me for it, why now, after fifteen months of dragging me back to court time after time (I've been on the docket no fewer than twenty-one times!), is the State now ready to set the charge down to a mere ticketable offense?
The anwer to this goes all the way back to February 16th, 2011, when Officer Jared Zwickler of the Norwalk Police Department deliberately lied to excuse a false arrest, an illegal entry into the home of a private citizen, and his theft of said citizen's private property. In other words, they used the mere fact that I am a lawful gun owner as an excuse to interfere in a dispute concerning the medical ethics of a "doctor" duly convicted in federal court of the crime of Fraud. The fact of the Appeals Board's malfeasance in allowing "doctor" Staw to retain his license to practice medicine after his conviction is another matter which we will deal with in due time.
On August 22nd, 2011, all three of the prosecution's own witnesses testified in direct contradiction of Liar Cop Zwickler's sworn "incident report" (testimony here, here, and here). In short, none of what he alleged as an excuse to arrest me, invade my home and steal my property had occurred as he claimed it had. It having become manifestly clear that Zwickler had lied to excuse Norwalk PD's lawless actions, one might assume that the State would have moved to do the right thing and dismiss the case, but no; they doubled down. Why? because by now, they knew that if the facts as documented here and at Connecticut Carry were brought to light in a trial before a jury of my peers, those facts would reflect very, very poorly indeed on a large number of unaccountable "public officials", from the Liar Cop himself on up through his superiors who sanctioned his actions, all the way up to the lawless orders issued from the bench by Superior Court "judges". So from this point on, it's clear that none of this is about Justice; it's about maintaining the illusion of the righteousness of an out-of-control and unaccountable Norwalk Police Department and State Superior Court. In short, they knew from this point on that they were in a world of hurt, and that it could only reflect progressively worse on them. They had attempted to gin up a gun crime out of an ethics dispute, where no gun ever entered into it. The scramble to deny me my right to a trial by my peers begins here in earnest.
On July 5th, 2012, Attorney Baird and I appeared for a hearing on the above-linked Motion For A Speedy Trial. You can read the transcript of that hearing here. "Judge" Hudock and "Madame Prosecutor" Peco are clearly ready with their script. You'll note the pains "Judge" Hudock goes to to get on the record that he made all possible haste in response to our Motion For A Speedy Trial, all the while attempting to shout down Attorney Baird, who has objected to the State's substituted information, stating that it is yet another maneuver on the Court's part to deny me the trial by jury demanded by our motion and required by law. In short, the State is trying very hard to make this case go away, since the exposure of Zwickler's lies have ripped the legs out from under them. "Judge" Hudock deliberately interrupts Attorney Baird several times during the proceeding in an effort to prevent her from getting important facts on the record; he failed. The prosecution is forced to concede that the unlawful protective order on me granted without benefit of hearing is now required by law to be vacated, as such an order is not supported by a mere infraction.
Why the continued effort to obstruct justice on the part of the court? It appears that they fear some sort of "gun rights show trial", which will expose the City of Norwalk's, the Norwalk Police Department's and the State of Connecticut's open hostility to the lawful ownership of guns. I remind you here that this was never a gun case; Liar Cop Zwickler deliberately falsified his "incident report" with the approval of his superiors in the Norwalk Police Department, and in sworn testimony on July the 5th, 2011, in an attempt to gin up a gun case. The mess the Norwalk Police Department, the City of Norwalk and the State of Connecticut finds themselves in is entirely of their own making.
To sum it up, these lawless, unaccountable and unprosecutable public officials are in many respects like the vampires of legend; in order to be rid of them, they must be dragged out into the harsh light of public scrutiny, and allowed to burn. A price must be paid under the law for what each of them has done; had the City of Norwalk taken pains early on in this case to make right their lawless behavior, I might have been inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt for an over-zealous rookie cop screw-up. They did not, choosing instead to try to squash an innocent citizen beneath their heal to cover up their own wrong-doing. They shall now have what they fear most and so richly deserve, "Judge" Hudock's vacation time notwithstanding.