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JudgeGATE! is a Documentary. IT IS NOT A THEORETICAL FILM! It is a TRUE ACCOUNT of how I documented and PROVED corruption was behind what I encountered in California courts, and beyond, AND the HUNDREDS of mainstream media representatives, and legal advocacy groups who ignored my pleas for help or request to expose what was happening.
In 2010, I experienced a foreclosure in Los Angeles, California, and
in October 2011, after a long fight with CitiMortgage, the second
mortgage holder who foreclosed on my property (I believe illegally) won
an extended battle to evict me from my CONDO. After LA County Sheriff
showed up at my door to ILLEGALLY do a lockout, I left with as much as I
could carry. Fast forward a few days, I made contact with the Real
Estate Broker, Mark E. Alston to retrieve my personal belongings. And I
contacted him, again, and again, and again, and he did not return my
calls.
On October 30, 2011, on one of my many drive by’s of my old CONDO,
where I would HOPING to find someone there, who could help me arrange to
pick up my belongings, I observed through an open curtain, that
EVERYTHING WAS GONE! I immediately called the real estate broker, who
was finally in the office to advise me my belongings had been discarded!
I filed a lawsuit against CitiMortgage (and the Real Estate Broker,
Mark Alston), after CitiMortgage ignored a demand letter to pay damages
for having discarded my belongings, believing this was an open and shut
case. Little did I know, I would open the case, and a single judge,
judge Lisa Hart Cole, supervising judge of the Santa Monica, CA division
of the Superior Court of California, Los Angeles would CLOSE it,
illegally, ignoring all the rights which were supposed to be afforded me
under California law, the California Constitution and the Constitution
of the United States of America.
Anyone can put the pieces together if they want to read five years worth of litigation, here is the information on my cases:
Petition of Certiorari to the US Supreme Court – Case 17-8641
If you read my Petition to the United States Supreme Court, you don’t
have to have legal knowledge to know, SOMETHING went wrong. That’s
probably why SOMEONE, and I don’t know who, has attempted to scrub my
petition from the google search results. Go ahead and try it, I hope by
the time anyone does, it will be remedied. Put the case number,
“17-8641” into a google search box and see what happens.
If you want an AUDIO overview (it comes from an earlier period, but
still a good overview),listen to my hearing on Motion for New Trial here:
And read the ONLY ruling on the merits ever given in this case.
Additional can be obtained on the Superior Court case by doing civil case lookup of case #SC117126 at lacourt.org. Also, there was a seven month removal to the Federal Court, chase number 2:14-cv-09780 which you can lookup on pacer.
Additional Information about the appeal can be found by searching Case #B277902 (primary appeal), B276843 (writ re: disqualification) and B267455 (writ re: discovery).
You can find information on the California Supreme Court Case Number S242248 here:
“But what about all the safeguards”, you might be asking.
Yes, there are safeguards, but those safeguards, are operated by the
same people who are responsible for the failures. The fox is guarding
the hen house.
THIS documentary, through my own journey, will expose, how the system
cheats, how they guard the safeguards to prevent you from having any
real access to them, how they cover up the corruption, and how they have
convinced you it’s not a big deal, and that you must trust the
(corrupt) system, and safeguard, THEM.
In this documentary, I will break down, in simple terms, the statutes
at issue, and present you with audio, transcripts and documents showing
how the court willfully violated the statutes, AND my constitutional
rights at EVERY STAGE of the process. You will hear of their efforts to
create cover ups to hide their corruption and the stories of the poor,
bullied clerks stuck in the middle. Finally, my hope is that I will
have the chance to stick a microphone in the faces of those responsible
and ask them to explain their actions to the viewers of this
documentary.
This story represents a shocking (and intentional) case of denial of
due process and, YES, CORRUPTION. This systemic failure of the system
CANNOT be fixed unless or until there is public outcry demanding it, so I
hope this documentary will raise sufficient awareness and outrage to
inspire people to action.
Risks and challenges
Laws in this country have been made (intentionally, I believe)
unreasonably difficult. So it really hard to break down the elements of
the law that define this case, in a clear concise way, so anyone can
understand it. I believe I’ve done that, but as someone who had to
learn the law to get where I am, I see this as the most significant
challenge to over come. Also, I’m not a filmmaker, but this is the only
way to tell such an important story. People are often BLINDSIDED, when
they are attacked by the anvils of power. Its a destructive force that
leave many feeling angry, helpless, and sometimes in complete despair.
In order for this project to be successful, it has to make
complicated, boring, but IMPORTANT subject matter compelling, and clear,
so people not only understand it, but are inspired to fix it. I
believe I’ve accomplished that by providing side by side comparisons of
where the law was ignored or distorted, where the outcome was CLEARLY
unjust, and the ABSOLUTE disregard shown for self represented litigants
who are not protected by attorneys.
The greatest risk to me personally, is that there are people who
would prefer that this documentary is not made. Aside from suppressing
search results, I’ve had difficulty finding people who were willing to
work on this project, because someone told them not to “touch” this
subject matter. I am fearful that people simply don’t care about this
issue, but I hope that’s not the case. That the idea of a corrupt
judiciary, taking a back seat to the challenges of daily life, is very
real, so my challenge is to use facts, evidence, video, audio,
transcripts and witness statements in a way that makes an impact so
powerful, that it cannot be ignored.