Interesting Times

Me: "I just don't understand how they could threaten me like that." 

William Johnson: "Mr. <Redacted>, prosecutors do this kind of thing to people every day!"

Tape recording from meeting with William Johnson on November 14, 2006

Decided to make another post after seeing some of the viewing stats recently. Lot of attention all of a sudden. So I'm putting up a bit more information just in case. It will give a good reference for news media.

First is an explanation of my medical issue that I brought up previously. It is a muscle condition in which my muscles deteriorate faster than a normal individual during physical activity. My understanding based on what I've been told, is that during physical activity a person normally has some muscle cells die off, mine just do it faster and regrow slower.

While I can eventually work myself up to a normal level, it takes me longer to get to a point than a regular individual. I've been able to push myself as long as I'm careful, but it results in a longer recovery period than everyone else. I've been told that its similar to muscular dystrophy but no where near the severity. In fact I was told that it was not something they have seen before and that they do not know why it happened. There is literally no family history of anything that would result in something like this happening to me. My understanding is that since there is no family history or reason for it happening, I basically just got a bad flip of the coin. And since it wasn't a genetic disorder, it can't be passed on. But it certainly creates a problem for me in getting a job.

I can't take any job that revolves around manual labor. I was hired to work at a contracting company after my sentencing, and the only reason that happened was due to a family member, who knew the people working there, speaking with them about my situation. I was also told I had an impressive resume. However, I never told the company about my medical issues because I was so desperate to get a job. There were many times I had to push myself physically. But during one extended run out of town, I had to get sent home.

I was pushing myself past my physical capabilities during long hours. I went from Monday to Wednesday doing this. Without that recovery time my condition caught up to me by the third day. My foreman mentioned that I was stumbling around, which is one of the symptoms that happens when I push myself too far - a loss of coordination. Considering I was working on rooftops and around electrical panels, this obviously isn't a good thing. I ended up getting sent home, which is actually what prevented me from being seriously hurt.

I was so desperate to avoid losing my job, that I would have continued pushing myself until something happened to me. However, while getting sent home kept me from further harm, it also contributed to me losing my job. Obviously getting another job that requires physical labor would be a bad idea. Just to show that I'm not making up the medical issue, here is the posting of the doctor's letter, I lined out anything that was irrelevant to the muscle condition.
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Upon hearing about my muscle condition and how it affected my employment, a family friend shook his head and said "If only that girl and her parents knew what they've done". As I mentioned in a previous post, Ms. Manweiler had gym classes with me and knows I have a medical condition - she just couldn't care less. Comes from not viewing people as human beings unless they measure up to your warped views of social standing.

This same family friend has a brother who is a big lawyer in another state, and he asked his brother for advice about my legal situation. This is where I was told about how I can ask the court to downgrade the charge to a misdemeanor. When we came to the part about how my lawyer would have to write a letter to Ms. Manweiler asking her to agree to dropping it down to a misdemeanor, the family friend commented that once Ms. Manweiler found out about my medical issues and employment problems, he couldn't see her being evil enough to want to hold on to the felony charge. I replied that he hasn't met someone as evil as Ms. Manweiler.


As for the photos of Ms. Manweiler, I went ahead and posted them on my photobucket account for this blog. These will be the full sized photos supplied to the news media. They are of Ms. Manweiler in Lucerne and Venice in August of 2006. Ms. Manweiler claimed in her Victim Impact Statement of being so upset and emotionally distressed during the legal proceedings. Does she look upset in these photos? No.

The Charlottesville law enforcement should have been smart enough to know she was lying, after all how many people would be in fear of their life and yet wait months to go to the police? I will be directing news reporters to this blog once this situation goes public, this way they will have access to Ms. Manweiler's photographs as well as the information on this legal scandal.

As mentioned before, the following photos were linked to me by a reader of my blog. As an addition to that, as I said in another post I do not encourage others to get involved in this case for your own safety. The photos are important because they show Ms. Manweiler having a good time during the legal troubles she caused by lying to the police. Ms. Manweiler is quite happy in the photos, and this is during a time that she claimed was a stressful and terrifying crisis for her.

Considering I already mentioned they came from a third party source this should go without saying, but just in case I am not the photographer nor do I make any claims of ownership on these pictures. These photos have been cropped to remove other individuals from the photos, and in one case a face was blocked out when cropping was not an option. This was only done in cases where there was enough clarity in the photo to result in identification of the individual. The originals show much more area, but again I cropped to avoid displaying someone other than Manweiler. I also have not included the name of the photographer because I doubt they would want their names out in the public when this situation goes to the media. This was done out of respect for them and their privacy and I made sure that they were not present in the cropped photos. They had their photos posted where the public could see them, and they were available for purchase in their high-res form.

Impact Statement quotes on the Venice and Lucerne photos
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Photos of Michelle Manweiler's dinner in Lucerne on August 18 2006

Going by the explanation from the site these photos were obtained, this was a traditional Swedish Folk Dinner that was held after the tour. An individual in a cow suit showed up, as apparently this type of dairy cow is native to Sweden. I have no idea as I've never been to Sweden, and don't know anything about cows beyond them making good steaks and burgers, I'm just going by what the person wrote when they posted the photos. The photos are slightly out of order. The first image was put in the first slot because of its clarity. It is actually last in the line up, based on the order they were put on the source site. This makes sense since others photos not including Ms. Manweiler show a circuit around the tables taken by the individual in the cow suit. Based on that, it appears Ms. Manweiler was surprised by the individual in the cow suit, so to be fair part of her reaction would be from suddenly having a guy in a cow suit get in her face - however, she certainly seems to be free from any concerns over the legal nonsense that summer. Only the first image is out of order, the other images are posted in the order they were listed on the site.

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Venice and Lucerne photos without quote
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Also want to go over some of the grounds I have for declaring the plea agreement invalid, based on the information I copied into the last post.
I.  Violations of the Right to Counsel
         Denial of Counsel
             As mentioned, I attempted to hire Ms. Katherine Peters to replace my incompetent attorney William Johnson. We even paid her for doing her research on the case, and still have the receipt. She's now a prosecutor under Warner Chapman, who threatened me out of hiring her. This is interesting and its likely Chapman did this so that Ms. Peters would be reluctant to testify against her boss should anything come up. She did after all know about the tampering because we gave her copies of the emails and pointed it out. She acknowledged it and said she'd have to look into it further. I have William Johnson on tape admitting Warner Chapman threatened me out of hiring Ms. Peters as a replacement counsel, I even misquoted him to make him correct me, which he does. That shows he remembered the conversation. That is when he brings up how prosecutors do that every day to people. By denying me my right to fire an incompetent attorney and hiring a replacement, Warner Chapman violated my Right to Counsel, which is grounds for invalidating the plea.

      Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
            As mentioned in the posting previously, this is the most common grounds to reverse a conviction. I have PLENTY of evidence of this. Mr. Johnson had no idea that my mother had a tape recorder on her. He admitted to all the things the prosecutors and the police did, from loss of evidence (CPD claimed they damaged my hard drive and said repairs would take 9 months before they could obtain anything, claimed they lost the tape of my interrogation with Detective Rudman) to prosecutor threats. He even talked about comments Chapman made over the phone to him, comments that won't sound so good on the news. He freely admits to not doing things he should have (admits that he was told evidence of my innocence existed, admits he's had months to look for it, and admits he still hasn't looked for it when he has me pleading guilty in a week). 

And the kicker - when my mother brings up the discrepancies showing Ms. Manweiler took page two and three of a March 12th email and wrote April and May dates on them, he acknowledges these discrepancies are present. When asked to explain, he clearly panics and begins trying to change the subject. He may have even violated lawyer client privilege by telling us things about other cases that sounded very private, such as comments made to him by the clients he represented. Not only do I have hours worth of tapes taken during meetings with him and even in the courtroom lobbies, but we have documents of his own making that show it as well. You have no idea just how much we have on this guy. I will likely be able to overturn the conviction just on the evidence of his incompetence without mentioning anything else that I've brought up in this.


II. Invalid Guilty Pleas
      Failure to establish factual basis
              The court is stated to have found factual basis based on the evidence presented by the prosecution. However, I can prove Ms. Manweiler tampered with the emails and I can prove the CPD and DA did not verify the contents of the email printouts with the originals. Since you can not submit evidence that has been tampered with, and the prosecution did not verify the contents of the evidence to prove the comments made within were real, there can be no factual basis. There are rules of evidence, and submitting blatantly tampered emails without verification from another source clearly violates those rules.

    Coercion to enter plea
              As you can see from the prosecutor email linked in the other posts, I have evidence showing the plea was coerced. Not only do I have the email, but I have a letter written by my attorney informing me of the threat and his admission on tape that I was threatened. He even admits they threatened me out of hiring another attorney. I can even show that my own attorney threatened me into the plea and directed what I was to say in both the preliminary hearing and the guilty plea hearing. With the inability to obtain exculpatory evidence due to Ms. Manweiler withholding it and the CPD claiming they damaged the only other source, I couldn't prove my innocence. Johnson even said he would not provide a defense for me if I tried to fight the charge. I was railroaded, and the evidence is overwhelming. The plea will be invalidated, the Judge really won't have a choice when he sees the evidence.


There is more I'd like to write, but I need to get some school work done before I turn in for the night.

Just in case

Little exhausted right now, went to the vet today to pick up Patches' ashes and ended up helping a lady chase her cat around the neighborhood. I ended up getting separated from her after I boosted her over a fence and had to take the long way around. Made my way back to the vet after I couldn't locate her, thankfully someone else had helped her catch the cat and gave her a ride back. So its been an interesting day, but I saw something that really turned out to be interesting.

I've noticed a large amount of views in a short period of time coming from the USA, especially centered on the VSB inquiry. I highly doubt five people just happened to view my blog at the same time - around 9:00PM. Something tells me that someone is about to pull a stunt. Just in case, I want to make sure some insurance is posted on the site. This is the re-linking of the prosecutor email where ADA Joseph Platania threatened me out of my Constitutional right to a fair trial, which is a Federal offense.
http://therottweilers.blogspot.com/2010/03/prosecutor-threat.html

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These are the Federal statutes I can prove they violated, one of which carries a potential 10 year sentence:

Title 18, U.S.C., Section 241
Conspiracy Against Rights

This statute makes it unlawful for two or more persons to conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person of any state, territory or district in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him/her by the Constitution or the laws of the United States, (or because of his/her having exercised the same).

It further makes it unlawful for two or more persons to go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of another with the intent to prevent or hinder his/her free exercise or enjoyment of any rights so secured.

Punishment varies from a fine or imprisonment of up to ten years, or both; and if death results, or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years, or for life, or may be sentenced to death.

Title 18, U.S.C., Section 242
Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law

This statute makes it a crime for any person acting under color of law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom to willfully deprive or cause to be deprived from any person those rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution and laws of the U.S.
This law further prohibits a person acting under color of law, statute, ordinance, regulation or custom to willfully subject or cause to be subjected any person to different punishments, pains, or penalties, than those prescribed for punishment of citizens on account of such person being an alien or by reason of his/her color or race.
Acts under "color of any law" include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within the bounds or limits of their lawful authority, but also acts done without and beyond the bounds of their lawful authority; provided that, in order for unlawful acts of any official to be done under "color of any law," the unlawful acts must be done while such official is purporting or pretending to act in the performance of his/her official duties. This definition includes, in addition to law enforcement officials, individuals such as Mayors, Council persons, Judges, Nursing Home Proprietors, Security Guards, etc., persons who are bound by laws, statutes ordinances, or customs.
Punishment varies from a fine or imprisonment of up to one year, or both, and if bodily injury results or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire shall be fined or imprisoned up to ten years or both, and if death results, or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

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This and other evidence I have will result in Federal charges related to civil rights violations by the Charlottesville DA. I will be going to the FBI after the mistrial hearing to show the evidence to them. I wouldn't be stupid enough to try that if I didn't have the evidence I say I do.

I think its time to get this going, any further delays only help the guilty parties in this. I'm finishing the case summary of the motion this weekend, even if it ends up putting me behind in my schoolwork. Soon as the journalist friend gets back to me with the edits to the main body of the motion, I'm going to put on my suit, drop off the motion and head to the NBC29 station.

Soldiering On

As you can see from my previous post, I lost my dog on the 7th. I unfortunately had to make the difficult decision to put him to sleep. Not only was he getting old, but he suffered a serious injury to his front leg last December when falling down some icy stairs on my parent's back porch. This injury never healed, and in addition his arthritis caught up to him. He had to be carried out to the bathroom, and was in a great deal of pain that even medication couldn't help. The hardest decision I ever made, and I'm still hoping it was the right one. While some people out there might think "it's just a dog", he was a best friend. I've had him since I was 14. When you have a dog that long, they become a family member. I'm still upset, and likely will be for a very long time.

I was concerned that his loss would deepen my depression to a point where I'd give up on everything. While I can't say it hasn't done its damage, the death of my dog has spurred me on more. I needed a couple days to grieve, but now I'm more determined than ever. There is no question, this is getting settled. In a way, my dog's a victim of Ms. Manweiler along with the rest of my family. Had I not lost my career and kept my job, I'd have a house of my own by now. He would have come to live with me, and thus would never have fallen down the porch stairs of my parent's home - which resulted in his health declining sharply. I would have also had the money to help him with his medical problems from old age. I would not have had to put him to sleep, least not for some time, if the severe damage of this legal situation had never happened. And while I should never have contacted Ms. Manweiler, she should not have tampered with evidence and lied to the police. Its because of her actions, and the fact her father is a rich man who might have used his influence to manipulate the legal system, that I sat in jail for five months and received a felony I did not commit. As I said, I'm even more determined now.

As you can see from the new page picture, the blog reader who helped me out found some pictures of Ms. Manweiler. The photos came from an unknowing third party who was posting vacation pictures that happened to include Ms. Manweiler. These are important because these photos were taken during a vacation Ms. Manweiler took in 2006 - in fact the photos show her in Lucerne and Venice while I was sitting in jail. As you can see, she's all smiles on this trip. This is very interesting to see considering the big deal she made out of this situation. The quote on the picture is from her Victim Impact Statement that was submitted in November 2006. "... I spent much of the summer on autopilot." And in Venice it seems. I'd love to "autopilot" like that, she looks like she's having a lot of fun for someone on "autopilot". I spent that summer in the Albermarle Charlottesville Regional Jail on a felony charge I didn't commit, eating garbage posing as food and trying to sleep while 20 other inmates are snoring and farting. Who do you think had the worse summer? Take a look at this pic and ask yourself that question:

Michelle Manweiler in Lucerne, August 18,2006

I'll give you a hint: which of the two have a smile on their face? Ms. Manweiler sure looks like she's having fun. Messing up someone's life for a crime they didn't commit because you tampered with evidence, and playing the entire Charlottesville law enforcement for a bunch of fools, can certainly make a trip more enjoyable if you are a manipulative individual. I have a few other pictures, which I will be posting soon. They will also be provided to the news agencies I will be speaking with. I especially think the Venice picture sums up the stupidity of the Charlottesville law enforcement, which is why I picked it to be the primary image for this site. Ms. Manweiler is smiling and laughing at the CPD and the DA's office.

I've noticed multiple hits during the past few days. While I'm surprised at some of the sources, like France, Canada and Russia, I've noticed some hits from the US that seem to occur at roughly the same time - 5:00PM EST. The Virginia State Bar inquiry post also seems to be getting a lot of attention. This pushed me to posting the photos, as I want to make sure they are in the public view should anything happen. I'm not concerned however. First off, I'm no longer on probation - I have been released from it earlier this year. And even if I was still on probation, there was nothing in the plea agreement that said I couldn't accept photos of Ms. Manweiler supplied by another source. There is literally nothing illegal in having photos of Ms. Manweiler or posting them on the internet - especially since their source is a third party who posted them online as part of their vacation photos. Nor have I committed any crimes in posting this blog - it is after all a Constitutional right to freedom of speech, though I know that doesn't mean much to the Prosecutors in the District Attorney's Office of Charlottesville.