A Few Comments

I have chosen to remove my motion information. Ms. Manweiler has already seen it so it doesn't mean much to remove it. I also believe that her seeing this information is irrelevant because the evidence is something that can not be challenged.

As for giving so much information on the blog, it is because I want to show what kind of people the Manweilers are, in addition to pointing out the corruption within the Charlottesville law enforcement and legal system. Ms. Manweiler can know whatever she wants about the evidence I have, but she can't do anything about it. Most important however is that I wanted to let the friends she has keeping an eye on me know exactly what they are getting into. As I mentioned before, some of her friends actually went as far as sending me friend list invites when I set my profile to private. I know they were her friends because I knew they associated with Ms. Manweiler in high school. I accepted the invite to see what they would do. After they would look around for a bit, they would remove themselves. Part of the reason for this blog is to get the idea across to Ms. Manweiler's friends that they do not know the whole story and need to stay out of this situation.

There are two big reasons for this fight between Ms. Manweiler and I spiraling out of control. The first is Ms. Manweiler's refusal to talk the situation over like a grown adult, which is all I've ever asked of her in the past. The second thing that contributed is the intervention of Ms. Manweiler's friends in something that was not their business.

I can understand family getting involved in a situation without knowing what the story is, that is blood and different rules apply. But I don't care if you are Ms. Manweiler's best friend, that doesn't give you the right to get involved in something that wasn't any of your business. I could understand if in high school I had walked up behind Ms. Manweiler and slammed her head into a locker, that is crossing into physical violence and at that point anyone has the right to intervene. But just being a friend does not give you the right to meddle in a situation just because I was considered "annoying" by Ms. Manweiler. All the interference did was cause more trouble. So here is a tip to those friends of Ms. Manweiler's who like to meddle in this and are keeping track of me for her - stay out of business that isn't yours.

As I said before, I will eventually post the impact statement (I actually had it posted on my Myspace page, but that was taken down when I put the blog up). However, I did see her impact statement in my court file when I went to Charlottesville after my release from probation. So it is not like I'm going to be quoting something that someone couldn't verify on their own. This is an exact quote from Ms. Manweiler's victim impact statement about high school:

"It began with notes in my locker for 4 years...

No it didn't. You see the situation had initially been resolved in the middle of 9th grade, and I didn't try to contact Ms. Manweiler until the middle of 11th grade. There was a large gap in time, specifically 10th grade as I mentioned earlier. I have proof of this because I have copies of two of the notes Ms. Manweiler wrote to me in high school. I thankfully found them in a box at my parent's home that had some of my old high school stuff in it, the notes were in an old notebook. I will post both of her notes on this blog later, but here is an exact quote from a letter Ms. Manweiler wrote to me in 11th grade:

"I guess I thought things were settled w/ my letter until now two years later."

TWO YEARS LATER. Not the four years Ms. Manweiler tries to claim in her impact statement. And Ms. Manweiler knew this to, she deliberately lied in her statement to make the situation sound worse to anyone reading the statement. If you read her letters from high school and then read her impact statement, you see two completely different stories. Another example from her impact statement which continues the high school statement I posted:

"...notes which started out friendly, quickly turned obsessive, and then angry and insult-laden."

Oh really Ms. Manweiler? Is that why you said this in your 11th grade letter:

"I don't know how you got the idea that I hated you for liking me. I didn't and I still don't. I have no reason to."

And how about this one from your 12th grade letter (I underlined exactly what she underlined in her note):

"I want you to make sure you know that I do not hate you. While I don't think it is possible for us to ever be close friends, I have no bad feelings towards you."

So if my notes "quickly" turned obsessive and insult laden, then please explain Ms. Manweiler why you would make comments like this in your 11th and 12th grade letters? Doesn't sound like things happened the way you claimed in your impact statement. No surprise there really.

I need to get back to my classwork, but just wanted to add this additional post. I've got part one of the photo listing in draft, working on it little by little. Hopefully I can get it up soon.

This is getting interesting

I saw that a few hits came in while I was doing some editing to the blog and making a new post (located here). These came in on a google search term "liesel nowak" and then later "liesel nowak manweiler". These terms are registering roughly 15 hits on the two postings that mention Ms. Nowak. While there is no way to know for certain, it is a good bet that Ms. Nowak googled herself, especially with the location the stats page noted.

If it was Ms. Nowak I'm sure she didn't like my comments about her, but it would certainly give her somewhat of an idea of how her articles hurt me and my family. I also didn't say anything about her articles that I can't back up, because I still have the printouts from the Daily Progress site and I have the original newspapers with her articles. When you are a reporter you are supposed to be objective about what you write. Ms. Nowak was anything but objective, and I can tell by her article that she is left wing and anti-gun. She made it a point to make references in just about every article to my political beliefs. Now how the hell do my political beliefs have anything to do with an internet fight between Ms. Manweiler and I over past bad blood?

Maintaining that I was guilty simply from the results of the plea hearing completely damaged my ability to receive a fair trial should the Judge have thrown out the plea. You see, when the plea hearing took place the Judge had the option of not accepting the plea. This could have taken place at the sentencing hearing on November 8, 2006. The Judge could easily have decided to not accept the plea or the agreement. This would result in getting a new Judge and continuing on with the trial phase as if the plea hearing never took place. So Ms. Nowak proclaiming in her article that I am guilty when the Judge hasn't even ruled on the case could have interfered with me getting a fair trial.

Putting words in my mouth also didn't help. I am paraphrasing from memory (as I don't have the article in front of me) that Ms. Nowak said "Mr. <Redacted> is pleading guilty because he wants to take responsibility for his actions and avoid additional prison time". The way that she had phrased it in her article resulted in a number of people asking me if I had actually said this to Ms. Nowak.

The family friend who edited the VSB inquiry and the motion documents is a retired journalist. Upon reading Ms. Nowak's comment in the article my mother showed her, the family friend immediately said "I thought you said Ricky didn't speak to any reporters?" Upon hearing that I did not speak to Ms. Nowak or any other reporter, this family friend was upset and said we needed to sue Ms. Nowak and the Daily Progress. The only reason I did not sue was due to concern for retribution from the Charlottesville law enforcement when they heard of the lawsuit. If a lawyer tells me that I can still get a Judge to take that into account and continue forward with a lawsuit, there is a very good chance I may take this to court. I have to worry about getting the plea thrown out first however. While Ms. Nowak had no way of knowing that the real reason I plead guilty was due to railroading and destruction of evidence by C'ville law enforcement, you don't just make up a reason why a person plead guilty.

As for Ms. Nowak's continued comments that I was arrested in Charlottesville attempting to confront Ms. Manweiler over a protective order (that I didn't even know existed prior to my arrest, because it was an emergency PO and they do not warn you about those), Ms. Nowak needs to learn how to followup her sources. I have already laid out the events of my arrest in my Myth v. Fact post found here. I believe there is also an additional post describing this in more detail, though I could just be thinking of my case summary in my motion and the VSB inquiry. If I find it I'll update this post with the link.

I was arrested in Hampton right down the road from my home by Hampton police officers, and I was dragged up to Charlottesville that night by Detective Rudman and his partner (a detective whose name I didn't get). As I have said before, this was done for the purpose of lying to the public to make my case seem more threatening, just as the lie about the rifle I owned (that actually had nothing to do with the case as mentioned here) was used to scare people. This is a common practice by the Charlottesville law enforcement based on the information I received from other inmates. The CPD and the C'ville DA's Office make their cases sound worse, so that they get more attention. It makes the CPD look like they are putting more effort into a case then what they actually performed. In my situation, Hampton police did all the work and Charlottesville PD took all the credit.

While a reporter can only report what they are told, that does not excuse Ms. Nowak for not following up on her source's comments. Other news organizations fell for the lie as well, but eventually they discovered that they were wrong. Unfortunately instead of correcting it, most news reporters just stopped saying anything about the details of my arrest rather than admit they screwed up. But Ms. Nowak continued to report the same false information right up to the article she put out the day after my release. I still have that paper, along with the others.

Not only could Ms. Nowak have looked at the police report, which is public record, but a page of it was in my court file while the case was in District Court (it was apparently not transferred to the Circuit Court file, but again it is public record so it can still be found). My mother drove three hours from Hampton to get a page of the report that was in the District Court file, which said that I was transferred the night of my arrest from the Hampton Lockup to the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. So Ms. Nowak, how could I have been arrested in Charlottesville if I was already in jail at the Hampton lockup and transferred to Charlottesville? While you may not live in the city of Charlottesville, I guarantee your commute to the court house is less than the three hour drive my mother took.

Ms. Nowak's careless reporting, along with some of the other insane coverage of my case, was a big reason I decided to cave to the Prosecution's threats made against me. Ms. Nowak was busy putting false information and proclaiming me guilty before a Judge's ruling. I felt that there was no possibility of a fair trial, both for the news coverage and the fact Ms. Manweiler was a UVA student. If Andrew Alston, a UVA student with a rich father, can get a slap on the wrist for stabbing someone to death - how was I to receive a fair trial when I'm accused of threatening a UVA student with a rich father?

Not only did the individual I mentioned not get 20 years good behavior, I have a five year suspended sentence while he was only given three and a half years to serve. Alston also only served two thirds of that sentence for good behavior - sure he killed someone, but he was a well behaved prisoner. I was even told by inmates that the guy was sent to a level one white collar prison. For voluntary manslaughter?! I actually received worse conditions in my plea agreement than a man WHO KILLED SOMEONE. Even child molesters and rapists don't get what I received for just running my mouth over the internet. If that doesn't tell you how corrupt Charlottesville and the Manweiler's are, then there is something wrong.

If this was Ms. Nowak looking at this page, you would have no right to be angry at my comments. You didn't do your job and your malicious actions contributed to the harm that was done to me. I have no doubt that you don't care though, a lot of reporters couldn't care less about the people they hurt as long as they get their press time.

I believe I need to move even faster on my case after seeing the Nowak searches. My views are climbing higher and higher as this blog makes it on more blog listing sites as well. Not to mention I've known for some time that Ms. Manweiler is the one viewing my page through the "michelle manweiler rotwieler" searches. I knew before this blog was even created that she was stalking me online. Even friends of her's sent me friend list invites on my two online profiles when I set them to private. Just to see what they would do I would accept knowing there wasn't anything for them. They hung around long enough to look around my profile, then removed themselves from my contact list. So finding out with 100% certainty that she has been reading the blog did not come as a surprise to me.

Another thing I have to wonder about is whether Ms. Nowak knew Ms. Manweiler personally. It would certainly explain why she would attack me in her articles. It would reflect poorly on the Daily Progress if they had placed a reporter with a conflict of interest on this story. Ms. Nowak isn't much older than Ms. Manweiler and I, so it is conceivable that Ms. Nowak and Ms. Manweiler knew each other. After all the latest "michelle manweiler rotwieler" search, that I know is being conducted by Ms. Manweiler, happened on Saturday. I had the first post mentioning Ms. Nowak posted by that time. Then Monday Ms. Nowak (I'm assuming, though highly likely) happens to google herself and view this blog. Very interesting that this occurred within a short span of time.

This is merely speculation however, and it would obviously require investigation to get to the truth. I've already considered the possibility of hiring a private investigator after the plea agreement is invalidated. To find out if Ms. Nowak and Ms. Manweiler know each other would be of interest to adding to the investigation, though it is not the primary reason for wanting to hire the investigator. The purpose of this initially was to investigate Mr. Gregory Manweiler's personal contacts to discover who may have influenced the Charlottesville law enforcement on behalf of the Manweiler's.

My family and I know someone in a position of authority put pressure on the law enforcement to cause me harm, as many of the actions taken during my incarceration showed a personal desire to cause maximum injury over such a stupid issue. One example is that on the day of my sentencing, when I was to be released, the jail staff made excuses to hold me in the jail as long as they possibly could. I'll go into detail later about their actions, but it was obvious they were making excuses to hold me until late at night. Even other inmates said that something was up.

So we KNOW someone high up was involved in this case. Whether Mr. Manweiler was involved or not is something I have no evidence of, though I do personally believe he was. There is also the possibility that the current Chief Justice of the Virginia Court of Appeals, who Ms. Manweiler interned for as a clerk, could have played a part. He certainly fits the profile - in a high position of power in the legal/political scene and has a connection to the Manweiler family. Whether this Judge was involved or not, again I have no evidence of this. I will however get to the bottom of this one day and expose anyone I turn up.

Regardless of the existence (or lack there of) of a connection between Ms. Manweiler and Ms. Nowak, Ms. Manweiler hasn't tried anything yet. But then she did wait from December 2005 to June 2006 before she moved forward with her plans. So just because she's been monitoring me for some time doesn't mean Ms. Manweiler isn't cooking something up. So I'm going to have to speed things up and quit second guessing myself.

This is my last semester before graduating with another degree (was supposed to be done last semester, but they canceled a class from low enrollment and it put me off a semester) so I do have a higher class load than even last semester. Plus I have to speak to an advisor about what needs to be done to further my CAD degree, as I have decided that moving into a computer science degree isn't for me. However, I have to make the time to get this legal mess over with, as none of these degrees mean anything with a felony hanging over my head.

Additional Information

I decided to make another post that adds to the documentation I've already placed. Still working on the photo posting of involved parties. But I first wanted to address why I'm including Ms. Manweiler's parents in the photo posting that I mentioned in the previous post titled "Interesting Blog".

I intend on putting a spotlight on Gregory Manweiler and Carole Manweiler because both of them had a say in the legal proceedings, and both were just as responsible as their daughter for the actions taken by the prosecution. I especially hold Mr. Manweiler responsible because I believe he used his influence to put pressure on the Charlottesville law enforcement. Mr. Gregory "Greg" Manweiler is the CFO of Langley Federal Credit Union. He also has served on boards related to the Credit Unions of Virginia. I have seen pictures of him shaking hands with politicians. In addition, it is my understanding that Mr. Manweiler is an alumni of both William and Mary and UVA - two universities with law enforcement connected to them that covered up for his daughter's criminal actions.

I have nothing against the remaining members of the Manweiler family (such as their son who for some reason was included in the protective order and plea agreement, even though I've never spoken to him or ever met him) and thus they will not be included in any postings on this blog. When I refer to the Manweiler (Rottweiler) family, I am only referring to Michelle Annette Manweiler, Gregory Manweiler and Carole Manweiler. I will go into further detail in the photo posting on Mr. Manweiler and his wife, but I wanted to include an email from Mr. Platania to my former attorney where even he states that Ms. Manweiler's parents were part of the decision making process. All contact information and addresses have been blocked out.

Another Platania email:

The next piece of evidence I will include is a letter my former attorney wrote to the prosecution. Mr. Johnson lays out a plea agreement for consideration of the prosecution and the Manweiler's. While his idea is quite good, this is actually further evidence of his incompetent handling of my case. I have documents that paired with this letter show Johnson was attempting to have me plead guilty to charges before he even looked at a single shred of evidence - despite my repeated comments to him that I never threatened Ms. Manweiler or ever visited her in Charlottesville.

Summary of the letter: Johnson is saying that I should plead to both Misdemeanors and receive maximum suspended sentence on them. The Felony charge would remain on the books for two years, in which I would be required to complete strict requirements. Upon two years, the Felony would be reviewed. If I was in compliance with all requirements, the Felony would be reduced to a Misdemeanor charge and I would receive max suspended sentencing.

As for his comments of sufficiency of evidence, he hadn't even seen any evidence yet because I have another letter where he is again requesting Platania to send him the evidence. How can he decide if there is sufficient evidence if he hasn't even seen the evidence? The first time he laid eyes on a single email was the day before the Preliminary hearing of July 20th, a hearing held just TEN DAYS after sending this letter. Johnson's claim of sufficiency of the evidence without seeing any documentation is more than enough to show his incompetence. The evidence was bits and pieces of printouts that Ms. Manweiler tampered with that were never verified by law enforcement through other sources, as I have briefly laid out in other posts. Not sufficient evidence at all.

I was willing to accept this agreement despite the fact that I can now prove my innocence on the Felony Written Threats and Misdemeanor Stalking. As long as my future was left intact I was willing to take responsibility for things I did not do - simply because I realized that I screwed up. As long as I walked away with Misdemeanors I would have moved on and accepted the punishment. That wasn't good enough for Ms. Manweiler. The Manweilers wanted to do more harm than that.

I knew from the very beginning that Ms. Manweiler would do everything she could to hurt me. Not only did I not expect any mercy from her, but I expected her to try to cause as much damage as possible. I predicted her actions with 100% accuracy. The amusing thing is, had Ms. Manweiler actually shown mercy I would have been blown away. To receive mercy from someone I have only seen evil from - it would have made me question whether I was wrong about Ms. Manweiler all along. Instead she only proved that my opinion of her was correct.

Not only did Ms. Manweiler turn down a plea option that would have been an unusual show of mercy from her, but she turned down another option as well. The other option was that the prosecution could have had me sign over my right to own a gun in exchange for a misdemeanor charge on the felony. While I committed no crime with a firearm, I was prepared to surrender the right to prevent my entire future from being ruined. One way or the other I was going to lose this right since I could not prove my innocence at the time - did I want to lose the right and my future, or lose the right but still be able to move on with my life?

Considering I did nothing wrong with a firearm, I certainly shouldn't have been made to surrender that right just because the assholes in the prosecution didn't like it. We don't determine who gets what Constitutional rights based on whether we like the right or not. Regardless of my feelings on the subject, considering the C'ville law enforcement had me in a little trap and was railroading me, I was going to lose it one way or the other. If surrendering it for a misdemeanor meant I could go back to designing submarine systems, I was prepared to let it go. After all, I fully acknowledge that I screwed up and shouldn't have contacted Ms. Manweiler, especially since she tried to lie to the cops before when she attended William and Mary (as mentioned in a previous post). But that wasn't good enough for Ms. Manweiler. Even my former attorney says on tape that this had nothing to do with me owning a gun, they (which included the Manweilers) wanted me to have a felony no matter what I was willing to do.

Now I have no prospects for the future. Every time I think I can get my life back together, the felony takes it away. Did Ms. Manweiler really think that would make me forget about all this? I hate her more than I've ever hated her in my life, and I have far better reasons to hate her now. I actually didn't hate her for reporting me to the cops when it happened, hell I was surprised she was even reading my messages. Granted I knew she lied about things from the beginning, but I also knew that I screwed up. So I actually wasn't mad that she got me arrested on a lie. I didn't become angry until I was threatened into the felony. That was when my family and friends started hating her as well.

At the Preliminary hearing, I was so in shock when my lawyer deliberately sprang the prosecution's threat on me minutes before going out to the court room, that upon conclusion of the hearing waiver I was so disoriented I actually went to follow my lawyer out of the court room. The bailiffs had to run up and say "Mr. <Redacted>, you need to go this way, come on". They were nice about it, because they saw how upset and afraid I was. My mother was already crying because Johnson told her about the threat. He didn't tell her he had planned the whole time to have me waiver the hearing. My mother was hoping that the Preliminary hearing would stop the threat, so when she saw the hearing being waived she couldn't hold it in and ran out of the courtroom. Prior to running out, she sat there crying in the courtroom while Ms. Manweiler and her parents glared at her.

Every day I remain a felon for a crime I didn't commit, I hate Ms. Manweiler a little more. Not only that but my family and friends hate her as well, where before they had no opinion of her. The only thing Ms. Manweiler accomplished was to make more enemies for herself and her parents. As one inmate commented during my incarceration: "If I wanted someone to forget about this and move on, the last thing I would want is to give them a felony, which would only remind them of this situation for the rest of their life".

The ironic part of this is that had I signed over the right for a misdemeanor, it is my understanding that there is no way to reverse it and restore my gun rights. The right would be gone for good. Receiving a felony charge however does not make it permanent.

Even now Ms. Manweiler would only have to write to the Governor for a pardon and it would be granted. As a lawyer she knows this. No chance of that. Ms. Manweiler has been keeping track of me and reading my blog posts - she is well aware of my employment difficulties from the felony and aware of my medical problems limiting my employment. She also knows she lied to the police, and that the only reason they did all of this was due to her being a UVA student with a rich daddy. Andrew Alston's victim (and family) don't get justice for his death, but Ms. Manweiler gets more protection than any American citizen. I know Ms. Manweiler quite well - she is not capable of human emotions like remorse or compassion. I've never seen her show those emotions towards anyone, let alone to me. She will never accept responsibility for any of her actions no matter what happens. The only way this felony is going away is if I take the actions to remove it. It is what it is, as a former coworker would say.

That is perfectly fine by me, and in reality it will only further show Ms. Manweiler as the vicious person she is. Nobody claiming to be a good person could do what Ms. Manweiler has done. She has made me out to be Satan, yet even as much as I hate her I couldn't do some of these things to her.

Ms. Manweiler has a right to defend herself in court the same as any American, yet she denied that right to me. She has the right to her pick of legal counsel, yet she denied that right to me. She agrees to ridiculous plea agreement terms like 20 years good behavior, something even two of the lawyers I've spoken to have referred to as "sick". Yet if the positions were reversed, I would not agree to do the same to her no matter how much I hate her. That is because I have a belief in those rights and I believe the punishment should fit the crime. If I'm so evil, than what does that make her?

It also will be taken into account that Ms. Manweiler is a lawyer - not only did she know better; she also knew there were ways to handle this without destroying someone's life, and she knew exactly what kind of damage her decisions would inflict. In addition, once my evidence is revealed members of the Charlottesville law enforcement will likely lose their careers over what Ms. Manweiler has done. People who trusted Ms. Manweiler and tried to protect her will be harmed by her lies. Platania and Chapman are done and are potentially even facing criminal charges. Detective Rudman will likely lose his job over this since he was the investigating officer. I don't look forward to any cops getting fired, but I'm not the one who put them in that position. Ms. Manweiler, and their own decisions, put them in that position. She knew her actions could hurt these people if it ever got out, and she didn't care. Ms. Manweiler used them like she uses everyone else.

There can be no denial on Ms. Manweiler's part - her own viciousness is displayed in documents like this. Obviously she saw this letter. Mr. Platania would definitely be disbarred if he didn't show Johnson's letter to her. He would also lose his job if he didn't tell Ms. Manweiler about the option to sign over my rights, because it would mean he coerced the victim into course of action she might not have otherwise gone with simply to get another felony notch on his belt. I seriously doubt Mr. Platania will say that he did not inform Ms. Manweiler of any of this. Since I know how evil Ms. Manweiler is from my own experiences of the past, there is no doubt that she knew of these options and turned them down for the most evil thing they could come up with.

The fight of course continues. I'll go into more detail about specific actions in the photo post, once I get it put together. I have more to do first. I had to write this post over a four day period, so once I free up enough time it will pop up.