Batson challenge! Was it the REAL Reason for the Subpoenas?
By Christopher,
First of all I want to say hello to all you Quatlooers that are reading this site. I do hope you learn something and perhaps repent of your evil support of Marxism and its bastard children the IRS/Federal Reserve.
To my normal readers:
Doing a bit of research I went to the following on a pro-IRS web site. This website knows me and hates my guts (along with all freedom loving Americans). How interesting that a place where Greg Damm’s friends hang out is called quataloos. Quataloos is the fake money used on Star Trek what the one poster to the Las Vegas Review Journal used to allegedly threaten Damm. That is who they claimed they were looking for.
Demosthenes wrote:
JUDGE: And we had an incident here for which I am not passing blame, but for which found its way into the newspaper, a sidebar, where the government’s unsuccessful Batson challenge was broadcast.
later in the hearing
THE COURT: Mr. Kennedy, I, you know, have been around long enough to understand where you are trying to point the Court. I am not going there, all right, because you have no evidence and they have no evidence. Nobody has any evidence at all. I mean, if I had evidence that the leak from sidebar was done corruptly and with the intent to influence the jury, I promise you my reaction to that would have been very different than it was. But I have no evidence of that.
And if I had evidence that Mr. Damm had issued the subpoenas for the purpose of trying to corruptly influence the jury one way or the other, I can promise you my actions would be very different than they are today. But I have no evidence of that at all.
Then Demosthenes wrote the answer too:
Re: Kahre Tax Evasion Case
Postby Demosthenes on Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:47 amMain Entry: Bat·son challenge
Pronunciation: ‘bat-s&n-
Function: noun
Etymology: from Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), the Supreme Court ruling that prohibited the striking of jurors on a racial basis
: an objection in which one party argues that the other has used the peremptory challenge to strike one or more prospective jurors from the panel for a discriminatory purpose in violation of the equal protection guarantee of the U.S. Constitution called also Batson objection —compare THIRD-PARTY STANDING
NOTE: Batson challenges were originally applied to racial discrimination in jury selection but are now also applied when gender or sometimes ethnic background is an issue. The party making the objection usually must establish by evidence a prima facie case of discrimination, at which point the other party has the burden of advancing a neutral reason for the strike.
And then Demosthenes posts more of the Transcript? And where did he get it.
Re: Kahre Tax Evasion Case
Postby Demosthenes on Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:54 am
Has anyone seen the article in the press about the sidebar?THE COURT: No. I would agree with that directly. But their allegation was, if you remember, Ms. Rasmussen, that the sidebar –
MS. RASMUSSEN: I was in Atlanta when that conversation took place.
THE COURT: All right. Well, I’m sorry that you were, but you were. But the allegation was we had a sidebar, and then what happened at the sidebar was leaked the very next day and it found its way onto the blog. Now, the only way that could have happened is if somebody who had participated in that sidebar got the information to someone who then passed it on.
Now, as I said at the time, I wasn’t making any allegations. I don’t know how it happened, but it happened. Now, from their perspective — their perspective, not my perspective, now — from their perspective, this was an orchestrated effort. Your side has a different perspective, okay.MS. RASMUSSEN: Absolutely.
THE COURT: All right. But they have a perspective and you have a perspective. I don’t take, you know, a role in endorsing either.
MS. RASMUSSEN: And you shouldn’t take a role in endorsing the government’s investigation of defense counsel while we are defending our clients in the middle of trial.
THE COURT: Who is investigating defense counsel?
MS. RASMUSSEN: Well, you know, this grand jury subpoena.
THE COURT: Ms. Rasmussen, look, if you are making an effort here to try to blow a balloon into an airship, it isn’t going to happen here. All right? All we have here is a subpoena that was issued to the newspaper. We don’t — if Mr. Damm had issued a subpoena, and I don’t even know whether he was behind the grand jury — I have no idea. It could have been somebody else.
MS. RASMUSSEN: Yes. The article said he signed the grand jury subpoena. And, you know, it’s troubling, Your Honor, because we visited the issue –
THE COURT: Did he subpoena you?
MS. RASMUSSEN: Pardon me?
THE COURT: Have you been subpoenaed?
MS. RASMUSSEN: No. I’m just telling you –
THE COURT: Have any of the lawyers been subpoenaed?
MS. RASMUSSEN: No.
THE COURT: So defense counsel have not been subpoenaed.
MS. RASMUSSEN: No.
THE COURT: All right. If defense counsel had been subpoenaed in the middle of
this trial, I can assure you you would get a very different reaction from me.MS. RASMUSSEN: How would we know, frankly, that he isn’t doing subpoenas for interception of our e-mails based on his concept that there is some threat to the jury?
THE COURT: A very famous Ninth Circuit judge once said, we are not getting into fantasy land.
The defense lawyers think the government lawyers think they are behind the posted death threats in order to influence the jury?
My head hurts.
HOW DO THESE PEOPLE HAVE A TRANSCRIPT THIS FAST? WHO ARE THEY?
Why are they trying to get to one of the Defense Attorneys?
So this reporter must ask: Why was there a Baston Hearing? And who was the prosecution trying to remove and why?
Is Damm a Racist and a hater of Freedom of Speech?
St. Matthew Chapter 7 may hold the answer: 17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Is Greg Damm a Good tree or and Evil tree. A picture paints a thousand words.
