This time of the year is a significant anniversary for me related to the long series of traumas I have experienced in the state of Alaska. Five years ago on 8/4/2007 around midnight just like all dangerous felons (sarcasm) I was listening to a physics lecture from UC Berkeley on line when I had a knock on my door. Considering the conditions I was living in which included hooligans(one of them thought he was a ninja, seriously, he did), meth cooking, lots of drinking, parties with underage girls, threats of physical harm against me, other tenants stealing property out of the lodge/vandalizing (I notified the owners and the state troopers, nothing happened), being told by them, “people around here kill cops, “ state troopers who do nothing (Anchor Point) and a psychopath for a landlord I picked up the Axe handle I had close to my bed before approaching the door. This was one of the two doors to the room I rented in this shabby lodge, the Homestead Lodge B & B (not to be confused with another lodge in AK with a similar name that is respectable). I had barricaded and fixed the other door so it could not be opened. The one being knocked on had a dead bolt, but I kept my handy axe handle close at hand as a back up especially since I had no idea who might have the key. I thought it would be one of the scumbags that lived there or one of their creepy drugged up scumbag associates. It was state trooper Derrick Loop, were they finally going to do something about the problems at that lodge? Why was he there around midnight? As it turned out he had a warrant for my arrest which was totally invalid and issued to retaliate against me by a couple of malfeasant employees of the state of Alaska, ADA John Earthman and Judge Ben Esch. Of all the people at that lodge the one they arrested was the one who was doing nothing wrong and tried to do something about all the criminal activity going on there (significant electronic info supports this). Interesting isn‘t it? After going to extraordinary effort to try to help the owner who turned out to be the biggest scumbag of them all he was able to enlist some fellow scumbags who work for the state of Alaska to help him retaliate against me. In other states I would have been considered a good tenant and righteous, but in Alaska doing the right thing is often wrong because a bully or psychopath frequently has power over the police or some other official agency here. This would not be the last time I experienced severe landlord abuse in this state, in fact it is ongoing.
I am pretty sure officer Loop knew I was not guilty. He told me they investigated the complaint and could find no evidence against me, well, there is a reason for that. He seemed kind of confused, embarrassed and shocked by the warrant. It was all based on a lie, a manipulation, a set up in part to get rid of me as they were pulling an insurance scam and their agent was looking to talk to me (he said they refused to give him my phone number) and to retaliate against me for using the landlord tenant act, there were also my complaints about thefts, including my wallet and much more which the troopers would not allow me to file a police report about even claiming some of it was not against the law. A typical tactic they used to keep people from making them work I found out. Even the public defender agency was stunned by this warrant stating they had never seen anything like it before and didn‘t understand the illogical reasoning behind it. You live in Alaska, you are a lawyer and have never seen the judicial system used for corrupt purposes? The public defender agency had screwed up big time and facilitated the issuing of this warrant by not notifying me of a hearing Judge Esch had scheduled and one would think they would bend over backwards to fix the situation, but no they did everything they could to make the situation worse. BTW, when the PD did not show up for the hearing it was quite obvious there was something wrong with the picture and Judge Esch would have realized I did not know about the hearing. The outcome was planned before the hearing, they were just going through the motions. Was it Earthman and Esch fulfilling the wishes of their overlords in Nome, did their orders come from somewhere higher or are they the two most evil bastards to ever walk the tundra? I wasn’t notified of the hearing by design and had already told Judge Esch that several times in the past I had not been informed of hearings that I barely found out about, his response was, “Well you‘re here now“ and then he probably thought, damn I can‘t put her ass in prison for not showing up, the bitch found out about a secretly scheduled hearing again.
They allowed my property to be stolen/destroyed and my cat starved/tortured by that psychopath, Robin Hume. Psychopaths are easy to come by in Alaska, all Earthman and Esch had to do was wait to get one to assist them. I know these agencies were all ordered to do what they did to cover the state‘s lack of enforcing even basic health care regulations. They wanted to frighten me into shutting up, but it has not worked yet. I am so sick of Alaska using the, we are all incompetent idiots, excuse as a smoke screen for their corruption. The prosecutor John Earthman had already lied about me on multiple occasions including to the newspaper and multiple times standing in the courtroom. Also with the cooperation of the public defender agency he tried to get me to illegally stay out of state, either due to fear of being exposed for malfeasance, because I was insisting on a trial, because they had no evidence to back up the lies or so they could use not coming back to the state as an excuse for incarceration. A non-corrupt state trooper told me she is sent to the lower 48 to pick up people all the time for such things. Do you think the public defender agency objected even one time to all of Earthman‘s lies? Of course not, but I did and Judge Esch would tell me I had a lawyer. I didn’t really have a lawyer, I had a pawn whose job was to make sure I had no defense. There was never any objection from the public defender agency, they were on the side of the state all along to protect their buddies, the workplace bullies at NSHC. Judge Esch actually told a public defender that I didn’t need to be at a particular hearing and he manipulated to keep it secret from me. They said they had never seen anything like this before either. What kind of judge would do something like that, not an impartial one who believes in due process. You see they had what was going to happen planned out and they all worked to that end. I could have never believed this could happen in the United States, but I have done some research, it does. It was then very puzzling to me that they did not petition for a writ of habeas corpus, instead ignoring my phone calls from the prison for assistance and they did not even tell me which office or incompetent lawyer they employed was representing me for quite some time, that included the director Quinlan Steiner whose office I was calling over and over. He has the secretary lie and say he is not there. I found that out by going to the office and being lied to, then as attorneys leave, “Oh yea, Quin is right back there.” No cajones to face me I guess.
Lack of evidence didn’t matter to ADA Earthman who easily convinced Judge Ben Esch to issue a warrant. They used the lies of a known psychopath. Most judges require evidence, but when you preside over a Kangaroo Court why bother. Judge Esch didn’t like the things I had to say in his court, so he had my hearings in a tiny separate courtroom or scheduled them the last one of the day. They didn’t want all those native people they charge with a large volume of crimes there to hear me, get all uppity and think they were allowed to speak up you know. I was really hoping he would tell me I was out of order so I could use Al Pacino’s line from “And Justice For All”, “You’re out of order…”
Robin and Steve Hume were never arrested for the crimes they committed against me and the state troopers including some higher ups told me what they did was not illegal and it was all a civil matter. Apparently “civil matter” are the most frequent words spoken by troopers out of Anchor Point. Not only are theft (multiple occurrences), filing false police reports, threatening to hurt me, operating businesses without licenses, collecting social security disability while having significant income, staging an insurance scam, allowing tenants to cook meth, allowing people to process fish which were illegally caught and animal cruelty actual crimes the state troopers also destroyed the pictures of my property officer Loop took the night he arrested me so I could not use them for a lawsuit against the state or the creepy Hume brothers. There are other documents that were destroyed as my FOIA request demonstrated. Why? I think it was partially to cover for them not doing their jobs and may have something to do with Robin Hume’s involvement with prostitution which has some ties to Anchorage. Who were they protecting? The cops who were customers, the pimp in Anchorage?
Since my case many of the players have been given promotions, including troopers who lied for them or are keeping their mouths shut, ADA Earthman is now DA Earthman, Judge Esch is now the chairman of the Judicial Commission. He judges the ethics of other lawyers, which just makes me want to vomit. This prevents him from standing for retention for his judgeship in Nome as well. Hmmm wonder who he thought might testify? Then there was the compulsive liar public defender who was chosen to be a magistrate. Yes, I realize Quinlan Steiner may have lied when he said it was all her idea to lie to me for plea manipulation, but she did it no matter whose idea it was. One of the psychopathic workplace bullies at Norton Sound Health Corporation without any education to do the position was appointed as a vice president (she had no education for the original position she had either) by a CEO who seems to actually live in another state. It has been years and I have not gotten a bit of justice. When I make FOIA requests I get only part of the paperwork, three copies of information I don’t need and they just state that is all they have.
Every year I re-live a segment of this long nightmare I have been forced to live in August, you know PTSD and all. It starts on the fourth and goes through most of the month. I reflect on all of those days where I was in 2007 and what was happening including the abuse, anguish and pain, not just mine, but also what I witnessed. Particular corrections staff who were very abusive I can picture in my mind and even remember their voices. I also remember the other incarcerated women and how so many tried to help others including trying to get health care for those who were ill, to no avail. I remember being in a solitary cell in the mental health unit very distraught and the women in the wing next to me getting in their window and jumping up and down while waving frantically to try and cheer me up. They did.
I remember the shock of being told there was a warrant for my arrest for something I did not do. When I was told it was from Nome how could I then be surprised knowing how corrupt and evil some of the people are. I clearly knew my property would be stolen and vandalized and my cat would be harmed. I remember officer Loop wasn’t going to handcuff me and let me take my laptop and medication in my backpack saying, “…if it was anyone else.” I told him to go ahead and handcuff me or he might get into trouble, so he did. When we drove down the hill Robin Hume‘s van was parked on the side of the road and I knew he would go to the lodge and start stealing my property as soon as he saw us go by. That night I was in the Homer jail and screamed in terror. I still believed the public defender agency would straighten out the whole mess the next day, I did not realize at that point they were complicit. The next day I called Robin Hume from the jail and told him pictures were taken of my property. With a shaky sounding, slight high pitched voice he said, “Those were taken last night.” I knew he had already taken what he wanted and my cat was probably harmed. I called the state troopers, several agencies, the governor’s office and the public defender agency and asked them to stop him over and over. None of them did a thing. I know now it was probably because they were told not to do anything. I called a relative mainly because I could remember his phone number and asked him to ask the animal shelter in Homer to go get my cat ( a simple thing), he did not. He said he could not figure out how to do it, he even had another person who echoed this obvious lie who also could have helped. A small child knows how to call directory assistance or look up a phone number on line. This is why I always lived in another state away from my family. Very sick stuff.
The next day I was told I was going to Nome for a hearing, but instead I was left at Wildwood in Kenai with abusive corrections staff for three days. Then I was put on a plane and told I was going to Nome for a hearing with a female trooper who was very professional and a very nice person, refreshing after the abuse at Wildwood. I was taken to the Anchorage jail for a few hours where I thought I was waiting for a plane to Nome because they told me I was going there, but instead was taken to Hiland Mountain in Eagle River where I was tortured by prison staff, denied medical care and my medication was dangerously abruptly stopped. The worst of the abusers there were medical and nursing staff I found out when I ended up in the mental health unit where I witnessed a very sick woman being chained to the floor, discrimination against a black woman, a starvation diet, basic hygiene was withheld, psychological abuse was constant, and I was placed in a cell with a violent psychotic, probably schizophrenic woman which I have no doubt was done with the hope of my being harmed. I told the nurse it was a dangerous situation and she was very nasty. I however have lots of experience with violent schizophrenics and survived unscathed. She said she was supposed to be at API a month ago according to a judge. When she walked by after going to a hearing she said, “The judge is mad they didn’t take me to API.“ I told her to not believe they were going to start doing the right thing now or ever.
A psychologist presented in the little window to my door the second day and said, I had no mental illness and was just “arrogant and nasty.“ Really? That was his interpretation when I was wrongfully imprisoned, had an idiot psychiatrist DC my meds dangerously, my civil rights were being violated and all the things I was upset about including my cat being harmed, he couldn’t figure out why I was DISTRAUGHT AND PISSED OFF. What a psychologist. Several psychiatrists have diagnosed me with PTSD, which is so obvious anyone who is not trained in psych could diagnose it. Seeing someone for 2 or 3 minutes doesn’t tell you a damn thing, especially considering the state I was in from their medical abuse and being so upset. The psychologists on the outside are not any better on the Kenai Peninsula and are quite indignant as are the social workers if you point out any problems to them. Then they gossip about you, this is very common here.
The ordeal to get a response from the public defender agency was disgusting with lies, incompetence and retaliation. Then later a clueless egocentric comment by one of them that she was tired of “hearing about my frickin cat” made me start thinking I was going to write my story until she actually was made sick by hearing about my “frickin“ cat. How tired of it are you now beatch? When I was released about 26 days later I was dumped in Homer homeless and had court documents saying I could not go to the room where I had lived to get my things or look for my cat. NICE HUH, CONSIDERING I WAS THE VICTIM. I called Robin Hume from the airport. He said he put my things in storage and my cat was at the shelter. He would not tell me which storage unit, so I had to have a taxi drive all over looking for it. A woman at one storage place said she knew something was wrong when he put my stuff in their unit and took me to look at it, about half of it was gone, the rest had been put in the rain and much of it was full of mold. I lost it. I had just come from torture central at Hiland Mountain and had to face this while staying at a very dysfunctional women’s shelter. There was only one animal shelter so I could find my cat and the poor thing was so mentally disturbed from what he did to her at that point they could not clean her cage. She had two carriers and he even stole those just carrying her into the shelter. He told the staff I was going to be in prison for at least six months. Who gave him that specific information, Mr. Earthman? They were surprised I could pick her up. I held her for a couple hours and just cried. She was very ill and I tried to keep her alive for two or three months until it was clear she was too ill and I had her put to sleep. She had liver disease from being starved and would have gastrointestinal bleeds. I had to live in a place as bad as the lodge while I tried to save her. It was also as bad as the women‘s shelter, drugs and crazy behavior.
I was given a court order or warrant to go to the lodge finally when they realized they had screwed up big time. The state trooper who was supposed to assist ME THE VICTIM to get my stolen property instead assisted Robin Hume and would not allow me to do anything to retrieve my property. He told me the judge didn’t know what he was doing and hadn’t given me the right kind of court order. Yes, he did, but that goes along with the games they always play such as telling me crimes I try to report are legal or are civil matters. He carried a grocery bag with a few items that Robin gave him as if I had forgotten them. It was my cameras (because I had the cables in my backpack and he could not sell them) and empty Netflix movie envelopes. I asked Trooper Pelapear (spelling?) if the empty envelopes might not be a clue for him as to what had happened there. I told him my property was probably all over that lodge. When I became upset and told the trooper he was wrong and should be assisting me, THE VICTIM, he threatened to arrest me for disorderly conduct. That bastard, Pelapear has been transferred over here to Soldotna and that does not make me happy. That is just a small segment of my story, related to this anniversary date or wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and having my beloved cat tortured and starved. My property is still in storage in Homer for multiple reasons. All of the monsters who participated in this including the idiots and almost psychopaths who worked on Sarah Palin’s staff who did nothing when I called them to tell this story should have been fired or prosecuted. That includes agency directors and particular commissioners. Later I was told Sarah Palin read a fifty page letter I wrote her about my story, which I of course know did not happened. The state ombudsman asked me angrily what she was supposed to do with the copy I sent her. Hmm, where could she have put it, let me think. If I was a believer I would say they would all burn in hell, but I‘m not, so instead I am keeping my promise to Sarah Palin and her staff to continue to tell my story along with discussing the problems at NSHC in Nome and the racist treatment of the native people by the justice system in that village.
In 2008 I posted a letter to Sarah Palin regarding my wrongful arrest story and this anniversary date. There was no response as there never is in Alaska to any problems with government agencies.
My post in support of Joe McGinnis’ book about Sarah Palin, The Rogue, gives a general overview of the bullying I have experienced in Alaska and why most people are afraid to come forward to give information about corruption here.
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Found in notes received from the public defender agency secondary to my FOIA request. DA John Earthman engineered my wrongfull arrest/incarceration 3 days after I filed an appeal.
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2/2/10
PALIN-JUSTICE: PALIN-CRIMES ARE SANCTIONED BY JESUS AND ALASKA‘S COURTS, THOSE WHO COMMIT THE SAME NON-PALIN CRIMES CAN BURN IN HELL(UPDATE)
I wrote most of this post a couple days ago and then waited for Gryphen at Immoral Minority to write his first hand account of Diana Palin’s sentencing hearing and to see what the news media was going to say about it. It is very early Tuesday and the Alaska Daily News has been completely mute on this very conspicuous court corruption. Perhaps they have been struck dumb by the amazing Palin ability to commit crimes and never get punished for them like other people. Why get punished when Jesus anointed you with the ability to use your influence and money to control the courts. After all these are Palin-crimes which are not the same as those crimes committed by other people.
The Frontiersman so far is the only paper I can find that has had the guts to print this story.
First let me point out that SIS or suspended imposition of sentence is a type of probation. Probation is generally a form of a suspended sentence in which the defendant is not incarcerated, but on supervision in the community. This is confusing because in the legal language they call it suspending the sentence, which is a component of the process. Part of the whole sentence is suspended and sort of held in reserve while being held over the offender’s head to get them to cooperate with the conditions of probation. For instance my sentence was 14.5 months suspended to 45 days, with three years of regular probation. In other words part of the sentence is suspended and probation is used instead and at the same time used as leverage for good behavior. Conditions are given that have to be met which if violated land the person on probation back in prison. It can be anything from not drinking, not driving, not going around children, getting drug treatment, looking for work, not breaking the law, getting urine toxicology screens, etc. In my case conditions of release which happen before being on probation which said I had to obey the law were used as an excuse to have me wrongfully arrested and imprisoned based on a clearly false charge. This is a tool to keep as many as possible incarcerated and punish people such as myself who are outspoken and do not cooperate with the lies and manipulations of the injustice railroad in Alaska.
From the Frontiersman:
Diana Palin, half-sister of Todd Palin, husband of former Gov. Sarah Palin, received what’s called a “suspended imposition of sentence.” Essentially, if she maintains a clean record as a law-abiding citizen, completes drug treatment and otherwise complies with the court’s orders, she won’t have a felony record.
Palin had already spent five months in jail awaiting sentencing. Her time in Akeela House also counts as time served.
Sherry got three years on house arrest. I got 14.5 months reduced to 45 days for one act done when I was mentally incompetent. We both got regular probation. I guess we just weren’t Palin enough in the eyes of the court system in Alaska. Compare our crimes with breaking into a house or using your child to facilitate a crime and it is crystal clear this is outrageous!
“Although it’s an extremely close call, I believe a suspended imposition of sentence is appropriate,” Superior Court Judge Vanessa White said before addressing Palin directly.
What Judge White believes and reality are two different things. Oh, I forgot she is using Palin reality.
“There is no reason you can’t succeed on this probation. You have everything going for you.”
Palin was arrested in April 2009. Police said at the time that she was caught essentially red-handed. A homeowner who’d already had $400 cash stolen from him two days prior saw her pull into his driveway on Mill Site Circle and hid in a bathroom while she entered his house. The homeowner detained her and called police. At some point Palin’s 4-year-old daughter wandered into the house.
At Friday’s hearing, Assistant District Attorney Paul Roetman said that as investigators started looking at the case, they found that Palin had been doing similar things before in her own neighborhood, sometimes using her daughter as cover. For instance, the girl would ask to use a person’s bathroom, which would give Palin a pretext to get into the house and find prescription medications and other things to steal.
So, in many cases it was not just that the daughter was there, she was used as a participant in the crimes. Depending on who the defendant is, many have lost their children for much less.
He said that bringing the daughter along was no small thing. The homeowner that eventually caught Palin said as much in conversations with the district attorney’s office.
“In defending his home, he very well could have endangered that child,” Roetman said. He argued that a suspended imposition of sentence was not appropriate.
The child would also begin to understand eventually the pattern of her mother’s behavior and think that what she was doing was normal and acceptable.
Palin’s attorney, Josh Fannon, said the burglary on Mill Site Circle simply wasn’t comparable to the other thefts in Palin’s neighborhood.
“The other cases described (in a report prepared for the sentencing hearing) are my client lying and being devious,” he said.
Getting into someone’s home to steal their possessions is just “lying and being devious”, it is an example of Palin-crime, not a burgulary, we all know those special Palin forms of crime are not only allowed, but blessed by Jesus himself. They should never be punished by the law. If your son is addicted to Oxycodone and commits a crime send him to another state and let him join the Army, it is a Palin-crime after all, God consecrates the ground all Palin's walk on. Keep in mind many attorneys think lying and being devious in normal, because that is how they themselves function. Ladies and Gentlemen this is legal "truthiness" in action.
He pointed to Palin’s actions since the burglary. She’s currently in an 18-month program of very intensive residential drug treatment at Akeela House in Anchorage. Palin was addicted to opiate painkillers at the time of the burglary. Rarely, he said, has he had a client who’s paid restitution to her victims on the day she was sentenced. But that morning, Fannon said, Palin’s family cut a $2,600 check to pay her victim back. The money, he said, came from Palin’s own funds.
Yea, right. Rarely has he had a client who knows so much about an unethical politician that they are willing to do anything to dummy her up. And rarely has he had to put on such a show for the public. Typical Palin logic that a small amount of money is sufficient to undo any of their wrong doings. If money is given to Diana it then becomes her own funds. Of course we have no idea how much more money may have been spent in the background getting up to this orchestrated scene. While Todd Palin may care about his sister I would imagine Sarah’s only interest is to protect the truth about her and her children from getting out. Diana being sent to prison for years and having all that time to think would be terrifying to Sarah. If the family wanted to support Diana why were not at least part of them in the court room?
Fannon called as a witness Dorothy Pickles, Akeela House’s acting program manager.
Pickles said Palin had shown great progress in the program. What setbacks she’s had were nothing out of the ordinary. As for the burglary itself, Pickles said it was clear to her that Palin wanted someone to step in. She was seeking help.
“If she’d gone into Anchorage and hit random houses she clearly would have had more success,” Pickles said.
But stealing from neighbors who knew her and from the same house twice? “It’s a cry for help, really,” Pickles said. Such an act is not uncommon among addicts, she said.
“They’ll do something really stupid,” Pickles said.
I call BS on Ms. Pickles statement. In her neighborhood she would have had the opportunity to observe people and know their habits, therefore knowing when to break into their homes at the most opportune times. She would have been known to them which facilitates access to their possessions. She would have had reason to be in the neighborhood if she looked suspicious and was stopped. Her schemes of having her daughter ask to go to the bathroom so she could go through the medicine cupboard to take drugs and other things would work much better on her neighbors than strangers in Anchorage. Pickle’s line of logic holds no water at all. Did the Palins donate any money to this program? Just curious.
As for Palin, during her turn to speak, she choked up and took a pause to collect herself in describing how bad she feels for placing her daughter in harm’s way.
“I’m so ashamed for all the hurt that I’ve caused,” she said. “I exposed her to danger, dishonesty and stealing.”
As for the homeowner, who was in court to observe the proceedings, Palin turned around in her seat to address him directly.
“I appreciate the kindness that you showed my daughter,” she said. “You showed her compassion because you recognized that it was not her fault.”
She said she didn’t feel she could ask him for forgiveness, but hoped he would feel a measure of peace knowing that when he caught her he may well have saved her life.
Fannon said that even though his client counts the governor in office at the time of her arrest as a relative, he hoped his client’s last name wouldn’t factor at all into the way the system treated her.
“I don’t think it should help her, but I don’t think it should hurt her,” he said.
For her part, White said Palin’s name didn’t factor into her decision.
“That’s not about her last name,” the judge said. “It’s about whether or not she has a likelihood of rehabilitation. I do find that her prospects of rehabilitation are much better than most people I see in this courtroom.”
Judge Judy: “If it doesn’t make any sense it’s not true.”
The judge and attorneys discussed this before the hearing, I’d be willing to bet on it. Why are her prospects for rehabilitation better? Is it because you actually allowed her to go to treatment instead of plopping her ass down at Hiland Mountain which is done with pretty much everyone else? A place where those with mental illness, low self-esteem, chemical dependency, and poor life skills are made worse by design. Is it because you view someone connected to money and political power as being superior to others? Is it that ‘christian” thingy, Judge White?
The parole officer in Nome was friends with the serial bullies at Norton Sound Health Corporation where I had been psychologically terrorized and denied health care. I told the public defender agency who were also friends with her that she would be compelled to write a negative pre-sentencing report about me by these people at the hospital, as well as the prosecutor. I was assured she would be on maternity leave and would not be the one writing it. My exact words at that time were, “She will bust her ass to write it.” She did bust her ass to write it. She wrote that I had a poor chance for recovery even though I had already been in recovery for over eight years before the relapse which happened on my own pain pills which I had with me when I came to Nome. The main reason for this was the denial by the medical staff to give me Gabapentin for the pain and the overwhelming stress I was under which caused many health issues to flare up. In fact, the medical community would not call this a relapse, they would call it treatment of excruciating pain. The truth is I insist on calling it addiction rather than some kind of tolerance secondary to treatment for pain because I disagree that there is a difference. Addiction is addiction is addiction. The medical communtiy calls addiction caused by the medication they prescribe something other than addiction to keep the patients from having a stigma to prevent lawsuits. Using the medication for the pain was warranted considering the pain I was in, but it did trigger the addiction. There was an alternative treatment which I preferred, but was denied it due to uneducated doctors. The serial bullies and prosecutor painted lies which they fed this probation officer and she bought all of them. I never had one conversation with the woman. She knew nothing about me other than what these people who were spinning lies had told her. There was an overwhelming amount of evidence that I had been extremely successful in recovery and indeed had been for quite some time when she wrote her report. There was also over whelming evidence I tried to treat my pain with something other than narcotics and was blocked. None of the people who could attest to this were contacted. This was done to sway the judge against me.
The difference between SIS and regular probation is significant, with SIS the charge comes off the record if the probation is completed successfully. Besides the short sentence Diana got this is extremely important in looking at this case. The beauty of SIS probation is that it gives people on probation an extra incentive to stay out of trouble because the charge will come off their record if they do and is a particularly useful tool for people in recovery from substances. One reason for not giving it in a particular case is they may want that person to violate probation so they have a reason to send them back to prison. I believe that in both my case and Sherry Johnston’s case this was one rationale of the department of law. If this should happen in either case it would be a big victory for them. Unmistakably another reason is to place a stigma on someone they have a grudge with. There were people with political power who had grudges against both myself and Sherry Johnston. If I was Sherry Johnston I would consider security issues around potential planting of material to get her incarcerated. Be careful Sherry. In my case they even arrested me on a clearly false charge in an attempt to facilitate this process. This contributed hugely to my becoming even more ill with complex PTSD because I believed the United States was a democracy and that there was justice in the courts. This is a false belief and when people find out it is not true it tears at the fabric of their souls. I am a fighter for truth and against injustice, so they really came after me.
Most people with felony convictions in Alaska carry for the rest of their life a record which is easily accessed on line. A record which bars them from section 8 housing, other social services, employment, and the ability to rent a decent place to live, often causing them to be homeless. No, there is no law they can’t work or rent an apartment, but when their record is accessed they are rejected. Also, as I have found out when you are poor some of the places you can afford are worse than being homeless. A felony record also prevents people from traveling to many countries or serving in public office. This imposes a lifelong sentence of the stigma of being a convicted felon and causes social disability which often prevents former inmates from being able to rehabilitate themselves, thus facilitating more criminal activity out of lack of alternatives. For an addicted person who just gets out of prison having no treatment and having not learned any new coping mechanisms, this is a set up for continued chemical dependency. For a woman who had committed a string of serial burglaries, especially while bringing her child with her this sentence is unheard of and is a clear case of political favoritism of the most blatant kind. As we know the holy Palin-crime is a blessed event and no stigma shall be applied.
The Palin family had most likely had contact with Mr. Turcott before the hearing and the imagination would not have to stretch too far to a place where more money was being exchanged than the check received in the courtroom, to someone, somewhere. This may or may not have happened, but come on, do you think he would have been so understanding if Diana was not connected? As I typed this I could see in my mind Mr. Turcott and Todd Palin indignantly denying such accusations and I just smiled. All I am saying is I really have to wonder knowing how ethically challenged the wife of Diana‘s brother is and that Todd is a willing participant in her unethical operations. Of course it is also very clear that Diana had no way to come up with this money presented in the courtroom, so it had to come from an outside source. Whether it came directly from Sarah and Todd or if channeled from them through another relative, church or organization, the origins of that check are intriguing. She was stealing money when arrested and certainly has not been working since. Judge White said Diana’s name had nothing to do with the sentencing. By making that statement she knew the sentence that she was handing down was going to be controversial, and seen as corrupt by large numbers of people. Is Judge White interested in politics or is she just afraid?
If Diana had been someone else or had she been stuck with the public defender agency representing her she would have gotten a sentence of several years and the judge would not care that she had an addiction.
This is how our legal system is used by slimy flexian-types. The prison system is full of people who don’t get treatment for addictions which lead them to commit crimes. The legal system is used to demonize some people such as Sherry Johnston or myself and then another person whose crimes spanned a long period of time, is painted as being the ill victim. People only become aware of this when they have contact with the courts personally. It is always very shocking. Our courts are not about justice, they are about politics. The judges go along with what those who have political power want, we have just seen this in the supreme court. It is not necessarily politicians who hold the political clout as we have learned the hard way recently, it is often corporations. Norton Sound Health Corporation in Nome Alaska in my case had a huge amount of control over especially the prosecutor, but also the public defender agency, the probation officer, and the judge.
I had worked my way through college and worked hard my whole life, while I had some rather significant health problems, including autism, interstitial cystitis, atypical trigeminal neuralgia, and CFIDS/ME. The fact that I had done a lot of good in my life was beside the point. The mitigating circumstances were beside the point. I was painted as evil to protect the serial bullies and the corporation from exposure. They did not want the public to know what really goes on there. They knew I wanted more than anything to have a trial and tell the story. They all worked together to prevent that.
The sentencing and treatment by law enforcement of Sherry Johnston, Diana Palin and myself illustrate how corrupt the justice system is in Alaska. They went after Sherry Johnston to exploit her difficult situation and set up the scenario in which she was arrested. How stupid do people have to be to not see that she was targeted to be used by Sarah Palin as a wedge to distance Levi from Bristol? In my wrongful arrest based on false accusation I indeed had my wallet stolen, my cat starved and tortured, and my possessions stolen and destroyed. These crimes against me were done by con men the department of law used to lie about me to have me wrongfully imprisoned. They wanted me to shut up. The two perpetrators of this were never charged with even one crime and the crooked ADA, Mr. Earthman in Nome is still allowed to practice even though he committed professional misconduct. Of course nothing ever happens to the judges, like Esch who issue warrants against no evidence.
In my case I had a psychotic break after getting complex PTSD from workplace bullying of which I was very susceptible because of Aspergers. Sherry, who found herself in a difficult situation in life was having huge financial problems and had turned down selling her medication several times. I had sought help five times from a psychiatrist, tried to get medication from other doctors, and twice contacted attorneys, only to be turned down each time. Clearly we both had mitigating circumstances and had shown that we at least tried to counteract the negatives in the situations we were in. What did Diana do on her own to try and change the situation she was in? Sherry and I were not in the favor of those who controlled the political power, we were at odds with them. Diana Palin is clearly being shown favoritism. This is why there is a wide range of sentencing in Alaska, it depends on who you know, who your attorney is, what your religion is, the color of your skin, how much money you have, and if those with political power(not necessarily politicians) like or dislike you. People are delusional if they think this kind of justice system is representative of a democracy.
Sherry was fortunate that her son was semi-famous at the time and she got one of the best defense lawyers in the state. If this had not happened there is no telling how long she would have been sent to prison. My case happened in a village of less than 3500 people and I have no connections to famous people and being autistic very few people at all. I got stuck with the public defender agency as I could not afford an attorney. In the beginning I suffered the delusion that they were there to defend me. Once I figured out the Public Defender Agency is worse than no attorney I found someone who was interested in taking my case pro-bono as he was stunned by what was happening(from the other side of the state) and this infuriated the prosecutor, the judge, and the public defender. There was actually a big scene one day in the courtroom over it. In the end he recommended I stay with the Public Defender Agency as I needed expert witnesses and I could not afford them.
The public defender agency was never to allow expert witnesses and went to great lengths to prevent me from having them. They hired a psychiatrist who was clearly dishonest, putting over 25 pieces of information in his report about me that were completely fabricated by him(and perhaps my public defender), and his conclusions were so off base I thought he had confused me with someone else. They held him up to me as being an expert on Aspergers, yet he did not know the first thing about it, especially female Aspies. It was an attempt to manipulate me out of the truth and into their unjust world of paper pushing used to send people to prison using pleas(notice I do not call them “plea deals“). This report could not be used of course, but they tried to talk me into using it. In the end they simply lied to me that I would have two expert witnesses and the board of licensing, I had none of these. They told me I could be my own expert witness on two occasions, then would not call me as a witness. It was a manipulation to get me to shut up before the sentencing hearing and the restitution hearing. After my first public defender who was a severe alcoholic which I was forced to keep as an attorney for many long months while bitterly complaining, they gave me two other public defenders who both lied, lied, and lied some more. It is clear they consciously work to get people to take pleas against their best interests. The first one lied to me to get me to take a plea. Then I did not trust her anymore. For my restitution they gave me another attorney in an attempt to foster trust and he lied to me to(he was a prosecutor in Texas just before becoming a PD in AK. Hello!). They use lies to control clients at the PD agency. That is justice for those who dare to speak the truth in Nome or other places in the state of Alaska. It is justice for those who are poor and not in political favor.
Sherry’s case was plastered all over the news media and Diana Palin’s was kept quiet, leaving us wondering what was going on. I was pretty sure I knew what was going on, political manipulation of the court system. Many people wrote about how odd it was Diana’s case was not being talked about day and night by the MSM like Sherry’s was. Diana had a good defense lawyer who was a local guy who knew the judge, prosecutor, and perhaps had influence over the news media. In my case the Nome Nugget printed false information fed to them by the two serial bullies at the hospital and ADA Earthman. In fact the Department of Law even printed false information about me in a snarky(very telling) way in their own online newsletter.
This situation for me has become clearer as time goes by because I was disturbed at the time and then traumatized over and over making me sicker and sicker. (BTW, they know dealing with a corrupt justice system makes people ill and they use that to manipulate people.) Being able to examine what happened now without the veil of overwhelming trauma and anxiety, along with the masses of research I have done on Aspergers and complex PTSD, has helped me understand with great clarity what happened. Aspergers comes with a higher risk than the normal population of psychosis and this psychosis usually happens with overwhelming anxiety. Complex PTSD caused by workplace bullying to which people with Aspergers are more susceptible to harm from also causes psychosis. I also have CFIDS/ME aka Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which is now believed by an overwhelming number of scientists to be caused by a retrovirus(the same category as the aids virus) called XMRV. This causes brain fog, memory problems, pain, and overwhelming fatigue. CFIDS/ME and Aspergers (some scientists believe they are actually the same disease) have co-occurring health problems, gastrointestinal, fibromyalgia, sleep disorders, anxiety disorders, OCD, auto-immune disorders, sensitivities to sensory stimuli, and immune system dysfunction(prison is a really dangerous place for a person with immune system problems). CFIDS has all of these and sore throats, head aches, horrid allergies, tender lymph nodes, vision problems, strange sensations, lots of pain, low grade fever, tinnitus, rashes, dizziness, muscle twitching, chills, night sweats, heat intolerance, and much more. Stress makes everything much worse. I have barely been able to function until recently.
I was very, very ill at the time I committed my offense, both physically and mentally. It is only now that I can see how ill I was and certainly begged the court to let me go somewhere for help, it was not allowed. If I had been a friend of one of the politically powerful people at the hospital rather than the person who stood for excellent care and doing things the way they were supposed to be done I would have gotten a light sentence. They may have even covered up what happened and gotten me help. In fact the woman who was the director of the board of licensing for nursing when this happened told me everyone in my situation got three years of SIS probation and no jail time. They made an exception in my case and gave me jail and regular probation, perhaps because I suffered the disability of not being a Palin. The purpose of SIS is to allow those who do not normally engage in criminal activity to resume their lives without the stigma of the felony charge. They wanted me to be stigmatized, just like they wanted Sherry Johnston to be stigmatized. The news media in both cases fell right in line with their wishes.
It is not that I believe Diana Palin should not have gotten sentenced to treatment for her addiction, I do think this is clearly the right thing to do. I also believe she got justice for her crimes. Addiction changes personalities and leads people to do things they would not normally do. It is not that I believe she should not have gotten SIS probation, I think she should have. I also do not think she should have gotten a long jail sentence. I also agree with the long term treatment she is getting for chemical dependency. I believe she should be given a second chance and I hope she does well. The problem I have is only those who have money and political clout get a fair sentence. What about the rest of us? Why can’t we get justice? Why have me wrongfully imprisoned? Why have my cat starved and tortured? Why have my possessions stolen? Several government agencies, including several divisions of the public defender agency and the governor’s office knew about all of this as it was happening and allowed it. Why are we used to fill up your prisons for crimes less than the one Diana Palin committed. Why in the case of someone like Sherry Johnston did they work so hard to set her up rather than try and help her? BTW, they tried to set me up to buy narcotics from someone based on lies from Norton Sound Health Corporation. The lies were not true and I was not what they tried to paint me to be, so it did not work. Why does the news media work so hard to paint one person negative and go silent on another story? The answers are clear money, politics, and power. Diana Palin’s sentencing is still not in the ADN. The native people in this state have had their culture obliterated. One of the main reasons is they get public defenders for charges which many probably should have never had and get talked into plea deals which are not deals. They then go to prison for ridiculous sentences. When they get out on probation, which is rarely SIS, they get charged with violations of probation and sent back to prison, over and over. Just read the court section of the Nome Nugget.
Here is a section of the fifty page letter I sent to Sarah Palin about my case. The only response I got was her staff telling me the Department of law told them not to talk to me. This section shows not only the malfeasance of the prosecutor, but the incompetence of the public defender agency. They constantly just sat and did not object when the prosecutor just lied his ass off. It also screams out; where the hell was the judge in all of this? The judge was busy not allowing me to go get psychiatric help, ignoring my complaints and letters stubbornly about my drunken public defender and frequently doing what he is well known for, being a horse’s ass.
Mr. Earthman said a lot of things which were not true during this hearing. One blatant lie was that I had lost my nursing license in Washington and here in Alaska. Both of them are expired which means I just did not pay the renewal fee. Maybe he should learn how to do research. Or did he get his information from the current director of the board of licensing? No, that never ever happened. Why did the public defender not object to this? He said I used narcotics while I was working, not true and he has no evidence of this. Not true and no objection. He confabulated that, I said I had been taking pain medicine since I arrived in Nome. What is he talking about? I never said this and it is certainly not true. No objection. He used as evidence forms that I had to fill out because it was my job to do it. No objection. They accused me of taking drugs I am allergic to. They accused me of taking drugs which made no sense. They accused me of taking drugs that were mine and had been prescribed by a doctor. No objections. They did not even get the basic information about the case right. Almost everything he said was untrue and it can be proven. There was no evidence I did anything except take the drugs on that one day. There is a reason for that. There is a lot more information I can provide you about Earthman’s lies and fabricated evidence. If Ada Oklahoma ever needs a DA he can fit the bill. Where the hell was the defense? There is not any defense. The native people in Nome call the public defenders, public pretenders. This is a true description. The constitution says I have a right to a defense. Why was I refused one at every turn?
An appeal was filed. With the erroneous information they had to work with of course it was denied. At this point it has been sent to the superior court for evaluation of the sentence. Gee, what decision do you think they will make? Anyone with integrity and sense who would look at the hearing would know something was very seriously wrong. The discussion of the case which I was wrongfully arrested for never happened at that hearing. All of the sudden Judge Esch ended the hearing abruptly stating they had another hearing that was already scheduled. I called back and told the clerk another hearing was supposed to happen at that time. She said the DA had dismissed the case earlier and when he did it he was angry. He was reported to have signed the dismissal paperwork with an angry flourish. The cowards, I never got even an apology. This incident has killed my poor cat who suffered before her death. It has devastated my life and resulted in almost everything I own being stolen or destroyed. My personal paperwork was almost all destroyed, except for one box. Some of this I needed for my defense. My backpack which had my laptop in it ended up going back to the Homer jail because they would not allow it at Wildwood in Kenai. The CO who had to take it back was angry, the same one who had smoked in the car. When I got the backpack, the laptop had a crack in the back of it. It would have had to receive a great deal of force for that to happen. It has subsequently deteriorated to the point of the hard drive going out. This resulted in my having to write this document again and the loss of hundreds of pictures and more. I also had to bring my laptop with me everywhere I went while I lived at the women’s shelter which also caused trauma to it. For a person with a chronic illness the internet is important.
When I got out of jail I called all over to try and get help. The public defender agency promised me an investigator right away. They never sent one. In the end I found out the name of the man(who was doing the investigation). This was right after speaking to Quinlan Steiner(director of the PD agency) who told me they were investigating the case. The man told me his boss had told him not to investigate the case as they had never gotten the paperwork to tell them to do so. HELLO, are you starting to see a pattern yet? This has all been planned, designed and carried out. They did not defend me nor investigate anything. There was never any intention to defend me. The people in Nome told me they all hang out together and they all decide what the outcome of a case will be together and they work to make it happen. It is indisputably true. Now, I am told I have to pay for all of this. Are you kidding me?
Earthman also stated at this hearing that I had agreed to pay all of the restitution the hospital asked for and that is why he agreed to the plea (the plea that was not a deal). Usually with pleas there is an agreement which is written that states which charges are dropped, what the prosecutor recommends for the sentence, etc. There was nothing and in fact the public defender told me Earthman wanted the judge to decide on all of it. I would never have agreed that I owed all the restitution the hospital requested because first of all I never left with the drugs, second the hospital at first asked for $500 per dose, and third I was never even asked about making a deal about this let alone having it on paper, which is how “plea deals” are done. Earthman just makes it up as he goes. He is also from Texas(just like the public defender I had at this time), born into a family who got rich in the mortuary business. In Texas law enforcement goes to apartment buildings where black people live and just arrest most of them and charge them with drug dealing. They do this because they get money from the federal government for arresting drug dealers. Almost all of these people are innocent. The public defenders who are essentially acting as a branch of the attorney general’s office (department of law in Alaska and the Public Defender Agency work the same way) then start threatening the defendant with lots of years of prison. They get plea deals from frightened innocent people who are not told they will be barred from public housing, jobs and all the rest due to being felons. They then get thrown out of their homes and become homeless. BTW, they also can’t vote and since most blacks are Democrats this helps out the Republican party. And you thought you were living in a democracy, didn‘t you?
This is a slap in the face to me and anyone else who received harsh treatment from the court system in this state. It clearly is saying who you are and how much money you have determines your sentence, in fact it is screaming it from the roof tops. It also glaringly shows that what an attorney from another state said to me about the court system in Alaska when I told him of my arrest was right on, “How much justice do you want to buy?” A doctor I know also said the same exact thing. This attorney told me to leave everything I owned and flee the state. I thought that was wrong and did not do it. I now know that is what I should have done. There is no justice in Alaska, unless your name is Palin. Justice is important to a society. When justice breaks down it promotes lawless acts out of desperation.
Again let me say it is not that I think Diana’s sentence is wrong, I do not. It is the sentences of everyone else in her situation that are wrong and the special treatment of anyone named Palin that has angered me. People who commit crimes because of addiction first and foremost should get treatment. Long term treatment works best. Why are some people demonized and others held up as victims in the same situation? In my case the Nome Nugget wrote that I admitted I was a recovering addict and alcoholic as if that is a bad thing. I don’t even know exactly how long I have not drank as it has been so long. I actually drank much less than many who do not believe their drinking is even a problem at all. I drank rarely, but due to honestly realized when I did it was a problem. Being in recovery is not a bad thing, but a very good thing, and something to be very proud of. I talked about it all the time because there is a high rate of addiction in Nome and in healthcare in general. In fact there was a doctor in Nome giving out huge amounts of narcotics and I had spoken out about it. She was a part of the bullying system there also and one of the reasons I was targeted was her fear of me. It helps others when we discuss addiction openly. They did a great disservice to the community of Nome just to try and make me look bad for something that is positive. You can bet the newspaper staff had the serial bullies and the prosecutor encouraging them to write this propaganda about me.
They allowed Diana Palin to go somewhere and get treatment. When I was incarcerated at Hiland Mountain the heroin addicts which would have similar withdrawal to the type Diana had were just left to go cold turkey. I assume she probably was addicted to Oxycontin. They threw up and had diarrhea all over the place. The corrections officers mocked them and ignored one woman who was bleeding. They would not even give her a clean pair of pants when she had diarrhea all over herself. One very young heroin addict was so ill she could barely walk, they made them do the same things everyone else was doing. She had to go to the dinning room. When she got up to get in line, she passed out. I held her legs up so her brain would be perfused with blood and she would become conscious and she did. The corrections officer screamed at me and said not to touch her. He then screamed at her for faking a seizure. There had been no seizure at all, she passed out which is typical of heroin addicts in withdrawal, he is a dumbshit. They allowed the corrections officers to make medical decisions on inmates and they were quite abusive to anyone who complained about any type of medical issue. It would be interesting to know if Diana went through withdrawal at Hiland Mountain or if she was transferred to a medical facility or even if they put her in the medical unit at Hiland Mountain for withdrawal from narcotics this would be unusual indeed.
AS 12.55.085. Suspending Imposition of Sentence.
(f) The court may not suspend the imposition of sentence of a person who
(3) is convicted of a violation of AS 11.41.230 -11.41.250...
11.41.250 Wreckless Endangerment is one of the crimes against persons. These types of crimes are not supposed to get SIS. Diana Palin was originally charged with three counts of AS 11.41.250, Reckless Endangerment. I do not know what she plead to, they all three may have been dropped. That would make it legal for the judge to give her SIS, but still wrong since no other defendant in her position would have gotten it, they would have gone to jail for years, not gotten SIS probation, had no chemical dependency outpatient treatment, and been smeared by the news media.
Update(correction): I was tired and did not read this statute carefully enough. My bad. It does appear that Diana did take as one of her pleas a count of reckless endangerment, but she would qualify for SIS because if I had read further it states she also would need to have a prior similar charge or felony charge to disqualify her from SIS.
(3) is convicted of a violation of AS 11.41.230 - 11.41.250 or a felony and the person has one or more prior convictions for a misdemeanor violation of AS 11.41 or for a felony or for a violation of a law in this or another jurisdiction having substantially similar elements to an offense defined as a misdemeanor in AS 11.41 or as a felony in this state; for the purposes of this paragraph, a person shall be considered to have a prior conviction even if that conviction has been set aside under (e) of this section or under the equivalent provision of the laws of another jurisdiction.
The Frontiersman so far is the only paper I can find that has had the guts to print this story.
First let me point out that SIS or suspended imposition of sentence is a type of probation. Probation is generally a form of a suspended sentence in which the defendant is not incarcerated, but on supervision in the community. This is confusing because in the legal language they call it suspending the sentence, which is a component of the process. Part of the whole sentence is suspended and sort of held in reserve while being held over the offender’s head to get them to cooperate with the conditions of probation. For instance my sentence was 14.5 months suspended to 45 days, with three years of regular probation. In other words part of the sentence is suspended and probation is used instead and at the same time used as leverage for good behavior. Conditions are given that have to be met which if violated land the person on probation back in prison. It can be anything from not drinking, not driving, not going around children, getting drug treatment, looking for work, not breaking the law, getting urine toxicology screens, etc. In my case conditions of release which happen before being on probation which said I had to obey the law were used as an excuse to have me wrongfully arrested and imprisoned based on a clearly false charge. This is a tool to keep as many as possible incarcerated and punish people such as myself who are outspoken and do not cooperate with the lies and manipulations of the injustice railroad in Alaska.
From the Frontiersman:
Diana Palin, half-sister of Todd Palin, husband of former Gov. Sarah Palin, received what’s called a “suspended imposition of sentence.” Essentially, if she maintains a clean record as a law-abiding citizen, completes drug treatment and otherwise complies with the court’s orders, she won’t have a felony record.
Palin had already spent five months in jail awaiting sentencing. Her time in Akeela House also counts as time served.
Sherry got three years on house arrest. I got 14.5 months reduced to 45 days for one act done when I was mentally incompetent. We both got regular probation. I guess we just weren’t Palin enough in the eyes of the court system in Alaska. Compare our crimes with breaking into a house or using your child to facilitate a crime and it is crystal clear this is outrageous!
“Although it’s an extremely close call, I believe a suspended imposition of sentence is appropriate,” Superior Court Judge Vanessa White said before addressing Palin directly.
What Judge White believes and reality are two different things. Oh, I forgot she is using Palin reality.
“There is no reason you can’t succeed on this probation. You have everything going for you.”
Palin was arrested in April 2009. Police said at the time that she was caught essentially red-handed. A homeowner who’d already had $400 cash stolen from him two days prior saw her pull into his driveway on Mill Site Circle and hid in a bathroom while she entered his house. The homeowner detained her and called police. At some point Palin’s 4-year-old daughter wandered into the house.
At Friday’s hearing, Assistant District Attorney Paul Roetman said that as investigators started looking at the case, they found that Palin had been doing similar things before in her own neighborhood, sometimes using her daughter as cover. For instance, the girl would ask to use a person’s bathroom, which would give Palin a pretext to get into the house and find prescription medications and other things to steal.
So, in many cases it was not just that the daughter was there, she was used as a participant in the crimes. Depending on who the defendant is, many have lost their children for much less.
He said that bringing the daughter along was no small thing. The homeowner that eventually caught Palin said as much in conversations with the district attorney’s office.
“In defending his home, he very well could have endangered that child,” Roetman said. He argued that a suspended imposition of sentence was not appropriate.
The child would also begin to understand eventually the pattern of her mother’s behavior and think that what she was doing was normal and acceptable.
Palin’s attorney, Josh Fannon, said the burglary on Mill Site Circle simply wasn’t comparable to the other thefts in Palin’s neighborhood.
“The other cases described (in a report prepared for the sentencing hearing) are my client lying and being devious,” he said.
Getting into someone’s home to steal their possessions is just “lying and being devious”, it is an example of Palin-crime, not a burgulary, we all know those special Palin forms of crime are not only allowed, but blessed by Jesus himself. They should never be punished by the law. If your son is addicted to Oxycodone and commits a crime send him to another state and let him join the Army, it is a Palin-crime after all, God consecrates the ground all Palin's walk on. Keep in mind many attorneys think lying and being devious in normal, because that is how they themselves function. Ladies and Gentlemen this is legal "truthiness" in action.
He pointed to Palin’s actions since the burglary. She’s currently in an 18-month program of very intensive residential drug treatment at Akeela House in Anchorage. Palin was addicted to opiate painkillers at the time of the burglary. Rarely, he said, has he had a client who’s paid restitution to her victims on the day she was sentenced. But that morning, Fannon said, Palin’s family cut a $2,600 check to pay her victim back. The money, he said, came from Palin’s own funds.
Yea, right. Rarely has he had a client who knows so much about an unethical politician that they are willing to do anything to dummy her up. And rarely has he had to put on such a show for the public. Typical Palin logic that a small amount of money is sufficient to undo any of their wrong doings. If money is given to Diana it then becomes her own funds. Of course we have no idea how much more money may have been spent in the background getting up to this orchestrated scene. While Todd Palin may care about his sister I would imagine Sarah’s only interest is to protect the truth about her and her children from getting out. Diana being sent to prison for years and having all that time to think would be terrifying to Sarah. If the family wanted to support Diana why were not at least part of them in the court room?
Fannon called as a witness Dorothy Pickles, Akeela House’s acting program manager.
Pickles said Palin had shown great progress in the program. What setbacks she’s had were nothing out of the ordinary. As for the burglary itself, Pickles said it was clear to her that Palin wanted someone to step in. She was seeking help.
“If she’d gone into Anchorage and hit random houses she clearly would have had more success,” Pickles said.
But stealing from neighbors who knew her and from the same house twice? “It’s a cry for help, really,” Pickles said. Such an act is not uncommon among addicts, she said.
“They’ll do something really stupid,” Pickles said.
I call BS on Ms. Pickles statement. In her neighborhood she would have had the opportunity to observe people and know their habits, therefore knowing when to break into their homes at the most opportune times. She would have been known to them which facilitates access to their possessions. She would have had reason to be in the neighborhood if she looked suspicious and was stopped. Her schemes of having her daughter ask to go to the bathroom so she could go through the medicine cupboard to take drugs and other things would work much better on her neighbors than strangers in Anchorage. Pickle’s line of logic holds no water at all. Did the Palins donate any money to this program? Just curious.
As for Palin, during her turn to speak, she choked up and took a pause to collect herself in describing how bad she feels for placing her daughter in harm’s way.
“I’m so ashamed for all the hurt that I’ve caused,” she said. “I exposed her to danger, dishonesty and stealing.”
As for the homeowner, who was in court to observe the proceedings, Palin turned around in her seat to address him directly.
“I appreciate the kindness that you showed my daughter,” she said. “You showed her compassion because you recognized that it was not her fault.”
She said she didn’t feel she could ask him for forgiveness, but hoped he would feel a measure of peace knowing that when he caught her he may well have saved her life.
Fannon said that even though his client counts the governor in office at the time of her arrest as a relative, he hoped his client’s last name wouldn’t factor at all into the way the system treated her.
“I don’t think it should help her, but I don’t think it should hurt her,” he said.
For her part, White said Palin’s name didn’t factor into her decision.
“That’s not about her last name,” the judge said. “It’s about whether or not she has a likelihood of rehabilitation. I do find that her prospects of rehabilitation are much better than most people I see in this courtroom.”
Judge Judy: “If it doesn’t make any sense it’s not true.”
The judge and attorneys discussed this before the hearing, I’d be willing to bet on it. Why are her prospects for rehabilitation better? Is it because you actually allowed her to go to treatment instead of plopping her ass down at Hiland Mountain which is done with pretty much everyone else? A place where those with mental illness, low self-esteem, chemical dependency, and poor life skills are made worse by design. Is it because you view someone connected to money and political power as being superior to others? Is it that ‘christian” thingy, Judge White?
The parole officer in Nome was friends with the serial bullies at Norton Sound Health Corporation where I had been psychologically terrorized and denied health care. I told the public defender agency who were also friends with her that she would be compelled to write a negative pre-sentencing report about me by these people at the hospital, as well as the prosecutor. I was assured she would be on maternity leave and would not be the one writing it. My exact words at that time were, “She will bust her ass to write it.” She did bust her ass to write it. She wrote that I had a poor chance for recovery even though I had already been in recovery for over eight years before the relapse which happened on my own pain pills which I had with me when I came to Nome. The main reason for this was the denial by the medical staff to give me Gabapentin for the pain and the overwhelming stress I was under which caused many health issues to flare up. In fact, the medical community would not call this a relapse, they would call it treatment of excruciating pain. The truth is I insist on calling it addiction rather than some kind of tolerance secondary to treatment for pain because I disagree that there is a difference. Addiction is addiction is addiction. The medical communtiy calls addiction caused by the medication they prescribe something other than addiction to keep the patients from having a stigma to prevent lawsuits. Using the medication for the pain was warranted considering the pain I was in, but it did trigger the addiction. There was an alternative treatment which I preferred, but was denied it due to uneducated doctors. The serial bullies and prosecutor painted lies which they fed this probation officer and she bought all of them. I never had one conversation with the woman. She knew nothing about me other than what these people who were spinning lies had told her. There was an overwhelming amount of evidence that I had been extremely successful in recovery and indeed had been for quite some time when she wrote her report. There was also over whelming evidence I tried to treat my pain with something other than narcotics and was blocked. None of the people who could attest to this were contacted. This was done to sway the judge against me.
The difference between SIS and regular probation is significant, with SIS the charge comes off the record if the probation is completed successfully. Besides the short sentence Diana got this is extremely important in looking at this case. The beauty of SIS probation is that it gives people on probation an extra incentive to stay out of trouble because the charge will come off their record if they do and is a particularly useful tool for people in recovery from substances. One reason for not giving it in a particular case is they may want that person to violate probation so they have a reason to send them back to prison. I believe that in both my case and Sherry Johnston’s case this was one rationale of the department of law. If this should happen in either case it would be a big victory for them. Unmistakably another reason is to place a stigma on someone they have a grudge with. There were people with political power who had grudges against both myself and Sherry Johnston. If I was Sherry Johnston I would consider security issues around potential planting of material to get her incarcerated. Be careful Sherry. In my case they even arrested me on a clearly false charge in an attempt to facilitate this process. This contributed hugely to my becoming even more ill with complex PTSD because I believed the United States was a democracy and that there was justice in the courts. This is a false belief and when people find out it is not true it tears at the fabric of their souls. I am a fighter for truth and against injustice, so they really came after me.
Most people with felony convictions in Alaska carry for the rest of their life a record which is easily accessed on line. A record which bars them from section 8 housing, other social services, employment, and the ability to rent a decent place to live, often causing them to be homeless. No, there is no law they can’t work or rent an apartment, but when their record is accessed they are rejected. Also, as I have found out when you are poor some of the places you can afford are worse than being homeless. A felony record also prevents people from traveling to many countries or serving in public office. This imposes a lifelong sentence of the stigma of being a convicted felon and causes social disability which often prevents former inmates from being able to rehabilitate themselves, thus facilitating more criminal activity out of lack of alternatives. For an addicted person who just gets out of prison having no treatment and having not learned any new coping mechanisms, this is a set up for continued chemical dependency. For a woman who had committed a string of serial burglaries, especially while bringing her child with her this sentence is unheard of and is a clear case of political favoritism of the most blatant kind. As we know the holy Palin-crime is a blessed event and no stigma shall be applied.
The Palin family had most likely had contact with Mr. Turcott before the hearing and the imagination would not have to stretch too far to a place where more money was being exchanged than the check received in the courtroom, to someone, somewhere. This may or may not have happened, but come on, do you think he would have been so understanding if Diana was not connected? As I typed this I could see in my mind Mr. Turcott and Todd Palin indignantly denying such accusations and I just smiled. All I am saying is I really have to wonder knowing how ethically challenged the wife of Diana‘s brother is and that Todd is a willing participant in her unethical operations. Of course it is also very clear that Diana had no way to come up with this money presented in the courtroom, so it had to come from an outside source. Whether it came directly from Sarah and Todd or if channeled from them through another relative, church or organization, the origins of that check are intriguing. She was stealing money when arrested and certainly has not been working since. Judge White said Diana’s name had nothing to do with the sentencing. By making that statement she knew the sentence that she was handing down was going to be controversial, and seen as corrupt by large numbers of people. Is Judge White interested in politics or is she just afraid?
If Diana had been someone else or had she been stuck with the public defender agency representing her she would have gotten a sentence of several years and the judge would not care that she had an addiction.
This is how our legal system is used by slimy flexian-types. The prison system is full of people who don’t get treatment for addictions which lead them to commit crimes. The legal system is used to demonize some people such as Sherry Johnston or myself and then another person whose crimes spanned a long period of time, is painted as being the ill victim. People only become aware of this when they have contact with the courts personally. It is always very shocking. Our courts are not about justice, they are about politics. The judges go along with what those who have political power want, we have just seen this in the supreme court. It is not necessarily politicians who hold the political clout as we have learned the hard way recently, it is often corporations. Norton Sound Health Corporation in Nome Alaska in my case had a huge amount of control over especially the prosecutor, but also the public defender agency, the probation officer, and the judge.
The sentencing and treatment by law enforcement of Sherry Johnston, Diana Palin and myself illustrate how corrupt the justice system is in Alaska. They went after Sherry Johnston to exploit her difficult situation and set up the scenario in which she was arrested. How stupid do people have to be to not see that she was targeted to be used by Sarah Palin as a wedge to distance Levi from Bristol? In my wrongful arrest based on false accusation I indeed had my wallet stolen, my cat starved and tortured, and my possessions stolen and destroyed. These crimes against me were done by con men the department of law used to lie about me to have me wrongfully imprisoned. They wanted me to shut up. The two perpetrators of this were never charged with even one crime and the crooked ADA, Mr. Earthman in Nome is still allowed to practice even though he committed professional misconduct. Of course nothing ever happens to the judges, like Esch who issue warrants against no evidence.
In my case I had a psychotic break after getting complex PTSD from workplace bullying of which I was very susceptible because of Aspergers. Sherry, who found herself in a difficult situation in life was having huge financial problems and had turned down selling her medication several times. I had sought help five times from a psychiatrist, tried to get medication from other doctors, and twice contacted attorneys, only to be turned down each time. Clearly we both had mitigating circumstances and had shown that we at least tried to counteract the negatives in the situations we were in. What did Diana do on her own to try and change the situation she was in? Sherry and I were not in the favor of those who controlled the political power, we were at odds with them. Diana Palin is clearly being shown favoritism. This is why there is a wide range of sentencing in Alaska, it depends on who you know, who your attorney is, what your religion is, the color of your skin, how much money you have, and if those with political power(not necessarily politicians) like or dislike you. People are delusional if they think this kind of justice system is representative of a democracy.
Sherry was fortunate that her son was semi-famous at the time and she got one of the best defense lawyers in the state. If this had not happened there is no telling how long she would have been sent to prison. My case happened in a village of less than 3500 people and I have no connections to famous people and being autistic very few people at all. I got stuck with the public defender agency as I could not afford an attorney. In the beginning I suffered the delusion that they were there to defend me. Once I figured out the Public Defender Agency is worse than no attorney I found someone who was interested in taking my case pro-bono as he was stunned by what was happening(from the other side of the state) and this infuriated the prosecutor, the judge, and the public defender. There was actually a big scene one day in the courtroom over it. In the end he recommended I stay with the Public Defender Agency as I needed expert witnesses and I could not afford them.
The public defender agency was never to allow expert witnesses and went to great lengths to prevent me from having them. They hired a psychiatrist who was clearly dishonest, putting over 25 pieces of information in his report about me that were completely fabricated by him(and perhaps my public defender), and his conclusions were so off base I thought he had confused me with someone else. They held him up to me as being an expert on Aspergers, yet he did not know the first thing about it, especially female Aspies. It was an attempt to manipulate me out of the truth and into their unjust world of paper pushing used to send people to prison using pleas(notice I do not call them “plea deals“). This report could not be used of course, but they tried to talk me into using it. In the end they simply lied to me that I would have two expert witnesses and the board of licensing, I had none of these. They told me I could be my own expert witness on two occasions, then would not call me as a witness. It was a manipulation to get me to shut up before the sentencing hearing and the restitution hearing. After my first public defender who was a severe alcoholic which I was forced to keep as an attorney for many long months while bitterly complaining, they gave me two other public defenders who both lied, lied, and lied some more. It is clear they consciously work to get people to take pleas against their best interests. The first one lied to me to get me to take a plea. Then I did not trust her anymore. For my restitution they gave me another attorney in an attempt to foster trust and he lied to me to(he was a prosecutor in Texas just before becoming a PD in AK. Hello!). They use lies to control clients at the PD agency. That is justice for those who dare to speak the truth in Nome or other places in the state of Alaska. It is justice for those who are poor and not in political favor.
Sherry’s case was plastered all over the news media and Diana Palin’s was kept quiet, leaving us wondering what was going on. I was pretty sure I knew what was going on, political manipulation of the court system. Many people wrote about how odd it was Diana’s case was not being talked about day and night by the MSM like Sherry’s was. Diana had a good defense lawyer who was a local guy who knew the judge, prosecutor, and perhaps had influence over the news media. In my case the Nome Nugget printed false information fed to them by the two serial bullies at the hospital and ADA Earthman. In fact the Department of Law even printed false information about me in a snarky(very telling) way in their own online newsletter.
This situation for me has become clearer as time goes by because I was disturbed at the time and then traumatized over and over making me sicker and sicker. (BTW, they know dealing with a corrupt justice system makes people ill and they use that to manipulate people.) Being able to examine what happened now without the veil of overwhelming trauma and anxiety, along with the masses of research I have done on Aspergers and complex PTSD, has helped me understand with great clarity what happened. Aspergers comes with a higher risk than the normal population of psychosis and this psychosis usually happens with overwhelming anxiety. Complex PTSD caused by workplace bullying to which people with Aspergers are more susceptible to harm from also causes psychosis. I also have CFIDS/ME aka Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which is now believed by an overwhelming number of scientists to be caused by a retrovirus(the same category as the aids virus) called XMRV. This causes brain fog, memory problems, pain, and overwhelming fatigue. CFIDS/ME and Aspergers (some scientists believe they are actually the same disease) have co-occurring health problems, gastrointestinal, fibromyalgia, sleep disorders, anxiety disorders, OCD, auto-immune disorders, sensitivities to sensory stimuli, and immune system dysfunction(prison is a really dangerous place for a person with immune system problems). CFIDS has all of these and sore throats, head aches, horrid allergies, tender lymph nodes, vision problems, strange sensations, lots of pain, low grade fever, tinnitus, rashes, dizziness, muscle twitching, chills, night sweats, heat intolerance, and much more. Stress makes everything much worse. I have barely been able to function until recently.
I was very, very ill at the time I committed my offense, both physically and mentally. It is only now that I can see how ill I was and certainly begged the court to let me go somewhere for help, it was not allowed. If I had been a friend of one of the politically powerful people at the hospital rather than the person who stood for excellent care and doing things the way they were supposed to be done I would have gotten a light sentence. They may have even covered up what happened and gotten me help. In fact the woman who was the director of the board of licensing for nursing when this happened told me everyone in my situation got three years of SIS probation and no jail time. They made an exception in my case and gave me jail and regular probation, perhaps because I suffered the disability of not being a Palin. The purpose of SIS is to allow those who do not normally engage in criminal activity to resume their lives without the stigma of the felony charge. They wanted me to be stigmatized, just like they wanted Sherry Johnston to be stigmatized. The news media in both cases fell right in line with their wishes.
It is not that I believe Diana Palin should not have gotten sentenced to treatment for her addiction, I do think this is clearly the right thing to do. I also believe she got justice for her crimes. Addiction changes personalities and leads people to do things they would not normally do. It is not that I believe she should not have gotten SIS probation, I think she should have. I also do not think she should have gotten a long jail sentence. I also agree with the long term treatment she is getting for chemical dependency. I believe she should be given a second chance and I hope she does well. The problem I have is only those who have money and political clout get a fair sentence. What about the rest of us? Why can’t we get justice? Why have me wrongfully imprisoned? Why have my cat starved and tortured? Why have my possessions stolen? Several government agencies, including several divisions of the public defender agency and the governor’s office knew about all of this as it was happening and allowed it. Why are we used to fill up your prisons for crimes less than the one Diana Palin committed. Why in the case of someone like Sherry Johnston did they work so hard to set her up rather than try and help her? BTW, they tried to set me up to buy narcotics from someone based on lies from Norton Sound Health Corporation. The lies were not true and I was not what they tried to paint me to be, so it did not work. Why does the news media work so hard to paint one person negative and go silent on another story? The answers are clear money, politics, and power. Diana Palin’s sentencing is still not in the ADN. The native people in this state have had their culture obliterated. One of the main reasons is they get public defenders for charges which many probably should have never had and get talked into plea deals which are not deals. They then go to prison for ridiculous sentences. When they get out on probation, which is rarely SIS, they get charged with violations of probation and sent back to prison, over and over. Just read the court section of the Nome Nugget.
Here is a section of the fifty page letter I sent to Sarah Palin about my case. The only response I got was her staff telling me the Department of law told them not to talk to me. This section shows not only the malfeasance of the prosecutor, but the incompetence of the public defender agency. They constantly just sat and did not object when the prosecutor just lied his ass off. It also screams out; where the hell was the judge in all of this? The judge was busy not allowing me to go get psychiatric help, ignoring my complaints and letters stubbornly about my drunken public defender and frequently doing what he is well known for, being a horse’s ass.
Mr. Earthman said a lot of things which were not true during this hearing. One blatant lie was that I had lost my nursing license in Washington and here in Alaska. Both of them are expired which means I just did not pay the renewal fee. Maybe he should learn how to do research. Or did he get his information from the current director of the board of licensing? No, that never ever happened. Why did the public defender not object to this? He said I used narcotics while I was working, not true and he has no evidence of this. Not true and no objection. He confabulated that, I said I had been taking pain medicine since I arrived in Nome. What is he talking about? I never said this and it is certainly not true. No objection. He used as evidence forms that I had to fill out because it was my job to do it. No objection. They accused me of taking drugs I am allergic to. They accused me of taking drugs which made no sense. They accused me of taking drugs that were mine and had been prescribed by a doctor. No objections. They did not even get the basic information about the case right. Almost everything he said was untrue and it can be proven. There was no evidence I did anything except take the drugs on that one day. There is a reason for that. There is a lot more information I can provide you about Earthman’s lies and fabricated evidence. If Ada Oklahoma ever needs a DA he can fit the bill. Where the hell was the defense? There is not any defense. The native people in Nome call the public defenders, public pretenders. This is a true description. The constitution says I have a right to a defense. Why was I refused one at every turn?
An appeal was filed. With the erroneous information they had to work with of course it was denied. At this point it has been sent to the superior court for evaluation of the sentence. Gee, what decision do you think they will make? Anyone with integrity and sense who would look at the hearing would know something was very seriously wrong. The discussion of the case which I was wrongfully arrested for never happened at that hearing. All of the sudden Judge Esch ended the hearing abruptly stating they had another hearing that was already scheduled. I called back and told the clerk another hearing was supposed to happen at that time. She said the DA had dismissed the case earlier and when he did it he was angry. He was reported to have signed the dismissal paperwork with an angry flourish. The cowards, I never got even an apology. This incident has killed my poor cat who suffered before her death. It has devastated my life and resulted in almost everything I own being stolen or destroyed. My personal paperwork was almost all destroyed, except for one box. Some of this I needed for my defense. My backpack which had my laptop in it ended up going back to the Homer jail because they would not allow it at Wildwood in Kenai. The CO who had to take it back was angry, the same one who had smoked in the car. When I got the backpack, the laptop had a crack in the back of it. It would have had to receive a great deal of force for that to happen. It has subsequently deteriorated to the point of the hard drive going out. This resulted in my having to write this document again and the loss of hundreds of pictures and more. I also had to bring my laptop with me everywhere I went while I lived at the women’s shelter which also caused trauma to it. For a person with a chronic illness the internet is important.
When I got out of jail I called all over to try and get help. The public defender agency promised me an investigator right away. They never sent one. In the end I found out the name of the man(who was doing the investigation). This was right after speaking to Quinlan Steiner(director of the PD agency) who told me they were investigating the case. The man told me his boss had told him not to investigate the case as they had never gotten the paperwork to tell them to do so. HELLO, are you starting to see a pattern yet? This has all been planned, designed and carried out. They did not defend me nor investigate anything. There was never any intention to defend me. The people in Nome told me they all hang out together and they all decide what the outcome of a case will be together and they work to make it happen. It is indisputably true. Now, I am told I have to pay for all of this. Are you kidding me?
Earthman also stated at this hearing that I had agreed to pay all of the restitution the hospital asked for and that is why he agreed to the plea (the plea that was not a deal). Usually with pleas there is an agreement which is written that states which charges are dropped, what the prosecutor recommends for the sentence, etc. There was nothing and in fact the public defender told me Earthman wanted the judge to decide on all of it. I would never have agreed that I owed all the restitution the hospital requested because first of all I never left with the drugs, second the hospital at first asked for $500 per dose, and third I was never even asked about making a deal about this let alone having it on paper, which is how “plea deals” are done. Earthman just makes it up as he goes. He is also from Texas(just like the public defender I had at this time), born into a family who got rich in the mortuary business. In Texas law enforcement goes to apartment buildings where black people live and just arrest most of them and charge them with drug dealing. They do this because they get money from the federal government for arresting drug dealers. Almost all of these people are innocent. The public defenders who are essentially acting as a branch of the attorney general’s office (department of law in Alaska and the Public Defender Agency work the same way) then start threatening the defendant with lots of years of prison. They get plea deals from frightened innocent people who are not told they will be barred from public housing, jobs and all the rest due to being felons. They then get thrown out of their homes and become homeless. BTW, they also can’t vote and since most blacks are Democrats this helps out the Republican party. And you thought you were living in a democracy, didn‘t you?
This is a slap in the face to me and anyone else who received harsh treatment from the court system in this state. It clearly is saying who you are and how much money you have determines your sentence, in fact it is screaming it from the roof tops. It also glaringly shows that what an attorney from another state said to me about the court system in Alaska when I told him of my arrest was right on, “How much justice do you want to buy?” A doctor I know also said the same exact thing. This attorney told me to leave everything I owned and flee the state. I thought that was wrong and did not do it. I now know that is what I should have done. There is no justice in Alaska, unless your name is Palin. Justice is important to a society. When justice breaks down it promotes lawless acts out of desperation.
Again let me say it is not that I think Diana’s sentence is wrong, I do not. It is the sentences of everyone else in her situation that are wrong and the special treatment of anyone named Palin that has angered me. People who commit crimes because of addiction first and foremost should get treatment. Long term treatment works best. Why are some people demonized and others held up as victims in the same situation? In my case the Nome Nugget wrote that I admitted I was a recovering addict and alcoholic as if that is a bad thing. I don’t even know exactly how long I have not drank as it has been so long. I actually drank much less than many who do not believe their drinking is even a problem at all. I drank rarely, but due to honestly realized when I did it was a problem. Being in recovery is not a bad thing, but a very good thing, and something to be very proud of. I talked about it all the time because there is a high rate of addiction in Nome and in healthcare in general. In fact there was a doctor in Nome giving out huge amounts of narcotics and I had spoken out about it. She was a part of the bullying system there also and one of the reasons I was targeted was her fear of me. It helps others when we discuss addiction openly. They did a great disservice to the community of Nome just to try and make me look bad for something that is positive. You can bet the newspaper staff had the serial bullies and the prosecutor encouraging them to write this propaganda about me.
They allowed Diana Palin to go somewhere and get treatment. When I was incarcerated at Hiland Mountain the heroin addicts which would have similar withdrawal to the type Diana had were just left to go cold turkey. I assume she probably was addicted to Oxycontin. They threw up and had diarrhea all over the place. The corrections officers mocked them and ignored one woman who was bleeding. They would not even give her a clean pair of pants when she had diarrhea all over herself. One very young heroin addict was so ill she could barely walk, they made them do the same things everyone else was doing. She had to go to the dinning room. When she got up to get in line, she passed out. I held her legs up so her brain would be perfused with blood and she would become conscious and she did. The corrections officer screamed at me and said not to touch her. He then screamed at her for faking a seizure. There had been no seizure at all, she passed out which is typical of heroin addicts in withdrawal, he is a dumbshit. They allowed the corrections officers to make medical decisions on inmates and they were quite abusive to anyone who complained about any type of medical issue. It would be interesting to know if Diana went through withdrawal at Hiland Mountain or if she was transferred to a medical facility or even if they put her in the medical unit at Hiland Mountain for withdrawal from narcotics this would be unusual indeed.
AS 12.55.085. Suspending Imposition of Sentence.
(f) The court may not suspend the imposition of sentence of a person who
(3) is convicted of a violation of AS 11.41.230 -11.41.250...
11.41.250 Wreckless Endangerment is one of the crimes against persons. These types of crimes are not supposed to get SIS. Diana Palin was originally charged with three counts of AS 11.41.250, Reckless Endangerment. I do not know what she plead to, they all three may have been dropped. That would make it legal for the judge to give her SIS, but still wrong since no other defendant in her position would have gotten it, they would have gone to jail for years, not gotten SIS probation, had no chemical dependency outpatient treatment, and been smeared by the news media.
Update(correction): I was tired and did not read this statute carefully enough. My bad. It does appear that Diana did take as one of her pleas a count of reckless endangerment, but she would qualify for SIS because if I had read further it states she also would need to have a prior similar charge or felony charge to disqualify her from SIS.
(3) is convicted of a violation of AS 11.41.230 - 11.41.250 or a felony and the person has one or more prior convictions for a misdemeanor violation of AS 11.41 or for a felony or for a violation of a law in this or another jurisdiction having substantially similar elements to an offense defined as a misdemeanor in AS 11.41 or as a felony in this state; for the purposes of this paragraph, a person shall be considered to have a prior conviction even if that conviction has been set aside under (e) of this section or under the equivalent provision of the laws of another jurisdiction.
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