CORRUPT CAPITAL COURTS

The Washington Post has a long two-part series detailing corruption in the DC probate court system, mainly in the form of attorneys bilking helpless clients:

The court’s probate division, which is mandated to care for more than 2,000 elderly, mentally ill and mentally retarded residents, has repeatedly allowed its charges to be forgotten and victimized, an investigation by The Washington Post has found. Chaotic record-keeping, lax oversight and low expectations in this division of the court have created a culture in which guardians are rarely held accountable. They are often handed new work even when they have ignored their charges or let them languish in unsafe conditions.

The articles: Part 1, Part 2, and individual case profiles.

(Hat tip: WizBang!)

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  1. When one files something in the overwhelmingly corrupt courts all over this country, they start out with;
    COMES NOW; (in this case) Franklin D. Vipperman, Author/ Plaintiff/Petitioner, in Pro se (proper person) who hereby makes notice to the entire World, that he has filed a petition for a Writ Of Certiorari in the United States Supreme Court Docketed 9/25/03 in Case No. 03-453 challenging his illegal, unconstitutional, horrendous, despicable, corrupt conviction, and all the bums that caused it, and are continuing pursuant to conspiracy, in keeping it all covered-up:

    And shows for good cause for the Writ Of Certiorari to issue that;
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    Wouldn’t it be amazing and near inconceivable, if someday someone
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    the real truth about the overwhelmingly corrupt legal and judicial systems,
    police, prosecutors, judges, courts, alleged defense attorneys, and
    politicians all over this country. That have been forever living off the public,
    and lying to and deceiving the public, since the beginning of time.
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    Vipperman, Author of the three recently published book series, The Deal
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    which are the first of their kind in history that indisputably brings it all to
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    defense/appeal attorney Jeffrey D. Sobel, who had since became a
    district court judge, to be removed from the bench in recent elections.

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    freedoms, properties and possessions, and birth given Constitutional Rights.

    STATEMENT OF THE CASE

    Franklin Delano Vipperman, Plaintiff/Petitioner, herein after Vipperman, was arrested while driving into his home driveway in the late evening hours of Friday, April 20, 1973, in Las Vegas, Nevada, by two plain clothed detectives, one black, one white, driving an unmarked late model gold colored 4 door Chevrolet. Vipperman’s wife was in his house, and he had just spoken to her over the telephone and told her he was on his way home. Vipperman first believing the police were individuals his ex business partner in a small used car lot William (Frenchy) Parquette had after him, thought they were there to harm him. When he finally realized they were probably police, he began asking them why he was being arrested. They refused to answer him, and only responded with citing over and over again, Vipperman’s rights under Miranda.
    CLICK TO READ FULL CASE:
    http://www.frankvip.com