Friday, December 7, 2012

Taking Advantage of the Disabled

Clerk of Court
Civil Division
Attention: Gail P. Henson
7 Church Circle
Annapolis, MD 21061

CC: Nancy Davis-Loomis,
Alison L. Atsi,
J. Michael Wachs
William C. Mulford
Robert Duckworth
Lavonne Watkins
Katherine Nutile
Ronald Bateman


To Whom It May Concern:

My name is James Armstead. I am writing this letter to explain the events that took place in court on December, 5, 2012. I am not sure who to turn to with my problem so I am sending this letter to all parties involved in this event, all parties involved in the case being mentioned, and all parties who have a say-so in court room decisions.

My wife and I went to the court yesterday, December 5th, for a child custody case (Case 02C11163021) around 8:45. For the past 7 months, every time that I come into the Circuit Court house, I have been stopped at the door, and every time, it is a different story. The first time, the said it was because they claimed that I called and was being rude to the court administrator supervisor on the phone. My wife, Krystal Armstead, went to the sheriff’s office and asked them if she could get documentation of the complaint. They had her sitting in the office for nearly an hour before coming back to tell her that she could not get a copy of the complaint because the case was still opened. They told her to wait a few weeks and then come back. When she came back, the went to the civil clerk to ask her why was I being escorted to court and they gave her a different reason, saying that I allegedly called the office and was rude with the civil clerk supervisor. My wife asked to talk to the sheriff who took the report. He was very rude with her, saying she didn’t have the authority to receive the paperwork from the office. My wife continued to return to the Circuit Court week after week, up until yesterday when we both asked to speak to the luitenant and her captain. They told me that I am not permitted into the court room with being escorted due to the alleged “threats to state official” pending charges that I have (case 02K12002212). They claimed that there is no written complaint, but that the employees fear for their safety. My name has been defamed all over the entire court system. When my wife calls to inquire about cases, they tell her that they need to speak with me. But when I call, they twist my words around and make false complaints saying that I threatened them.

During the custody hearing yesterday with Judge Alison Asti, I felt discriminated against and taken advantage of. I am severely dyslexic. I cannot read above a 2nd grade level. And I am often taken advantage of for my disability. My wife is the one who types all of my court documents, and helps to interpret mail from the court that is delivered to my home. During my merits hearing, Judge Atsi presented an order that was signed by Judge William Mulford stating that the “current child support order in Baltimore City is still in effect until further order of the court”. This document was dated March 9th, 2012. According to Master Bruce, the case in Baltimore City was invalid because “the case was out of jurisdiction since neither party ever lived in Baltimore City, and that the case would now be heard and opened in Anne Arundel County, the county of proper jurisdiction.”

Yes, I was very upset when I was presented with the order from Judge Mulford after my wife read out the document and explained to me what it said. I never received the document. Judge Atsi claims that I did receive the order because the court history docket states that all mail was sent out to each party. There is no proof that we received the mail, and my wife affirms that she never received the mail because she is the one who responds to all court documents in my behalf if we receive them. This has got to be at least the 10th or so time that the court claims that they mailed out documentation to me, and I didn’t receive it. And by the time I find out about the orders or court decisions, I am past my time limit to appeal the decision.

Judge Atsi claims that I knew of the order because my wife filed exceptions to Master Bruces’ ruling. No, my wife filed an exception to Master Bruce giving Matta Karimu (the other party in the case) more time to file her answer when this is the 3rd time that she was in default of filing an answer to my complaints.

From the moment that my wife and I entered the court room yesterday, it seems as though Judge Atsi knew of her decision. Custody Evaluator Katherine Nutile was a witness at the hearing. Though she claimed that her custody evaluation was complete, it wasn’t because she never completed her custody evaluation on me. She was supposed to come over our home and interview myself and my children, and basically look at our living situation. She never showed up, despite my wife’s many efforts to contact her. When she appeared in court, she told us that the reason that she did not come to our home was because she was instructed by Judge Michael Wachs not to come to our home because of the pending "threats to state official" charges! She claimed she mailed the court mailed the custody evaluation to our home, but we never got that letter either! The Judge sided with her saying that the docket shows that the letters were mailed to all parties. On the docket, it stated that Matta Karimu’s mail was returned back to the court house though she claims that she received the mail. That goes to show that the court docket is not always correct, since the person entering the information is only human and makes mistakes.

I didn’t want to hear any more after speaking with Katherine Nutile. She first stated that Judge Wachs told her not to come over my home, and that she had an email from him stating that he did not want her to complete her evaluation on me because of the pending criminal charges. Then after my wife asked her 3 times to read the email, she changed her story and said that it was Judge Nancy Davis-Loomis who sent the email, telling her that “Judge Wachs was on vacation” and that SHE  was the judge who told her not to come over my house due to the pending charges.

Throughout that case, my wife’s whole testimony was interrupted. The judge basically mocked the things that she said to support me husband or tried to turn her words around. My wife tried to explain to her why we believed the case in Baltimore should have been dismissed and considerer null and void, because not only was the complaint filed in the wrong county (because Matta Karimu never lived in Baltimore City nor did she live in the city when she filed the case) and I never received notice of the child support/ custody order because I was living in North Carolina at the time. There was no DNA test established and I never received a summons to go to court. The case was in effect for 2 and a half years before I even found out about it, and the only reason I found out about it was because I was pulled over for driving on a suspended license that was suspended for “noncompliance with a child support order” that I never even knew I was on! It wasn’t until then that I found out about the child support order in Baltimore. My wife and I had to go to Baltimore City to reopen the case just to ask for a dismissal.

Judge Atsi refused to talk about that case because she said that case was not relevant and that “it was in the past.” The past affects the future in case no one realizes that. Judge Atsi didn’t want to hear the history behind the case which would have really helped out my case yesterday. She spent so much time telling us that all of the issues that both myself and my wife tried to raise are in the past, and I need to move forward. She didn't care what we had to say, and seemed to mention things that she knew would make me upset. She mocked my wife when my wife tried to explain to her what she thought would be an appropriate visiting schedule for my son if I were to get full custody of my child. Judge Atsi tried to mock her by saying, “So, you think it’s appropriate to just give James custody of the child after the child has been living with his mother for 7 years? If you were a judge, what would you do?” She didn’t take into consideration the fact that Matta Karimu has KEPT me out of my son’s life for the past 2 and half years. Matta has placed over 17 false charges against me all as a result of trying to visit my child, which my wife tried to explain in court but was interrupted.

I repeatedly asked Judge Atsi could we continue the case to give us time to get a lawyer and give us time to try and appeal the order that we never received in the mail. Judge Atsi basically lied saying that she had no authority to make any postponements or continuances. We must have went back and forth until about 12:00 because she refused to continue the case.  Around 12:00, she told me that if I wanted to postpone my case, Ihad to speak with Judge Wachs because he was the postponement judge. She said we had to wait on him until 1:30! Our kids got out of school (in Glen Burnie, NOT Annapolis) early yesterday because of teacher work day and we had to be home to get them off the bus! She didn't care about that. She just told us that court was adjourned until 1:30 or we could see the postponement judge to get the case set off. We spent nearly an hour on the phone trying to find someone to pick our kids up and drop them over the babysitter’s house, who doesn't have a phone.

When we went to the Judge J. Michael Wachs at 1:30, he was confused as to why we were even before him. Judge Asti had told him that we wanted to dismiss the case and start over! He said since it was her case, SHE had to be the one to dismiss the case, postpone the case, or continue the case and she knew that! We sat in his room waiting to hear that for at least 40 minutes! We went back to her room, and she was basically smiling saying she didn't know she had "the authority" to postpone or continue the case. I was upset because no one is stupid enough to believe that a judge doesn't know what authority she has when she has the power to do almost anything in court! This isn’t my first time in court, and I wish the system would stop treating me like I am stupid just because they know I am disabled.

The case was long and drawn out for no reason. I didn't want to testify because he wanted to appeal the case at that point or continue it to another day. The judge had the nerve to say she wouldn't continue it because we had already spent all day in court! I had asked to continue the case from the beginning! She then said that I could either testify or he could dismiss the case and start over. I was forced into testifying because I wanted to continue the case. My wife’s testimony didn’t mean anything to the Judge because my wife cannot “speak” for me. I wanted my wife to speak for me because every time I speak out in court or even over the phone, my words are changed or either people often lie about what they say that I said.

I just wanted to get the entire case over with. They were already trying to do what they could to prove that I have an attitude, to try to support the other case involving "threats to a state official", a case which had nothing to do with whether or not I am capable of raising my own child.

Judge Atsi smiled while giving her ruling when she told me that I obviously had anger issues that I needed to deal with and that there were “programs to assist with that”. She said I needed to get some help. She tried to make us look stupid when we tried to explain to her that the reason I hadn't seen my son in almost 3 years was because the mother put over 17 charges on me, and every time I tried to see his son, the mother would call the police on me. The judge claimed to be neutral in the decision, but I knew by the way she was talking that she already had in her head that she wasn't going to help us.

Court went all the way until 4:35, when Judge Atsi claimed that the case had to be over by 4:00. I did not get the chance to present my case the way that I wanted to present it, and Judge Atsi would not let me explain the entire case. Though my wife is not a lawyer, she should have been allowed to speak for me especially when the court claims that I have an “anger problem”. My wife filled out the correct documentation to be able to accommodate me in court but the documents that she presents are always ignored.

How can a Judge purposely say whatever he or she wants to provoke you, but then penalize you saying that YOU are the one with the anger problem! She heard Matta herself say that she had several cases against me that were all dismissed or dropped. She heard Matta herself say that she didn’t want me near her son. She heard Matta say that she lied to have me fired from my old job. She heard everything that Matta did to hurt my relationship with my son, yet she still found it suitable to leave physical and legal custody with Matta Karimu, a mother who leaves her children at home alone, is very promiscuous, tried to commit suicide, and who manipulated the system to make it look like I am a criminal so that I can’t even attempt to go visit my son. The only ruling she could come up with was seeing my son at a parenting center every other weekend to help “reestablish our relationship”. What she wanted to say was that I have an “attitude” and that I do not deserve to be around my son, or that I need to be supervised around him.

The point I am trying to make is that the system is taking advantage of my disability. Everyone I talk to on the phone in the court house and even the child support enforcement office twists my words around so say that I am threatening them, and that is only after they get tired of me asking questions to mistakes that have been done on the cases that I have on file.

I am sick and tired of being taken advantage of. My wife has filed all of the correct paperwork to help my cases, but all her hard work is going ignored just because she is not a licensed lawyer. My life has been endangered and ruined over false accusations and false statements to police. I can’t even drive up the street or go outside with my kids without the police department watching. For months, they were following my wife. Yet, when she goes to the police department to ask questions about complaints put in against me, they claim there is no file just a verbal complaint.

Who wouldn’t be frustrated when even his own wife is being told she can’t do anything to help her husband because she is not a lawyer? Everything I say is a threat whether I intend it to be or not. You can only push a person to a certain point because he gets mad or frustrated or acts out. When slaves or anyone who is being held against his or her will get tired of being trapped in a cage, what do you think they are going to do when they get tired of being mistreated? Though that statement is not a threat, I know one of you reading this letter will take it as such! I am only going to take so much, especially when I try to do things the professional way.

For each of the people involved in this situation there are questions below that pertain to each person. I would appreciate if you would give me a call back upon receipt of this letter, since I cannot call the court house to ask ANYTHING without being lied on.

1)      Judge Nancy Davis- Loomis: Why did you tell Ms. Katherine Nutile not to visit my home on August 13th when I had a custody evaluation scheduled? Ms. Nutile told my wife that she it was okay to keep her informed about the case, and that once I got out of jail, to call her to reschedule the evaluation. What did a case involving “threats to a state official” (case 02K12002212), a case that I wasn’t even found guilty of, have anything to do with whether or not I can raise a child?! You cannot use that case against me to say whether not I can visit my son especially when I have not been found guilty. If you look over my record, Matta has placed nearly 17 charges against me, all of which have been dismissed. The current pending criminal case I have now involves calling child support, asking questions about mistakes done on file. I never threatened anyone nor is there proof that I did.
2)      Lavonne Watkins: I was not properly evaluated at my home due to Katherine Nutile not conducting her home visit. Visiting my home would have helped my case, yet she didn’t visit my home because a judge sent her an email telling her not to come. The order was for her to come to my home to conduct a visit with myself and my children, and it never happened. The order wasn’t revised to say to not visit my home, so why didn’t she do what was discussed with my wife and reschedule my home visit?
3)      Gail Henson: Mail is not being delivered to my home even though the court has my correct address. I am missing out on time to file appeals because orders and rulings are not being sent to my home in a timely manner if at all! Your clerk’s office is hurting my cases. I am disabled and cannot read. My wife is doing all she can do to help me but there isn’t much she can do if you don’t send the mail to our home.
4)      Ronald Bateman: If there are truly any complaints in the sheriff’s department barring me from coming into the court house without being escorted, I need documentation of such. Your office claimed that there was no file, yet my home was raided on August 10th because there was a complaint stating that I threatened one of the employees. All of a sudden in August there was written documentation. If someone says that I did or said something, there is documentation in your file. I would like to have it of I will have to sue and hire a lawyer to get the documentation for me. I have been asking ever since May 2012 and it’s now December, 7 months later.

Upon receipt of this letter, I would appreciate a phone call or a letter in return. I am being taken advantage of and no one will help me. Racism and discrimination have a lot to do with my ill treatment, I don’t care what anyone says. Every case I have in the system is based off of hear-say and no evidence, and I am tired of these problems going on ignored.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Letter to Public Defender for "Threats to Police Officer"

Mr. Karl Gordan,
This letter is in regards to my husband, James Armstead’s case, case number 3A00254173. Though I am not an official party in this case, I am in involved in this case for the simple fact that:
·         The arrest/ warrant/ search and seizure occurred in MY home, where only MY name is on the lease and not my husband’s.
·         I am a witness in this case.
·         I am the one who posted a $100,000 bail so I am the one responsible making sure he shows up to court so that his bail is not revoked.
·         I am the one who helps my husband with all of his court documentation.
In your email, you said that you weren’t sure “what obligation I believed the State had” for giving me any information regarding the case when I am not a lawyer or the defendant. I didn’t say the State was obligated to give me anything. But when I helped my husband submit his own Motion for Discovery, it should have been sent to HIM because he requested it. I know how the process works; we have been to court long enough to know that lawyers submit a motion for discovery . But when I was told that you hadn’t submitted on, I submitted one on my husband’s behalf. He can't even go into the court room without being harassed. We went to court for a ticket a few weeks ago and Office Osborne (in the Circuit Court) tried to arrest him for asking her where was the paperwork stating why he couldn't come in the Circuit Court.
You have been his attorney twice before. One of the times being when charges of “Assault” were dropped because the other party was repeatedly putting in false charges (over 17) against him. My husband and you had gotten into an argument because he was trying to get you to show the State’s Attorney, Karen Anderson Scott, some documentation proving that the other party was repeatedly lying on him to the police department. You didn’t believe it was relevant. You and my husband had to argue for you to go to the State’s Attorney and show her that the other party purposely showed false evidence to the police department to have a warrant issued against my husband. The charges were nolle prosique by the State, and then you and Stacie McCormick tried to get my husband to sign a General Release Waiver to have the charges expunged and the waiver said that he couldn’t sue the people involved in that case.
Then, my husband had you on his traffic ticket case where you wouldn’t present certain documents that would have helped him in court to win his case before the jury. He had a letter releasing his suspension which you didn’t show to the court. He had a license that was expired in Tennessee and all his court costs and fines had been paid in Tennessee. He should not have went to jail because his license was renewable. But the State charged him with driving without a license. Though the judge said he could live in and work out for those 2 weeks, he wasn’t allowed to, and he ended up losing his job at the Coast Guard Yard. Now I am working 3 jobs to support us.
My husband has been through enough and even though we don’t have the money to hire a private attorney, that does not make my husband any less deserving of a lawyer who is going to defend him to the fullest. In your email, you said that you have no obligation to reach out to clients that are not incarcerated. You didn’t go to see my husband when he WAS in jail for 2 weeks, which is why he didn’t even know that he even HAD a public defender until I told him that he did!
My husband is not happy with the fact that he keeps getting the same public defenders in court. He would (just as anyone would) like a lawyer who tells him what he CAN do instead of constantly telling him what he can’t do.
He shouldn’t have to walk into court Friday not knowing what to expect. He is innocent, and he should have received documentation 2 months ago as to what the State says they have on him. It SHOULD have been your obligation to reach out to him when you know you never reached out to him in jail. I was at the bail review with my two children and saw you sitting there at his bail review, the very morning that he was arrested. The day of his second bail review, you “represented” him. You didn’t ask the judge as to why his bail went from 60,000 to no bail to 100,000 in 4-days-time. When I walked up to you to talk to you, you told me that the “State didn’t need any recording or written evidence” and that the “State Official’s word is enough”! In that case, I work for the State Highway Administration. You mean that I can actually lie and say someone SAID they were going to kill me (with no witness, no evidence, no recording, JUST my word) and that person will be arrested? Since when does the State not need any evidence to prosecute someone?
Did you even read the Discovery information?! It's all BS. He should have never been arrested. On PAGE 11, the Detective writing the statement stated that "The District Court Comissioner review the Application and determined that Probable Cause did not exist for criminal charges against the suspect." IF THERE WAS NO PROBABLE CAUSE, WHY DID THE JUDGE SIGN A WARRANT FOR HIS ARREST?!!!!!! I don't have to go to law school to know that the commissioner signs a warrant and it is HIS signature that initiates the process to have a warrant issued. Why would a judge sign a warrant that the Commissioner said there was no probable case for?!
Meredith Gupton claims that on June 21, 2012, that James threatened to "break her knee caps" and that he was going to be "waiting for her outside of work". Then on August 7th, she claims that he said that we had AK47's in our home and that he was going to go to the child support department in Annapolis and shoot them, that he was  going to the Tennessee office and shoot them, and then he was going to shoot himself! I could have sworn that all calls made to the call center were recorded. If someone was making repeat threats as they claim, I would have the phone recording as soon as I saw that person's number on my caller ID!
Ms. Gupton had the nerve to send out a press release to the media, and then to call down to the Tennessee child support office to tell them that James threatened them as well?! He has had plenty of conversations with the Child Support office down in Tennessee and no one there has made any complaints of him trying to shoot them, so why would she have the nerve to blatantly lie and call the child support office there to tell them that James was going to kill them?!
The entire phone record is a waste of 100 pages (or more) of paper. That doesn't prove anything other than the fact that one of us called the child support office and the circuit court office.
The discovery forgot to mention the fact that the detectives called my Base Commander on Andrews Air Force Base to tell them that I had a warrant out for my arrest as well! And that I had evidence of trying to purchase and AK-47 in my home. And that I had DRUGS in my home! I am in the Air Force! I don't even HAVE a record. The only thing on my record showing now is Breach of Contract, because the property manager at my previous apartment threw me out of my apartment after James arrest. My children and I were homeless because of this nonsense! I lost my job on base--I was active duty orders and am now on standby because of this whole stupid situation.
You have no idea what we have been going through ever since we moved up here from North Carolina. My husband has been falsely accused of things he has never done. The police have been harassing both of us, following my car to work, standing outside of my apartment, looking around my apartment with flashlights. They did not have to invade my home  the way they did that night. They ruined my apartment, traumatized my kids, ruined our life, defamed my name to my jobs, defamed James' name all over the TV and the internet, and more.
I have a lawsuit against everyone involved in this case. So in that regard, I do have a right to speak on this case as well. It was my home that was broken in to. They did not include all the damages that they caused to my home on their report. I was completely naked at 2:30 in the morning when they ran through my bedroom windows, and chased me into my children's room. Two officers had guns aimed at my head in front of my 3 children (9 year old, 8 year old, and 18 month old son)! One of the officers bash Jame's head with the riot shield. He's sitting at  the table bleeding and I'm sitting on the couch with my kids. Every window in my living room and bedroom was shattered. My front door was of the hinges. Boot marks were all over my carpet. My kids were crying. Jame's dog was barking. It was the worst night of my life. And someone is going to pay for the damages (both emotionally and physically). I lost my job and my sense of freedom. I am under severe emotional stress. News reporters have been camped outside of my apartment for days at a time! People at my job are looking at me like I'm crazy.
I know none of the above matters to you, but it is OUR lives that are never going to be the same. I am not sure what will happen when you represent my husband in court tomorrow, but I know that what  they have on my husband is nothing. He did not say what Meredith Gupton is saying that he did. I am not going to let anyone take advantage of my husband and  try to get him to contridict himself in court. I posted a $100,000 bond for my husband's release when he should have never been arrested.
I do not want my husband to be upset in court tomorrow. I am pretty sure the State is going to say something ignorant to make him upset, as always. No one is taking into consideration that anyone with the problems that he has gone through would call the court with questions regarding his fraudelant child support case. The woman filed for child support in two states at once, and his tax returns (in the amount of $7500) were taken from him from both states (Texas and Tennessee). And then the mother has the audicity to transfer the case to Maryland? No one is investigating this woman's criminal activity, yet they are constantly sending mail to our home to try and get money for a child support case that shouldn't exist.
Sorry to keep going on and on, but there is more to this case than meets the eye. And no one is looking into it. I wish we could have gotten this discovery months ago, so that we could have put in a motion to dismiss. This case is outrageous and I deserve the right to stand at his side in court tomorrow. Though I am not an offcial party, I am involved because it is my home (not his) that was raided and destroyed. I lost my home and not only that, but I am responsible for the damages that the POLICE DEPARTMENT caused!

 I wish we would have met a few weeks ago to discuss this discovery info in person because it is complete BS and not enough to send my husband to jail. Why does this keep happening to us?

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Alleged Batman Style Shooting

My name is Krystal Armstead. I am in the Air Force and am in need of experienced criminal and civil help.

I have been trying to find a lawyer to help defend my husband in a civil suit. First off let me say that I am sure you have heard about the alleged "Batman Style Shooting Threats" back in August.

 I was truly traumatized first hand by the events that occured in my home on August 10th, 2012 when  my husband James Armstead was arrested for allegedly threating a State Official.  My husband is not perfect, but he does not deserve all the attention that the media has been giving him since Friday, August 10th. I may have sent this email to you already. And if I am sending it again, it is because I have been unable to contact the person who was supposed to have called me back.

 I cannot believe that for years, I have been asking for help for all the wrong that has been done to my husband over the past 7 years of his life here in Maryland. And instead of helping this man, the media all would defame him by accepting the information from people who have no proof of what they are providing to the public.I am in the Air Force. Why would my husband call the Child Support office and threaten to kill them with an AK? Why would he tell them that WE have military guns in our house, knowing that the courts are just waiting for a reason to arrest him? The police lied to the media, telling them that they found documentation in my home stating my husband was going to purchase an AK! Where? What documentation?! My husband is disabled--I am the one who does all of his paperwork. The only thing that the police took from my house was a picture of transcripts of his court date at the circuit court, my BGE bill, and his phone!

At 2:30 in the morning, the police BURST through my bedroom window. There had to be at least 20 men that came running through my bedroom window, my living room windows, and my front door. I was completely naked, and 5 months pregnant suffering from placenta previa and am at risk of bleeding to death when I go in labor. I immediately jumped up from the bed and ran into my children's room because I thought they had my kids. And two men chased behind me aiming there guns at me. My husband came close behind, and one of the swat team rammed him in the head with his shield! I was on the floor, terrified, and naked, with the two guns aimed at me. Yes, I was yelling, screaming, and cursing and they had the nerve to tell me to call down. My kids were in shock. They took my husband into the livingroom after giving him his shorts to put on. My daughter gave me her blanket because I refused to let them get me anything. They told me to go into the living room and sit on the couch. I sat there, screaming for them to show me a warrant. They didn't respond. My husband sat at the table, hands tied behind his back, and blood running down his face. My kids came out of their room, and one of the men had the audacity to hold my 17 month old son. The police destroyed everything in my home looking for alleged weapons and bombs and anything to prove that what that supervisor said at child support was telling the truth. There is no phone recording, all there is is repeat phone calls to the child support office and circuit court.
Anyway, the police DID NOT show me the warrant until after they took my husband away and until 1 minute before they left out my door. He then told me that he would have to call my unit on Andrews AFB and tell them the situation since it is my address that they got my husband from. That very same morning at 7:30, my commander called me and said he had gotten a call that I have a WARRANT out for MY arrest!!??
Both my husband and my name have been defamed throughout this state. I do NOT have any record whatsoever, but I am being thrown out of my apartment in 30 days because a woman decides she is tired of my husband calling about mistakes that the court has made. The news has EVERYTHING backwards. Yes, my husband has children in Tennessee. The mother of the children filed for child support in TWO states at one time. She was getting child support for the children from BOTH states, which is FRAUD! She received benefits in Texas and in Tennessee, and has gotten away with pressing false charges on him even though she has not had any contact with him in over a year and half since he found out his daughter was raped by a 21 year old when she was 15. James tried explaining this to the court and they wouldn't listen. He has been through so much in his life and this system is making it so much worse.
My husband is innocent and look how his name has been ran through the mud off of hearsay. My children cannot sleep. My 8 year old cries every night since the incident, waking up from nightmares of the "men in black with the guns". I have started bleeding from stress. And we are going to have NO place to live because of this nonsense.  The media doesn't care about who's lives they are ruining either. Why would they state hearsay as if it is a fact? Why not question me sincerely, asking me about what REALLY happened instead of trying to pump information out about my husband and his business with the child support office? Why not  ask about all the letters that I wrote to news papers and his blog that I posted online about how much pain my husband has gone through over false charges and accusations?

Our lives are ruined. No one is going to let me move into their property with my husband's name across the news and me being kicked out because of these lies. I am at risk of losing my job and there is no way that James will ever get one!

I went straight to the court house Friday and put a lawsuit on everyone who jumped through my windows that morning, including the "woman" who caused this problem. And if the news wants to know the truth, maybe they should have asked me instead of trusted the police department who will do anything for media attention.

I have been going to everyone about this. I am facing eviction because my property manager saw this situation on the news and is now giving me a month to leave. I don't know what to do or who to go to for help. I really don't need this stress. I am going to get evicted because my property manager would rather believe the police department instead of waiting to hear the results from the hearing.

I have been going through a lot for a while and have been to everyone for help. What else am I to do? This whole situation has gone to far. My kids are terrified and I am at risk of going into labor too early and bleeding to death. I have been in and out of the emergency room for weeks.  I am supposed to be on bedrest. Who can rest with all of this going on?

I have trying to find affordable lawyers for years about my husband's continued abuse from the Anne Arundel County court system and police department. He is disabled and he is often being taken advantage of. I have never seen a person go through as much as he does with the court system. We have been in court at least twice a month, EVERY month for the past two and a half years. When will it end? Who can afford a decent lawyer who doesn't charge a million dollars and who doesn't try to get you to plead to a crime you didn't do?

We are in serious need of help and we have no idea of who to turn to at this point. I spent money that I DO NOT HAVE to bail my husband (who's bail went from 60,000 to no bail to 100,000) out of jail because he did not commit the crime that he was accused of. I wish the news would have interviewed me instead of defaming my husband's name all over national television and on the internet. The only people hurting from these lies is my family. And all the comments I have seen about my husband truly hurt because these people (including the news stations and its reporters) don't even know the true story.

My family is traumatized. We fear for our lives. The police constantly follow not just my husband, but me as well. They sit in front of our old apartment, 3 or 4 cars at a time, standing in front of their cars with their arms folded watching us! Police in unmarked cars continue to park in front of our house for hours at a time. We have no freedom whatsoever to move about, and come and go as we please. What kind of life is this?


I am in search of an affordable lawyer to help defend him for the civil case we have against the state/ it's officials and possibly his criminal charges (which WILL be dropped because there is absolutely NO evidence).

 The police came to our house again about a week and a half ago. Here is the link: 

"http://www.foxbaltimore.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wbff_maryland-joker-speaks-out-15421.shtml">http://www.foxbaltimore.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wbff_maryland-joker-speaks-out-15421.shtml</a>

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Lawsuit Brief 2012

IN THE
COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS
OF MARYLAND

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No. 01570
September Term, 2011

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JAMES ARMSTEAD
Appellant

vs.

ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT ET AL
Appellee

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County
(Hon. J. Michael Wachs)

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Appellant’s Brief and Record Extract




James Armstead
Appellant



IN THE
COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS
OF MARYLAND

_________________________________

No. 01570
September Term, 2011

_________________________________


JAMES ARMSTEAD
Appellant

vs.

ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT ET AL
Appellee

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County
(Hon. J. Michael Wachs)

__________________________________

Appellant’s Brief and Record Extract




James Armstead
Appellant






STATEMENT OF FACTS
            On August 9, 2010, my wife, Krystal Armstead, called Matta Karimu to ask her if she could come over her house to pick up the son that Matta told me was mine. My wife and I drove over to Matta’s house in Pioneer City, a community located in Severn, Maryland. My wife stood in the door, facing Matta. I was standing behind my wife. The little boy was heading down the steps at that time. Matta told her son to tell me that he didn’t want to come over my house. The small child stood in the door, smiling at my wife, showing him the sticker tattoo that he had on his arm. I told the little boy to go get his clothes so he could come over my house to spend the night. Excited to see us, he made his way upstairs to go get his clothes. Matta was upset, telling us that he wasn’t going with us. She tried to slam the door on  my wife, almost hitting my wife’s 4-month pregnant stomach, and I caught the door before it could hit her. The next thing we here is Matta screaming,  telling her oldest son to call the police because she said that I had hit her in the head with the door!
             That day of August 9th, 2010, Matta Karimu filed a protective order against me, (district case number 0702SP03030452010). On August 17, 2010, Officer Hardesty, of the Western District Anne Arundel County Police Department,  issued a summons for Assault and Burglary (district case number 4A00230332/ Circuit case number 2K11000290/ tracking number 10100601609133).  On September 13, 2011, I, James Armstead, appealed the Protective Order (district case number 0702SP03030452010) to circuit court (circuit court case 02-C-10-155649). The case was denied in court on October 12, 2010 before Judge Paul Harris.
            On December 21, 2010, Matta Karimu called the police and told them that I came by her house and threatened her. Officer Hardesty applied for a warrant for my arrest for "violation of protective order" (District Court case 2A227530). Since he was the police that placed the assault and burglary chares on me, he should have known that the protective order was denied. Matta Karimu showed him the old protective order from September 13 and Officer Hardesty issued the warrant based on that. He claims that he called the sheriff’s department and they told him that the protective order was still active which is a lie. That same day that Matta Karimu called the police on me, my wife called her. When my wife called Matta’s phone, Officer Hardesty answered the phone. He stated that the paperwork that she SHOWED him said that the protective order was active. When my wife called the sheriff’s department, the dispatcher told her that the protective order contained two pages on his computer screen; that at the bottom of the first page, the case number was showing appealed and the next page showed that the protective order was denied in Circuit Court. I don't care who the police department wants to blame, these charges were placed on me and there was a warrant placed out on me due to someone else's mistake and someone else’s false statements to the police department.
            On December 23, my wife and I went over to Matta Karimu's house for another attempt at trying to see the child. She wouldn't come to the door and stated she was calling the police. So I called the police, too. Officers J.C. Tepper (badge #1810) and M.T Allinger (badge # 1672) showed up to Matta Karimu's address. She showed them the same paperwork that she showed to Officer Hardesty. Like a police officer is supposed to do, Officer Allinger called the sheriff’s office right in front of my wife and I, and found out that there was in fact no active protective order showing in the system but that there was in fact a warrant out for me for my arrest for violation of a protective order. He told me that Officer Hardesty did in fact issue out the warrant for violation of protective order.
            The protective order case (District Case number 0702SP03030452010/ Circuit Court case 02-C-10-155649) was thrown out in circuit court on October 12th because the judge (JUDGE HARRIS) realized she was lying and changing her story too many times. Yet and still, Matta Karimu used the temporary protective order to have a warrant placed out against me in December 21, 2010. How could a warrant for “Violation of protective order” be placed on me when there WAS NO ACTIVE protective order in the system?! How could a commissioner (COMMISSIONER SNOW) even sign that warrant when he or she could see for his or herself that the case had been appealed and dismissed by Judge Harris in circuit court?
            I even contacted the office of Internal Affairs. All they did was give me the run around. Detective McFarlin contacted me and I couldn’t even get a word in edgewise. I tried to explain my situation and how Matta Karimu lied to the police officer, showing him old, denied, false information to have a warrant issued out on me. He told me Detective Peterson would contact me. At the time, I didn’t have a steady phone number because my family and I were (and still are) suffering financially. He used that as an excuse not to get in contact with me. He claimed he spoke with Matta Karimu and he believed her when he asked her about showing Officer Hardesty the protective order that she believed to be still current. Detective Peterson was very rude and sarcastic with me, not even caring about my situation or the fact that this woman is ruining my reputation, my character, and my life. He seemed as though he was just concerned with taking up for her and for Officer Hardesty. So, I spoke with Captain Flemming who showed the same disregard to my life. Till this day, I have to contact them about the case. They have yet to call me back about the case. Last I heard, they were waiting to hear back from the State’s attorney about how to place false statement charges on Matta Karimu. They keep giving me the run around. If you can’t go to the Internal Affairs Department for help, who can you go to?
            The Internal Affairs Unit/ Western District Police Department kept making excuses for Officer Hardesty, telling me that Officer Hardesty says that it's the sheriff department's fault for leaving the protective order showing up active in the system. Then some dispatchers at the sheriff’s office tell me that the protective order is showing denied and others said that it was showing up as active, and that it's the district court who is at fault. And then the district court is telling me that in order to file a false statement charge against Matta Karimu, I have to get the commissioner to approve it. When I went to the commissioner, he told me that I have to go the state's attorney. When I went to the state's attorney, the supervisor told me that I had to go to the police station to get the officer to file charges. I keep getting the run around. Matta Karimu claims that she doesn't remember going to court and the judge denying her petition for a protective order. And the internal affairs went off of what she said; they actually believed her when she said that she didn't remember, as if they couldn't investigate any further and get the tape recording of what happened in court that day.
            Circuit Court Case number 02K11000290 was thrown out in court June 15th, 2011 because Matta Karimu’s credibility is questionable. When asked why she used an old protective that had been appealed and dismissed in court (due to Judge Robert Harris believing that she was a liar who couldn’t keep her story straight), she claimed she forgot. How could someone “forget” they went to court and their case was denied? How could she even have the audacity to use a dismissed protective order and gave it to Officer Hardesty to have a warrant (case 2A00227530) issued out against me! If my wife and I would have never taken it upon ourselves to go down to the Circuit Court in Annapolis on December 27th, 2010, I would have been falsely arrested for a crime that I didn’t commit and Matta Karimu would have gotten away with malicious prosecution and lying to a police officer.
            I should have been allowed to press criminal charges against Matta Karimu for using false information to have a warrant issued against me. No commissioner should have signed that warrant. After looking in the system and seeing that the protective order had been appealed, he should have seen that the result of the appealed case was that it was denied in court. How could someone make that kind of mistake? That mistake is on my record and I should not have to be the one to pay to have it removed when it should not have been placed on my record in the first place. The State of Maryland is letting people ruin my life and reputation. The state is letting the Anne Arundel County Housing Commission bar me out of all Anne Arundel County Housing properties based on false accusations.            
            The State claims immunity from lawsuit yet the State has the right to allow a person to repeatedly place charges on a person and either drop them in court, not show up to court, lie under oath, lie to police officers, and show false documents to the police department. There are too many mistakes that have been allowed on my record. There are too many false statements that have been allowed as evidence to have me barred out of communities and jobs. I can’t even get a job because even though all of those cases have either been dismissed, denied, or nolle prosique, they still remain on my record for all potential employers to see.
            It is because of all parties of this case that I have suffered being maliciously prosecuted, have suffered substantial loss of wages, have suffered emotional distress, and have sustained defamatory judgment. So, on June 16, 2011, I mailed intent to sue letters to all parties involved in the cases that Matta Karimu initiated against me. On June 20, 2011, I filed a complaint with case information sheet and attachments with the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County in Annapolis, Maryland (E*).  On August 11, 2011, the State of Maryland filed a motion to dismiss which was granted by Judge J. Michael Wachs on September 21, 2011 without even a chance of my case getting the chance to be heard in court in its entirety (E *).  The order stated that: “Upon Consideration of the State of Maryland’s motion to dismiss and the lack of opposition thereto, it is this 15th day of September, 2011 ordered : 1) that the defendant’s motion is GRANTED; and 2) that plaintiff’s claims against the State of Maryland are DISMISSED.” (E20 Docket 74)
            On September 26th, 2011, I filed an appeal AND a motion for reconsideration(E *). The motion for reconsideration was completely ignored. Rather on August 11, 2011,  the attorney for Officer Hardesty and the Internal Affairs Unit filed a motion to dismiss which was granted by Judge J. Michael Wachs on February 1st, 2012. The order stated that: “Upon Consideration of the motion to dismiss filed by Defendants, Anne Arundel County Maryland and Jonathan F. Hardesty, and any opposition thereto, it is this 1st day of February, 2012, hereby ORDERED that the motion be, and is GRANTED and all claims against Anne Arundel County Maryland, Jonathan F. Hardesty are hereby DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE .” (E22, Docket 122-124)
            On October 10th, 2011,  the attorney for the Officer of the State’s Attorney and the Officer of the Attorney General filed a motion to dismiss which was granted by Judge J. Michael Wachs on January 31st, 2012. (E21-22. Docket 121) The order stated that: “Upon Consideration of the motion to dismiss filed by Defendant Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney Frank R. Weathersbee and Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gangsler, together with the response filed thereto, it is this 27th day of January, 2012, hereby ORDERED that the motion is GRANTED; and further ORDERED that the matter is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE as to the Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney Frank R. Weathersbee and Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gangsler. IT IS SO ORDERED.”
            The decisions of the judge and the motions written by attorneys are of course written in a way that could convince anyone who is not familiar with the case that the decisions  made are just decisions. All the language and writing in the motions and decisions are words that are needed to dismiss the case. Judges are overloaded with case loads that they dismiss cases that they might not dismiss if the weren’t given time constraints. They don’t have enough time to research and overlook every piece of supporting documentation. It seems as though  complaints of innocent people (such as myself) are just more work that the judge has to deal with. If a case is dismissed immediately, that’s less work that he or she has to deal with. But what about innocent people who are being maliciously prosecuted year after year by the same person who only presses false charges because they have been allowed to do so time after time again?
            An unjustified criminal charge or false complaint is extremely devastating to a person who has time after time proved his innocence. Even after all of the criminal charges have been dismissed/ nolle prosequi in court, there is still a stigma attached to my reputation. All the jail time served and criminal activity revealed on my record have lead to extremely significant losses both economic and non-economic. I have been turned down from countless job opportunities because of my so-called record (E9-E10)
ARGUMENT
            I. The Circuit Court erred when it dismissed the entire case based off
            of only one of the six parties in this case.

            At the date Honorable Judge J. Michael Wachs decided to dismiss the
entire case, the other parties requests for dismissal had not been submitted nor
granted. Why was the whole case—of 6 separate parties/ defendants—dismissed
just because ONE party (which happened to be the State of Maryland) filed a
motion for dismissal?
            I did as Maryland Rule of Civil Procedure instructed. I mailed notice of suit
to each party of the case within  the required time frame. I mailed a copy of my
intent to sue to Nancy K. Koop, Treasurer of the State of Maryland Treasurer’s
Office located at the Goldstein Treasury Building on 80 Calvert Street, in
Annapolis, Maryland at 21401. She even mailed a response.
            According to Maryland Rule of Civil Procedure, a state can be sued if
they consent to the suit. Second, congress can make a state subject to money
damages if the state violates civil rights of individuals. And third, the federal
government and the states waive their  immunity in certain cases. Citizens
can in fact sue states as individuals. The 2 out of the 6 parties involved in this case
are individuals. And 1out of 6 of these parties is a police department, which has
no so-called “immunity from law suits.
            II. The Circuit Court failed to review the serious allegations presented in this case.

            The first thing that a plaintiff has to so in a case like this is to prove
that the damaging statement made by the defendant to a third party was
false. A plaintiff has to also prove that the statement was shared or made
public. It also has to be proven that the statements made were referring to
the plaintiff. It also must be proven that the statements caused damage,
harm, ridicule, contempt, hatred, or injury in or to the plaintiff's occupation
or reputation. Proof and evidence must also be present that show that the
statements or actions made were in malice and that these actions/
statements have caused you actual harm. I have proven all of the above
repeatedly.
            Chapter 5 of The Maryland and Tort Law Handbook Third Edition, 2000,
by Richard J. Gilbert and Paul T. Gilbert supports my claim for malicious use
of process, also referred to as malicious prosecution:
            §§ 5.0 Malicious Use of Process

Malicious Use of Process is the institution of a civil proceeding, without probably cause and with malice, for the purpose of causing some injury or inconvenience to the defendant. It is the civil equivalent of malicious criminal prosecution. Many text writers treat malicious use of process and malicious prosecution as one and the same, using either term to express the tort, irrespective of whether it arose from civil or criminal acts.

§§ 5.1 Elements of Action of Malicious Use of Process

The requisite elements necessary to an action for malicious use of process are:

1. the institution of civil proceedings by the defendant against the plaintiff;
2. without probable cause;
3. with malice;
4. termination of the proceeding in favor of the plaintiff; and
            5. that damages were inflicted on the plaintiff by arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, or other special injury, which would not necessarily result in all suits prosecuted to recover for a like cause of action. Siegman v. Equitable Trust Co., 267 Md. 309, 317, 297, A.2d 758, 762 (1972)

§§ 5.4. Elements of Abuse of Process.

To sustain an action of abuse of process the plaintiff must show that:

1. the defendant willfully used process for an illegal purpose;
2. to satisfy the defendant's ulterior motive; and
            3. the plaintiff was damaged by the defendant's perverted use of process.

            The rule also states that:

            “Maryland follows the English rule that an action for malicious use of process will not lie if there has been no arrest of the person, no seizure of his/her property, and no special injury sustained by him or her which would not ordinarily be suffered by others in all suits prosecuted for like causes of action… In 1972, the State's highest court declared that malicious use of process cases "are view with disfavor in law and are to be carefully guarded against." Siegman v. Equitable Trust Co., 267 Md. 309, 317, 297, A.2d 758, 762 (1972)

The warrant was issued because of the false statement and
false documentation shown from Matta Karimu, and because of the negligence of the Anne Arundel County Police Department (including Officer Hardesty and the Internal Affairs Unit) and the District Court of Anne Arundel County (including Commissioner Snow and the Office of the State’s Attorney). If it had of not been for the police officers who informed me of my warrant on December 23 (when I took it upon myself to call the police), I would have never known about the warrant and I would have in fact been falsely arrested for a crime that I never committed. The police department and Matta Karimu should be held liable for “restricting my freedom of movement.” I had a warrant out for my arrest for a week before I took the courage and initiative to go to Annapolis to have the record cleared.
The fact that it was nolle prosiqued because it was “issued in error” doesn’t take away from the fact that it was MY doing that got the warrant recalled and no credit should be given to the District Court just because they recalled it. Somewhere in the system, employees of the Court System are not keeping their records in sync. A case that has been appealed should show up as appealed and dismissed in BOTH court systems and not one or the other. The Police Department would have had no confusion as to whether or not a protective order was in fact denied if the circuit court would have informed district court that the case was appealed and dismissed/ denied. Regardless, Matta Karimu knew that the case had been denied and dismissed in court because SHE WAS THERE. Yet, she maliciously lied to the police officer for her own cruel intentions by showing outdated/ denied paperwork.
            Chapter 6 of The Maryland and Tort Law Handbook Third Edition, 2000,
by Richard J. Gilbert and Paul T. Gilbert supports my claim for defamation of character and loss of wages:
§§ 6.0 Defamation

A defamatory statement is one that exposes the person about whom it is made to "public scorn, hatred, contempt or ridicule" and is thus injurious to his/ her reputation. Thompson v. Upton, 218 Md. 433, 437, 146 A 2.d 880, 883 (1958).

A defamation, simply stated, is a false imputation upon the character or reputation of another. Of course, it must be communicated to a third person. Gambrill v. Schooley, 93 Md. 48, 48 A 730 (1901).

§§ 6.1 Elements of Defamation

In order for an action for defamation to lie, the following must be present:

1. An unprivileged publication of false and defamatory matter.
2. spoken of or about the plaintiff, (Embrey v. Holly, 48 Md. App. 571, 579-80, 429 A 2d 251, 258-59 (1981)
3. communicated to a third party

Whenever the words spoken are not actionable per se..., "special damages" have to be proven. That proof must be introduced by inducement, colloquium, and innuendo.

The inducement is the statement of facts out of which the suit arises which explains the meaning of the defamatory words. The colloquim is the assertion that the spoken or written words concen the plaintiff or his/her business, trade or profession. The innuendo explains the defamtory words in the light of the other circumstances of the case. Its sole funcion is to explain, not to change the structure of the words.

§§ 6.4 Defamation Per Se

There are clases of words which when uttered, if false, are actionable per se. Those classes are:

1. Words that charge a person with having committed a criminal offense of an infamous nature that is punishable by imprisonment.

           
            III. The Circuit Court, after dismissing an entire case based off of one of
            the six parties in this case, erred when it decided to then dismiss the claims against  the Internal Affairs Unit, Officer Hardesty, the Office of Attorney General, and the  Office of the State’s Attorney.

            I spent $145 to file my case, over $50 sending certified copies to all parties, and my case was closed/ denied without even giving me the change to state my opinion in the court? No one even took into consideration my side of the story, but since the state wants to dismiss the complaint against them, then the WHOLE case is thrown out? The court is telling me that I can’t sue Matta Karimu for defamation of character, loss of wages, slander, and malicious prosecution when she has placed over 14 charges on my record for the past 6 years of my life? She has ruined my reputation for finding a job, and I don’t have the right to sue her because the STATE wants to dismiss my whole case?
            The Internal Affairs Unit, who is supposed to help it’s citizens when they feel that the justice system or citizens have falsely accused them of a crime, yet I cannot sue them because the STATE wants to dismiss my case?
            Officer Hardesty used an old protective order that Matta Karimu showed to him, that had been thrown out in court by Judge Harris 3 months prior to the incident, to place a warrant out of me, yet I cannot sue him for malicious prosecution because the State wants to throw my whole case out?
            The state is allowing a woman to place over 14 false charges on my record. It should be against the law for the system to repeatedly let someone place charges on a person and either drop them in court, not show up to court, lie under oath, lie to police officers, and show false documents to the police department. There are too many mistakes that have been allowed on my record. There are too many false statements that have been allowed as evidence to have me barred out of communities and jobs. I can’t even get a job because even though all of those cases have either been dismissed, denied, or nolle prosique, they still remain on my record for all potential employers to see.

            IV. The Circuit Court erred when it agreed with the State’s statement that “the plaintiff failed to state any claims against the state.”
            The State of Maryland claims that I have no grounds to sue them based on the information provided? How is that so? The State allows people to repeatedly place false charges/ accusations against a person, ruining that person’s record so that that person cannot obtain employment. The State even allowed Commissioner Snow to issue out a warrant for Violation of Protective Order when there was NO active protective order in the system. How could the state allow its citizens to maliciously harm others, but prevent a person from suing that person?
            V. The Circuit Court erred when it failed to rule on appellant’s motion
            for reconsideration.

            Why was my motion for reconsideration not honored? I filed the
appropriate paperwork to the court and all parties in a timely manner. I realize
that judges have a heavy caseload. They tend to spend more time on cases that
draw attention to the media. My case deserved a chance to be heard and court and
not dismissed just because the State of Maryland has a lawyer who knows are of
the correct verbiage needed to have a case dismiss. I am pretty sure that the judge
did not read over my case in its entirety. I am pretty sure that my case was glanced
over because of the so-called background that I have. If anyone would have taken
the time to review  my back ground, the only cases that I have where I have been
found guilty are traffic offenses. 

VI. The Circuit Court, despite of so-called rules of “immunity”, erred when it failed to take into consideration the appellant’s allegations against the State of Maryland, the Internal Affairs Unit of the Anne Arundel County Police  Department, Officer Hardesty, the Office of Attorney General, the Office of  the State’s Attorney, and Matta Karimu (who is in fact NOT a State employee).

            In my own research of case McDonald v. Lakewood County Club, 461 P2d 437 (Colo. 1969), I have found that prosecuting attorneys generally and usually aren’t or cannot be held accountable for malicious prosecution. But this is not a usual case. The case involves a court system that is not in sync with one another. While one court system has you showing up as guilty, the other court has your case showing up as appealed and NOT guilty. This leaves the door wide open for the police department to keep warrants open and active, therefore resulting in false arrested. If you let these people get away with this crime, people everywhere will be using old/ denied/ outdated protective orders to have ex-boyfriends/ husbands/lovers/what-have-you thrown into jail. And my lawsuit will be the LEAST of your worries.
            Because of the negligence of the parties involved in this case, I have suffered injury to my personal and professional reputation, humiliation and mental distress, and financial loses. The statements made against me were defamatory and false. These statements were made to a third party which happened to result in a falsely issued warrant. It doesn’t matter who the court system or police department wants to blame, the warrant was issued because of a court system that doesn’t update it’s system and that allows it’s citizens to falsely accuse another person without any recourse.
Conclusion
 I, James Armstead, the Appellant respectfully request that this case be reversed and remanded to the Circuit Court for further proceedings. This entire case should not have been dismissed based out of only one of the defendants' motion to dismiss. My case deserves to be heard in either the Circuit Court or the Court of Appeals. The State, it's employees, and it's citizens are ruining the lives of innocent people and no one should get away with that without criminal or civil penalties imposed.
                                                               Respectfully submitted,
  James A. Armstead