How do we handle crimes by the courts?
In August, 2007, the Alabama Supreme Court ordered an appeal I filed in the court be dismissed and all the records be stricken from the court. That included but was not limited to the notice of appeal filed in the Mobile Circuit Court. The case was originally against State Farm but at this time had become completely covered with criminal acts by court officials they have either admitted or can’t deny.
The appeal was centered around the fact Herman Thomas had entered a notation on the court record saying he had dismissed the case years ago but there was no order of any kind in the record. He had never sent us anything saying he had dismissed the case. When he was removed from office I checked the record and discovered the notation. I then filed a motion asking whosoever replaced him to remove the notation and grant us the summary judgment that was unopposed for 18 months.
Edward McDermott took over that case and responded by saying no he was not going to remove that notation. When McDermott responded I knew he could not possibly remember me to be sitting in a case. To remind him who I was I filed a document with some of our past history. I filed a motion to recuse him on that basis. In 1989 in a case between us and Commonwealth National Bank, the president of Commonwealth openly bragged that we could not win because he was paying McDermott for his decisions. I went to court and asked McDermott to adress the statements the President were making. He was making these statements out in the open and in front of his lawyers. McDermott said in open court he would not adress the statement that he was being paid for his decisions. He said however, that he would say that regardless to any facts of law I could bring into the court, all Commonwealth had to do to defeat me was to show up in his court room.
I had requested a court reporter be present at my expence and was denied. So I wrote the statements he made and filed them into the court record. He never denied any part of it. Then he ordered the Mobile police to start to harrassing me. I was arrested 53 times by the Mobile police. Fifty of those times without ever being charged with anything. The short of this story is that on the last time I saw McDermott I was in court because on mt 50th arrest I told the police I was not going to be arrested without a record again. They were clearly tired of playing that game by that time. They called McDermott and told him I refused to be arrested any more without a record and asked him what to do. They made the call where I could hear both of them. McDermott told the police to charge me with distrubing the peace. The officer said he would not do that because I was not doing anything at all. Then McDermott told him to charge me with Interfearing With Government Operations. At this trial the Chief Judge ordered McDermott to come from his court room and take the stand and explain why he had me arrested. The arresting officer testified that I was not doing anythig at the time he arrested me. The officer said he only arrested me because McDermott told him to. The Chief Judge asked the officer what was Mr. Lockett doing when you arrested him. He replied, sitting in the court room. The Chief Judge then asked, then why did you arrest him? He said McDermott told us to arrest him everytime we saw him. When McDermott took the stand he could not put forth any reason why he had had me arrested 53 times. The Chief Judge ordered the police to stop harrassing me.
This is only a small part of the evidence that is both undisputed and presented to the Alabama Supreme Court. Rather that deal with these criminal acts, the Alabama Supreme Court chose to try and hid the fact that they have ever been presented with the information at all. The Alabama Judiciary have no problems with charging Herman Thomas. I have no problem with that. I have personal knowledge that he is a crook. However when McDermott, a judge that has admitted to being paid for his decisions before Thomas was on the bench is brought before the, Alabama Supreme Court and the same people that is charging Thomas, they stick their head in the sand and try and pretend they never even saw the information.
In our laws if the court is presented with a crime by a judge and they fail to act they become a party to the crime. Now that the Alabama Suprem Court has become a party to all the crimes admitted by McDermott where do we go from there as citizens and former citizens of the state of Alabama? Please forgive my grama.
