Illinois Appellate Court Intentionally Violates Constitution, Illinois Supreme Court Rule, & United States Supreme Court

The Illinois Appellate Court is proving how corrupt it is by snubbing its nose at United States Supreme Court precedent ("stare decisis"), snubbing its nose at the United States Constitution's due process and equal protection clauses, and violating Illinois Supreme Court Rule 607, all of which are the basis for the standard practice in American Law to provide free transcripts to indigent defendants so they can pursue their constitional right to a direct appeal of their conviction.

Corruption is pervasive in Illinois politics, Illinois courts, and Illinois policing agencies. American justice is a myth in Illinois. Illinois is a totalitarian police state.

Anyone who wishes to donate expertise at contacting the press, expertise at spreading the word on the Internet in order to bring the light of day to this corruption, pro bono legal expertise in assisting in bringing this case to the United States Supreme Court, or provide support in some other way, please contact me. I could use all the help I can get.

I have filed a criminal appeal on a case where I as a disabled person in a wheelchair was attacked by Cook County Sheriff Sgt. Anthony Salemi, he falsified his records, accused me of attacking him, committed perjury and I was wrongfully convicted:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/16301520/Appeal-of-Wrongful-Conviction-Battery-Shelton-Illinois-2009

The trial court declared me indigent and ordered the court reporter to file a free copy of the transcripts with the court for an appeal. The court reporter has refused to follow the court order. The trial judge refuses to enforce the order because he said he lost jurisdiction to the IL Appellate Court.

The IL Appellate court has six time refused to enforce the court order and compel the court reporter to file the transcripts or hold her in contempt. My appeal is therefore delayed due to the illegal and unconstitutional acts of the Illinois Appellate Court First District.

The costs of copying documents and writing them, mailing costs and delivery costs are being paid by loans or gifts from friends and relatives, but is not quite enough to continue all necessary litigation on all my issues. I am indigent due to disabilities and retaliatory false arrests and malicious prosecutions against me as I am a whistle blower in Illinois exposing government corruption and fraud.

The Illinois Supreme Court also has denied a motion for supervisory order to compel the court reporter to file the transcripts and compel the IL Appellate Court to enforce the order.

The IL Appellate Court granted the Cook County States Attorney's motion to compel me to pay for the transcripts and file them, instead of the court reporter. This is fraud upon the court as it violates a previous court order and is contempt as it also violates the United States Supreme Court holding (precedent) in a case where they ruled that indigent defendants are entitled under the due process and equal protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution to a free transcript for appeal. Illinois Supreme Court Rule 607 also mandates that indigent defendants are entitled to free transcripts filed with the court clerk by the court reporter.

Therefore both the Illinois Supreme Court and Illinois Appellate Court are committing illegal acts.

The Illinois Appellate Court has now vacated their order to compel me to file the transcripts as I moved for them to vacate order as they illegally granted the motion from the State two days too early according to IL Supreme Court rules. They also allowed me to file immediately (instanter) my response to the States Attorney's motion to compel me to file the transcripts. This response clearly spells out the illegal acts of the IL Appellate and IL Supreme Courts in refusing to uphold previous court orders, and statutory and constitutional rights as previously decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. These are impeachable intentional acts by these corrupt and dishonorable judges. I hope the IL Appellate Court recognizes its mistakes and doesn't just vacate the order to re-instate it several days later when the law allows them to make a decision.

It is incumbent upon the IL Appellate Court to compel the court reporter to file the transcripts and hold her in contempt if she fails to do so.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/18285468/Response-to-State-Motion-to-Deny-Indigent-Defendant-Transcripts-for-Appeal-Illinois-Appellate-Court-2009

Another Corrupt Government Agency in Illinois, Cook County, and Chicago - the schools

The feds have issued search warrants for the records at the Illinois Secretary of State's Office and convicted George Ryan, Governor's Office and indicted Rod Blagojevic, Chicago City Hall and convicted Sorich, Illinois Department of Corrections for taking bribes and convicted the former Director, Illinois Department of Professional Regulation - investigation pending, Cook County Human Resources - investigation pending, etc., and now has issued search warrants for the Chicago Public Schools because of questionable placement of students in highly selective schools. The U.S. Attorney has issued a 98 page report detailing extensive pattern of civil rights violations at the Cook County Department of Corrections. Even college admissions are being looked at as corrupt in Illinois State schools.

I have successfully litigated against the Cook County Sheriff for violation of Freedom of Information Act. I am presently litigating in civil court against the Illinois Department of Corrections for violation of State laws in running a sham parole system that commits fraud in excess of $36 million, for failing to follow law as to Prisoner Review Board orders to parolees for mental health evaluation and treatment. I have won a suit against the Illinois Department of Corrections for violating the Freedom of Information Act. I have won a suit against the Illinois Human Rights Authority for failing to do their constitutional duty and investigate abuse of mental health patietns. I am suing AG Lisa Madigan, several judges and the State police for unlawful arrest and malicious prosecution in a scheme to deny mental health care to persons on Medicaid and to fraudulently attack legitimate mental health service providers so they can claim they are tough on fraud.

I and a number of whistle blowers have lots more evidence of fraud, kickbacks, and other corruption in Illinis, Cook County, and Chicago by corrupt officials. Please contact me and help financially support our efforts to expose and eliminate corruption in Illinois. Stop allowing 10 % of your tax dollars to be used for kickbacks and fraud. Stop allowing State, County, and City jobs to be given out according to race and patronage. Stop excess incarcerations and failure to rehabilitate that may make more prison jobs but makes Illinois more unsafe as unrehabilitated addicts and criminals are released and not properly supervised.

Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, and its suburbs are a cesspool of patronage, kickbacks, bribery, fraud and corruption at the expense of the taxpayers and to the detriment of all its citizens. Stop voting for the same corrupt officials over and over. Go to the polls and vote them out of office, including all those who inherited their positions. Stop allowing political dynasties to rule our State. Vote against the Burks, Madigans, the Daleys, the Strogers, the Beavers, the Steels, the Hasterts, the and their loyal servants, Dart, Alvarez etc.

Contact me at picepil@aol.com with evidence of corruption in Illinois, Cook County, and Chicago. Give me permission to publicize that evidence on this site. If you are an attorney consider taking one of our issues and making it into a class action suit. Contact me for documents we have already filed. Consider taking one of my cases in civil court pro bono. Go to courts on your free days and days off and observe the corruption in our courts, take notes, and send me them to post on this site. Contact Shelton through comments on this post and offer to help organize regular meetins to share, discuss, and disseminate the evidence in our possession about corruption. Donate money to help Linda Shelton pursue her civil litigation and fight further unlawful arrests at:

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Chicago Fees Extort Money from Small Business

The job losses and poor economy should be an incentive for municipalities to make their cities and towns more friendly and less costly to small businesses that often financially struggle to stay in existence. Chicago believes the opposite. Our wonderful mayor and city council have made sure to nickle and dime small businesses with unnecessary costs, fees, and regulations.

The number of empty storefronts is sure to grow until the city council is replaced with responsible aldermen who realize that 80 % of jobs in this country come from small businesses. They should do EVERYTHING possible to eliminate paperwork, unnecessary regulations, excessive fees, and hassles for small businesses in Chicago.

Mayor and Aldermen - ANY COMMENT?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped0717workjul17,0,1783432.story

Illinois Parole System a Fraud - Endangers the Public

I have now filed an Illinois Appellate Court appeal of a civil case I brought, pro se (through self-representation) in the public interest. If there are any pro bono attorneys who care about society and wish to help me, please contact me at picepil@aol.com.

If you are reading this blog, you are aware that I was wrongfully convicted of aggravated battery to a correctional officer in 2007 and sentenced to two years IDOC and one year mandatory supervised release (parole). I served the minimum of 6 months and one year parole. The facts are that I am innocent. The corrupt officer, Sgt. Anthony Salemi, attacked me in my wheelchair while I was wrongfully incarcerated, falsified his records, said I attacked him, committed perjury at trial, and the prosecuters committed extreme prosecutorial misconduct while the judge denied due process. See my appeal: http://www.scribd.com/doc/16301520/Appeal-of-Wrongful-Conviction-Battery-Shelton-Illinois-2009

During the parole time, I discovered that the parole system is a sham with incompetent sociopathic and undertrained parole officers who are not supervised properly. My parole officer, Victoria Dockery (alias Pork), supposedly supervised by P/A Dana Travis falsified her records and issued an arrest warrant for me that was on the books for five months and the fugitive apprehension unit of the IDOC NEVER EVER attempted to capture or find me.

I am disabled, live with my father, was hospitalized several times during this period for a heart procedure and stroke like symptoms. Therefore, I am NOT difficult to find. I also appeared in both federal and state court on criminal cases and on my civil cases more than 30 times and no officer even attempted to arrest me for this warrant, despite the fact I am on their "escort" list as a danger for unknown reasons (because I sue corrupt officials). Apparently the fugitive apprehension unit is a joke and exists on paper only. The Director of the parole division of IDOC was informed of all this and has done nothing. Apparently he is also being paid fraudulently for doing nothing.

The Dir. of IDOC also admitted to me in writing that the IDOC contracts with a private agency to maintain a parolee check-in telephone number but they don't have a contract. The comptroller has confirmed this agency, Protocol Services, Inc., has been paid by the state of IL $6 million per year for the past six years. It is illegal in Illinois to give this much money to a contractor without competitive bidding and a contract. Therefore the Dir. of the IDOC is admitting fraud and corruption.

The IL Attorney Gen. Madigan is defending these acts of violations of law. This is outrageous. She should recuse herself from this case, work with the US Attorney, and recommend that corrupt officials be indicted. The lack of a functional parole system in Illinois not only wastes money through fraud, but is a danger to the public.

The acting Dir. of the IL State Police, Mr. Monken is refusing to investigate these crimes. He therefore, should NOT be confirmed in his position by the Illinois Senate. I have reported all of this to the FBI, but they have not done anything yet. They are slow as malasses.

Mr. Birkett and other candidates: What are you going to do about this corruption?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/17475829/Shelton-Appellate-Brief-IL-State-Case-Mandamus-IL-Parole-System-2009

Excess Incarceration Rate Leads to More Troubled Children and More Welfare

The huge incarceration rate in Illinois, where we send non-violent drug abusers and thieves to prison at a rate 40 times greater than any civilized country means that we are breaking our economy. The children of the prisoners are a great social burden when parents don't earn an income or care for them. Tax dollars are also lost when prisoners do not work.

It is a much better solution to sentence non-violent offenders to curfews when not at work and community service to pay back what they took from society. Restorative justice is more appropriate. In prison less than 15% of addicts get treatment and there are five times more mentally ill in prison, without appropriate treatment than in all the mental health facilities in the country combined.

It is a much better solution to pay for daily drug addiction treatment, home monitoring, and mental health treatment than to pay $30,000 per year to incarcerate a prisoner, not treat them, and then send them back to a life of crime or untreated mental illness.

We are FOOLS in Illinois and the rest of the country! What a waste of dollars and human potential! Talk to your legislators. Elect only those that pledge to change this disaster. Our phony war of being "tough on crime" is a joke and has not worked. These prisoners, are usually released. If we don't rehabilitate them, we deserve what we get.

For discussion and solutions to the problems see:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/us/05prison.html?_r=1

http://drlindashelton.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/help-save-economy-by-saving-billions-with-judicialprison-reform-stop-torture/

http://drlindashelton.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/re-integrating-600000-ex-cons-per-year-and-growing-give-your-suggestions/

http://drlindashelton.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/punishment-and-fairness-comparative-nature-of-punishment/

Chicago Police Ofc Gets Off Lightly - Corrupt Judge Fleming

Circuit Court of Cook County Judge John Fleming continued the tradition of letting the police get away with anything and sentenced Chicago Police Officer Anthony Abbate, a 250 lb man, who brutally beat a 125 lb female bartender and was convicted of aggravated battery to only two years probation and NO prison time. The woman now suffers post-traumatic-stress, nightmares, and great fear.

This is another example of the outrageous favoratism towards cops and official misconduct of Cook County judges. They let officers lie through their teeth and even when they are caught red-handed on tape in criminal activity, they get away with it. Abbate even is still claiming he is innocent and the woman started the fight!! He shows no remorse! – And the judge didn’t take this into consideration?

The man was clearly seen on surveillance video from the bar in this aggravated battery against a defenseless and tiny woman. What more do you need to convince the judge that giving him a slap on the wrist condones this conduct?

Failure to jail this dirtbag gives the message that drunkenness excuses behavior, police can get away with anything, there is a double standard regarding police v. average citizens, and that Chicago remains as corrupt as ever. It depricates the seriousness of the offense and gives the green light to other officers to abuse citizens.

For another opinion see: http://radiochicagoland.blogspot.com/2009/06/fire-judge-john-j-fleming-and-jail.html

Until the public votes out those in office that condone this outrageous behavior of not just police, but more so of the courts such as Stroger, Daleys, Madigans, Dart, Beavers, Jones, Steele, and all their cronies, Chicago, C[r]ook County, and Illinois will remain lawless where the officials use citizens as their slaves and puppets in total disregard for humanity, for their own profit and fame. Deals will still be made behind closed doors and transparency will be hypothetical only.
I was beaten and choked by Sheriff Sgt. Anthony Salemi, he falsified his records, accused me of attacking him, committed perjury and I was wrongfully convicted. I received a two year prison sentence, served the sentence and parole before I was allowed to appeal in violation of the constitution. Fed. Judge Coar has even ruled that the IL Appellate Court is impeding my appeal! I am disabled and was abused and medically neglected in prison. Torture is the appropriate word. I am a non-violent pacifist. I have no prior record! I am a whistle blower against corrupt officials and police in Cook County, IL. This attack on me was retaliation for my complaints of corruption. I’m sure, if there is justice, the conviction will be overturned shortly, and then I will bring the mother of all civil rights suits against this creep, the creeps that support him such as Sheriff Inv. Sofus, and Sheriff Dart.

There is no equal treatment here! The Circuit Court of Cook County is a criminal enterprise. The U.S. Attorney should make indictments against these corrupt officials and police for felony violation of civil rights under color of law.

I hope the woman wins a huge award in her civil suit against him! I applaud CPD Supt. Jody Weiss in seeking his dismissal from the CPD. I just want to ask Supt. Weiss – Why won’t you have a meeting with me? The CPD beat me several times illegally, while I was in a wheelchair! I have pictures and your dept. of professional responsibity (internal affairs) did nothing!! I’ve requested meetings and you haven’t even had the courtesy to respond to me.

For details of my case see: http://cookcountysheriffdeputies.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/dr-shelton-appeals-wrongful-conviction-sgt-salemi-attacked-her/

Legislature Ignores Call for Reform in Illinois

Gov. Quinn appointed a reform commission and they made modest suggestions. Illinois' legislature under the iron hand of Speaker of the House for the past 20 yrs Mike Madigan and a handfull of other Lords of the system made sure this won't happen on his watch.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/us/16reform.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimes