“TO PRISON?”
by Sharon Rondeau
(Aug. 26, 2014) — The McMinn County Sheriff’s Office is reporting that CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.) has been moved as of Tuesday at 8:00 a.m.
Until approximately 12:20 p.m., the inmate roster showed Fitzpatrick as still at the McMinn facility.
It is against policy for jailers to state where an inmate is to be taken, but on Monday, Corporal Ruebush told The Post & Email that Fitzpatrick was headed “to prison” eventually.
On Friday, he was moved and returned to the McMinn County jail, which Ruebush explained as a timing error on McMinn’s part.
Fitzpatrick was found guilty of “aggravated perjury” and “extortion” after taking several petitions reporting local judicial officials in the commission of crimes. State law does not require a person petitioning the grand jury to present proof, which the prosecutor and judge stated at the sentencing hearing Fitzpatrick had failed to show.
However, over the past five years, Fitzpatrick has demonstrated that grand juries and trial juries are knowingly “rigged,” grand jury foremen are appointed for years or decades at a time and serve at the pleasure of a judge, and the law is twisted so that a defendant cannot be exonerated.
The Bledsoe County Correctional Complex (BCCX) is the state intake center for inmates not kept in county jails.
Court clerks are required to be bonded in the state of Tennessee. At present, three court clerks from two counties in the Tenth Judicial District are unresponsive to The Post & Email’s open records requests for copies of surety bonds, an oath of office for a judge, and audio recordings of two different hearings.
State law requires that any open records request be responded to within seven business days. On Monday, the Comptroller’s office, Secretary of State and Department of Finance & Administration all responded within 30 minutes to our request for information on surety bonds.
The Comptroller’s office reported that judges in Tennessee do not have to be bonded.
Fitzpatrick’s attorney, Van Irion, has promised to appeal the convictions.
Members of the jury have declined to comment on their jury service. One juror is a government employee, and Fitzpatrick’s petitions had asked the county government for redress of grievances.
A professional video is in production now relating to Fitzpatrick’s discoveries of judicial corruption in the Tenth Judicial District of Tennessee.
Sharon, Thanks for your ceaseless journalism to keep us informed on the interminable ordeals of Walter under that despicable, lawless judicial and policing dictatorship in the tenth district of Tennessee. Please tell us how we can send cards and letters to Walter to let him know that we will support him in every way possible short of breaking him out: through donations to his defense fund, prayers, petitions, protests, letters to the appropriate governmental oversight committees, letters to the editors, and greeting cards or care packages to cheer Walter up while he suffers incarceration yet again.
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Mrs. Rondeau replies: There is no public registration showing where CDR Fitzpatrick is located at present. However, I know that donations to the defense fund are definitely needed: http://fitzpatrickldf.org/ No donation is too small, as Atty. Van Irion would like to file an appeal but needs to pay court fees. Whether or not those fees are constitutional is an open question. The petition at Change.org is still available for anyone who has not signed it: https://www.change.org/p/tennessee-courts-on-behalf-of-all-citizens-of-the-united-states-of-america-and-judge-jon-kerry-blackwood-prosecutor-a-wayne-carter-and-tennessee-state-house-stop-conducting-kangaroo-courts-with-rigged-juries-and-vacate-conviction-of-cdr-walter-franci
Constant shuttling of prisoners around is called “diesel therapy” in the vernacular of the prison “system”. It keeps visitors away from the prisoner and is a form of harassment.
In Walt’s case it is probably a good thing based on his experience in the prisons in Maryville and Madisonville, where he spent his time in solitary confinement, “for his own protection”.