“A HUGE MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 11, 2017) — Over the last three weeks, The Post & Email has learned of a case involving TDOC inmate Jason Lamar White, #335720, who is serving the final months of a 21-year sentence for a burglary in which he participated when he was a youth. […]
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Former Tennessee Defendant’s Complaints Against Two Attorneys, Two Prosecutors Advance to Next Level
“IF ROY HADN’T DONE THOSE ARTICLES, THEY WOULD HAVE DISMISSED THE COMPLAINT” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 6, 2017) — A four-year-old Roane County, TN extortion case closed without a trial in late June continues to reveal new information which the former defendant, Roy Cook, is pursuing through the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility (BOPR) in […]
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Are Tennessee Prison Officials Exempt from Federal Legal Precedent?
IN 3+-YEAR LAWSUIT, INMATE ALLEGES REPEATED CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 29, 2017) — A document dated August 21, 2017 filed in federal court alleging denial of access to the courts and a law library by Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) inmate and plaintiff Robert Z. Whipple, III asks that he be appointed […]
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Why Did Judge Donaghy Seal Fitzpatrick’s Grand Jury Submission?
“CONCEALING EVIDENCE OF A CRIME IS A CRIME” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 30, 2017) — As The Post & Email reported on Saturday, McMinn County, TN Criminal Court Judge Sandra Donaghy issued an order following the July 18 submission of a 400+-page report by county citizen Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III alleging widespread, systemic public corruption […]
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McMinn County Criminal Court Judge Seals Fitzpatrick “Grand Jury” Report
“IF ELECTED I INTEND TO FOLLOW THE LAW” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 29, 2017) — On Saturday, Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III received in the mail an order from McMinn County, TN Criminal Court Judge Sandra Donaghy indicating that an alleged report produced by a three-person panel of the county “grand jury” was filed “under seal” […]
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Fitzpatrick: Former Grand Jury Foreman “Right” in Predicting His Return
“THERE WAS NO BASIS FOR MY ARREST” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 26, 2017) — “One thing Cunningham was right about was that I’d do the same thing again,” said Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III after visiting the McMinn County, TN Justice Center on July 18 to ask to testify to the grand jury. “Cunningham” is Jeffrey […]
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Rigged, Compromised Grand Jury, Part 3
TENNESSEE’S ANIMAL FARM by Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III, ©2017 (Jul. 6, 2017) — [Editor’s Note: The following is a continuation from Part 2 of this series. Part 1 is here.] In Tennessee, state and federal constitutions are meant to establish the RULE OF LAW as elemental to the exercise of our form of a Republican, […]
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Former Tennessee Defendant Whose Case Dismissed Excoriates Government Operatives
“WE ARE ALL INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY” by Roy Cook, Roane County, TN Citizen (Jul. 3, 2017) — [Editor’s Note: The following letter was sent by email on Monday evening to the Tennesse Ninth Judicial District Public Defender’s office lead attorney Kim Nelson; criminal court clerk Kathi Hamilton; and five attorneys, each of whom was […]
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Rigged, Compromised Grand Jury: The Lost, Randomly-Selected Thirteenth Grand Juror!
“OUTLAWED” by Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III, ©2017 (Jul. 2, 2017) — The Deep State finds its spawn in Tennessee. It was in the Volunteer State where the first planting and harvest occurred. Tennessee is one place where laws go to die. In an act of arrogant, purposeful discrimination, Tennessee criminal court judges unconstitutionally “handpick” the […]
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McMinn County, TN Judge Neglects to Properly Vet Prospective Jurors
IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE STATUTE by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 12, 2017) — On Tuesday, the “McMinn County, TN Criminal Court” selected new trial jurors for the remainder of calendar-year 2017. The “court” is expressed with quotation marks as a result of a set of laws passed in 1984 by the Tennessee legislature ordering the county […]
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Is Judge Sandra Donaghy Another Amy Reedy?
HAND-SELECTION OF GRAND JURY FOREMAN CONTINUES UNABATED by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 21, 2017) — Through an Open Records request, on Monday Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III received a copy of the McMinn County, TN public grand jury notice showing that the grand jury would convene at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday. He additionally received copies of grand […]
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Fitzpatrick: Americans Must Take Responsibility for Corruption in their Own Communities
“IT’S NOT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S JOB; IT’S OUR JOB” by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 20, 2017) — In an interview on Sunday afternoon, LCDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.) told The Post & Email that the community of Athens, TN is exemplary of government tyranny brought about by inaction and a lack of vigilance on the part […]
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Four Years Later, Roane County, TN Extortion Charge Remains Unresolved
DEFENDANT FILES MOTION TO DISMISS FOR PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 12, 2017) — With four defense attorneys and nearly four years behind him, Roane County, TN defendant Roy Cook has filed a Motion to Dismiss the case against him on the grounds of prosecutorial misconduct. After his fourth attorney withdrew from the case […]
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Report: Three Riots in Shelby County Jail Since October, Officer “Briefly Held Hostage”
INMATE ALLEGES “3 RIOTS AND ONE PEACEFUL PROTEST” by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 2, 2017) — Last week, The Post & Email received a letter dated January 18, 2017 in which an inmate at the Shelby County jail in Memphis, TN conveyed a heretofore unreported story to this publication of three “riots” plus a “peaceful” protest […]
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The Post & Email Contacts the Trump Transition Team about “Big Lick” Horse Cruelty
DOES “BUSINESS” OUTWEIGH SUFFERING? by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 20, 2016) — On Tuesday morning at 9:09 AM EST, the following message was sent through the Trump transition team website, greatagain.gov: Good morning. I have contacted you before on the topic of government corruption to which my newspaper, The Post & Email, has been dedicated to […]
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Will Shelby County, TN Prosecutors be Disciplined?
“JUSTICE HAS TO COME AT SOME POINT” by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 19, 2016) — Two recent letters received from inmates at the Shelby County, TN jail reported that Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich was under some type of investigation for conduct associated with her duties as the chief prosecutor for Tennessee’s 30th Judicial […]
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The Post & Email Contacts the Presidential Transition Team
TENNESSEE, MILITARY, GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 13, 2016) — On Sunday morning, this writer sent the following message through the “Share Your Ideas” portal at the Presidential Transition Team website, greatagain.gov: I plan to continue my now-seven-year work at The Post & Email, an online newspaper which is citizen-driven, focusing on constitutional issues […]
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U.S. Supreme Court and Some States Clash on Life Sentences Without Parole for Juveniles
“CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT?” by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 1, 2016) — A letter received on Thursday from a Tennessee prison inmate highlighted the inconsistency between Tennessee state law and two U.S. Supreme Court decisions issued in 2012 and this past January, respectively, regarding life sentences for those who were under the age of 18 when […]
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Roane County, TN Defendant Assigned Fifth Defense Attorney in Three-Year-Old Extortion Case
“I DID NOT ASK HIM TO QUIT, YOUR HONOR” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 28, 2016) — A hearing last Friday in a Roane County, TN courtroom resulted in the assignment of a fifth defense attorney to Roy Cook, whose “extortion” case has spanned three and one-half years without a trial. The Post & Email began […]
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Walter Fitzpatrick Ejected From Witness Stand by Tennessee “Judge,” Part 3
A “CONDESCENDING COURTROOM VERBAL DISSERTATION” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 30, 2016) — As related in earlier articles with this title in part 1 here and part 2 here, TDOC inmate Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III described his having been subpoenaed to testify in an August 16 post-conviction hearing for an inmate from Shelby County. Fitzpatrick was […]