CLAIM: THERE IS “NO TRUE GRAND JURY IN TENNESSEE” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 14, 2019) — Tennessee inmate Jerome L. Johnson has written a book titled “The CORRUPT Grand Juries: A True Story” which is now available at Amazon in Kindle format. Johnson became interested in the composition and function of Tennessee grand juries in […]
RUTHERFORD COUNTY, TN GRAND JURY ABSENT DURING “MEETING” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 20, 2019) — On Monday, The Post & Email published an article based on documents received from a former U.S. Marine incarcerated in the Rutherford County, TN jail awaiting trial on a number of charges which he maintains are false. His larger purpose […]
ASKS U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO INTERVENE by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 15, 2019) — Several weeks ago, a former U.S. Marine and current Rutherford County, TN Detention Center inmate contacted The Post & Email to expound on what he said is corruption within the county grand jury on several fronts leading to false charges in his […]
RESULTING IN DENIAL OF “DUE PROCESS OF LAW” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 28, 2019) — A lawsuit filed in federal court last fall by six inmates at the Shelby County jail in Memphis, TN claims that citizens of the county are subjected to a “routine ‘rubber stamp’ policy and procedure” after they are arrested and […]
AND SAYS NOTHING WAS DONE TO PROTECT HIM by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 10, 2019) — A letter received late last week from a Tennessee state inmate indicated fear for his life following what he said were “assaults, robberies and sexual assaults” at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC) in Hartsville. According to scores, if not […]
AND WHAT IS “PROPER PROCEDURE” FOR HER REPLACEMENT? by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 26, 2018) — Approximately two weeks ago, The Post & Email came into possession of a court order emanating from the “Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tennessee” indicating that a long-term foreman of the county grand jury, Mary Thomas, was removed from her […]
AFTER GOVERNMENT’S EIGHT-YEAR SILENCE by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 27, 2018) — On Monday, The Post & Email published the first article in what will be a series detailing encounters between Athens, TN resident Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III and two officers in the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) last Friday morning. Prior to moving to Athens […]
“EVIDENCE OF A CRIME” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 3, 2017) — The Post & Email has received a hard copy of a large document package which Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III brought to the McMinn County, TN Justice Center on July 18, 2017 seeking an audience before the grand jury. Tennessee law allows for any citizen […]
“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 […]
“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” […]
“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 […]
INVOKES “CONSTITUTIONALLY ASSEMBLED” GRAND JURY by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 21, 2017) — On Thursday, The Post & Email reported that McMinn County, TN resident Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III on Tuesday took a sizable packet of documentation to the county “Justice Center” with the intention of addressing the grand jury about local public corruption which has […]
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, […]
“OFF THE RESERVATION” by Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III, ©2017 (Jul. 4, 2017) — Charles Dickens tells us: The law is an ass.[i] Here’s an object lesson consequent why Dickens said what he said: Judges cherry-picking Tennessee grand jury foremen has been going on since 1919. To count the number of cases illicit grand juries have touched […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
“HOW DO I GET THE LOCAL NEWS MEDIA INVOLVED?” by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 19, 2017) — An inmate whose story prompted The Post & Email to contact the Tennessee prison commissioner and an officer at CoreCivic, the owner/operator of the prison in question, has asked to be identified. In our initial article containing the inmate’s […]