Tag: McMinn County
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Tennessee Attorneys Claim “Felonious” Conduct by Appellate Court Clerk’s Office
by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 15, 2026) — On December 19, 2025, Tennessee attorneys Van Irion and Russell Egli filed a petition for a Writ of Mandamus and/or Prohibition with the U.S. Supreme Court alleging serious misconduct on the part of the clerk’s office of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals and by extension, of its…
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Fitzpatrick Disqualifies Three-Member Grand Jury Panel, Requests New Hearing
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…
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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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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…
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Walter Fitzpatrick Ejected From Witness Stand by Tennessee “Judge,” Part 2
“MR. COFFEE IS ON THE RECORD” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 26, 2016) — On Sunday, The Post & Email published an article containing the first part of a letter from Tennessee inmate Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III describing his short-lived testimony in Shelby County on August 16 in response to a subpoena from inmate Jerome L.…
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Shelby County, TN Claims it Has No Grand Jury Foreman Appointing Orders for the Past Eight Years…
BUT AT LEAST ONE EXISTS by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 14, 2016) — For nearly seven years, The Post & Email has reported on the practice of Tennessee criminal court judges’ selection of the foreman of each county grand jury by personal preference rather than from the legally-impaneled jury pool. Potential members of both grand juries…
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Prison Concerns: Medical, Mental Health, Confinement, Nutrition, Retaliation
INMATES’ RELATIVES SAY INCARCERATION “A BUSINESS” by Sharon Rondeau (May 24, 2016) — Several more relatives of inmates at a privately-run prison in Hartsville, Trousdale County, TN have come forward to detail their observations of conditions within the facility and the effects on their respective loved ones. The Trousdale County Correctional Center (TTCC) in Hartsville…
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Inmate Reports Prison Violence, Correction Officer Injured; No Mainstream Media Coverage
“THIS PLACE IS SO CORRUPT” by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 17, 2016) — On Tuesday, The Post & Email received a letter from an inmate at the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) in Tiptonville, TN, from whom we have heard twice before, describing two inmate stabbings and another of a correction officer at the West Tennessee State…
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Exclusive: 1883 Tennessee Supreme Court Decision: Grand Jury Foreman Chosen From “the Venire”
NOT HANDPICKED BY A JUDGE by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 28, 2015) — A Tennessee Supreme Court case from 1883 indicates that at that time, the foreman of the county grand jury was chosen by the criminal court judge from among the 13 impaneled citizens comprising “the venire,” or grand jury panel. In State of Tennessee…
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Walter Fitzpatrick Barred From His Own Disciplinary Hearing
“AMAZING…JUST AMAZING” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 13, 2015) — On Tuesday The Post & Email received a letter from TDOC inmate Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III reporting that he was asked to leave while a disciplinary board decided the status of a write-up he received for refusing to participate in a class. Fitzpatrick has been imprisoned…
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Bombshell Exclusive: TDOC Employees Violate Departmental Rules to Keep Inmates in Adult Basic Education Class
FITZPATRICK: NWCX WARDEN, INSTRUCTORS “RUNNING A CON GAME” TO BILK FEDERAL TREASURY…AND TAXPAYERS by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 8, 2015) — In late May, The Post & Email received a letter from Tennessee state inmate Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III which stated that staff were pressuring him to participate in the “Pro-Social Life Skills” (PSLS, p. 9)…
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Tennessee Prison Officials Concoct Cover-Up Story to Fitzpatrick Allegations
BUT ARE WE SURPRISED? by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 6, 2015) — On Monday morning, a Tennessee citizen who last week contacted State Rep. John Forgety’s office regarding allegations made by Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III that he was threatened with assault by a prison instructor at the Northwest Correctional Center (NWCX) has received a response. In…
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Special Report: Walter Fitzpatrick Sends Out SOS from Tennessee State Prison pb
“I NEED TO BE SET FREE” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 4, 2015) — On Wednesday, The Post & Email received a letter from CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.), who is incarcerated at the Northwest Correctional Center (NWCX) in Tiptonville, TN and whose exposure of local government corruption has been covered extensively by this publication.…
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Exclusive: Fitzpatrick “Moral Coward” Judge Going into Full Retirement
HAS BLACKWOOD “LEARNED HIS LESSON?” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 3, 2015) — Acting on a tip from a reliable source, on Wednesday The Post & Email contacted the office of Senior Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood to inquire if Blackwood is still serving on the bench. We reached his assistant, Mindy, with whom we have spoken…
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Appeals Hearing Held in Fitzpatrick Case
ATTY. VAN IRION: GRAND JURY WAS DEFECTIVE FROM THE OUTSET by Sharon Rondeau (May 21, 2015) — On Tuesday, oral argument was heard in the appeal of State of Tennessee v. Walter Fitzpatrick, 14CR69, in which CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.) was convicted of “aggravated perjury” and “extortion” by a McMinn County, TN trial…
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Friend of Walter Fitzpatrick Receives Response to His Letter from Tennessee Board of Parole
BUT “PAROLE” WAS NOT THE ISSUE by Sharon Rondeau (May 12, 2015) — On March 3, The Post & Email received and published a copy of a letter written by a high school friend of LCDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.), who was sent to state prison in Tennessee last summer on convictions of “aggravated…
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Madison County, TN Sentences Man to 12 Years in Prison on Word of Defendant
“A BIG CONSPIRACY” by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 22, 2015) — The Post & Email recently learned of the case of Timothy Aaron Baxter of Madison County, TN, a jury from which convicted him of “aggravated assault” against a then-72-year-old man who testified that he experienced “extreme pain” after he alleged that Baxter pushed him to…
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Monroe County, TN Court Clerk Responds to The Post & Email
“IT IS THE WAY IT IS DONE IN TENNESSEE…” by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 15, 2014) — On Monday morning, after hearing from a man convicted a second time of traffic violations in Monroe County, TN that the time of his sentencing hearing had been changed from noon to 9:00 a.m. without notice to him, The…
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Eyewitness to Raudenbush Trial Believes Jury was Rigged
“IT WAS JUST A PRETENSE’” by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 12, 2014) — On November 25, Christian missionary George Joseph Raudenbush III was convicted on seven counts of vehicular infractions stemming from an incident on December 30, 2010 in the town of Tellico Plains, TN. Last December, Raudenbush’s initial convictions from 2011 were reversed by an…
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Monroe County, TN: Marvin William Young Trial Delayed
IS NEW CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE ANY DIFFERENT FROM THE LAST? by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 1, 2014) — A status hearing held on November 17, 2014 in Madisonville, TN for defendant Marvin William Young resulted in a postponement of his trial to an undetermined date, with the next status hearing scheduled on January 26, 2015. In…