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 […]
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 […]
“THEY DON’T CARE AND THEY WON’T CORRECT IT” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 22, 2016) — Over the past 30 days, The Post & Email received two letters from TDOC inmate Jimmy Newell claiming that despite his agreement to take a plea deal in a 2014 case involving theft of property and having served twice the […]
“NO PERSON IS SAFE” by Anonymous Inmate, NWCX, Tiptonville, TN (Mar. 5, 2016) — The letter below was received by The Post & Email on Friday, March 4 and corroborates the numerous reports received over the last year from other inmates describing prisoners-for-profit schemes and other abuses at NWCX, a Tennessee state prison located in […]
“I DIDN’T START THIS FIGHT” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 27, 2015) — In March, The Post & Email learned of a case brought against a Roane County, TN man, Roy Cook, by his twin brother Andrew, resulting in a grand jury indictment for extortion. Ninth Judicial District chief prosecutor Russell Johnson is pursuing the indictment […]
“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. […]
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 […]
WILL THE JURY BE RIGGED? by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 23, 2014) — A former Monroe County, TN resident who was sentenced to years in prison on alleged vehicular convictions and served more than two years in Tennessee state prisons will be retried on lesser charges beginning at 9:00 a.m. on Monday at the Monroe County […]
“BE JUST” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 10, 2014) — Over the last several weeks, The Post & Email has reported on the case of Arthur Hirsch, who was arraigned in Lawrence County, TN in January without an indictment or arrest warrant, subjected to a subsequent humiliating hearing in April by Judge Patricia McGuire, and then […]
JURORS REFUSE TO COMMENT ABOUT ALLEGATION OF BRIBERY, COERCION by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 26, 2014) — On June 24, CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.) was convicted of “aggravated perjury” and “extortion” as a result of bringing petitions to the McMinn County grand jury which claimed that former grand jury foreman Jeffrey Cunningham, criminal court […]
WILL BLACKWOOD “DO THE RIGHT THING?” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 31, 2014) — Intelligence analyst, aviation expert and co-host of the Abel Danger radio show Lt. Col. Field McConnell (Ret.) said on Wednesday that if two “guilty” verdicts against CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.) from a McMinn County, TN jury are not vacated by […]
WHO IS TRULY “QUALIFIED?” by Sharon Rondeau (May 2, 2014) — On April 26, 2014, The Post & Email contacted Sandra Donaghy, Republican primary candidate for Criminal Court Judge in the Tenth Judicial District of Tennessee currently running against Atty. Van Irion, about the Tennessee attorney general’s statement that a grand jury foreman “is not […]
GRAND JURORS PROHIBITED FROM SEEING COMPLAINTS OF JURY-RIGGING, ILLEGALLY-INSTALLED FOREMEN AND UNDUE “COMMAND” INFLUENCE by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 23, 2014) — On Tuesday, January 21, 2014, CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.) went to the McMinn County, TN courthouse to report allegations of crime on the part of local judges to the newly-empaneled grand jury. […]
FITZPATRICK CASE FRAUGHT WITH LEGAL CHALLENGES PROCEEDS TO TRIAL by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 16, 2012) —The “Monroe County Criminal Court” continues to prosecute a case against Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III despite various defects with the charging documents, indictment, and grand jury. On October 3, 2012, Special Judge Walter C. Kurtz refused to grant motions filed […]
FOR ALTERING COURT RECORDS, CONSPIRACY, ABUSE OF PROCESS by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 23, 2012) — A case stemming from a $50 traffic ticket issued to a young man in McMinn County, TN has escalated to a federal lawsuit against Tenth Judicial District prosecutors, the Tennessee Attorney General, two members of the Tennessee Highway Patrol, a […]
AND FACES TENTH JUDICIAL CORRUPTION NOT REPORTED IN THE MAINSTREAM PRESS by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 10, 2012) — Last May, The Post & Email had published an article about a Florida man, formerly of Monroe County, TN, who was sought out by U.S. marshals in Florida for a crime for which he had never been […]
JUDICIAL OPINIONS CONTRADICT STATE STATUTES by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 13, 2012) — On June 28, 2012, a hearing took place in the “Monroe County Criminal Court” on a charge against Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III of “tampering with government records” set forth in Tennessee Code Annotated (TCA) 39-16-504. As on a previous hearing on May 4, […]
“THE JUDGE HAS RULED ON THIS…TIME TO MOVE ON” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 6, 2012) — The Post & Email is in receipt of the full audio recording of the court hearing held on June 28, 2012 for Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III on a charge of “tampering with government records.” Shortly after a status hearing […]
AND GETS NOTHING BUT DENIAL by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 18, 2012) — On Thursday, June 14, 2012, an article was published in the Knoxville News Sentinel about Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood’s refusal to recuse himself from a case by the “Knox County District Attorney General,” Randy Nichols, who claimed that Blackwood was compromised. There was […]
“THEY DON’T USE JURIES IN EAST TENNESSEE” by Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Apr. 27, 2012) — They have done everything they can to evade the truth and prevent them from facing a criminal consequence, and they’re pretty cocky about it. The day I was arrested back on October 27, 2010, when those guys beat me […]