Book Signing Shepard's Center Richmond, Va.

I will be doing a two-part lecture and book signing at the St. Luke Lutheran Church on February 23rd and March 2nd. The lecture/signing is sponsored by the Shepherd's Center of Richmond and will be from 11:00 a.m. until noon both days.

St. Luke's is located at 7757 Chippenham Parkway, Richmond, Virginia 23225. The public is invited--there is no charge to attend.

VIRGINIA TECH REVIEW PANEL REPORT: THE FIX WAS IN

One of the members of Governor Kaine’s Virginia Tech Review Panel, Aradhana Sood, has co-authored a book (The Virginia Tech Massacre: Strategies and Challenges for Improving Mental Health Policy on Campus and Beyond by Aradhana Bela Sood and Robert Cohen) in which she reveals disturbing facts about the instructions the Virginia Tech Review Panel was given.

            Even for the causal reader of the report, it was clear that the panel wanted to report without holding anyone accountable. Indeed, the report was a telling testament to the art of investigating a crime with the purpose of preventing litigation. Now we have the proof.

            Dr. Gerald Amada, one of the founders and directors of the Mental Health Program, City College of San Francisco, wrote a highly critical review of the Sood and Cohen book. Here is what he says about the instructions given the panel:

“It is particularly telling, I believe, that Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine thrust on the commission a directive to focus on they incident itself (the massacre) and not other ‘related issues’ (page10), such as presumably, those pivotally important antecedents that clearly led up and contributed to the massacre. To her credit, Sood acknowledges that the state wanted to avoid any findings that might have liability implications. ‘The specter of possible litigation was ever-present.’ (page 10), she points out …”

            Dr. Amada’s critique can be found in PsycCRITIQUES, January 12, 2015, Vol. 60, No. 2, Article 1 © 2015 American Psychological Association

RADIO INTERVIEW

Below is a site you should be able to go on and listen to my interview today on 99.1 F.M.

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RADIO INTERVIEW ON FRIDAY AT 8:30 A.M.

Tomorrow, Friday February 6th, I am being interviewed on the Neal Steele show about my complaint against Virginia Supreme Court Justice Cleo E. Powell. The interview will be carried streaming on Xtra 99.1 FM Gloucester, Virginia.

APPARENTLY FACTS DON'T MATTER--THE JUDICIAL INQUIRY AND REVIEW COMMISSION

I received a response from the Judicial Inquiry And Review Commission to my complaint about the stunning error in Virginia Supreme Court Justice Cleo E. Powell's decision overturning the jury verdict in the Pryde and Peterson lawsuit against Virginia Tech.

The letter simply states the Commission "has no authority to review a judge's rulings and decisions." The Commission completely ignores the error and the probability that someone is not telling the truth. Rather than get on top of the situation and correct a written blunder of monumental proportions, both the Virginia Supreme Court and the Judicial Inquiry And Review Commission are content to let the error stands. Again, the objectivity and integrity of Virginia's legal system is seriously questioned and the inaction in the face of a Supreme Court decision based on a fact that is not true only leaves me speechless.

The Pryde and Peterson's civil rights and guarantees, under the law, to a fair and impartial hearing in court have been violated.

Here is response I received:

COMMONWEALTH of VIRGINIA

Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission

P.O. Box 367

Richmond, Virginia 23218-0367

(804) 786-6636

Fax: (804) 371-0650

January 22, 2015

Mr. David Cariens

Xxxx

Kilmarnock, Va. 22482

Dear Mr. Cariens:

This is in response to your complaint to the Judicial Inquiry & Review Commission, dated January 17, 2015, alleging that a justice issued an erroneous opinion in an appeal. The Commission has no authority to review a judge’s rulings and decisions.

                                                                        Sincerely,

                                                                            Signed

                                                                        Robert Q. Harris

                                                                        Assistant Counsel