VIRGINIA ATTORNEY GENERAL--NO ANSWER

  

Surely someone must be interested in the Virginia Supreme Court re-writing history and in so doing breaking the law. Unfortunately, I would be proven wrong again.

On January 19, 2015 I wrote the Virginia Attorney General laying out my evidence and asking him to investigate whether or not Justice Powell and the Virginia Supreme Court had broken the law.

The following are excerpts from my letter to Virginia Attorney General Herring:

I have filed a complaint with the judicial inquiry and review commission against Virginia Supreme Court Justice Cleo E. Powell. The complaint centers on a major factual error in her October 31, 2013 decision to throw out the jury verdict holding Virginia Tech liable in the Pryde and Peterson lawsuit against the school. (my complaint and the evidence are attached).

Justice Powell wrote that the Blacksburg police were in charge of the investigation of the killings on April 16, 2007, but in fact it was the Virginia Tech Police Department. I have been involved in and teach intelligence and crime analysis for nearly 50 years. … this is a stunning factual error … if one of my students made this mistake i would flunk him or her.

Both Blacksburg Police Chief Kim Crannis and Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum testified under oath that it was the Virginia Tech Police who were in charge. (the testimony is included in the complaint.)

The question arises how could such an error of this magnitude make it into the Supreme Court’s decision when the evidence before the court states the opposite? Indeed, there are at least five references in the testimony that the Virginia Tech Police Department was in charge.

It is against the law to introduce false evidence or facts in a court of law. It must certainly be against the law to feed false facts to a Supreme Court Justice; facts that are contained in a ruling involving the worst school shooting in this nation’s history. The error is so great that it casts doubt on the court’s integrity, objectivity, and truthfulness.

I am not accusing Justice Powell and the court of being untruthful, but I am arguing that for this ruling to stand uncorrected is tantamount to condoning factual errors at the highest level of the state’s judiciary.

Because of the factual error in the Pryde and Peterson decision, there is a very real possibility that the two families’ civil rights were violated. There is also the possibility of some form of public corruption in the form of undue influence on the court.

I am asking that the Attorney General’s Office investigate whether or not there is a civil rights violation and how a factual error on that scale could make it into a major Virginia Supreme Court decision.

It is now more than three years later, and I have not received response. I cannot help but wonder, if I had introduced false evidence in a court proceeding at any level, would that court, the Virginia Supreme Court, the Virginia Inquiry and Judicial Review Commission, and the Virginia Attorney General’s office yawn and look the other way? I don’t think so, but then I am not a member of the legal profession, so there is no one to protect me. (To be continued)