Everett C. Gilbertson, Sui Juris
c/o General Delivery
Battle Lake [zip code exempt]
MINNESOTA STATE

In Propria Persona

Under Protest and
by Special Visitation






                  UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

                      DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA

                         FOURTH DIVISION


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA [sic], )  Case No. CR-4-96-65
                                )
          Plaintiff [sic],      )  NOTICE AND DEMAND
                                )  FOR PROOF OF POWER,
     v.                         )  STANDING, AND JURISDICTION
                                )  IN THE PARTICULARS;
EVERETT C. GILBERTSON [sic],    )  NOTICE OF FRAUD UPON
                                )  THE COURT
          Defendant [sic].      )
________________________________)


COMES NOW  Everett C. Gilbertson, Sui Juris, Citizen of Minnesota

state and  Defendant in  the above  entitled matter  (hereinafter

"Defendant"), to make this formal Demand upon the "United States"

to file  into the  official Court  record of  the  instant  case,

certified documentary  evidence of  the following, and to provide

formal Notice to all interested party(s) of same, to wit:

     1.   Lawful  Powers   of  Attorney  for  the  United  States
          Attorney(s) of  record to  represent the "UNITED STATES
          OF AMERICA" [sic] in a criminal action before a "UNITED
          STATES DISTRICT COURT" [sic].

     2.   Statutory,  regulatory,  and  constitutional  authority
          which grants  legal standing  to the  "UNITED STATES OF
          AMERICA" [sic]  to bring  a criminal  action  before  a
          "UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT" [sic].


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     3.   Statutory,  regulatory,  and  constitutional  authority
          which grants  jurisdiction to a "UNITED STATES DISTRICT
          COURT" [sic],  as opposed  to a  "DISTRICT COURT OF THE
          UNITED STATES" [sic], to hear a criminal case against a
          Union  State   Citizen  when   the  alleged  crime  was
          committed inside the state zone and outside the federal
          zone.   See American  Insurance Co.  v.  356  Bales  of
          Cotton, 1 Pet. 511, 7 L.Ed 242 (1828).

     Defendant also  charges fraud upon this honorable Court, and

provides formal  Notice of same to all interested party(s), which

fraud is  evidenced by a trespass committed upon the instant case

by attorneys  for the  "United States"  in their  recent pleading

entitled GOVERNMENT'S  POSITION WITH RESPECT TO SENTENCING, dated

March 5, 1997.  Said attorneys have exhibited no lawful Powers of

Attorney to represent the Plaintiffs "United States of America."

     This honorable Court will please take formal judicial notice

that the  opening sentence  of said pleading admits, notoriously,

that the  "United States"  [sic]  is  attempting  to  submit  its

position  with   respect  to   sentencing,  whereas   the  stated

Plaintiffs in the instant case are the "United States of America"

[sic], which have no legal standing before this honorable Court.

     Defendant submits  that the  "United States of America" have

never been granted legal standing to bring this action before the

United States District Court ("USDC") in the first instance.

     Accordingly, Defendant now files this, His formal NOTICE AND

DEMAND FOR  PROOF OF  POWER, STANDING,  AND JURISDICTION  IN  THE

PARTICULARS, in  order to establish, once and for all, whether or

not the  "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" have ever been granted proper

legal standing, by Act of Congress, to bring the instant criminal

prosecution before  the  USDC,  among  other  things.    Lack  of

standing and/or  jurisdiction are  issues  which  go  to  subject

matter jurisdiction, which can be raised at any time.


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                 CONSPICUOUS NOTICE OF DEADLINE

     Formal notice  is hereby  given to  all interested  party(s)

that Defendant will require the above named certified evidentiary

documents to  be entered  into the  official Court  record of the

instant case,  and to  be served  upon Defendant  by transmitting

said documents via first class United States Mail directed to the

following mailing location:

                Everett C. Gilbertson, Sui Juris
                   c/o Rural Route 1, Box 140
                  Battle Lake [zip code exempt]
                         MINNESOTA STATE

no later  than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, April 4, 1997.  Failure to do

either (filing  and service)  will constitute  an open admission,

for all  the world  to see,  that the  requisite proofs of power,

standing, and/or jurisdiction do not exist in the first instance.

See USPS Publication #221 for mailing directions.


Dated: ______________________________

Respectfully submitted,

/s/ Everett C. Gilbertson
_____________________________________
Everett C. Gilbertson, Sui Juris
Citizen of Minnesota state
All Rights Reserved without Prejudice


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                        PROOF OF SERVICE

I, Everett  C.  Gilbertson,  Sui  Juris,  hereby  certify,  under

penalty of  perjury, under  the laws  of  the  United  States  of

America, without the "United States," that I am at least 18 years

of age,  a Citizen  of one  of the  United States of America, and

that I personally served the following document(s):

                 NOTICE AND DEMAND FOR PROOF OF
                POWER, STANDING, AND JURISDICTION
                       IN THE PARTICULARS;
                 NOTICE OF FRAUD UPON THE COURT

by placing one true and correct copy of said document(s) in first

class United  States Mail,  with  postage  prepaid  and  properly

addressed to the following:

Henry Shea
United States Attorneys
110 South Fourth Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota state

Attorney General
Department of Justice
10th & Constitution, N.W.
Washington, D.C.

Solicitor General
Department of Justice
10th & Constitution, N.W.
Washington, D.C.


Dated:  _________________________________

/s/ Everett C. Gilbertson
__________________________________________
Everett C. Gilbertson, Sui Juris
Citizen of Minnesota state
All Rights Reserved without Prejudice


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