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Subject: SLS: Hawks v. County of Butte (attacks judicial immunity)
Dear Friends,
I have just finished editing the
OPENING BRIEF by Dixianne Hawks
to the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals. I worked on this case
for about 4 months. It makes for
some very stirring reading in
places.
There is another file set to follow --
the failed Petition to the U.S.
Supreme Court for a Writ of Mandamus
to the Ninth Circuit.
I am almost through with the editing.
Yea team!
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>Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 15:59:00 -0700
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>Subject: SLS: Hawks v. County of Butte (attacks judicial immunity)
>
>Dear Friends,
>
>I have just finished editing the
>OPENING BRIEF by Dixianne Hawks
>to the Ninth Circuit Court of
>Appeals. I worked on this case
>for about 4 months. It makes for
>some very stirring reading in
>places.
>
>There is another file set to follow --
>the failed Petition to the U.S.
>Supreme Court for a Writ of Mandamus
>to the Ninth Circuit.
>
>/s/ Paul Mitchell
>http://www.supremelaw.com
>
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>line breaks at the end of each line.
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>JUSTICE DEPT. CLOSES PROBE OF RUBY RIDGE:
>Evidence Found to be "Insufficient" to Charge FBI Officials
>Involved in '92 Siege
>
>by George Lardner Jr., Washington Post Staff Writer
> Saturday, August 16, 1997; Page A08 The Washington Post
>
>[Posted by Carl Klang (carl@klang.com)
>
>See SAFAN 622 - "Ballad of Randy Weaver" ...NO!!! We will NOT forget!!!
>
>The Justice Department said yesterday it has failed to find sufficient
>evidence to support further prosecutions of FBI officials for the fatal 1992
>siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, or for a subsequent coverup of the bureau's
>mistakes in the mountainside standoff.
>
>Closing down what it called an "exhaustive" two-year criminal investi-
>gation, the department announced in a statement that disciplinary
>actions against four high FBI officials and perhaps others unnamed still
>were possible, but it shut the door on any indictments. "While the
>prosecutors conducted a thorough, nationwide investigation," the
>department's statement said, "the evidence was insufficient to warrant
>a criminal prosecution."
>
>The eight-page announcement was worded cautiously and markedly
>mild in comparison with a 1995 Senate report on the tragedy, and even
>with pronouncements by FBI Director Louis J. Freeh, who called the
>bureau's performance during and after the standoff "terribly flawed."
>
>On Capitol Hill, there were immediate expressions of dissatisfaction with
>the Justice Department announcement and quick calls for an oversight hearing
>to review the matter.
>
>"We had our [Ruby Ridge] hearings two years ago," said Sen. Arlen
>Specter (R-Pa.), who directed the congressional probe. "This is no way
>to run the Justice Department. You've really got to wonder what's going
>on over there."
>
>Gerry Spence, the lawyer who successfully defended Randy Weaver,
>the white separatist [!!!] who was the target of the Idaho siege, was
>harsher in his assessment. "All people, law enforcement or citizens, are
>bound by the same rules, unless, of course, you are a federal official,"
>Spence said in a statement. "Then you can kill at will? Kill at random?
>. . . Who will protect us? Who can cage the beast?"
>
>During the siege, which began five years ago this month, an FBI sniper,
>Lon Horiuchi, killed Weaver's wife, Vicki, while she was holding her
>baby daughter at the doorway of their cabin in northern Idaho. Horiuchi
>said he did not see Vicki Weaver, and said he was aiming at a Weaver
>family friend, Kevin Harris. FBI snipers at Ruby Ridge were acting under
>unprecedented, shoot-to-kill "rules of engagement" covering any adult
>male seen in the vicinity of the Weaver cabin.
>
>The Justice Department's criminal investigation began three years
>after the siege and was spurred by lengthy administrative probes that
>indicated at least one high-ranking FBI official, E. Michael Kahoe, had
>taken part in a coverup by destroying an internal critique that might
>have altered the official account of what happened at Ruby Ridge.
>
>Freeh suspended Kahoe and the FBI's deputy director, Larry Potts,
>along with several other FBI headquarters officials, including Danny
>Coulson, then-deputy assistant director for the criminal division, and
>Gale Richard Evans, a chief of the violent crimes unit under Kahoe.
>
>All had been in the chain of command when the Ruby Ridge crisis
>started Aug. 21, 1992, with a gunfight involving federal marshals about
>half a mile below Weaver's cabin. A federal marshal, William Degan,
>and Weaver's 14-year-old son, Sammy, were killed in the shootout.
>
>While the FBI officials suspended by Freeh remained on paid adminis-
>trative leave, U.S. Attorney Michael R. Stiles of Philadelphia was
>assigned to conduct the criminal probe of a possible FBI coverup.
>Stiles was the main author of yesterday's Justice Department statement
>released in Washington.
>
>Stiles said he and his team, which included Postal Service inspectors
>and FBI agents, "examined events both during and after the [Ruby
>Ridge] crisis to determine whether there was evidence sufficient to
>support the criminal prosecution of any federal law enforcement
>officers." He said "the available evidence" would not justify charges
>against anyone but Kahoe, who pleaded guilty last October to
>obstructing justice by destroying an "after-action" report on the 1992
>siege and ordering Evans to wipe out all traces of it. Kahoe is scheduled
>to be sentenced Sept. 11.
>
>Stiles recommended against prosecuting Evans because of his
>"significant cooperation, from the outset of this investigation; the nature
>of his subordinate role in the criminal conduct; and the availability of
>administrative sanctions."
>
>Potts and Coulson had been suspected of having known about and
>approved the rules of engagement that told the FBI snipers they can and
>should" use deadly force. But Stiles said "a successful prosecution of
>Potts or Coulson would have necessitated proof beyond a reasonable
>doubt that they knew of or approved the specific word "should."
>
>"Despite intensive efforts, the investigation did not uncover that proof,"
>the Justice Department said. "There was also insufficient evidence to
>prove other criminal violations by Potts or Coulson relating to either the
>shooting or its aftermath."
>
>On the question of whether any federal law enforcement officers at Ruby
>Ridge, in particular sniper Horiuchi, could be prosecuted for civil rights
>violations, Stiles said, "the critical element of willfulness . . . cannot be
>
>established beyond a reasonable doubt."
>
>Horiuchi's shots "were within the guidelines set forth by his superiors in
>the controversial rules of engagement," Stiles said. "There was also no
>evidence from which it could be concluded beyond a reasonable doubt
>that Horiuchi actually saw Vicki Weaver at the time he fired the shot that
>killed her."
>
>One witness at a 1995 reenactment of the shooting by Stiles's team said
>he looked through Horiuchi's rifle scope and could see through the
>curtained windows of the doorway clearly, even spotting a wedding ring
>of an investigator standing where Vicki Weaver stood.
>
>In a telephone interview yesterday, Stiles said such observations were
>not probative enough. "We don't have evidence that could convince a
>court beyond a reasonable doubt," he said.
>
>Stiles also wrote there was "substantial evidence" FBI officials on the
>scene at Ruby Ridge had "the actual, although not completely accurate
>belief, that Randall Weaver and Kevin Harris posed a severe threat to
>law enforcement officers requiring the use of deadly force."
>
>The mild remark about the "not completely accurate" view of Weaver's
>supposed dangerousness contrasted sharply with Freeh's 1995 testimony
>that "one misstatement of fact [about Weaver] exaggerated to another
>one, into a huge pile of information that was just dead wrong."
>
>The Justice Department statement yesterday dealt only briefly with the
>gunfight involving the federal marshals. Most members of the federal
>jury that acquitted Weaver and Harris of murder charges stemming from
>Degan's death were convinced that the government was the culprit and
>that the marshals fired first, killing the Weavers' dog and provoking the
>gun battle.
>
>Stiles said "it could not be conclusively determined" who fired the first
>shot, but no matter who did, "there is no basis for a prosecution of U.S.
>marshals for their conduct relating to Ruby Ridge."
>
>Asked who killed Sammy Weaver, who was shot in the back -- a matter
>not covered in yesterday's announcement -- Stiles said, "That's not
>something I can comment on."
>
>Five separate reports, the thickest being a 92-page rundown on Potts
>and Coulson, were sent to Attorney General Janet Reno and will be
>submitted to the Justice Department's Office of Professional
>Responsibility for possible administrative sanctions.
>
>Specter complained that the reports will not be available to Senate
>investigators until OPR finishes its work. He said he has "little
>confidence" in OPR.
> ©Copyright 1997 The Washington Post Company
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