Friday, September 9, 2011

DA Jim Martin & Retired Judge Brenner Give Joshua Share a "Julia Brenner Deal"



From yesterday's Morning Call online:


Readers, Best Friend of Drunk Drivers DA Jim Martin set the Joshua Share case up for a "wrist slap" from Lehigh County Senior (Retired) Judge Lawrence J. Brenner by (again) inexplicably dropping the major charge-- in this case felony aggravated assault. See LVS's illuminating July exposé entitled, Booze-loving DA Jim Martin gives another drunk driver the break of a lifetime.

And ... I think I know why Senior (Retired) Judge Lawrence J. Brenner was brought out of mothballs, infused w/ embalming fluid, and propped up on the bench for this case-- an assignment that, BTW, would have been arranged by President Judge Carol K. McGinley, a co-founder of the crony-connected law firm Gross McGinley that regularly represents crony pals such as The Morning Call and unethical election conduct scofflaw DA Jim Martin. Yep. It's who you know around here. And who knows who. And who keeps a lid on everything.

Just a theory, but I'm betting that DA Jim Martin asked President Judge Carol Gross McGinley to put the most lenient, alcoholic-sympathetic, and DUI-friendly judge in Lehigh County on the Joshua Share case, and that judge is definitely Lawrence J. Brenner.

Why? Simple.

Judge Brenner's wife Julia was arrested for drunk driving ...



... and, like Joshua Share, after excessively high blood alcohol content, high-speed drunk driving that sent her airborne, and into a tree, which could have killed her passenger (her husband, Judge Brenner), Julia Brenner got off really easy too. Crony cozily, Julia Brenner was represented by Malcolm Gross McGinley and her "newspaper" coverage was written by then Morning Call coverup "reporter" and now DA Jim Martin coverup Executive Aide Debbie Garlicki, see ...  


Sometimes it's what you know.

DA Jim Martin & Retired Judge Brenner Give Joshua Share a "Julia Brenner Deal"



From yesterday's Morning Call online:


Readers, Best Friend of Drunk Drivers DA Jim Martin set the Joshua Share case up for a "wrist slap" from Lehigh County Senior (Retired) Judge Lawrence J. Brenner by (again) inexplicably dropping the major charge-- in this case felony aggravated assault. See LVS's illuminating July exposé entitled, Booze-loving DA Jim Martin gives another drunk driver the break of a lifetime.

And ... I think I know why Senior (Retired) Judge Lawrence J. Brenner was brought out of mothballs, infused w/ embalming fluid, and propped up on the bench for this case-- an assignment that, BTW, would have been arranged by President Judge Carol K. McGinley, a co-founder of the crony-connected law firm Gross McGinley that regularly represents crony pals such as The Morning Call and unethical election conduct scofflaw DA Jim Martin. Yep. It's who you know around here. And who knows who. And who keeps a lid on everything.

Just a theory, but I'm betting that DA Jim Martin asked President Judge Carol Gross McGinley to put the most lenient, alcoholic-sympathetic, and DUI-friendly judge in Lehigh County on the Joshua Share case, and that judge is definitely Lawrence J. Brenner.

Why? Simple.

Judge Brenner's wife Julia was arrested for drunk driving ...


Criminal Docket: Julia E. Brenner  

... and, like Joshua Share, after excessively high blood alcohol content, high-speed drunk driving that sent her airborne, and into a tree, which could have killed her passenger (her husband, Judge Brenner), Julia Brenner got off really easy too. Crony cozily, Julia Brenner was represented by Malcolm Gross McGinley and her "newspaper" coverage was written by then Morning Call coverup "reporter" and now DA Jim Martin coverup Executive Aide Debbie Garlicki, see ...  


Sometimes it's what you know.

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Thursday, September 8, 2011

DA Jim Martin is the Monty Hall of 'Let's Make a Plea Deal' w/ Criminals


[Attorney Gavin P. Holihan responds, see comments]

Clyde Lont shot David Rivera 7 times, and killed him.

Clyde Lont's pre-meditated lookout helper Matthew Hendricks was convicted at trial of only third degree murder (notice how The Morning Call's helpful headline up-plays it as just "murder.")

"Amazingly" (in the word of sentencing Judge James T. Anthony), 7-time shooter/murderer Clyde Lont was somehow able to make one heck of a "bargain" (again, Judge Anthony's word) sweetheart plea deal w/ DA Jim Martin:

Triggerman Clyde Lont only got third degree murder, too.

You can read LVS's exclusive exposé on DA Jim Martin's mockery of justice, here ...


GROSS INJUSTICE MYSTERY SOLVED?

Readers, the criminal defense attorney who arranged Clyde Lont's "amazing" "bargain" plea deal w/ DA Jim Martin is Gavin P. Holihan.

Gavin P. Holihan sits on the Host Committee of the Committee to Reelect Jim Martin District Attorney.

Yep.

I have the 'smoking gun' hard copy to prove it, if anyone from the local media would like to examine it.

DA Jim Martin is the Monty Hall of 'Let's Make a Plea Deal' w/ Criminals


[Attorney Gavin P. Holihan responds, see comments]

Clyde Lont shot David Rivera 7 times, and killed him.

Clyde Lont's pre-meditated lookout helper Matthew Hendricks was convicted at trial of only third degree murder (notice how The Morning Call's helpful headline up-plays it as just "murder.")

"Amazingly" (in the word of sentencing Judge James T. Anthony), 7-time shooter/murderer Clyde Lont was somehow able to make one heck of a "bargain" (again, Judge Anthony's word) sweetheart plea deal w/ DA Jim Martin:

Triggerman Clyde Lont only got third degree murder, too.

You can read LVS's exclusive exposé on DA Jim Martin's mockery of justice, here ...


GROSS INJUSTICE MYSTERY SOLVED?

Readers, the criminal defense attorney who arranged Clyde Lont's "amazing" "bargain" plea deal w/ DA Jim Martin is Gavin P. Holihan.

Gavin P. Holihan sits on the Host Committee of the Committee to Reelect Jim Martin District Attorney.

Yep.

I have the 'smoking gun' hard copy to prove it, if anyone from the local media would like to examine it.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

DA Jim Martin pussies out, drops the major charge (again) and takes the easiest route


Readers, even The Morning Call "newspaper" can't look (totally) the other way on this one ...

Attempted homicide charge withdrawn against Peaches; others waived to court

As "reporter" Manny Gamiz notes:

District Attorney ... did not give details on why the most serious charge against Campbell ["Peaches"] was withdrawn.

Manny, I'll tell you why.

It's the longstanding M.O. of our long un-opposed DA Jim Martin to parade serious charges around for the media, at first, but then to drop the major charges and passively go for a conviction on much lesser charges because that's much easier to get. It's like only shooting layups and never attempting a 3-pointer. But this way, at election time, under-achieving DA Jim (hiccup) Martin can brag about his "high percentage" conviction rate. Screw those crime victims and their families who wanted a shot at justice. DA Jim Martin is the Monty Hall of let's make a plea deal w/ criminals.

Lehigh County voters, don't get fooled (again).

DA Jim Martin pussies out, drops the major charge (again) and takes the easiest route


Readers, even The Morning Call "newspaper" can't look (totally) the other way on this one ...

Attempted homicide charge withdrawn against Peaches; others waived to court

As "reporter" Manny Gamiz notes:

District Attorney ... did not give details on why the most serious charge against Campbell ["Peaches"] was withdrawn.

Manny, I'll tell you why.

It's the longstanding M.O. of our long un-opposed DA Jim Martin to parade serious charges around for the media, at first, but then to drop the major charges and passively go for a conviction on much lesser charges because that's much easier to get. It's like only shooting layups and never attempting a 3-pointer. But this way, at election time, under-achieving DA Jim (hiccup) Martin can brag about his "high percentage" conviction rate. Screw those crime victims and their families who wanted a shot at justice. DA Jim Martin is the Monty Hall of let's make a plea deal w/ criminals.

Lehigh County voters, don't get fooled (again).

Friday, September 2, 2011

THE DIRTY FACTS ON DA JIM MARTIN


Q. Which local Good Ol' Boys support Jim Martin?


LVS will reveal more names several times daily, check back to see more names exposed, maybe yours.


Best Comment So Far
Concerned Citizen said...The local "fat cats" who contribute knowingly to a crooked and (hiccup) incompetent D.A. like Martin obviously don't care a hoot about "justice for all." They only care about "favors for them."

THE DIRTY FACTS ON DA JIM MARTIN


Q. Which local Good Ol' Boys support Jim Martin?


LVS will reveal more names several times daily, check back to see more names exposed, maybe yours.


Best Comment So Far
Concerned Citizen said...The local "fat cats" who contribute knowingly to a crooked and (hiccup) incompetent D.A. like Martin obviously don't care a hoot about "justice for all." They only care about "favors for them."

Monday, August 22, 2011

LVS exposé prods DA Jim Martin into filing charges against DUI baby killer Randy Teets



69 News: Driver charged in head-on crash that killed baby


Sept 2 Commentary, Victory Lap: Readers, as our August 12 post revealed, it routinely takes DA Jim Martin upwards of three to six months to a YEAR to file criminal charges against drunk drivers who kill people in Lehigh County. But thanks to LVS's exposé spotlighting of colluding DA Jim Martin and The Morning "newspaper," we successfully forced DA Jim Martin into working over a weekend and filing charges against alleged DUI killer Randy Teets faster than DA Jim Martin has ever done it before (according to our records) ... 34 days. As noted in our Aug 12 post, NorCo DA John Morganelli routinely gets it done in less than a week.

Nevertheless, it was rewarding to see DA Jim Martin admitting on camera to 69 News that it was Randy Teets's drunk driving impairment that killed Katrina Gunkel, watch segment .. same suit again Jim?

Now if only DA Jim Martin could remember to be consistent.

Here's what we mean ...

In April 2008, popular Parkland wrestling coach John Toggas was killed by drunk driver Jennifer Gehringer.

Even though DUI killer Jennifer Gehringer clocked in at nearly twice the legal blood alcohol content limit, DA Jim Martin decreed that beautiful and shapely Jennifer Gehringer's impairment and slowed reflexes couldn't be proven as a factor (?) in John Toggas's death.

Jennifer Gehringer's "sentence" for killing John Toggas while driving drunk? 2 days.

As a "prosecutor," DA Jim Martin is careless, erratic, inconsistent, crooked, wildly dishonest, and (hiccup) incompetent-- and in off-election years, he's a drunk driver's best friend who couldn't care less about the families of DUI homicide victims.

And all of DA Jim Martin's flagrant fuck-ups and sadistic screw jobs are downplayed and frequently flat-out concealed by The Morning Call "newspaper."

LVS exposé prods DA Jim Martin into filing charges against DUI baby killer Randy Teets



69 News: Driver charged in head-on crash that killed baby


Sept 2 Commentary, Victory Lap: Readers, as our August 12 post revealed, it routinely takes DA Jim Martin upwards of three to six months to a YEAR to file criminal charges against drunk drivers who kill people in Lehigh County. But thanks to LVS's exposé spotlighting of colluding DA Jim Martin and The Morning "newspaper," we successfully forced DA Jim Martin into working over a weekend and filing charges against alleged DUI killer Randy Teets faster than DA Jim Martin has ever done it before (according to our records) ... 34 days. As noted in our Aug 12 post, NorCo DA John Morganelli routinely gets it done in less than a week.

Nevertheless, it was rewarding to see DA Jim Martin admitting on camera to 69 News that it was Randy Teets's drunk driving impairment that killed Katrina Gunkel, watch segment .. same suit again Jim?

Now if only DA Jim Martin could remember to be consistent.

Here's what we mean ...

In April 2008, popular Parkland wrestling coach John Toggas was killed by drunk driver Jennifer Gehringer.

Even though DUI killer Jennifer Gehringer clocked in at nearly twice the legal blood alcohol content limit, DA Jim Martin decreed that beautiful and shapely Jennifer Gehringer's impairment and slowed reflexes couldn't be proven as a factor (?) in John Toggas's death.

Jennifer Gehringer's "sentence" for killing John Toggas while driving drunk? 2 days.

As a "prosecutor," DA Jim Martin is careless, erratic, inconsistent, crooked, wildly dishonest, and (hiccup) incompetent-- and in off-election years, he's a drunk driver's best friend who couldn't care less about the families of DUI homicide victims.

And all of DA Jim Martin's flagrant fuck-ups and sadistic screw jobs are downplayed and frequently flat-out concealed by The Morning Call "newspaper."

Not this time. 

Friday, August 12, 2011

When will DA Jim Martin file charges against alleged DUI baby killer Randy Teets?

August 22, 2011 Disturbing text update, and still no charges filed ...


WFMZ-TV Channel 69 News first reported this tragic story honestly, accurately, and immediately, on July 18 ...




[Editor's Note: 69 News has since blocked internet access to their original, Morning Call-scooping July 18th story. They've swapped out their original story's video and inserted a different video with a different story emphasis, i.e., blaming the parents, instead of Randy Teets, for Katrina Gunkel's death (just like The Morning Call is doing) and they've re-dated their original Morning Call-scooping July 18 text coverage as "July 20" at their website. LVS has been attempting to get some clarification on all this retroactive alignment from 69 News but the dots are embarrassingly easy to connect. Obviously, 69 News blinked and backed down from their original story, either because of direct pressure from the DA Jim Martin/Tom Corbett/Morning Call/Mal Gross McGinley power cabal, or, on their own, because of a skittish fear of an inevitable retribution pay back of some kind from petty and paranoid bully DA Jim Martin and his crony protectors at The Morning Call. This is disappointing. We always thought 69 News had potential as a dissent contender and a champion for the inconvenient facts, and the truth, like LVS. We hope 69 News regrets their LVS-exposed lapse of good judgement and journalistic integrity and gets back on a more honest and courageous course, soon. We also hope 69 News director Brad Rinehart is having a nice vacation.]


Even more curious (but par for the course), in its first two coverages of this story, The Morning Call "newspaper" concealed from its readers any mention of alcohol being a factor in the death of 1-year-old baby girl Katrina Gunkel.


The Morning Call: July 18, 2011


The Morning Call: July 19, 2011


Only when this blog called them out in a post here at LVS did The Morning Call finally tell its readers, 3 days later, what they and their longtime crony pal DA Jim Martin already knew ...




Over in neighboring Northampton County recently, concerned citizens were rightfully clamoring for DA John Morganelli's head because it took him 7 days after a holiday weekend to file much more complex double homicide charges against a former cop and alleged double DUI killer John P. Heaney III.


Here in Lehigh County, as of the date of this post, DA Jim Martin has had more than three times that amount of time already ... 25 days ... but still no charges against Randy Teets have been forthcoming.


So how long will it take incumbent, crooked, and incompetent DA Jim Martin to do his job here and file criminal charges against Randy Teets?


For some recent historical perspective, and these cases reveal DA Jim Martin's typical (hiccup) stumblebum slug's pace, it took DA Jim Martin ...


* 2 months-plus to file charges against DUI killer Joshua Share


* 5 months to file charges against DUI killer Joseph Hammer


* 6 months-plus to file charges against DUI killer Miqueas Garcia


* A YEAR to file charges against DUI killer Gregory Williams


So DA Martin, we're watching, and waiting.


Readers: if you think Lehigh County deserves better service, more work ethic, and more justice from its district attorney, on November 8, VOTE ED KOREN FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY.


And while we're watching and waiting for DA Jim Martin to file criminal charges against Randy Teets, let's all make a campaign contribution to Democratic DA candidate Ed Koren. He'll need campaign money to beat The Morning Call/Gross McGinley political machine.


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When will DA Jim Martin file charges against alleged DUI baby killer Randy Teets?

August 22, 2011 Disturbing text update, and still no charges filed ...

WFMZ-TV Channel 69 News first reported this tragic story honestly, accurately, and immediately, on July 18 ...


[Editor's Note: 69 News has since blocked internet access to their original, Morning Call-scooping July 18th story. They've swapped out their original story's video and inserted a different video with a different story emphasis, i.e., blaming the parents, instead of Randy Teets, for Katrina Gunkel's death (just like The Morning Call is doing) and they've re-dated their original Morning Call-scooping July 18 text coverage as "July 20" at their website. LVS has been attempting to get some clarification on all this retroactive alignment from 69 News but the dots are embarrassingly easy to connect. Obviously, 69 News blinked and backed down from their original story, either because of direct pressure from the DA Jim Martin/Tom Corbett/Morning Call/Mal Gross McGinley power cabal, or, on their own, because of a skittish fear of an inevitable retribution pay back of some kind from petty and paranoid bully DA Jim Martin and his crony protectors at The Morning Call. This is disappointing. We always thought 69 News had potential as a dissent contender and a champion for the inconvenient facts, and the truth, like LVS. We hope 69 News regrets their LVS-exposed lapse of good judgement and journalistic integrity and gets back on a more honest and courageous course, soon. We also hope 69 News director Brad Rinehart is having a nice vacation.]

Even more curious (but par for the course), in its first two coverages of this story, The Morning Call "newspaper" concealed from its readers any mention of alcohol being a factor in the death of 1-year-old baby girl Katrina Gunkel.

The Morning Call: July 18, 2011

The Morning Call: July 19, 2011

Only when this blog called them out in a post here at LVS did The Morning Call finally tell its readers, 3 days later, what they and their longtime crony pal DA Jim Martin already knew ...


Over in neighboring Northampton County recently, concerned citizens were rightfully clamoring for DA John Morganelli's head because it took him 7 days after a holiday weekend to file much more complex double homicide charges against a former cop and alleged double DUI killer John P. Heaney III.

Here in Lehigh County, as of the date of this post, DA Jim Martin has had more than three times that amount of time already ... 25 days ... but still no charges against Randy Teets have been forthcoming.

So how long will it take incumbent, crooked, and incompetent DA Jim Martin to do his job here and file criminal charges against Randy Teets?

For some recent historical perspective, and these cases reveal DA Jim Martin's typical (hiccup) stumblebum slug's pace, it took DA Jim Martin ...

* 2 months-plus to file charges against DUI killer Joshua Share

* 5 months to file charges against DUI killer Joseph Hammer

* 6 months-plus to file charges against DUI killer Miqueas Garcia

* A YEAR to file charges against DUI killer Gregory Williams

So DA Martin, we're watching, and waiting.

Readers: if you think Lehigh County deserves better service, more work ethic, and more justice from its district attorney, on November 8, VOTE ED KOREN FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY.

And while we're watching and waiting for DA Jim Martin to file criminal charges against Randy Teets, let's all make a campaign contribution to Democratic DA candidate Ed Koren. He'll need campaign money to beat The Morning Call/Gross McGinley political machine.

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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin goes easy on yet another drunk driver/killer

Readers, LVS can barely keep up (scroll down, see previous posts) w/ the back-up of back-ordered DUI homicide cases that snoozy and boozy DA Jim Martin is cleaning out from the bottom of his desk (because it's an election year) while everyone is on vacation and won't notice, Martin hopes.

This "latest" DUI from 2010 involves a death, and serious injury, and is again skillfully spun and downplayed online by DA Jim Martin Morning Call "newspaper" "reporter" and adorable lapdog Kevin Amerman.

Have a read ...


Here are The Inconvenient Facts in a nutshell ...

* By law, Pennsylvania judges like Robert L. Steinberg must sentence drunk drivers who kill people to a state mandatory minimum prison sentence of 3 years in a Pennsylvania State Penitentiary for the charge of Vehicular Homicide While DUI.

* The homicidal drunk driver in this case, Joseph M. Hammer, was sentenced to serve around 18+ months in Lehigh County Jail.

Why?

* Because "no nonsense" (?) DA Jim Martin generously (hiccup) plea-bargained away the major charge of Vehicular Homicide While DUI ... and most of the other charges.

Why?

* Because, as The Morning Call helpfully (and skillfully) tells us, the wishes of the victim's family were that they did not want to see their son's killer go to jail.

* This is curiously inconsistent w/ my family's experience. And our wishes. We wanted an appropriately stiff state prison sentence for our daughter Sheena's DUI killer, Robert LaBarre. One that was commensurate with the crime Robert LaBarre committed against Sheena Villa. But DA Jim Martin told me that he did not represent Sheena's family, he represented Lehigh County, and that our wishes were not a factor in the criminal charges he chose to file, and to not file.


Essential Reading > WHY WE FIGHT

Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin goes easy on yet another drunk driver/killer

Readers, LVS can barely keep up (scroll down, see previous posts) w/ the back-up of back-ordered DUI homicide cases that snoozy and boozy DA Jim Martin is cleaning out from the bottom of his desk (because it's an election year) while everyone is on vacation and won't notice, Martin hopes.

This "latest" DUI from 2010 involves a death, and serious injury, and is again skillfully spun and downplayed online by DA Jim Martin Morning Call "newspaper" "reporter" and adorable lapdog Kevin Amerman.

Have a read ...


Here are The Inconvenient Facts in a nutshell ...

* By law, Pennsylvania judges like Robert L. Steinberg must sentence drunk drivers who kill people to a state mandatory minimum prison sentence of 3 years in a Pennsylvania State Penitentiary for the charge of Vehicular Homicide While DUI.

* The homicidal drunk driver in this case, Joseph M. Hammer, was sentenced to serve around 18+ months in Lehigh County Jail.

Why?

* Because "no nonsense" (?) DA Jim Martin generously (hiccup) plea-bargained away the major charge of Vehicular Homicide While DUI ... and most of the other charges.

Why?

* Because, as The Morning Call helpfully (and skillfully) tells us, the wishes of the victim's family were that they did not want to see their son's killer go to jail.

* This is curiously inconsistent w/ my family's experience. And our wishes. We wanted an appropriately stiff state prison sentence for our daughter Sheena's DUI killer, Robert LaBarre. One that was commensurate with the crime Robert LaBarre committed against Sheena Villa. But DA Jim Martin told me that he did not represent Sheena's family, he represented Lehigh County, and that our wishes were not a factor in the criminal charges he chose to file, and to not file.


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