Author: mtc9393

The Department of Justice has a guide  about prosecuting hate crimes under 18 U.S. C. sec. 249. It notes it has “three significant subsections.” The first “Subsection (a)(1) criminalizes violent acts (and attempts to commit violent acts undertaken with a dangerous weapon) when those acts occur because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion,…

It got curiouser and curiouser sitting in the federal courtroom last Wednesday listening to the request by Tim Flaherty’s counsel, Martin Weinberg, for more discovery. As Weinberg made his argument the magistrate, Donald L. Cabell, questioned him closely about his assertions. Each point made by the magistrate was answered convincingly by Weinberg even to the…

Behind the scenes: It appears that after Attorney Flaherty called the victim in an attempt to settle the suit the victim went to the police. I assume he alleged that Flaherty was trying to bribe him from going forward with the case. He ended up on December 22, 2014, dealing with the state police who…

The best way to understand this case is to identify the players and the incidents which caused Timothy Flaherty to be sitting in the federal district court last Wednesday as a defendant listening to motions being argued. I set it out from the beginning to the present time. The defendant: Tim Flaherty is around 50 years…

Motions in Timmy Flaherty’s case were heard in federal court last Wednesday. When I opened the door of the courtroom to enter about two dozen eyes turned my way, quickly assessed me  and recognized I was no threat. They turned back to their business. A defendant was being arraigned. He was a big dude with…

The Iranian deal throws Russia right back onto the world stage. For years all it could boast of was its huge supply of oil and gas which it fed to the industrial powers of Western Europe developing their dependency on it. Things went well for a while as Russia used the money to improve the…