I have not posted in nearly a month because 99 and I have been busy tracking down a number of sex crimes – and trying to get the feds to do something about the criminals. The perpetrators have powerful friends in both parties on Capitol Hill, so, like everything else Swamp, justice is being delayed.
If you remember the movie “True Grit,” there was a spot where Lucky Ned Pepper’s outlaws had captured Mattie Ross, the teen girl seeking to bring one of the gang members to justice for murdering her father.
Mattie, intelligent and determined as they came, was playing for time so Rooster Cogburn and La Bouef (the characters played by John Wayne and Glen Campbell) could kill the gang and rescue her. She engaged Lucky Ned in conversation to turn him against the slayer of her father and play for time. She found out about some of Ned’s legal problems (the crimes he was wanted for) and said, “I come from money. We could hire you a good attorney.”
Lucky Ned replied, “I need more than a good lawyer, young Missy. I need a good JUDGE!”
In a movie filled with some of the funniest and greatest lines ever written, this was the truest.
Kim Darby and John Wayne, in “True Grit” still
I write this as an intro to a story that isn’t getting enough hatred nationally.
It’s the case of how some dumb behavior is costing a guy more than 15 years in prison due to politically correct perversion.
I did some checking on the local judge and prosecutor …. something anyone in the audience could do …. and found out this guy got a harsher sentence than a rapist, a negligent homicide government driver, a school district official who endangered her child, and others convicted for doing much more serious acts against others in the area.
The setting? Story County, Iowa, home of a few hundred farmers, some townsfolk, some commuters to Des Moines — about 40 miles south of Nevada, the county seat – and Iowa State University. The county has about 90,000 people; Iowa State University, based in Ames, Iowa, dominates the county.
The questionable judge of this story is Steven Van Marel. Van Marel, an immigrant from South Dakota, got his law degree from the University of Iowa in 1983, did four years as a county prosecutor, and got an appointment to the judgeship in 1987. He has been re-elected to this judgeship several times …. he has held it for 32 years. He has been at the public trough all his adult life after school. Time to put him out to pasture.
Van Marel, living in a county where Iowa State’s leftists are the dominant force, understands how to keep his government job. Don’t rile the college, kowtow to them, rule in their interests, and osculate the posteriors of the progressive cause when it seems necessary to do so.
He doesn’t necessarily have to ensure justice comes out of his court.
Nor does the county prosecutor, Democrat Jessica “blonde white privilege” Reynolds, shown below.
Jessica graduated from Drake University Law School in 2004, and became a public prosecutor after graduating. She worked the courts in two other Iowa counties until she landed the Story County job in 2008. She got a promotion in 2016 to county prosecutor when the incumbent, also a Democrat, stepped aside. She is a government creature also.
Now for the case that drives this column. From the Ames, Iowa Tribune 12/16/2019, this:
“The Ames man found guilty for tearing down and burning an LGBTQ flag from a local church has been sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Adolfo Martinez, 30, was convicted by a jury in November of a hate crime, third-degree harassment and being a habitual offender, which is associated with previous reckless use of fire crimes. He was sentenced Wednesday in Story County District Court, in Nevada.
All three crimes were to be served concurrent as the habitual offender charge carries a 15 year sentence and hate crime two years. Martinez is not eligible for parole until the mandatory minimum of three years is met.
He is the first person to be convicted of a hate crime in Story County, Story County Attorney Jessica Reynolds said.
“The hard reality is there are people who target individuals and commit crimes against individuals because of their race, gender, sexual orientation, and when that happens it’s so important that as a society we stand up and people have severe consequences for those actions,” Reynolds said.
Prior to his final sentencing Martinez gave his impact statement, and indicated that he would never stop, and was ‘living by God’s laws,’ Reynolds said.
On June 11, Ames Police responded to a call at the Dangerous Curves gentleman’s club at 111 Fifth St., because a man was making threats and acting disorderly. When officers arrived at the scene, Martinez had been kicked out.
Later that night, Martinez returned to the club and told an employee that he wanted to burn a pride flag, and was going to burn down the club.
He left the club and returned with a pride flag and burned it along Fifth Street, authorities previously told the Tribune.
Martinez was arrested later that day.”
The Washington Post (12/20/2019) published a sob-sister story about the lesbian pastor of the Ames United Church of Christ and the goofballs who go there. The article writer claimed the bent church group was scared but was charitable, claiming they were looking for ways to support Martinez’s three children and their mother while estranged Daddy is doing almost 20 years in the state pen.
Save the BS, Washington Compost. You hate most Christians. But since it is convenient for you to prop a church where the pastor could presumably see having no Joseph but two Marys in her Nativity Scene and a Bible with the pages about Sodom and Gomorrah cut out, you did so. You are scum who deserve every misfortune that comes your way.
There are Iowans who burn American flags and don’t go to prison for 15 years on hate crimes specifications, even though they hate veterans and decent God-fearing people.
IOWA CITY, Iowa – A group of protesters in Iowa City, Iowa, set fire to multiple American flags on Thursday, the Iowa City Press-Citizen reported.
“When I see the flag, I see racial injustice,” Paul Osgerby of Iowa City told the Press-Citizen. “I see social injustice from Native American genocide to African-American slavery to failing to recognize women as citizens until the 20th Century.”
As the protesters set fire to the flags, Matt Uhrin, in his FedEx uniform, rushed over to the protest site near the Old Capitol Mall with a fire extinguisher to put out the burning flags. According to the Press-Citizen, Uhrin took a flag from a protester and scuffled with others in the process.
Two protesters, Osgerby and Kelli Ebensberger, also of Iowa City, were charged with violating Iowa City’s public burn ordinance. According to the Press-Citizen, the ordinance is a simple misdemeanor punishable by up to 30 days in jail or a fine of up to $625. (Source: Iowa City Press-Citizen. Iowa City is the home of the University of Iowa.)
So how did Martinez draw such a hit?
I looked at the court record on the case – AGCR 058571, Story County, People of Iowa vs. Adolfo Martinez. The record says the jurors convicted Martinez of “”Arson, 3rd Degree – Hate Crime.” The record also says the jurors convicted Martinez of “Harassment – 3rd Degree” and “Reckless Use of Fire.” Judge Van Marel gave Martinez 30 days for the harassment conviction and a year for the fire conviction. He gave Martinez 15 years for the “arson-hate crime” conviction due to the “habitual offender” specification …. which means Martinez drew two convictions for the same act of setting the degenerate rainbow flag on fire. Where is the ACLU?
How was Martinez reckless with fire? He burned a fag flag in the street. There was no allegation in the media any person received injuries or anything else lit on fire. Martinez was not charged with being drunk or high so he must have been acting with enough control to rip the fagele flag off the church, bring it to the strip joint, apply lighter fluid and a spark, and burn the flag without hurting himself or others.
The Story County court records show judge or prosecutor dropped a “disorderly conduct/ loud/ raucous noise charge (SMSM 081756) against Martinez in connection with his wild and crazy night outside the strip joint. How thoughtful of them.
Martinez drew the hate crime charge because he repeatedly insulted the lezzie pastor of the church who decided to display the degenerate rainbow flag.
No one reported she was excluding Martinez as a Hispanic because the fag flag has no brown stripe. No black or white stripes either.
Ms. Pastor didn’t appear to turn the other cheeks either – those on her face or on her backside.
The court paperwork mentioned a “habitual offender” specification, which the prosecutor and judge used to take a decade or more of life away from Martinez.
No story carried info on what crimes Martinez allegedly committed to be labeled a “habitual offender” – a label which allows a prosecutor and judge to triple a convict’s sentence. The articles I read implied Martinez was a repeat firebug.
So I checked the public record, which all of you and the reporters could have done.
The Story County District Court website shows Martinez got busted in 2015 for a DUI – first offense. Case number is OWCR052588. A no possession of valid driver’s license charge was dismissed. Case number is STA 0089685.
Martinez has a conviction for driving on a suspended license and going 1 to 5 miles over the posted speed limit in 2016. Case numbers are NTA 0100071 and STA 0100070.
Martinez has a conviction for driving on a suspended license in 2017. Case number is NTA 0099820.
Two things stick out. In some cases, Martinez was listed pro se ….. he couldn’t afford a lawyer but none was provided to him.
Martinez’s priors in Story County were all motor vehicle related. Did he commit arson in another county? The record in Story County, where he evidently lived, doesn’t show it.
So I checked the statewide Iowa Court Online Search database. It is possible Martinez, whose listed dob is 3/12/1989, was a firebug in another state, but the Iowa state database doesn’t show he has a conviction for committing any non-auto offenses in Iowa until his outburst outside of the Ames strip joint in June 2019.
DID THE JUDGE AND PROSECUTOR VIOLATE THE LAW IN USING DRIVING CONVICTIONS TO BUILD A “HABITUAL OFFENDER” CASE?
DID THEY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF MARTINEZ, WHO APPEARED WITHOUT A LAWYER IN THE CASE?
IS MARTINEZ AN ILLEGAL? IF SO, WHERE ARE THE LAWFARE SHITS WHO HABITUALLY DEFEND ILLEGALS WHO COMMIT RAPE, ROBBERY, AND MURDER?
DID JUDGE VAN MAREL AND PROSECUTOR REYNOLDS SMASH MARTINEZ BECAUSE THEY ARE THEMSELVES SEXUAL DEGENERATES? (FAIR QUESTION — SPEAKS TO MOTIVATION OF BOTH.)
DID THEY EXPECT A POLITICAL EDGE IN WAY OVERCHARGING MARTINEZ?
OR DOES SEXUAL DEVIANCY OUTRANK BEING BLACK OR HISPANIC ON THE LEFTIST SCALE OF JUSTICE?
Judge Van Marel and Prosecutor Miss Reynolds smashed Martinez because he served as his own incompetent lawyer. He probably didn’t have much money. Judges and prosecutors do this routinely to people. The lawyers want to keep their monopoly in the court system.
A real lawyer would have fought two charges – arson and recklessly using fire – for the same act. He or she would have also fought the habitual offender specification, which would have saved Martinez at least a decade of time in prison. And he or she would have called their fascistic actions “selective prosecution.” He or she would have brought up the Iowa City assholes who burned American flags, and their punishment.
He or she would have also spotlighted the hypocrisy and poor performance of Judge Van Marel and Miss Reynolds in other cases.
I did a little looking on Judge Van Marel and Miss Reynolds on the Internet …. no more than about 45 minutes. Here’s what I found:
From STN Media, 2016, this:
“AMES, Iowa — An Iowa State University bus driver entered a guilty plea to a single misdemeanor charge in the case of an 18-year-old student who was struck and killed on a rainy December 2015 morning. The driver faces no more than 30 days in jail.
The Story County Attorney’s Office and the attorney for the driver, 23-year-old Benjamin D. Clague, reached an agreement today. The case had been scheduled to go to trial Tuesday.
The incident happened on Dec. 14 last year as freshman student Emmalee Jacobs of Urbana, Iowa, was walking to class for a finals test before the semester break. An ISU police officer found Jacobs, lying in the crosswalk only minutes after she was struck, but an extensive investigation uncovered no eyewitnesses.
Clague was arrested Jan. 20 after a supervisor reviewed bus video in which Clague reportedly made a left turn against a flashing yield arrow. Police contend that is the moment the bus struck Jacobs. Video reportedly showed Clague stopping the bus after incident to check for damage before continuing on his route.
The agreement for Clague to plead guilty to a single count — failure to report an accident — came after Story County District Court Judge Steve Van Marel ruled last Thursday that prosecutors had the burden to prove Clague knew that he struck Jacobs. Van Marel also denied a request by the county attorney’s office to continue the trial to a later date.
The amended charge resulted in prosecutors agreeing to drop a charge of failure to obey a traffic control device and one felony count of leaving the scene of a personal injury accident.
Assistant County Attorney Jessica Reynolds told School Transportation News that the felony statute’s requirement that the defendant knew he struck Jacobs created an insurmountable hurdle for prosecutors.
“It’s almost impossible to prove what someone was thinking. That’s why the ruling was so problematic. The statute itself is extremely confusing,” Reynolds said. “Legislative clarification is absolutely needed. There does need to be a legislative fix so that the law is construed the way the legislature intended it.”
Clague will be sentenced Friday. In addition to a maximum 30-day sentence, he faces a maximum $100 fine, court costs and a 35-percent surcharge.
Reynolds noted that plea agreement negotiations began after the judge’s ruling. “It was the maximum sentence we could seek under the law and the defendant agreed to the maximum amount of time. We were in constant communication with the victim’s family during the plea agreement time period, which was over the weekend,” Reynolds said. “Obviously, they are heartbroken. Our hearts go out to them; they are a wonderful family.”
What a pathetic whiny and crocodile tears shedding little bitch Jessica Reynolds must be.
And look how Judge Van Marel interceded for Iowa State University.
Here’s the next case, courtesy of Raccoon Valley Radio, 11/22/2017:
A Jefferson man will be sentenced next month for two separate incidents.
According to court documents, 56-year-old Michael Lynn Heard entered a written guilty plea to an aggravated misdemeanor for assault on a peace officer and a serious misdemeanor for criminal mischief for a November 24, 2015 incident and a simple misdemeanor for fifth degree criminal mischief for a separate incident on November 25, 2015.
The November 24th incident was when a Jefferson Police Officer was arresting Heard on a probation violation warrant. Heard was allowed to go back to his vehicle to get some personal items, when he jumped into his vehicle and sped off. Following a short chase, the vehicle stopped near the middle school, where a Greene County Sheriff’s Deputy suffered a muscle contusion in his hand apprehending Heard.
Heard was also involved in another incident on November 25th when he stole under $200 in checks from his wife and used the checks at Casey’s General Store, Sparky’s One Stop gas station and Kum & Go.
Court documents show in the plea agreement, the state will dismiss all of the other charges and Heard will be placed on probation and have his prison sentence suspended. Heard was originally charged with 11 counts of Class D Felonies for forgery in the November 25th incident, as well as misdemeanors for eluding, interference with official acts causing bodily injury, reckless driving and driving on the wrong side of the road in the November 24th incident.
Heard will be sentenced on December 14th in Story County District Court, because the presiding judge, the Honorable Steven Van Marel is from Story County.”
Nice work, Judge Van Marel.
Next sample is this from weareiowa.com, 4/28/2017:
“NEVADA – On Friday, the man who confessed to threatening to kill a transgender student was sentenced for his crime. The judge determined Mondell Olson, 66, won’t be serving any additional time in jail.
Olson was originally charged with three counts of harassment, but pleaded down to two lesser charges –one first-degree and another third degree.
Judge Steven Van Marel sentenced Olson to that one year of probation, saying it’s important that Olson rehabilitates himself and learns from what he did.
His attorney asked the judge to consider the time that Olson had already served in jail, as well as his medical history. That includes memory loss, heart attacks and a stroke. Even though the judge said Olson’s threats were not credible, he wants Olson to learn his lesson.
“At the time, you made the threats people didn’t know that, the victim didn’t know that and you unnecessarily caused other people fear and stress, and you probably changed the life of this victim forever,” said Hon. Steven Van Marel.
Olson also had his attorney, and jail room and board fees waived, because he cannot afford to pay them. He also had his no contact order with that transgender student extended.”
COMMENT; Martinez burned the flag while the Ames Church of Christ was closed, and no one was there to hear him vent. And he said some unkind things to the lesbian pastor who desecrated a church by flying the fag flag from it. How is that worse than this guy’s situation?
Here’s another road apple of jurisprudence from the Story County Courthouse. From the Iowa State Daily, 6/24/2004, this:
“NEVADA — Featuring alleged abuses of Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights, a dispute over the legality of police testimony, and a newspaper’s photograph showing the student pushing a flaming Dumpster across a street, a hearing in the case against ISU student Justin Larson ended Wednesday with Larson hugging his tearful mother.
The hearing at the Story County Courthouse ended with the state dismissing its charges of reckless use of fire or explosives and disorderly conduct due to a lack of evidence.
The decision by Assistant Story County Attorney Timothy Meals came after the presiding judge, Steve Van Marel, ruled that, without testimony from Iowa State Daily photographer David Osterhaus, the photo of Larson, sophomore in pre-business, pushing the fiery Dumpster would likely be seen as inadmissible hearsay.
The photo, taken by Osterhaus during an April 18 riot in Campustown, originally appeared on the front page of the April 19 Daily.
Meals said he dismissed charges because the state’s case hinged primarily on the photograph and transcripts of a conversation between the defendant and an Ames Police officer — the legality of which was also disputed by Larson’s attorney.
Larson’s attorney, William Talbot, said the photograph was the linchpin of the state’s case, without which the trial could not proceed.
“It was absolutely critical to the state’s case because they couldn’t find anybody to testify that Justin did anything wrong,” he said.
Generic dumpster fire. Phone number indicates New Hampshire location.
Larson’s trial was scheduled for Thursday, but Talbot filed several motions intended to punch holes in the state’s case, among them a motion to suppress the evidence of the photograph and the testimony of Ames police officer Tom Shelton, who, Talbot contended, continued to question Larson after he’d asked for an attorney.
Before Wednesday’s ruling, Talbot said he had talked to Meals, and both decided that the issue of the photograph’s admissibility was key to the case and felt it should be addressed first. Talbot said he and Larson maintain that Larson committed no crime and that it was only through circumstance that Larson had been in the riot area in the first place.
Larson was taken into custody April 23 as the Ames police received phone calls revealing his
identity. Police had been scouring pictures and camera footage to pinpoint offenders in the riot.
The testimony Talbot questioned, said Ames Police Cmdr. Jim Robinson, had taken place before any arrest had been made, as Shelton approached Larson at his dorm room to speak informally on the matter. Robinson said Larson had made mention of being unsure about talking to police without an attorney present.
Sheldon then told Larson it was his choice, but the two continued to converse. It was at this point, Robinson said, Larson admitted to having been near the Dumpster in the photo.
Due to the informal nature of the conversation, Robinson said, it was not necessary for the officer to read Larson his Miranda rights, who was taken into custody later after turning himself in.
The bulk of the conversation took place, Robinson said, as Shelton was giving Larson a ride to
class. Talbot said this violated Larson’s Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights. Those articles grant protection against self-incrimination and the right to legal counsel.
Although others have been arrested based on photographic evidence related to the riot, Talbot said he didn’t believe that Larson’s victory would set any kind of precedent in these future trials.
Lucas Grundmeier, Daily editor in chief, said the Daily’s policy of remaining neutral on legal proceedings precluded Osterhaus, freshman in liberal arts and sciences-open option, from testifying. Osterhaus is spending the summer in his hometown of Grapevine, Texas.
“Our job at the Daily is to report news, and that’s what our staff did during the riot of April 18,”
Grundmeier said.
“Our job is not to contribute to the prosecution or defense of a charge. We believe in the privilege of our reporters, in this case a photographer, to report on newsworthy happenings without the knowledge that they might be called in to testify or register an opinion on it.”
Many things are wrong here. The key thing that is wrong is that Judge Van Marel threw out photographic evidence. The Story County prosecutor was gutless in not making the photographer testify about taking the photo. He could have held up the case until the kid got back from summer break. The dumpster fire was bigger than the burning fag flag fire.
The pissant Lucas Grundmeier seemed to be trying to keep the photographer away from count after he documented a crime. It would be fitting if he became a crime victim and some other judge tosses evidence against him on a technicality. Journalists are not special, especially when they are propagandists.
Again, Van Marel defended the interests of Iowa State University against the local police.
Now for a rape, errr, sexual abuse case where a teacher only got six years. Judge Van Marel and Miss Jessica collaborated on this rape of justice.
From the 6/24/2018 Des Moines Register, this:
“NEVADA, Ia. — A former North Polk high school student on Wednesday told the teacher convicted of sexually exploiting her that she suffers the consequences of his actions every day.
Kevin Muehlenthaler, 30, of Ames, was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison for the inappropriate relationship.
“You are a sexual predator and I absolutely believe that you would have exploited another student if I had not come forward,” the victim said in court Wednesday. The Register generally does not identify victims of sexual abuse without their permission unless they file a civil lawsuit in connection with the abuse.
In an interview with the Des Moines Register after the sentencing, she said she wanted to speak up in part so that other survivors of sexual abuse know they’re not alone.
“I really felt like a freak because I felt like, ‘Why am I the only one that this is happening to? Why did he pick me?'” she said of her experience.
Kevin Muehlenthaler, courtesy of WOI TV, Des Moines, Iowa
The survivor previously told police that she was Muehlenthaler’s student helper at a North Polk elementary school, where he was a fifth-grade band teacher. She said Wednesday that she was diagnosed with panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder and post-traumatic stress after his exploitation.
At one point, she said, she was admitted to a hospital after having suicidal thoughts. She said the stress of her experience also led her to spending a month sleeping on a friend’s couch in college for fear of sleeping alone.
And it has affected her education at the University of Iowa, where she is an art major and has had to push back her graduation date by a year.
“It is still difficult for me to take classes that have male instructors and even more difficult for me to attend their office hours, even if I have something important I need to discuss with them,” she said in court.
She was in another abusive relationship in college, she said, but stopped herself from speaking up while Muehlenthaler’s case was ongoing for fear of being called a liar or “the girl who cried wolf.”
“To me, it feels like our culture only permits someone to be a victim once,” she said.
She said she now feels like she’s grown more confident in herself and her interactions with others.
“It’s easier for me to actually tell when someone is mistreating me and knowing that I’m worth more than that,” she said.
Muehlenthaler’s term will be two years in prison for each count, running consecutively for a total of six years, Story County District Judge Steven Van Marel said at Muehlenthaler’s sentencing Wednesday at the Story County Courthouse. He will be eligible for release earlier under Iowa’s earned-time law for inmates.
Muehlenthaler will also receive a 10-year special sentence of supervision by the Iowa Department of Corrections once he completes his prison term, and he will have to register as a sex offender for 10 years.
The judge also ordered a five-year restraining order preventing Muehlenthaler from having contact with the victim.
The victim told police in October 2016 that she had an ongoing sexual relationship with Muehlenthaler between November 2013 and July 2014 while she was a student. She said that she was 16 and 17 years old during the time of the relationship.
She told police that before the two engaged in sexual activity, he shared stories with her about his sex life and talked about his relationship with his wife. They would meet outside of school hours.
In her account to police, the survivor reported engaging in sexual acts with Muehlenthaler at two of his residences, once at his friend’s home and once at a Super 8. All of the acts happened in Ames, according to court documents.
Muehlenthaler took the trusted position held by a teacher relationship “and he worked it and he twisted it and he turned it into the worst thing that it could be,” said Tiffany Meredith, the lead criminal prosecutor for the Story County Attorney’s Office.
Van Marel agreed when handing down his sentence.
“I think you need to be removed from the community for as long a time as possible,” he told Muehlenthaler at the sentencing.
“You took advantage of a young person and you changed her life forever because of your selfishness,” Van Marel said. “What you did was inexcusable.”
Muehlenthaler’s attorney, Aaron Hamrock, said he was disappointed in the verdict. Hamrock had argued that the sentences for each of Muehlenthaler’s charges should run concurrently and that with sex offender treatment programming and a mental health evaluation, two years in prison would be a sufficient punishment.”
Van Marel grandstanded, but didn’t give the perv public skool teacher much of a sentence. And Tiffany Meredith’s boss county prosecutor Jessica Reynolds was as silent as if she was gagged. From www.hawkeye.com, 11/9/2017, this:
“Approximately one month after a jury found an Ames man and former North Polk High School teacher guilty of three counts of sexual exploitation by a school employee, his sentencing date has been delayed to next year.
Kevin Jacob Muehlenthaler, 29, is expected to be sentenced Jan. 4, after it was originally set for Dec. 20. Muehlenthaler was charged in early February with four counts of sexual exploitation by a school employee after turning himself in at Story County Jail.
According to Story County Attorney Jessica Reynolds, Judge Steven Van Marel only submitted three counts to the jury, as he found there was not enough evidence to submit the fourth count.”
Miss Jessica was almost as silent as if she had been gagged.
There was little outcry when Judge Steven gave out a squeezably soft sentence to a public skool official for child endangerment and other offenses. From a 2015 news story on www.times-republican.com, this:
“A Marshalltown School Board member was found guilty of child endangerment and animal neglect and sentenced this week.
District Judge Steven Van Marel issued Kendall Derby, 51, a suspended one-year jail term on Tuesday for one count of child endangerment, an aggravated misdemeanor, and a $625 fine.
On two additional counts of animal neglect, both simple misdemeanors, Van Marel issued two suspended 30-day jail sentences and two $65 fines.
Derby was also placed on probation for two years, which entails supervision under a probation supervisor; random home inspections; mental health evaluation and treatment; and prohibition from owning, possessing or keeping any animals.
Derby accepted a plea deal with the Marshall County Attorney earlier this month. Eight other simple misdemeanor charges of animal neglect were dropped.
In an interview, Derby declined to comment on the case or her future status as a school board member.
School attorney Rex Ryden said under Iowa Code, a school board seat automatically becomes vacant if the sitting member is convicted of a felony. Following the conviction, the board would enter proceedings to fill the vacancy.
Ryden said the code is unclear as to how a vacancy would be declared in lesser offenses.
“It’s not just a simple, ‘Let’s just ask the judge to declare this office vacant,’” he said.
In early September, Derby was arrested at her Marshalltown home following a welfare check by the Marshalltown Police Department.
Officers discovered several animals in the residence, two of which were deceased. A police report described the residence as “uninhabitable.”
Her child, who is a minor, lived with Derby at that time.
In her guilty plea, she admitted to acting in a manner during 2015 that created “a substantial risk to the physical, mental or emotional health or safety of her child” when she was reasonably able to do so.
A separate case involving the child is under way, the details of which are confidential.”
So Judge Van Marel gave a public school official no jail time for child endangerment. He gave a public school bus driver who killed a girl and left the scene of the homicide 30 days max. He gave an old crank who threatened a cross-dresser a few weeks.
He threw out evidence showing an Iowa State Student with a dumpster on fire.
He went easy on a guy who violated parole, stole from his wife, fled an arrest, and caused the injury of a police officer.
He gave a sexual abuser teacher who preyed upon a teenage girl six years for several cases of sexual abuse. This was barely one-third the punishment he gave to a guy who burned a fagele flag.
Jessica Reynolds went along with Van Marel in the cases that were hers or her office’s cases.
This doesn’t count the incident the judge overlooked involving Bryce Dejean-Jones. Judge Steven stopped a drug bust conviction, which allowed the Iowa State basketball star to lead his team into the NCAA playoffs.
Here’s the story, per a 12/11/2014 Des Moines Register article:
“AMES, Ia. – Ames police said late Thursday that Iowa State University basketball player Bryce Dejean-Jones still could face additional charges, even though a judge dismissed a drug-related charge against him earlier in the day.
Dejean-Jones was arrested and jailed for several hours Thursday in the most serious of an escalating series of events at the apartment complex where he lives at 1221 Mayfield Drive. On Thursday, ISU men’s basketball coach Fred Hoiberg announced that Dejean-Jones, the team’s No. 2 scorer, would be suspended from Friday’s game against Iowa.
Police broke up a party at Dejean-Jones’ Ames apartment Thursday morning and took him into custody on a charge of keeping a drug house, a serious misdemeanor, because marijuana was found on a dresser in the apartment, Ames Police Cmdr. Geoff Huff said Thursday. But when Dejean-Jones appeared in a courtroom in Nevada, Ia., a Story County judge said the criminal complaint presented in court lacked enough probable cause to support the charge.
Dejean-Jones (above, per Des Moines Register photo) remains accused of hosting a loud gathering and breaking Ames’ noise ordinance. Those are less-serious offenses.
However, Huff said, police could still seek to re-file the original charge or another drug-related charge if authorities think that an amended criminal complaint would provide more justification for the accusation. Ames police want to resolve the matter before the end of the day Friday, he said.
“I think we need to figure it out and get it done,” he said. “Either we have it or we don’t.”
The arrest followed multiple encounters involving police at the apartment where Dejean-Jones lives with another ISU basketball player, Abdel Nader. Huff said police are not looking at bringing any charges against Nader.
Since Aug. 30, police have responded to nine calls about the apartment, mostly complaints about loud music with thumping bass and parties. All of the calls were between the hours of 10 p.m. and 4 a.m., according to police incident reports.
ISU junior Matt White, a former member of the school’s wrestling team, told the Iowa State Daily on Thursday that he lives in a neighboring apartment and made the 3:40 a.m. phone call that ended with Dejean-Jones’ arrest. The criminal complaint indicates that White called police because people in the basketball players’ apartment were being loud while playing video games.
White declined to be interviewed by a Register reporter. According to the Daily, White said that he’s had problems with Dejean-Jones’ behavior throughout the fall semester and that he met with the basketball star, an Ames police officer and Hoiberg to discuss the issues.
“It has been a bunch of noise complaints, defacing property in the hallway, leaving their trash out there, being disrespectful to everyone who has ever tried to confront them about this,” White said.
A person at Dejean-Jones’ apartment did not open the door when a reporter knocked and declined to be interviewed.
Dylan Barker, an ISU junior who lives in the apartment directly below Dejean-Jones, can hear loud music and voices from the upstairs apartment on a daily basis, he said. The noise, though frequent, isn’t particularly bothersome to Barker.
“We could hear noise, but we didn’t really care,” he said. “We’re college kids, too … they’re always bouncing basketballs on the floor.”
Barker said that he never reported noise from Dejean-Jones’ apartment, but that police were often present at the building.
The drug charge, the most serious of the three originally filed, was dismissed Thursday when Dejean-Jones appeared before District Associate Judge Steven P. Van Marel. The judge said he based his findings off a three-paragraph police affidavit in the criminal complaint.
After getting a search warrant, Ames police officer Eric Snyder found a “small amount” of marijuana on a dresser inside the apartment, as well as packages for rolling papers on a living room table, according to the criminal complaint. Ashes were also found on the table.
Dejean-Jones was taken to the Story County Jail in Nevada after his arrest. Wearing sweatpants and a long-sleeved Iowa State basketball shirt, he sat quietly in the courtroom before the judge issued his decision. He declined to comment while sitting in a hallway awaiting a ride and walked past a group of reporters, declining to answer questions.
Veteran defense lawyers say judges occasionally throw out charges because of a lack of evidence, although it is not common.”
Judge Van Marel fixed a case for the kid. This sort of thing happens a lot in college towns with unruly players. Judges know the college, and not they, rule the roost.
In 2016, Jones was on the NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans. Jones kicked his way into a crib he thought was his girlfriend’s pad. It wasn’t, and the resident shot Jones to death.
Maybe if Judge Steven had done his job and put Jones in some sort of rehab, the young man might have turned his life around and enjoyed a long and prosperous career in the NBA.
RIP, Bryce, RIP.
AGAIN:
DID THE JUDGE AND PROSECUTOR VIOLATE THE LAW IN USING DRIVING CONVICTIONS TO BUILD A “HABITUAL OFFENDER” CASE AGAINST ADOLFO MARTINEZ?
DID THEY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF MARTINEZ, WHO APPEARED PRO SE IN THE CASE?
IS MARTINEZ AN ILLEGAL? IF SO, WHERE ARE THE LAWFARE SHITS WHO HABITUALLY DEFEND ILLEGALS WHO COMMIT RAPE, ROBBERY, AND MURDER?
DID JUDGE VAN MAREL AND PROSECUTOR REYNOLDS SMASH MARTINEZ BECAUSE THEY ARE THEMSELVES SEXUAL DEGENERATES?
DID THEY EXPECT A POLITICAL EDGE IN WAY OVERCHARGING MARTINEZ?
OR DOES SEXUAL DEVIANCY OUTRANK BEING BLACK OR HISPANIC ON THE LEFTIST SCALE OF JUSTICE? IF SO, THIS MEANS LEFTISTS ARE LIKE SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS WHO COUNTED BLACKS AS 3/5 A PERSON.
Or maybe it’s because two Dangerous Curves dancers beat Judge Van Marel in court. The judge convicted them of having exposed buttocks when lap-dancing at the strip joint in Ames.
The “entertainers’” lawyers, on appeal, argued that state ordinances overruled local ordinances when it comes to pornography. The appellate judge saw it their way. (Williams v. Ames)
Regardless, the answers to these cases, the public record shows there are enough cases in which Judge Van Marel and Prosecutor Miss Reynolds did wrong that the voters need permanently exile them from the public trough.
Local judges and prosecutors, if bad, can screw justice anywhere and everywhere. You as voters need to familiarize yourselves with those judges and prosecutors who you vote into and out of office. George Soros and his evil people are funding a lot of leftist prosecutors so they can screw up the justice system, fail to prosecute real criminals, persecute the politically incorrect, refuse to insist upon bail for most suspected criminals, and empty the jails so convicts can commit crimes that wear down the police.
This is reason in itself why we should extradite Soros to any country whose prosecutors aren’t too cowardly to prosecute him and jail him for life.
Soros and other high-roller leftists are supporting Democrat candidates for governor who will welcome illegals as a means of outvoting Americans in elections. Along with giving felons the right to vote, like little Beshear, the new Kentucky governor who sounds like a smarmy and dishonest TV preacher.
As of today, little Beshear announced Kentucky would take in more “refugees,” even as the Trump administration has reduced refugee inflow by 80%.
Without saying so as loudly, Democrats who are governors in three other states Donald Trump carried in 2016 (Laura Kelly in Kansas, Roy Cooper in North Carolina, and Steve Bullock in Montana) are doing likewise. They want freeloading foreigners who want free stuff to vote Democrat and help other mental and moral midgets outvote Republicans in these states.
Breitbart 12/22/2019 reported five GOP governors in states Donald Trump carried in 2016 want more refugees too. Presumably they are not considering how left-leaning foreign nationals will make it harder for America to remain American. Are they are on the take or just stupid and deserve to be primaried? The ninnies or corrupocrats include Kim Reynolds of Iowa, Bill Lee of Tennessee, Doug Ducey of Arizona, Doug Burgum of North Dakota, and Gary Herbert of Utah.
Breitbart continued, “For months, organizations with ties to billionaire George Soros have carried out a pressure campaign on Republican governors, who have readily caved, to ask that refugees continue being resettled. Likewise, in states like Iowa and North Dakota, the big business lobby and donors have continuously claimed they need more refugees to fill jobs.”
They fill jobs with very low-paid foreigners, who have to grift off of welfare and other charity to get by. We the taxpayers end up eating the costs, while the big business people and the refugee racketeers profit.
Evil never sleeps.
If a crew of shyster lawyers and other maggots and excrement eaters in and around the House can impeach a president with no evidence of wrongdoing, the government can attack you without letup or shame.
If there is evidence the FBI is so poisoned and crooked that they thought they wouldn’t get caught spying on a presidential candidate and later president at the behest of the presidential candidate they thought would win … and even the former head of the FBI (Comey) and the CIA (Brennan) are now admitting it, the government can attack you without letup or shame.
There are term limits for the President.
There must be term limits for members of the House and Senate, for judges, and for every government officeholder.
With the exception of the military and the first responders, all government job holders must have job security not much more secure than the average employee. They are no more worthy of holding government jobs than anyone else. Wrongdoing without consequences due to civil service laws protects the many thousands of criminals who hold government jobs. These rules must be abolished.
To quote Andrew Jackson, in his 1829 Message to Congress:
“There are, perhaps, few men who can for any great length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under the influence of feelings unfavorable to the faithful discharge of their public duties. Their integrity may be proof against improper considerations immediately addressed to themselves, but they are apt to acquire a habit of looking with indifference upon the public interests and of tolerating conduct from which an unpracticed man would revolt.
Office is considered as a species of property, and government rather as a means of promoting individual interests than as an instrument created solely for the service of the people. Corruption in some and in others a perversion of correct feelings and principles divert government from its legitimate ends and make it an engine for the support of the few at the expense of the many.
The duties of all public officers are, or at least admit of being made, so plain and simple that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance; and I can not but believe that more is lost by the long continuance of men in office than is generally to be gained by their experience. I submit, therefore, to your consideration whether the efficiency of the Government would not be promoted and official industry and integrity better secured by a general extension of the law which limits appointments to four years.
In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another. Offices were not established to give support to particular men at the public expense. No individual wrong is, therefore, done by removal, since neither appointment to nor continuance in office is a matter of right. The incumbent became an officer with a view to public benefits, and when these require his removal they are not to be sacrificed to private interests.
It is the people, and they alone, who have a right to complain when a bad officer is substituted for a good one. He who is removed has the same means of obtaining a living that are enjoyed by the millions who never held office. The proposed limitation would destroy the idea of property now so generally connected with official station, and although individual distress may be sometimes produced, it would, by promoting that rotation which constitutes a leading principle in the republican creed, give healthful action to the system.”
In other words, during President Trump’s second term, it may be time to bring back a little Jacksonian Democracy. Limit government jobs and reform the civil service system.
Taylor Swift, of all people, came out recently against George Soros for funding recording industry people who are allegedly keeping her from singing her own songs.
Per OAN, 2/14/2019, this:
“Swift stated Soros and other groups helped sell her life’s worth of art without her “approval, consultation or consent.”
“After I was denied the chance to purchase my music outright, my entire catalog was sold to Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings in a deal that I’m told was funded by the Soros family, 23 Capital and that Carlyle group,” she said.”
Taylor Swift , shown here with galpal Karlie Kloss, got nipped in the backside even after she started supporting homosexual activism and attacking President Trump and GOP candidates. The Left can eat their own, and not in the lesbian friendly way Miss Tay-Tay may have been thinking. Did she deserve to get goosed in this way? She doesn’t think so.
The last Democrat President who was a patriot got shot to death in Dallas by multiple assassins with the connivance of his vice-president (also a Democrat) and the Deep State – the same types of people who are committing many crimes in their attacks upon President Trump.
For those of us without Taylor’s money, we must study the candidates for office, and work for, support, and vote for the good ones or at least those who pose the least amount of harm. When in doubt, vote against all Democrats. They are in general lying vermin. Too many GOPers, like Romney, the Bushes, and other globalists, sadly aren’t much better. But they can be primaried.
Maybe Ms. Swift would do the ultimate – pull her head out of her butt, figure out leftists are taking advantage of her, and write songs about how George Soros not only helped others steal her rights to her music, but also how people he supports aid and abet sexual offenders and in some cases are sex offenders themselves. If she really wants to expose him, she can sing about how he reportedly helped himself to the belongings of Holocaust victims.
If Taylor ever lets the Swifties know the addresses of Soros and his minions so they can demonstrate outside these criminals’s residences, then I might be tempted to take back some of the mean things I’ve said about her in the past three years.
Don’t shake it off, Taylor, shake it up!
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