On Thursday, January 25, 2001, I had the pleasure of watching our local Kangaroo court in action. Judge Loi requested a "status call" regarding his case They after a very brief meeting in her private chambers, she immediately called a court hearing regarding the matter in question.
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Essentially PR Miller has been ordered to "clean up" his property. He is a sculpture artist who uses discarded materials to create very interesting and authentic works of art. Often very large metallic objects. At Frogtown Flower Farm he has an area of 3 acres in which to work on constructing the pieces.
But the order to "clean up" is so ambiguous, that anyone would be confused by it. On June 6th, 2000 the court set up a non constitutional court session at PR Miller's property as Judge Loi and armed deputies literally invaded his property without a search warrant and in total disregard of a posted NO TRESSPASSING SIGN, right at the edge of his Drive way.
Thursday's court hearing was filled with ambiguous language, in talking of alleged verbal agreements made during the invasion. PR's attorney, Alan Schulman started off the hearing by resigning, and then the new prosecuting attorney (who obviously didn't know anything about the case) called the old prosecuting attorney as a witness, and he stated "In my opinion the property has not been cleaned up." This was followed by the only other witness, Shawn Kenney, who is the attorney for PR's wife, Cheryl, was also asked by the judge if the property had been cleaned up, and he hummed and hawed obviously not wanting to incriminate his client, and then the Judge demanded "As an officer of this court answer Yes or No", he said No.
PR was never asked if his property had been cleaned up. The problem is that, under duress, he was forced to sign an agreed to order, back in 1999. That agreed to order has thus far been