I want to say first and foremost, I don’t ever want to read a slam against the Texas Courts again (just kidding) but WOW!!! For those who live in California is this Jury Questionnaire typical? This is the first of 3 steps to get on the jury of the Dr. Sandepp Kapoor, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Howard K. Stern in Judge Robert J. Perry court.

We read through it last night, laughed but also felt like this pool of potential jurors should feel violated.

Rule One: “You can not write on the back or add extra pages”, but how are you suppose to pass along the gossip about friends and what you really think of them? I have had a murder in my family of a cousin and her daughter over child custody, how can you explain all of that and my Aunt’s feelings in 2 lines, including the father died in California but the murders and custody was in Texas? How are you suppose to tell about picking up prescriptions, calling for an antibiotic for you or a child to save an office visit fee. How are you suppose to tell about the friend who is a nurse and said that phobias of hospitals is a good thing and not something you wanted to get over, and then proceeded to tell about huge potential fatal mistakes doctors made that the nurses had to correct or the patient would have died? How do you talk about the nurse you know who works for a plastic surgeon and the tales you heard, which may or may not have been true? How do you say in two lines about patients MUST be proactive in their care and hell yes, at my age I fire stupid doctors to their face.

Yea some cops are honest, some are not and then you have the cops who commit perjury, [remember that cop in the OJ case], and of course some cops are down right sexy. How do you explain a huge cover up of a murder not by the D. A. but by cops covering for cops and that “blue line”. How many of us watch CSI, Law and Order, the ID channel? How do you explain that any one that keeps up with the news just in California knows about the horror that happened to Cynthia Summers? How do you say that once convicted even if your opinion on hind sight you found that D. A.s are more worried about conviction rates and fighting to not overturn convictions even when clear evidence later were shown that cleared the wrongly convicted?

I don’t watch Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, Inside Edition, Extra, TMZ or Fox infotainment news. But if you are even a semi intelligent news watcher, not mention the last week of news cycle about a right wing propaganda site putting up what they knew was an edited video to pull the scab off of racial fears for “page views” or “hits”?

How many of you d have favorite blogs, have a Face Book Account, a My Space, Twitter? Not to mention that for some reason LinkedIN was not listed and was it left off because it is a social media from professionals to network. Then you get into Google Alerts. How many get their news on the run in this busy world via a laptop computer or online reputable news like the AP online?

Then you get down to everything on this questionnaire becomes public record with ONLY your name protected? Is California going to pay your legal expenses when that neighbor, friend, family member, nurse who ever sues you in a Civil Court for running your mouth about them and medications, illnesses, legal problems and you just shared their life?

I was going to fill out this form in the worse type of joke, of spouse, the squeeze on the side, the lover, doctor, lawyer , Indian chief and there is not enough room so can I call home. I got to page four and said F – this.

Ken asked me who drafted this questionnaire that could not spell website [cite] correctly. I said usually the defense and D. A. fills out a wish list that the judge “rules on”, but this looks like a judge decided to take that large latitude they get in their courts because of that black robe. I wish we knew who suggested these questions and then how much did the judge impose because of his personal views?

Then once you get through this giant invasion of not only your privacy rights, but everyone you know; you get to go through a bankrupt California state doing a background check and we still don’t know if that is from speeding tickets, forgetting to pick up your dog’s poop, or something serious. If you get through both of these then you get to go threw jury Voir Dire, where the attorneys get at you hoping the court dismisses you, or the other side does so you don’t have to use one of your “precious strikes”. Not to mention as I said the extreme right wing Bible Thumpers, holier than thou or good cons will get in and a lot of good juror potentials will strike out. It is little comfort for you, your family and friends they want to know about is: “Remember: Questions are not asked to embarrass you. They are intended to make sure members of the jury have no opinions or past experiences which might prevent them from making an impartial decision.”

Here is a Jury Questionnaire from a federal court for a murder trial that involved a crime family.

My questions is that can this jury pool get through this first part, then the background check and then the Jury Voir Dire on August 2 and August 3 by the assistant D. A. and the defense attorneys and be ready to be impaneled for Opening Arguments on August 4, 2010.

Do yo think this is going to end up with the Fox Infotainment News Crowd, the Bible Thumpers, the holy then thou crowd and just those who con to get on a jury or is this a real attempt to get a “fair jury” of “one’s peers”? Share your thoughts with us.

LATEST FILINGS IN THE HARRIS COUNTY COURT IN VIRGIE ARTHUR VS. HOWARD K. STERN BREACH OF CONTRACT

July 22, 2010 Virgie Arthur’s First Amended Original Petition against Howard K. Stern.

LATEST FILINGS IN THE TEXAS 80TH COURT IN HARRIS COUNTY OF VIRGIE ARTHUR VS. HOWARD K. STERN, TMZ.COM, LARRY BIRKHEAD, HARVEY LEVIN ET AL.

July 23, 2010 TMZ.com and Harvey Levin Unopposed Motion to Withdraw as Attorneys by Susman Godfrey.

July 23, 2010 TMZ-Levin Notice of Submission of Unopposed Motion to Withdraw as Attorneys by Susman Godfrey for August 9, 2010 at 8:00 AM.

July 23, 2010 Howard K. Stern’s Reply to Virgie Arthur Response to Stern’s Motion to Consolidation cases.

July 23, 2010 Howard K. Stern’s Response and Opposition to Virgie Arthur’s Motion for Continuance of Howard K. Stern’s hearing Objecting to Personal Jurisdiction.

July 23, 2010 Howard K. Stern’s Exhibit B filed with Stern’s Response and Opposition to Virgie Arthur’s Motion for Continuance of Howard K. Stern’s hearing Objecting to Personal Jurisdiction. I did not put up exhibit A as it is the First Court of Appeals Opinion granting Stern’s Writ of Mandamus.

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Judging from my Google alerts, Judge Robert J. Perry is going to become the latest judge to make the list of judges who are household names. I first ask the question, why is this already being picked up by the international media? Anna Nicole Smith has been dead for over three years, and when alive was a B class celebrity. In fact in death she has become a much bigger celebrity. I had never followed her in life and have heard on numerous occasions that I am not the only one.

Judge Robert Perry is whittling down the jury pool to what might become either Fox News right wing Bible Thumpers or just plain good cons.

A jury of ones peers, well that never happens, ones peers are seldom that. For the most part the only requirement is reading, writing, able to think and being a breathing human being, but in the Anna Nicole Smith case this is about to change.

If you don’t want to serve on this jury here is what you need to do.

1. Bring a large bag of prescription medications and asked to be accommodated like any juror seeking disability accommodations as required by both federal and the laws of most states, even here in backward Texas.

2. Talk incessantly about your own illness, your doctors and most importantly agree to waive your legal rights and spill everything to the judge and lawyers, while the news media is quickly making notes of what you say for their next article, about every ache, pain, medical condition and of course every pill, patch, shot, etc. you have taken in the last few years. In the written jury questionnaire mention the great feeling of the drugs used for your last colonoscopy. Tell them you like that high feeling and that you might abuse cold medication.

3. Be sure and tell them about your grandmother, grandfather, your parents, your brother or sister, hell even throw in aunts, uncles and neighbors who you feel any empathy for due to medical conditions and of course inform this Court of any prescriptions you have ever picked up for anyone.

Now that will get rid of about everyone over the age of fifty-five and any person that feels anything for a fellow human being and the court appears in yesterday’s rulings to guarantee you will be gone within the fist thirty minutes on August 2nd as the jury is being picked.

That leaves the under fifty crowd, watch Fox News, [Infotainment], for your news and already have judged that people who take medications, or are ill, disabled etc. must inherently be bad and it appears you are in like glue on this jury.

How many good potential jurors is this going to exclude in the guise of “getting rid of the kooks” or as Judge Robert Perry stated; “The problem with celebrity trials is it has a tendency to bring out kooks, frankly.”

Now you are down to twenty to forty five year old jurors of your peers. Weed out parents with young children that need care, those who are care providers for the disabled, throw out any juror who questions being drilled about medical conditions and even prescriptions they take. That will whittle it down to the Fox news watchers, Bible thumpers and those with a holier than thou complex or really good cons.

Then you will go through a back ground check by Judge Perry, to be sure you are “clean enough” to be a jury of ones peers.

See there are many ways not to get involved in this mess in California, and who would want to be on this jury? Yes some have illusions of making the news with interviews at the end, but those are going to qualify under these rules. The lawyers will never know your name and the judge’s staff will be browsing the internet to be sure the jurors don’t blog about the case. DO WHAT??? Blog about the case, I thought jurors were not even allowed to talk about the case, read about the case, would that not include blogging in your night time hours???

A bankrupt California state spent most of Tuesday, July 20 discussing Motions related to “…arguments about publicity, the Internet and the effect of social media and blogs on the jury. Judge Perry plans to keep the names of jurors secret from lawyers, who complained that would make it impossible to track whether they were blogging or reporting on the trial via social networking websites. However, Judge Perry did agree to ask prospects if they have blogs or have social media accounts.” You know those pesky networking sites like Face Book, My Space, even LinkedIn which most professionals belong to, in fact just throw out anyone with a home computer to be safe here.

Judge Perry also intends to ask his staff to check periodically to make sure jurors are not blogging about the case. Of course most posters don’t use their real names so the jury should be asked about any monikers ever used on the internet. However this all goes back to I thought you were not suppose to read or discuss a case if you are on that jury, silly me, I am not up with the times of twittering while sitting in Court. Oh yes eliminate everyone with a Twitter account.

I am hoping more courts go in this direction, [said tongue in cheek], it will save all of us in this new era where many of us use Google the AP, the HuffingtonPost.com, The Washington Post.com, The online versions of the Houston Chronicle, the Fort Worth Star Telegram, CNN.com, MSNBC.com, and even Google alerts to get out of jury duty by just confessing these sins. Throw out the fact that for most these are all ways that today’s news junkies get their information. More and more print media is going out of business while the advances in news by internet increases with new technologies and more and more of us turn on our computers to get our news. It appears that is ok with this Judge, however not being in Court yesterday I don’t know this for sure, but to be safe just don’t admit you ever posted a comment on any site whether a reputable news site or TMZ. Better yet, tell the judge you don’t believe in any of these new fangled gadgets, ah no, then you would be in the age group of aches, pains and medications which is automatically excluded. What is a modern day juror to do???

Perry also intends to take the unusual step of checking the names of jurors against criminal records to see if they are hiding anything. If you are a con without a criminal past you are in the jury pool, bring a bathing suit and towel for fun and games for the next six to 10 weeks. However this newest step by Judge Perry creates my next question is criminal as in a speeding ticket or criminal as on parole??? However good cons are going to say the right things if they want on this jury and the honest people who have real doctors, real medical conditions or family members who do, just fill out that form, get your six dollars for the day and you are on your way back to the office or home. Oh be sure you say you believe all policemen and investigators or lie proof and there is a election this year in California, use that as extra “insurance”, [cough cough].

Another tidbit you can do to get out of this jury, whisper the two words that are guaranteed to send you home. What two words can you say that will cause the D. A. and most Judges to go screaming in the night to make sure you are no where near their court room?

Wait for it….

Wait for it….

Jury Nullification… the act of saying this is bullshit. In the old days, our forefathers wanted jurors that went by common sense and their conscious and jury nullification was encouraged to prevent run away legislature or unfair laws. However today, it is a guarantee to get out of jury duty which is why the jury instructions normally says, “you are only to judge this case by the facts involving the law as I instruct you to do”.

John Adams, our second president, had this to say about the juror: “It is not only his right but his duty…to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court.” That is not true today, if you even admit you know about your right as a citizen on a jury to use exactly what our forefathers wanted, you are practicing jury nullification which is a big no no in today’s society of complex laws and nustso statutes.

Now if Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Smith’s former lawyer-boyfriend Howard K. Stern knowingly fueled a known addict’s addiction and threw caution to the wind, then convict them. That is how it should go down.

If they did more then what is common practice in the world of Hollyweird, then convict them. If you sense a potential juror is a kook, of course dismiss them. That is why there are jury consultants, but don’t trample on privacy laws to be sure you get that Fox News listener and exclude the CNN and MSNBC crowd.

I loved this exchange yesterday as reported by the AP and I bet Harvey Levin and the TMZ.com staff cringed as the AP led with this exchange:

“Rose made the unusual disclosure that she was filing all of her legal documents under seal to keep them from falling into the hands of celebrity website TMZ. The judge said he was going through her sealed motions and unsealing many of them.

“I don’t think you should file under seal just because you don’t want the media to see it,” Perry said.

“Everything I file ends up on TMZ,” Rose said.

“Who cares?” said the judge.

“Our jury pool is out there,” said the prosecutor.

“Do we even want people who watch TMZ on the jury?” asked the judge.

“We’re going to get them,” Rose said.

“I hope not,” said the judge.”

One way to guarantee those people are not part of the jury pool is just ask any potential jurors if they know who or what is TMZ.com.

Does that mean TMZ.com has received a failing grade in intelligent readers? If so the Court should cruise around “T”, at least TMZ has slowly begun to enforce the TOS and Privacy Policy instead of remaining like the wild west of internet posting.

Be sure and print this article and carry it with you the next time you get a jury summons in Hollyweird, where the right wing nut cases and good cons are welcomed as jurors and those “normal people” get sent home.

Ah the joy of doing ones civic duty of serving on a jury.

THIS ARTICLE DOES AND INTENDS TO POINT OUT THE LUNACY OF HOLLYWERID CELEBRITY TRIALS. Because frankly, who the hell would want to serve on one of these juries???

Now on a serious note: Judge Robert J. Perry has a tremendous amount of discretion. Judge Perry is known as a no-nonsense judge with a distinguished legal background as a former federal prosecutor, he is often selected to preside over high profile trials. In Dec. 2009, he barred television cameras and other electronic recording devices from the trial court in another high profile trial reaffirming his penchant for mitigating intense media coverage in the interest of a fair trial in his courtroom.

Perry has been a trial judge on the Los Angeles Superior Court. Since 1992, he has presided over more than 580 felony jury trials, including 237 murder trials, 28 of which were death penalty trials.

He was honored as “Judge of the Year” by the Los Angeles County Bar Association Criminal Justice Section in 2009 and by the Century City Bar Association in 2002. Born and raised in Glendale, California, Judge Perry is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College and Loyola Law School. He served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles for 12 years, and then was in private practice with Epstein Becker and Green, and later with Douglas Dalton.

In short, you could not ask for a better judge for a criminal high profile case, and he likes Stern’s attorney Steve Sadow, so what more could anyone ask for in this case. Lessons learned over the last three years appear to have paid off in changing the Court back to Judge Perry who presided over the preliminary hearing which means he has the background on this case.
He has also ruled against the prosecution and at times has added lesser charges to jury instructions stating the state had not reached the standard of the charges assistant district attorneys have asked to present to a jury.

Google Judge Perry, he is impressive in the way he handles cases that could become powder kegs of any racial tensions in the past and handled them well.

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Forget Rome and the Coliseum, to hell with gladiators’ swords at the ready, all you had to do was be sitting in Judge Hank M. Goldberg’s Department 82 for a battle of two legal titans. We have Neal Hersh of Hersh, Mannis and Bogen representing Melissa Etheridge and her millions against Stephen Knowles of Knowles and Collum and Melissa’s ex-love Tammy Lynn Michaels. Both of these legal beagles have offices steps away from one another in Beverly Hills.

Well the comments and oratory got so heated that Neal Hersh references some of Stephen Knowles work as “slobbing and sloppy,” Knowles looks at him as if to say “you said what?” and one point warns Mr. Hersh, “Mr. Hersh does not want to get into that” in Neal’s attempts to get this back to Judge Pellman’s court. The voices were loud and I had never seen either of these two lawyers in such a jaw lock. Hersh at one point looks at Mr. Knowles and in a stern tone asks, “are you done?” and Knowles looks back adjusting his glasses and states just as sternly, “ Yes, I am done.“ Much of this stems from the fact that Stephen Knowles bagged Etheridge in New York while she was at her hotel waiting for her former love of her life, Mrs. Tammy Etheridge to bring the kids to visit. Well Tammy Etheridge aka Tammy Lynn Michaels called in sick to Mr. Etheridge or Mrs….you get it. And then someone delivered room service LMAO but it was not a snack but DIVORCE notice! Well that was all it took for these two lawyers to realize there will be no playing nice. It was a great set up and Melissa got served!

Mr. Hersh wants this case in Judge Pellman’s courtroom and Stephen Knowles position is too bad, I bagged your client first and you have not even served my client with anything! Well Judge Goldberg would step off the bench and appear to be confused as to what to do. He would come back and if he could have would have “placed his hands under his butt and rocked”…his “honor” did not really know what to do or was so baffled that he was going to send it to the “PJ” for review…or something around those lines. Too bad it was not in front of Judge Gordon or Lewis, control would have been taken and a decision made right then and there.

Reflecting on Rome and Caesar, here is another thought. Neal Hersh and Stephen Knowles are gladiators, sandals and little short togas to match. Judge Goldberg is Caesar, not one of the strong Caesars, but Caesar. The two gladiators are battling and in the end, they don’t get thumbs up or thumbs down, Caesar finds he lacks any thumbs!

Knowles went on to say that Tammy is broke and often her credit cards don’t work, Neal was quick to remind all that Melissa pays all the bills, rent , lights and water, everything and gives Tammy two grand a month plus pays for the car lease too. Knowles shoots back that she makes “60 to 70? thousand a day and that her kids are “destitute” and that Tammy’s credit card is often declined. For many in the court that did not seem to be “destitute” and after nine years together playing house. So now my question is do you still really want to have all the rights of “straight” people? Along with the right to marriage, welcome to the world of DIVORCE and family law…write a song about that! The Neal Hershes and Stephen Knowles of the world will be happy to sing backup.

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http://desperateexes.com/2010/07/16/no-love-songs-in-melissa-etheridge-court-battle/.

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LATEST FILINGS IN HARRIS COUNTY TEXAS LAWSUIT

July 14, 2010 Howard K. Stern’s Supplement in Opposition to Virgie Arthur Motion to Compel. Exhibit A is the First Court of Appeals decision regarding Stern’s Writ of Mandamus which is linked in this article.

July 14, 2010 Howard K. Stern’s Motion to Vacate Discover Order of May 11, 2009.

July 14, 2010 Howard K. Stern’s Exhibit A filed with Stern’s Motion to Vacate Discover Order of May 11, 2009. Exhibit B is the First Court of Appeals decision regarding Stern’s Writ of Mandamus which is linked in this article.

July 14, 2010 Howard K. Stern’s Notice of Oral Hearing for August 6, 2010 at 2:30 PM for the latest filings by Stern.

July 14, 2010 Virgie Arthur’s Letter to the First Court of Appeals filed with Arthur’s Motion of an En Banc hearing.

July 14, 2010 Virgie Arthur’s Motion for Rehearing En Banc with the First Court of Appeals Opinion released on July 1, 2010 pointing out what Arthur sees as factual errors in that Opinion.

July 14, 2010 Stephens’ Writ of Mandamus denied by the First Court of Appeals. IMO this changes the options available to the defendants who appear to not be covered under the Opinion granting the Writs for Stern and Harris. I notice this denial was handed down by the same panel that granted the other two Writs

LATEST FILINGS IN THE HARRIS COUNT 80TH DISTRICT COURT ON VIRGIE ARTHUR VS. HOWARD K. STERN ET. AL.

July 16, 2010 Virgie Arthur’s Motion for Continuance on Howard K. Stern’s Special Appearance set for August 6, 2010 at 2:30 P. M.

July 16, 2010 Affidavit of Neil McCabe in support of Virgie Arthur’s Motion for Continuance on Howard K. Stern’s Special Appearance set for August 6, 2010 at 2:30 P. M.

July 16, 2010 Exhibit A filed with Virgie Arthur’s Motion for Continuance on Howard K. Stern’s Special Appearance set for August 6, 2010 at 2:30 P. M.

July 16, 2010 Exhibit B filed with Virgie Arthur’s Motion for Continuance on Howard K. Stern’s Special Appearance set for August 6, 2010 at 2:30 P. M.

July 16, 2010 Exhibit C filed with Virgie Arthur’s Motion for Continuance on Howard K. Stern’s Special Appearance set for August 6, 2010 at 2:30 P. M.

July 16, 2010 Exhibit D filed with Virgie Arthur’s Motion for Continuance on Howard K. Stern’s Special Appearance set for August 6, 2010 at 2:30 P. M.

Before Howard K. Stern, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich trial starts on August 2, 2010, Rose Speaks.com is going to complete Dr. Cyril H. Wecht and Dawna Kaufmann two chapters from A Question of Murder” with interviews with both authors. We have been able to verify that Dr. Khristine Eroshevich is on her fourth set of criminal lawyers. The latest one is suppose to be of the Phil Specter “fame”, Bradley Brunon, and we all know how that ended up for Specter, but when Brunon represented Specter, the first go around he was able to get a hung jury for Specter. That said our independent source said; “Bradley Brunon, you may know that name from Phil Spector’s first trial and he certainly is an excellent, very accomplished, veteran defense attorney”.

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Flying commercially in today’s world has to be one of the most frustrating experiences that any traveler can encounter. Upon my arrival at LAX I was wondering had I done everything right so as not to have to throw my stuff away in the trash. I remember the early days of not being allowed to board with more than your teeth, and all the rest was thrown in the trash. The TSA in Los Angeles seemed better trained, more professional than in times past, they were on top of what they were to do and polite. Sure you still have to take the shoes off, all due to one idiot who tried to set his sneakers on fire.

I flew first class on Swiss Air, it is owned and controlled by Lufthansa the check in was easy and the first class club accommodations were very nice, good food and drink and lots of snacks. They come in and tell you that your flight is boarding and that too is nice. First Class had only six seats and they are big and the seats go flat, but — ahh John and the buts — the whole First Class section was not attractive. It was very plain and looked industrial. Certainly not what we see in commercials and certainly not what we see from Cathay Pacific or Emirates. These electrically controlled seats are like slipping into an abyss as it goes into flat mode. I slept great thanks to my two doses of ambien. The service was great and the food pretty good too, but very plain. Upon my arrival in Zurich I got to deal with an immigration agent that had to have taken his persona from a disgruntled SS guard in the old ‘Stalag 17’ movie. I just smiled and got through, after all I am in Europe!

Meanwhile, my son and his two friends flew coach from LAX to Toronto on Air Canada for United. And then were supposed to switch planes to Swiss Air non-stop to Zurich. Well the flight from LAX was late, and then when they got to Toronto they were put into a landing pattern for about 30 minutes. And when they landed their connecting flight had left. So what do these jerks at Air Canada working with United Airlines do? They offer them a gym mat with several others to lie on the floor and wait overnight, I swear this is the truth. Air Canada and United Airlines felt that due to the two friends not being adults it was their responsibility to give them mats and to stay in a windowless room under the control of who?????? No food, and no offer of a hotel till they could get them on another flight…truth here folks! My son is an adult and is with two of his friends who are 16 and 17 and this is what they were offered. Finally he told them to call the cops but he was leaving with his two friends. Chris and his friends stayed at a Best Western on their own dollar. AIR CANADA and their partners SUCK!!!

Finally after god-only-knows how many hours of delays and missed connections and crap for compensation, when Chris asked for an upgrade the snappy response was “why do you think you are entitled to that?” OMG I so wish I had been with them. All of you would have watched them take me away in handcuffs yelling out my very special vocabulary of thanks. Then without a question in my mind due to Chris and his friend Anthony’s complaints for how they had been treated, their other friend Mike’s bag was lost for two days. They would eventually get out of Canada and arrive in Zurich…and then the train adventure. After this if these kids ever travel with me again I will be surprised.

For all of John’s fans we are happy to report that John now has both feet on the ground in California. When we got emails from John about his adventures we kept saying TAKE PICTURES. We are happy to share with all of you he does have pictures and articles coming up about his two weeks in Europe. Wonder if John will take another case that caries him to Europe again??

http://desperateexes.com/2010/07/06/air-canacrap/.

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July 11, 2010 Art Harris’ Reply to Virgie Arthur’s Response to Harris’ Motion to Compel.

July 11, 2010 Harris’ Exhibit 1 filed with his Reply to Arthur’s Response to Harris’ Motion to Compel.

July 11, 2010 Harris’ Exhibit 2 filed with his Reply to Arthur’s Response to Harris’ Motion to Compel.

July 11, 2010 Harris’ Exhibit 3 filed with his Reply to Arthur’s Response to Harris’ Motion to Compel.

July 12, 2010 Howard K. Stern’s Notice of Unavailability for ANY hearings any party sets that he=lawyers for him also or for trial from August 1, 2010 through October 15, 2010. Yes this will cause all of the discovery hearings that Stern’s attorneys have to be present, depositions, and will move the trial back to probably close to the end of the year. Stern’s lawyers are going through the August 6, 2010 hearing so if his Special Appearance is granted he will be gone. My feeling is that since the articles were read in Texas like the federal court found in that suit, Stern will probably lose this, let’s hope not though.

Howard K. Stern’s Motion to consolidate cases for the alleged defamation and conspiracy and the Breach of Contract case. I am not sure what the statue is on this and will look up what is quoted. I can see the Court handling BOTH cases and allowing the discovery to go for both cases to conserve resources, however Stern already has set for August 6, 2010 as part of the hearing the very Rule 11 Agreement that this breach of contract is regarding. I guess this was a housekeeping Motion to get the same court I am not sure though if you can consolidate one case with 2 parties into a different case with multiple parties.

July 12, 2010 Howard K. Stern Submission ONLY for the Motions filed today to be set for July 26, 2010. Since Arthur did not agree to the Motions, I would think her response will ask for a hearing which will bring everything to a halt until the fall on this Texas case for discovery hearings, and depositions.

FIRST COURT OF APPEALS GRANTS HOWARD K. STERN’S WRIT OF MANDAMUS

July 12, 2010 First Court of Appeals grants Howard K. Stern Write of Mandamus in a thirty five page opinion. I have not read the opinion.

LATEST FILINGS IN HARRIS COUNTY TEXAS LAWSUIT

July 14, 2010 Howard K. Stern’s Supplement in Opposition to Virgie Arthur Motion to Compel. Exhibit A is the First Court of Appeals decision regarding Stern’s Writ of Mandamus which is linked in this article.

July 14, 2010 Howard K. Stern’s Motion to Vacate Discover Order of May 11, 2009.

July 14, 2010 Howard K. Stern’s Exhibit A filed with Stern’s Motion to Vacate Discover Order of May 11, 2009. Exhibit B is the First Court of Appeals decision regarding Stern’s Writ of Mandamus which is linked in this article.

July 14, 2010 Howard K. Stern’s Notice of Oral Hearing for August 6, 2010 at 2:30 PM for the latest filings by Stern.

July 14, 2010 Virgie Arthur’s Letter to the First Court of Appeals filed with Arthur’s Motion of an En Banc hearing.

July 14, 2010 Virgie Arthur’s Motion for Rehearing En Banc with the First Court of Appeals Opinion released on July 1, 2010 pointing out what Arthur sees as factual errors in that Opinion.

July 14, 2010 Stephens’ Writ of Mandamus denied by the First Court of Appeals. IMO this changes the options available to the defendants who appear to not be covered under the Opinion granting the Writs for Stern and Harris. I notice this denial was handed down by the same panel that granted the other two Writs

LATEST FILINGS IN THE HARRIS COUNT 80TH DISTRICT COURT ON VIRGIE ARTHUR VS. HOWARD K. STERN ET. AL.

July 16, 2010 Virgie Arthur’s Motion for Continuance on Howard K. Stern’s Special Appearance set for August 6, 2010 at 2:30 P. M.

July 16, 2010 Affidavit of Neil McCabe in support of Virgie Arthur’s Motion for Continuance on Howard K. Stern’s Special Appearance set for August 6, 2010 at 2:30 P. M.

July 16, 2010 Exhibit A filed with Virgie Arthur’s Motion for Continuance on Howard K. Stern’s Special Appearance set for August 6, 2010 at 2:30 P. M.

July 16, 2010 Exhibit B filed with Virgie Arthur’s Motion for Continuance on Howard K. Stern’s Special Appearance set for August 6, 2010 at 2:30 P. M.

July 16, 2010 Exhibit C filed with Virgie Arthur’s Motion for Continuance on Howard K. Stern’s Special Appearance set for August 6, 2010 at 2:30 P. M.

July 16, 2010 Exhibit D filed with Virgie Arthur’s Motion for Continuance on Howard K. Stern’s Special Appearance set for August 6, 2010 at 2:30 P. M.

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I wandered over to Desperate Exes.com today to see if John J. Nazarian had part 3 up on his critique of the trip to Europe, he usually gives us a head’s up if one is coming out but with the trip and all I figured I would just check it out.

Yeppers there is part 3 up and we will bring you all a lead in to that tomorrow.

HOWEVER, what caught my attention right off was that John’s long time friend, Julie, has put up a picture and all it said was “Happy Birthday John and Christian” dated July 9th.

Shes does GREAT graphics for John’s site Desperate Exes.com so we “borrow/swipe” them occasionally to go with a lead in story here on Rose Speaks.com and to date she has never been miffed about that.

Speaking of Julie being miffed, today as a Birthday wish, I am going to share some of the journey of John J. Nazarian and Rose Speaks.com.

I became aware of John J. Nazarian on March 31, 2007 when Rivera Geraldo’s brother, Craig, waylaid him outside a restaurant to try to get a statement about one of his clients. My thought was this is a tough guy you would not want to meet as an enemy in a dark alley. Later that fall of 2007 John did a couple of posts on the old Rose Speaks.com site and of course Rita Cosby put his email out there for the world in her book on Anna Nicole Smith, Howard K. Stern and Larry Birkhead, but this is NOT about any of that.

I found that John was going to cover the Anthony Pellicano trial, how great I thought a PI covering a defrocked Hollywood Royal PI’s in federal a wire tapping trial. So I approached John via email and that led to me “dealing” with Julie. I found she can tough when it comes to John. I had to do a major presentation, show the numbers Rose Speaks.com got per month, promise how the lead in to John’s article would be done etc. I really was scared of this very tough woman. However if you treat her John right, you are in like glue with her. She became delightful to work with. During the trial one of our guest writers, Sprocket, wrote on her blog about seeing John during the Pellicano trial and mentioned that John was a celebrity in his own right in Hollywood. WOW new information on this guy.

John did cover the Pellicano trial and from there a somewhat email relationship began between John and me. John did several articles and always graciously allowed Rose Speaks.com to ride on his fame and do a lead in and the numbers just went up and the readers it brought in was a whole different crowd then the Anna Nicole Smith articles and papers brought in. These people read and did not post but as I told John and Julie at the end of the day it is about page reads that a blog lives or dies from, not the number of posts.

Then came Hurricane Ike and during that time the loss of our beloved black lab, CJ, and I was distraught beyond words, sobbing with Ken and I huddled like any pet owners that lost their “child”. I sent a simple mass email out that told of our loss and asked that no one call us for the next couple of days to allow us to grieve privately (and because I did not want anyone to know how hard the loss had been for us). About thirty minutes later the phone rang and I was annoyed but picked it up, life and articles for the blog goes on I thought. NOT so, John said simply; “Rose we are going to sit here together and cry together over CJ and share the memories we both have of pets that we loved and lost”; and that is what we did for an hour. John won my heart that day; a $400 an hour PI to the rich and famous gave me an hour and showed me a human none PI side of a fellow pet lover/owner.

That was in August or September 2008, my birthday came in October and John sent me an email and said; “I am not trying to interfere or step on your toes, and I know CJ can never be replaced, but if you want another lab, save one from a shelter or puppy mill and I will pay for it, not as a payment for the writings you helped with lead in articles but as friends with the one condition that no one ever knows about this.” I think John said that because he does not like for his kind side to be exploited or he can’t lose that tough and rough PI image. He ended with, “Hell get two if you want them, keep me posted and take your time”. We found Duke and Thor at a puppy mill, heartbreaking and told John; Duke and Thor promptly came home with us. John asked about them, we sent pictures and kept our word and the world never knew of this side of John, it would not mess up his tough guy Hollywood image or allow anyone to know about this loving gift from a fellow “pet” parent.

Then came the deposition and some stupid did not know shit forum poster on that “T” site had spun a story that the Stern family paid us off with these two darling babies. I called John and told him this might come up in the deposition and what I had read from witness statements. John said; “Well F— (I think you know the words he would have used), tell them the truth Rose at the deposition”. So I told them the truth even before the deposition date and told them that the witness statement they had was not going to stand up under scrutiny with emails from this forum poster or even from phone calls between this “poster” and me. In other words their witness had no credibility and it would be easy to prove.

So today on John and Chris’ birthday we offer them our heartfelt congratulations, Chris is a great son and I have been lucky enough to talk to both of John’s sons at times. Chris had to walk his dad through what a Jpeg was from a digital camera and Chris is the one that emailed us the pictures of John by his limousine covering the Pellicano Trial we asked for. I could tell from the tone I heard between Chris and his dad, John, the love that abounded in their home and the ability to kid his dad, and John loving every second of it.

John is rough and tough and a mighty adversary when it comes to his representation of his clent, but if you are lucky enough to get a look beyond that, he has a gentle giant side when his heart is touched.

Happy Birthday John and Chris, from our home to your home and thank you so much for what you have given to both Rose Speaks.com and to us personally.

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July 10, 2010
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