Ken and I would like to wish each of you a very Happy, safe and healthy New Year.
If you are going out tonight please be safe, we have had a lot of wrecks here during the holiday season so be safe.
Remember that Ken will be doing updates on both the blog and forums this weekend however neither of them will be down at the same time, his work will be on Saturday night, January 2.
We have asked that all of you think about what are the best cases we have covered this year. What are the saddest cases we have covered? What are the most interesting to you? What do you want to see in 2010 covered? You can list up to five cases if you remember that many.
For me it is for the best cases, a toss up, I am not sure if I would list the “best cases” as those who settled in a way I was pleased. So many of the people we have covered in 2009 have been heartbreaking. The most interesting one was the Howard K. Stern vs. Rita Cosby, there were so many publicly available depositions and filings in this case that for someone who loves legal papers this is the most interesting one.
The saddest cases we have covered would be the Casey Anthony case. The most frustrating one was the Roland Carnaby alleged CIA case. The federal court granted the motions for Summary Judgment so we will never learn what really happened in that wreck, why the computer went to the Secret Service, and of course this will continue to feed the conspiracy nuts. The death of John O’Quinn was another tragedy. I remember in 2007 I said that we were witnessing two titans in the legal field in the numerous Anna Nicole Smith cases and I predicted one would go on to be thought of as the top lawyer with the most recognizable name and one would retire. I was so wrong about that I still think of the people who loved this man, yes there were many, facing this first holiday season without their colleague and friend. This is followed by the Michael Jackson tragic death and the beginning of family members fighting to control his Estate. For some reason that always happens and it must be very heartbreaking for all three of Jackson’s children. The two most bizarre cases we followed in 2009 was the Lori Drew federal criminal case of violating the TOS of MySpace and of course we can’t leave out Michelle Bruan, the Hollywood Madam
For 2010, we will finish all things Anna Nicole Smith as we have always promised, although I have to admit I am really worn down on these cases and will be glad when the last one to wind up hopefully by the summer of 2010. We will cover the Casey and Caylee Anthony case in 2010, as I have said many times I do not like to cover missing or murdered children because it is heart wrenching to me. However as the documents become public in this case with three trials coming up in 2010, I feel this is a have to case to follow. I also think Michael Jackson’s death, indictments, trials and continued fighting over his Estate will be at the forefront of our coverage. Now that Roman Polanski’s appeal to drop his case in the California Appeals Court has been denied we will follow whether the U. S. is successful in expediting Polinski and if so we will cover that trial.
Please share the cases you feel were the best, most interesting and saddest in 2009. Share with us the cases you want us to cover in 2010. You can post your thoughts with us here on the blog or in the members’ only forums.
There have been so many personal tragedies for so many of you in 2009, we wish you healing and only the good memories of those of you who have lost someone remain in 2010. May each of you find peace in the New Year.
Be sure to participate in our MEMBERS ONLY FORUMS, get the most out of the site by learning your way around in the forums where you can safely discuss things you do not want to see copied and pasted on another site.
Have a Happy and Blessed New Year.
Ken and Rose Turner
December 31, 2009
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The co-owners of Rose Speaks.com will be offline approximately 12-36 hours beginning approximately 7 PM CDT on September 1, 2009. We will have no access to ANY programs as Ken packages up the hard drives from both computers and the electronic storage media to be shipped to the Special Master Craig Ball on the morning of September 2.
We will be offline for AT LEAST 12 – 36 hours or longer as we wait for hard drives to be returned.
Your site moderators are Roxanne @ rosepeaks.com and Heath @ rosespeaks.com they will be in charge so be nice to them, please!!!! The site, blog, forums, chat link, etc. will of course still be online just we won’t have access to anything so the two of them will be running the blog, problem solving, approving those “spam” messages. So play nice and don’t give them bloggers’ headache.
Diamond Girl is in charge of the www.rosespeaks.com/public-forums so you can leave her a message on the forum and she will get back to you as quickly as possible.
Liann and Sammy1 are of course the moderators for the chat link as well as Roxanne and Heath. The chat link as the SITE will be here should hopefully NOT go down in our absence but email Roxanne or Heath if any major problems come up.
I will be checking all of the cases we are following for paperwork and getting them coded in and uploaded for you to download with a short list of what documents we have up for all of you before we shut down at 7 PM CDT. The calendar on the main site will also be up to date with the newest deadlines.
I will also try to have one short article for you to discuss any of these cases or one of the other cases we are following: Casey Anthony, Michael Jackson, Roland Carnaby, Lori Drew, something from John J. Nazarian. Maybe a couple of new ones.
I am going to gather your questions on the Daniel Smith “A Question of Murder” that you have all presented on that article for the interview I will be doing while we are offline.
Now just pray the depositions are NOT unsealed before we are back, I will check that before we go offline also. Hopefully this will go smoothly with out a hitch (sure cough cough) and that we will be back before you know it.
As always Ken and I as well as your hard working non-paid, the complaints stop here moderators’ thank you all for flying Rose Speaks.com.
The expressions in this blog article are based on the opinions of Rose Turner or our featured authors, please remember we are not lawyers and those opinions expressed here are each of our individual opinions and should not be taken as legal advice and/or legal opinions. The comments following this blog article are the opinions and sole property of the blog site members and do not necessarily reflect those of the site owners.
I want to thank y’all for the outpouring of love and support being shown towards Rose during this time, especially after learning yesterday from the doctor about the serious downturn in her health. We are deeply touched that not only has it come from the members of the blog here but it also seems that no matter what side of this case you fall upon, there is well wishes and prayers being sent her way. Thank you again.
Many of you have reached out and offered to help with the site any way you can, here is what we need:
1. Public Forum Moderators (you will have control of the forums and the topics…where and what is discussed…. And we will stay off of the forums and out of your way. We will support you and your decisions 100%).
2. Site Moderators. Right now there are three and it is hard now that we are not on the board as much for them to do this. If you are interested in helping contact Roxanne @ rosespeaks.com, Heath @ rosespeaks.com, Daisy @ rosespeaks.com or myself, webmaster @ rosespeaks.com.
3. Chat moderators. Liann has stepped forward and offered to do that, thanks Liann. Hopefully the chat will become more active with the friendship and chats available, Rose will drop in as she feels up to it.
4. Writers. We of course need writers for articles.
Rose has made a list of cases y’all are following:
Birkhead vs. Opri, Opri vs. Birkhead in Los Angeles
California state vs. Stern, Dr. Kapoor and Dr. Eroshevich
Casey Anthony, everything to do with the Florida case
Dr. Cyril H. Wecht new trial in Penn.
DC Madame and her estate
USA vs. Lori Drew (in federal court in California – cyber stalking)
USA vs. Hollywood Madam, Michelle Braun
Estate of Anna Nicole Smith vs. G. Ben Thompson and Ford Shelley
Howard K. Stern vs. Mark Speer and Jackie Hatten in California civil court
Howard K. Stern vs. Rita Cosby and Hachette Books in New York
Susan Carnaby vs. Harris County Police dept in shooting death of alleged CIA operative
All of the multiple cases in different jurisdictions on the Anna Nicole Smith Estate.
Arthur vs. Stern, TMZ, et. in state court in Houston Texas
I am sure there is more but these are the cases Rose’s Computer shows that she is following.
I will continue to get the papers from the various jurisdictions and court filings and continue to code them in for downloading.
The RoseSpeaks YouTube channel will continue to be maintained and updated as new videos are received. We have a volunteer helping us with it.
Again our thanks for the outpouring of love and support, from all sides of all the cases we are following. As we know more, I will post updates as I am able to here on the board.
Rose wants the site to continue, as do those of us behind the scenes. Y’all have put a lot of work into the site and I believe we can keep it going.
As Rose and I have said many times, thanks for flying Rose Speaks, we enjoy every minute of it.
Ken, Rose and all of your overworked moderators/admins.
Howard K. Stern has moved up his arraignment date to April 7, the same day as Dr. Khristine Eroshevich is scheduled to be arraigned. This is good news, in my opinion, as the two defense teams might be able to help each other prepare and go through all of the evidence Danny Santiago and unnamed investigators accumulated in just a tad over two years including the lists and statements of everyone Mr. Santiago and/or others interviewed.
Then there will be the preliminary hearing within 10 court days to “show probable cause”, (since this was a Warrant and not a grand jury indictment the defense teams get a lot more lead way in the preliminary hearing), which will be on or no later than April 22. This hearing must not be later than ten court days after the arraignment per California statute.
The prosecutor must prove all charges and conduct enhancements against the defendants at the preliminary hearing. Howard K. Stern’s legal team, led by Steven H. Sadow of Atlanta Georgia, and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich’s attorney, Adam Braun, will get to cross examine any witnesses and challenge the evidence against either of them at this hearing. The defense team can also file motions to suppress evidence against either of them, remember after the April 7 hearing will be the first time either defendants’ defense team will be granted full access to all of the evidence. However at the preliminary hearing both defendants’ legal team are restricted by Penal Code section 866. The legal teams are only allowed to put on evidence that will establish an affirmative defense, negate an element of the crime charged (I. E. intent for a crime as is charged in this case), and they will also be allowed to impeach the testimony of witnesses.
If the judge determines that the prosecution has presented sufficient evidence to hold both Stern and Dr. Eroshevich, the threshold is not like that at a trial it is much lower for the judge, for trial, following the arraignment and preliminary hearing the judges in California criminal courts normally will then order both to appear for a “second arraignment” on a charging document known as an “information.” That arraignment must occur within 15 days of the conclusion of their preliminary hearing which would be on or before May 7.
Stern and Dr. Eroshevich can ask for a “speedy trial”, which must begin within 60 calendar days from the second arraignment date “document of information hearing”, which would be by July 7, 2009.
It seems to me both want to get this started so their defense teams with their investigators, we don’t know the names of Stern’s investigators, but Dr. Eroshevich’s investigators will be headed up by John J. Nazarian P. I. and his firm Nazarian and Associates, can begin to research the witnesses, interview them, find out who all the state investigators (Danny Santiago) has talked to and all records looked at that were included in the sworn statement of Mr. Santiago used when obtaining the warrants for arrests issued on March 12.
In other news Howard K. Stern won his hearing against Mark Speer on Friday March 27, and so that defamation case is going forward with discovery beginning now. I would think this hearing and beating the “anti slapp” statute of California is a big win and will strengthen Stern’s suit against Rita Cosby and Hachette Books.
It looks like it is going to be a busy spring and summer. We have new Casey Anthony papers up as well including the transcript of the interview with the private investigator, Dominic Casey whom worked for the George and Cindy Anthony family. There are the statements of Roy Kronk and Mr. Hoover the photographer that was in the area and filmed Mr. Casey in November 2008 in the same location where Caylee’s remains were later found. We will try to have all of these coded for you to download later today.
There are also new filings in the Roland Carnaby case that needs to be coded in and then you can look at some of the people listed as witnesses in the civil rights violation trial including the ex-president, the first President Bush.
Lastly, we are waiting on the Phil Spector trial verdict as well, that case was given to the jury on March 26, and we look forward to Sprocket’s coverage of the verdict when it comes in.
Lot’s of papers to read and lots of trials to follow. We look forward to your input on these cases with good discussions of the facts and documents.
This article is the sole property of Rose Speaks unless otherwise stated. This article as with other articles is based on the opinion of Rose Turner, or our guest authors if so indicated. Please remember we are not lawyers and those opinions expressed here are each of our individual opinions and should not be taken as legal advice and/or legal opinions. The comments following this article are the opinions and sole property of the site members and do not necessarily reflect those of the site owners.
Rose Speaks.com will be updating this weekend for the BLOG part only. The blog main data base will be rolled back and changed over at about midnight [Sunday December 28], IF the current theme works then all will go smoothly, if not it will be a tad bumpy through part of Monday. Yes we did not finish on Saturday night so it is being done tonight [Sunday] If the blog is down a few hours late at night never fear the full blog is always saved in a roll back database. We will also be adding some new features like a much easier category section, and a translation into several other languages we have been asked to add. We hope we keep improving and you keep stopping by to read.
We thought we might add this bit about cases, old and new ones you have told us you would like Rose Speaks.com to follow. If you want something added to this list, please post it here and let us know.
Casey Anthony – Caylee Anthony – George and Cindy Anthony – Lee Anthony – Anthony case.
The Mike Corona case out of Orange County California, and the interwoven cases that have all come from this case (I.E. Don Haidl and before Corona’s case how it relates to Haidls’ son’s case, And the tail of the two Debbies)
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and his staff and family as they all began to lawyer up.
Dr. Cyril H. Wecht – Because you just can’t make this up, the government needs help in a change of venue to “convict” the doctor on the second go round, cause the people love him.
D. C. Madame, Deborah Palfrey and her Estate.
Henry T. Nicholas III – California Billionaire, just had to allegedly possess and with intent to distribute drugs, with secret rooms beneath his homes. You have to just love California and what they bring to us, last year Anthony Pellicano and this year Henry T. Nicholas III.
The Hogan family’s continued problems and associated lawsuits.
Michelle Braun, Millionaire Madame and her Client list you are not going to believe who all is included and those she intends or might take down with her unlike the D. C. Madame, Deborah Palfrey.
Lori Drew, the ultimate case of cyber bullying and what her conviction is going to do to the rest of the nation in new laws.
A couple of Rock Bands just to spice things up here on Rose Speaks.com with people who know them well and are willing to give us their take on the current woes a couple of these bands find themselves in.
Thanks to Sprocket the ongoing Phil Spector trial in California, take two.
Roland Carnaby Civil Rights case from Houston Texas of an alleged CIA or FBI operative gun down, who died from gun shot wounds causing death due to blood lost, and why no one is standing trial for this death listed as a “homicide”.
Two Yale Law Students who decided to sue anonymous blog posters for defamation and what this also might generate in online defamation and/or law changes.
New Cases that catches the attention of John J. Nazarian P. I. – Security Consultant, whatever catches the fancy of Mr. Nazarian, we hope he will share with Rose Speaks.com.
All things Anna Nicole Smith related as many of those trials come to an end in 2009. Which by the way the New York Judge has granted Howard K. Stern’s legal team’s request for more time to answer Rita Cosby’s Motion for Summary Judgment. The new date due is February 6, 2009, based on that all of the paperwork filed by Elizabeth McNamara on December 15 was wrong and so had to be refiled on December 19, 2008.
If there is a case you would like to see us follow, let us know, and if we can we will. If you would like to follow a case and write articles for the blog, we welcome you, just drop us an email.
There will be a new article up on Casey Anthony today, and debunking of the blond ambitious, Cosby’s book will be up before the stroke of midnight on December 31.
This article is the sole property of Rose Speaks unless otherwise stated. This article as with other articles is based on the opinion of Rose Turner, or our guest authors if so indicated. Please remember we are not lawyers and those opinions expressed here are each of our individual opinions and should not be taken as legal advice and/or legal opinions. The comments following this article are the opinions and sole property of the site members and do not necessarily reflect those of the site owners.
In a saga that appears to be getting stranger by the day, the Houston Police Department disciplined both officers involved in the fatal shooting of Roland Carnaby for not following policy.
Could the sweeping elections including ousting the current District Attorney for Harris County where Houston Texas is located, warrant a look again at the Roland Carnaby shooting? Are there new questions in the suit brought by Carnaby’s widow Susan Carnaby against the city and the police department in the Southern District Federal Court in Houston for violating her husband’s civil rights in the fatal shooting?
Last summer a grand jury failed to indict either officer, although the autopsy report clearly labels the death as a homicide. However, this week the Houston Police Department found both officers involved in the suit had failed to follow policy in the high-speed chase and shooting and issued letters to the officers dated Nov. 5, the day following the election. It was the department’s internal affairs division, which found that Sgt. Andrew J. Washington and Officer Cecil A.T. Foster did not use sound judgment and did not follow department policy in the incident.
Disciplinary records filed with the Civil Service Commission state that Washington and Foster did not follow department policy when they left their positions of cover and approached Carnaby’s vehicle without trying to talk with him first. The records also state that Washington did not properly supervise Foster.
Per the Houston Chronicle article, Chief Harold Hurtt suspended Washington for one day and gave Foster a written reprimand. Washington has appealed his suspension while Foster has filed a grievance.
Per KHOU of Houston, “In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, HPD said it issued three disciplinary actions to the officer who fired the shots and two to his supervisor following an internal affairs investigation.”
“We feel that the judgment calls they made, were the correct calls. We certainly intend on appealing the discipline,” said Gary Blankenship, HPOU to KHOU in a statement.
In accounts picked up first by the Houston Chronicle, this newest development quickly covered the national and international news setting off a new round of questions. “The Houston police officers involved in the shooting death of a man who claimed to have ties to federal law enforcement were disciplined for not trying to talk to the man before they approached his car after a high-speed chase earlier this year, according to the department’s investigation of the case.”
According to the reports, an officer pounded with a nightstick on the passenger side door. Then, as Carnaby started to get out of the driver side, another officer ran around to the front of the SUV with his gun drawn.
According to former HPD officer Tommy Nixon, in an interview with KHOU, after watching the video of what happened with Carnaby, Nixon agreed that there were violations of conduct and behavior, as well as police procedure.
Nixon also said that he had met Carnaby years earlier in a group of former intelligence officers. Nixon said that he believes Carnaby was a CIA operative, which may be why he fled.
Per TXCM.com, the investigation was launched after the death of Roland Carnaby, a 52-year-old Houston man with no prior criminal record who led police on a high-speed chase and claimed to be with the CIA.
In a sworn deposition, that officer blamed the City of Houston for poor training in high-risk vehicle approaches.
The on-scene supervisor also criticized HPD’s training process.
The disciplined supervisor has had previous actions taken against him by the department, including a suspension from duty for the violent striking of a prisoner, failure to abide by laws, insubordination and speeding.
The conspiracy site of Opednews.com has added even a stranger twist to this story by reporting, “That according to Wayne Madsen, he has been told to cease and desist reporting on the case of the shooting death of Roland Carnaby…”
Rose Speaks.com has talked to a long time friend of Roland Carnaby who asks to remain anonymous but which Susan Carnaby’s lawyer, Randy Kallinen, has verified the friendship and the source as reliable. This person describes the shooting as an “assignation” not a police shooting, and predicts the public is going to be surprised as to how deep Roland Carnaby’s connection to federal agencies including the CIA will be as the civil rights violations trial begins to unravel this mystery.
Rose Speaks.com did report that Carnaby’s laptop computer was quickly moved to the Houston Police Departments forensic department for extensive testing and that department just happens to be in the same building as the CIA’s forensic department. In Court papers filed June 7, 2008, it was shown that the Secret Service had taken possession of the laptop.
All of the newest developments unfolded after the Court Order the Houston Police Department to make available the dashboard camera views of police cars to Ms. Carnaby’s lawyer, Randy Kallinen, who then released them to the media.
Stay tuned to Rose Speaks.com as we have promised to cover all of these developments and the trial of Mrs. Carnaby against the city of Houston and the Houston Police Department.
You can pick up all of the papers in this case in our download section, opened to All not just members of Rose Speaks.com.
This article is the sole property of Rose Speaks unless otherwise stated. This article as with other articles is based on the opinion of Rose Turner, or our guest authors if so indicated. Please remember we are not lawyers and those opinions expressed here are each of our individual opinions and should not be taken as legal advice and/or legal opinions. The comments following this article are the opinions and sole property of the site members and do not necessarily reflect those of the site owners.
The main stream media has now picked up the video of Roland Carnaby being shot to death by the Houston Police Department, [HPD], and the coroner ruled it homicide but was it murder? Why did the HPD and the City of Houston fight so hard to keep this video and the others out of the public domain?
If you look at Susan Carnaby’s list of witnesses, she has an expert by the name of Roger A. Clark, from California, that is listed as a court certified expert in jail and police procedures in Federal and State Courts. The HPD however does not list anyone that is not connected to the HPD. Which leads to the question of why no FBI or ex-FBI? The other question is since the computer in Roland Carnaby’s SUV ended up in the same building as the CIA, why are there no CIA or ex-CIA are listed on the HPD witness list? Why did Don Clark allegedly lie about knowing Roland Carnaby, to have it however later be shown Clark not only knew him, Carnaby had introduced Don Clark at a speech he gave only the year before.
Why was there no aid rendered to Carnaby after he was shot in the back? Some reports right after the shooting said that no police personnel had “rubber gloves that would have allowed them to render aid”. However, they did handcuff Carnaby so they were not afraid to touch a man that lay bleeding to death in front of them.
The video is graphic and caution should be used viewing it. However as I watched it, I noticed a couple of things, I could see both of Carnaby’s hands as he got out of the SUV, that an officer slammed the SUV door on Carnaby as he was exiting the SUV, thus Carnaby had both hands out and viewable as he began to fall to the ground. Carnaby was shot in the back, and yet there were officers that could clearly see Carnaby from a front view and could see that both hands were out of the SUV. Why did an officer slammed the SUV driver door on Carnaby? Accounts say that as Carnaby was exiting the SUV, that an officer on the passenger side of the SUV was using a baton to smash the side window, thus another question of why?
Per the records and witness list of the HPD, Carnaby made multiple calls to the FBI and the Internal Affairs of the HPD, could they and did they assess Carnaby’s fear level, and if he was agitated and angry enough to be of danger to any officer in pursuit? Why did so many police vehicles including a HPD sniper join the pursuit?
I have more questions then answers, but why was there not an outside agency called to come in and investigate the shooting in a total objective view of all of the video, statements of officers, and decide if it was justifiable homicide or murder?
Roland Carnaby was “afraid” to be arrested and had never been arrested before, so why was the officer that pulled him over for speeding was told to “find something to arrest Carnaby on”? The fact that Carnaby like thousands of others in the state of Texas had passed the rigorous requirements to possess a concealed weapon is listed as one of the reasons officers felt threatened and shot Carnaby, so if any citizen of Texas with a conceal weapon permit is pulled over, should they fear being shot? Why was there no weapons located in the car at the scene of the shooting, but they were later found after the SUV had been impounded? Who had Roland Carnaby’s computer and will we ever know what was on it? Does an outside agency need to investigate how the HPD handles these situations as Susan Carnaby is asking that the HPD began to handle these situations in the future differently?
You see I have more questions then answers in this, but it does appear this is a trial in the federal court in Texas that many will be following, long after the 30 second clip of the shooting is no longer being shown by the main stream media. Which brings the final question, why is the mainstream media not covering who is Roland Carnaby?
Read the reports filed by the Houston Fire Department EMT, the autopsy report that Rose Speaks.com has obtained and watch the video. Then tell us what you think. Was this a “righteous shooting”, or was it murder?
The documents on the Roland Carnaby case is in our download section open to ALL, not just members of Rose Speaks.com.
This article is the sole property of Rose Speaks unless otherwise stated. This article as with other articles is based on the opinion of Rose Turner, or our guest authors if so indicated. Please remember we are not lawyers and those opinions expressed here are each of our individual opinions and should not be taken as legal advice and/or legal opinions. The comments following this article are the opinions and sole property of the site members and do not necessarily reflect those of the site owners.
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