Straight Talk with Celebrity P. I. John J. Nazarian’s guests tonight at 7 PM PST – 10 PM PST are Attorney Jeffrey Sklan and forensic psychologist Dr. Glenn Lipson.

Hollywood divorce & criminal lawyer, Jeffrey Sklan termed the saying; “SUDDEN INCOME DEFICIT SYNDROME”. Sklan is also a criminal attorney and often in a divorce suit he will have lawyers refer clients to him because of allegations of domestic violence.

John Nazarian specializes in assets that seem to disappear right before a divorce or during the divorce.

Dr. Lipson is Program Director as well as Associate Professor of the Forensic Psychology Program at Alliant International University, San Diego Campus. A Diplomate in forensic psychology he has evaluated victims, perpetrators and has been retained in suits involving clergy, youth organization and internet exploitation. He has appeared in an Expert capacity on local media outlets, Court TV/Sessions and the Verdict with Paula Todd. Dr. Lipson has worked with HBO and the Discovery channel. As a Diplomate in Forensic Psychology he has testified in homicide, sexual assault and other high profile cases.

Dr. Lipson is often called in to conduct tests and interviews to produce a forensic psychological report of the court.

The subject tonight is the high profile divorces of the rich, famous and powerful. Between the three of these men for one hour of their combined time would cost over $2,000.00.

All three of them also operate in the world of domestic violence. Sklan often has other divorce attorneys refer clients to him involving allegations of domestic violence, to prove it or to defend the charges. John provides security & investigative services to prove or defend charges. John also at times goes along for a “supervised visit involving court appointed monitors”, to assess if they are remaining neutral in the process.

This is your chance to ask this group of experts the questions you have. Is the domestic violence allegations true, or are they an attempt to manipulate a court for an upper hand in the proceedings?

From now until tonight at 6 PM PST you will be able to ask questions you want answer on three websites, here by sending an email to John, Desperate Exes.com & Rose Speaks.com by leaving comments or sending emails to either site or you can call in during the show to ask these questions.

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Straight Talk with Celebrity P. I. John J. Nazarian’s guests tonight at 7 PM PST – 10 PM PST are Dr. Glenn Lipson, Jefferson Fietek & Dawna Kaufmann.

Dr. Glenn Scott Lipson is a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist trying to reduce the incidence of sexual misconduct in schools through education. He is a topic expert in this area and is available to discuss and inform the public about the range, causes and effects of school based sexual misconduct. It is his intention is to lower the incidences of such misconduct, which currently affects from 1 in 10 students. He is the creator of the online training program, Making Right Choices (MRC). At the request of a large San Diego school district, he created MRC, which to date has trained 4,000 educators to date, with another 100,000 slated in one county alone. Unique to this program, in addition to the outstanding feedback it has received, is the collaborative, community-based way in which it has been developed. More about this approach can be found at www.makingrightchoices.com.

Dr. Lipson is Program Director as well as Associate Professor of the Forensic Psychology Program at Alliant International University, San Diego Campus. A Diplomate in forensic psychology he has evaluated victims, perpetrators and has been retained in suits involving clergy, youth organization and internet exploitation. He has appeared in Expert capacity on local media outlets, Court TV/Sessions and the Verdict with Paula Todd. Dr. Lipson has worked with HBO and the Discovery channel. As a Diplomate in Forensic Psychology he has testified in homicide, sexual assault and other high profile cases.

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Web University: glipson@alliant.edu

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Dr Lipson works and lives in San Diego and Los Angeles California.

Jefferson Fietek was awarded on Friday night, January 6, 2012, with the esteem Stonewall DFL’s “Alan Spear Award” for his outstanding work towards equality for ALL youth.

Jefferson Fietek is an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender and Questioning) youth. He is the Vice President and Program Director for the newly formed LGBTQ youth program Justin’s Gift and has been working on a local, state and national level to ensure that schools are safer and more inclusive of LGBTQ students and their allies.

Fietek’s views about creating schools that are truly inclusive of LGBTQ youth has been featured extensively in local media as well as in the New York Times, the national news magazine Mother Jones and in the CNN documentary entitled “Don’t Teach, Don’t Tell”. His work lead to the creation of the first ever middle school level Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) in Minnesota’s largest school district. He has met with School Board and Superintendent to work toward the creation of better anti-bullying policies and classrooms that are more inclusive of LGBT students and/or LGBT parents. Fietek also continues to work closely with community members as they work to create a proactive anti-bullying curriculum and training for all adults who work with students, so that they can be more sensitive to the needs of LGBTQ students and families.

In 2011, Mr. Fietek raised nearly $6,000 through theatrical events and other out-reach to bring attention to LGBTQ youth who have lost their lives to suicide. The money was donated to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Most recently GLSEN named Jefferson Fietek the runner up for the 2011 Teacher of the Year for his continued work to create safer schools for LGBTQ youth.

Dawna Kaufmann will be on to discuss the late Randy Stone who was the co-founder of the Trevor Project and was a co-worker of Kaufmann. Randy died way too early, of a heart attack. He had worked with Jodie Foster for years, after leaving Fox as a casting expert. Kaufmann knew him much earlier, when he was doing casting at a production company where Kaufmann worked. He was also a musician and put on tape some songs she happened to discover again recently. A nice man with a lot of talent. Before Kaufmann knew him he was wed to Streisand’s sister, Rosalind Kind. And he was about the handsomest guy you can imagine.

Dawna Kaufmann is an accomplished true crime journalist.

Her latest book, “From Crime Scene to Courtroom: Examining the Mysteries Behind Famous Cases,” written with Dr. Cyril Wecht, blasts open the death probes involving Michael Jackson, Casey Anthony and five other criminal cases.

You can pick up is a brief synopsis of the book and the cases covered, a must read, at Straight Talk with John J Nazarian:

Kaufmann has covered hundreds of high-profile homicide and missing person cases for national publications. She is also an award-winning producer and writer, with a multitude of credits in television, including late-night comedy programming and prime-time network variety series.

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Don’t become part of the “contagion of suicide”. If you are a GLBTQ teen and you feel suicidal there are people to talk to and they will understand you. Call The Trevor Project Saving young lives at 866-4-U-TREVOR (866-488-7386); there mission statement is that “The Trevor Project is the Leading National Organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth.”

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Straight Talk with Celebrity P. I. John J. Nazarian will have as a guest tonight, Glenn S. Lipson, PhD, who is a California-based forensic psychologist, with vast experience in performing criminal evaluations and testifying for both prosecutors and the defense.

Dr. Lipson has assisted law enforcement nationally, as well as London’s New Scotland Yard, and serves as a professor at Alliant International University. He’s the founder of the online training program, www.MakingRightChoices.com, which is sweeping the nation with its collaborative, community-based approach for ending educator/student sexual abuse.

Dr. Lipson chose his profession after his grandfather was murdered by a co-worker with an ax. We will see if he is willing to discuss that case and how it has impacted his life and career choice.

Dr. Lipson has provided trial commentary for InSession/Court TV, and on various cases for HBO, Discovery and local television; is a frequent guest on talk radio; and has been quoted in numerous magazines and books.

Lipson’s knowledge of all the top cases in the news lets him offer practical solutions for turbulent times.

Dr. Lipson is Program Director as well as Associate Professor of the Forensic Psychology Program at Alliant International University, San Diego Campus. A Diplomate in forensic psychology he has evaluated victims, perpetrators and has been retained in suits involving clergy, youth organization and internet exploitation. He has appeared in Expert capacity on local media outlets, Court TV/Sessions and the Verdict with Paula Todd.

As a Diplomate in Forensic Psychology Dr. Gipson has testified in homicide, sexual assault and other high profile cases.

Since Dr. Cyril Wecht has completed the second autopsy of Rebecca Zahua and found he did not believe it was suicide, but the local small town police department was too embarrass to reopen the case, and the fact that Dr. Lipson has worked with the San Diego D. A. in previous cases; John will be asking Dr. Lipson since he will be a valuable second opinion using Lipson profiler skills of women and what he feels about this case. More important will it ever be reopened and look at again?

Instead of discussing Casey Anthony, John J. Nazarian will be discussing the jury in the Anthony case and did they come up with the right verdict, considering the rush to prosecute Anthony, with the evidence presented at trial.

The Aruba case and Gary Giordano who was just released by the Aruba Court and is back home in Maryland, U. S.; that will lead of course to the infamous Van Der Sloot 2nd murder and his multiple civil suits since being arrested and expedited back to Peru. Who got raw deals and who are truly potential killers?

We can not have a profiler on with out asking Dr. Lipson about the rampant bullying in our schools that is leading in many cases to tragic killings and suicides, especially among the LGBTQ teens. What he thinks schools should do or what training should be provided and how to stop this epidemic cycle of bullying that leads to deaths of our youth.

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Yesterday, January 13, 2011, the “black bag” was found and turned over to the police in Tucson Arizona yesterday that contained among other things the diary of Jared Lee Loughner alleged assassin of Federal Court Judge John M Roll and Gabriel Zimmerman a federal employee working for U. S. Congress woman, Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords. Loughner is also charged with the attempted assassination of Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords a member of the U. S. Congress and the attempted murder of Pamela Simon and Ron Barber, both employees of the U. S. government engaged in performance of official duties.These charges were described by Tony M. Taylor Jr. Special Agent for the FBI in a sworn statement attached to the criminal complaint filed with the federal court on Sunday, January 9, 2011.

People who know Loughner have said if anyone wants to know who “the real” Jared Lee Loughner they have only to read his diary of “lucid dreaming”. I began to check up on what this means because of a news reference to the movie “Inception” that Ken had watched just a week ago.

I found several definitions that sated: “Lucid dreaming is dreams in which the sleeper is aware that he or she is dreaming and can actively participate in and often manipulate the imaginary experiences in the dream environment. Lucid dreaming is a form of dream in which the conscious mind takes control over the contents of the dream. The phenomenon of being both conscious enough to recognize and being aware that one is dreaming and is then able to control the dream events.”

WOW talking about an insanity defense, some who have read the diary have said that Loughner had began to delve further and further into lucid dreaming in the past few years. Some suggest he perhaps was not sure if he was aware of being awake when he opened fire in that parking lot last Saturday, January 8, 2011 or if he thought he was dreaming.

Judy C. Clarke was asked by the Arizona Public Defender’s office to take over the case because she is known as “”patron saint of criminal defense attorneys”. Clarke has more experience than anyone in federal and state courts representing defendants who are unpopular nationally because their alleged crimes are especially depraved or heinous.

Ms. Clarke has taken on some of the most high profile cases of infamous killers such as Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the “Unabomber”, whose devices over 20 years killed three people and injured 23 more; Eric Rudolph, known as the “Olympic Park Bomber”; as an adviser in court to 9/11 co-conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui (though technically he represented himself at his 2006 trial); and to Susan Smith, convicted in 1995 in the drowning deaths of her two children. Clarke is a fierce opponent of the death penalty and when she was able to get a jury to spare the life of Susan Leigh Vaughan Smith South Carolina law makers were so enraged that they changed the state laws as to not allow any defense attorney to appear with a Pro Hac Vice status in the state. Shortly after the law was passed Clarke returned the $85,000.00 she received from the state to defend Smith.

Clarke is known to be brilliant, energetic and tries to maintain a low profile by staying out of the public eye and not granting any interviews.

Judy Clarke and her team, Mark Francis Fleming, Reuben Camper Cahn and Jon M Sands, made their first appearance of behalf of Jared Lee Loughner at his first formal court appearance in Phoenix on Tuesday, January 11, 2011. Once the court officially appointed her and her team to represent Laoughner her first petition, which was granted, was that no Arizona judge should preside over the trial because of the alleged assassination of a sitting federal judge in Arizona. Clarke and her team are based in San Diego California. Loughner next appearance in court for a preliminary hearing is Monday, January 24, 2011, at 1:30 P. M.

So based on the defense of insane based on a diary that outlines what all admits are crazy entries about Loughner being drawn deeper and deeper into lucid dreaming, can Clarke succeed in getting a jury to spare the life of Loughner?

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In a May 10, 2010 ruling the Honorable William Q. Hayes, Federal Court for the Southern District of California issued an Order and ruled that Cynthia Sommer’s $20 million dollar lawsuit goes forward.

I had watched a special on the ID channel last weekend on the Marines’ wife prosecuted for murdering her husband. Cynthia Sommer claimed in court filings that was because Bonnie Dumanis and Laura Gunn “believed that a high-profile arrest and conviction would serve their personal goals and make the D[istrict] A[ttorney’s] O[ffice] famous.” Famous they are now but not in the way they had hoped per the Court’s ruling.

Sommer has maintained that because of the way the young wife “grieved” following the death of Todd Sommer in 2002, and that the San Diego District Attorney because she did not approve of the way Ms. Sommer grieved began a witch hunt for three years to arrest and tries an innocent widow. Granted Sommer took half of the insurance policy and put it in a trust account to care for her four children but she also had a breast enhancement surgery and was seen “partying”. Thus that has to equal murder right? Nope not at all.

Sommer spent two years in jail awaiting trial, being tried and was found guilty of the murder of her husband, twenty-three year old Marine Sgt. Todd Sommer. Sommer’s was arrested on November 30, 2005 and convicted of the murder of her husband on January 30, 2007. However she was freed by a Judge in San Diego County on November 30, 2007 when her conviction was overturned and she was granted a new trial after new lab testing showed no arsenic whatsoever in Sgt. Todd Sommer’s tissues.

The federal court ruled there was enough evidence against San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and Laura Gunn, Deputy District Attorney for the County of San Diego, that the two women per the Federal Court’s rulings; “Dumanis and Gunn fabricated evidence and continued their investigation after they knew or should have known that Plaintiff was innocent.”

On May 10, 2010 the first major ruling in Sommer’s federal lawsuit filed against the medical examiner, Glenn N. Wagner, the United States government, District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and prosecutor Laura Gunn ruled they have no immunity from the case to go forward against them. On Dumanis and Gunn the Court found that the two were claiming potentially “prosecutorial immunity in the functions of their jobs”, instead the Court found that “a clearly established constitutional due process right not to be subjected to criminal charges on the basis of false evidence that is deliberately fabricated by the government.”. The case against the United States can go forward under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The case against Wagner, the medical examiner, is valid under; “Failing to follow guidelines or carry out an investigation in a manner that will ensure an error-free result is one thing; intentionally fabricating false evidence is quite another.” Further the Court said in regards to Glenn N. Wagner; “Plaintiff has set forth in detail factual allegations which support her allegation that Wagner deliberately or recklessly falsified Todd Sommer’s cause of death on the death certificate, including the inconsistencies in the forensic evidence, the opinions of other experts, and the breaks in the chain of custody. Plaintiff alleges facts which, if proven, would be sufficient to establish that Wagner’s determination that Todd Sommer had been poisoned was central to Plaintiff’s arrest and prosecution.”

Sommer per the federal ruling; “contends that she has alleged facts that would establish that Dumanis and Gunn were acting in an investigatory capacity rather than a prosecutorial capacity when they worked jointly with investigators to fabricate a case against her.” The federal Court found citing the case of Buckley that; “When prosecutors are acting in their official capacity, but not performing prosecutorial functions, they are protected only by the qualified immunity that protects all public officials. A prosecutor may not shield his investigative work with the aegis of absolute immunity merely because, after a suspect is eventually arrested, indicted, and tried, that work may be retrospectively described as ‘preparation’ for a possible trial; every prosecutor might then shield himself from liability for any constitutional wrong against innocent citizens by ensuring that they go to trial.” Id. Before probable cause exists to arrest anyone, “[a] prosecutor neither is, nor should consider himself to be, an advocate.”

The federal Court’s Ruling states in part; “Plaintiff alleges that in addition to apparent inconsistencies between the positive test for arsenic and the other forensic testing, Dumanis and Gunn consulted “several qualified independent forensic toxicologists . . . [who] refused to concur in the results of the testing performed by AFIP.” Translated if they did not like what the testing showed they “doctor/lab” shopped to find someone who would agree with their assumptions.

The ruling ends with the finding that; “Accepting as true all facts alleged in the Complaint and drawing all reasonable inferences in favor of Plaintiff, the Court concludes that the Complaint contains sufficient factual allegations to support a § 1983 due process claim against Dumanis and Gunn for deliberate fabrication of evidence during the investigation of Todd Sommer’s death. Plaintiff, [Sommer], has made specific, non-conclusory allegations that, if proven, would be sufficient to establish that Dumanis and Gunn continued to investigate Plaintiff despite knowing or having sufficient evidence that they should have known that Todd Sommer was not murdered.

Allen Bloom, Sommer’s criminal attorney, on behalf of Cynthia Sommer stated; “It basically says that early on, the intentional and reckless behavior of the district attorney’s office was so bad they have to answer to these charges. It also means that you’re going to see Bonnie Dumanis and Laura Gunn being deposed and questioned, why did they do this?”

Bloom was Sommer’s criminal defense attorney. Even he was shocked when he read the judge’s ruling which says if the allegations in the lawsuit are true, a claim can be made against Dumanis and Gunn for, “…deliberate fabrication of evidence during the investigation of Todd Sommer’s death.”

Dumanis in an attempt to get in front of this waived the new trial and stated to the public that once she “discovered the new evidence” she was taking the unprecedented stand of dismissing the murder charges against Cynthia Sommer and allowing her to walk out of prison….. Good right??? Nope because the D. A. will not drop the murder charges “with prejudice” which means they can hang over Sommer’s head a new trial if Dumanis decides to go that way in the future and Dumanis and the medical examiner, Wagner, refuses to change Todd Sommer’s death certificate from homicide back to the original natural causes that had been ruled in 2002. Yeppers folks while suing in federal court the D. A. might still be conducting an investigation to again arrest and try Sommer.

This is on top of the current petition for recall of the D. A. Dumanis for misusing her office including going after all legitimate medical marijuana dispensers in her county. Allegedly going so far as to sending under cover agents to doctors, stating legitimate medical conditions to gain a prescription for medical use of marijuana, going to a legitimate dispenser, going through the validating process, and then arresting these dispenser for illegal distributing the marijuana. Allegations are that Dumanis is getting federal grants in excess of $350,000 to investigate and try intercity gangs and instead is using it for this witch hunt.

If that is not enough trouble brewing for Dumanis she has allegedly told her prosecutors to avoid the judge that freed Sommer for all future criminal trials in a power play with the Court. Then add to that one of the judges in San Diego has filed a lawsuit against the chief justice for making “sweetheart deals” on domestic violence cases. This does not even touch the San Diego courts Foundation and the allegations that Dumanis uses that non-profit organization for pay offs to see rulings are favorable to those who contribute to this foundation.

In another ironic twist Jerry Brown refuses to investigate any of this from the alleged improprieties of Dumanis right down to the tax free foundation and the money all of this is costing California at a time that California is bankrupt and Dumanis has no one running against her in November so unless the recall is successful she will continue her reign of San Diego County California.

If you are thinking of moving to San Diego you might want to consider all of this and perhaps not relocate there.

We are going to unpeel all of these onion skin like allegations and keep up with the Sommer case as well. Expect more articles over the weekend on each of these allegations.

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