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Old July 14th, 2013 #3752
Donald E. Pauly
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Angry Appeal Oral Arguments

Here is a little bit of what went on at oral arguments from Latebloomer's silly website. It contains the usual dose of lies mixed in with irrelevant truths. Steele is now portrayed as investigating overpriced chocolates, flowers and English lessons. He has admitted in his steamy love letters that he bought Tatyana some English lessons. The chocolates and flowers are a new twist. The story from Steele's jailhouse rants was that he was investigating the swindle of an Illinois client out of $4,000.

The business of the jet fuel on George AFB is repeated again. Those jet fuel plumes are 2,000 feet below ground and are totally harmless to the inmates. Cyndi used this to falsely beg for money because the prison water was contaminated. The prison uses the same water as the City of Victorville does and it does not come from underground sources.

Latebloomer failed to mention that he knew about McAllister's bankruptcy 37 days before trial. I say that the Steele gang knew everything about McAllister's problems because he was picked as a throwaway lawyer who would work cheap. The object of the game was to rake in a lot of loot from Steele's deluded supporters and for Cyndi to pocket most of it.

It is indeed possible to beat up on McAllister because he is in Federal prison and cannot defend himself. His trial performance is irrelevant however. Another trial will result in exactly the same verdict unless the obvious insanity defense is used.

Quote:
First Appeal hearing, July 8, 2013
http://www.free-edgar-steele.com/824...2013/#more-824

2013 JULY 13
by admin
(From: Edgar Steele Defense Fund Board)

Monday morning, July 8, 2013, a three judge Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel considered the direct appeal of political prisoner Edgar Steele’s May 2011 conviction and his 50 year prison sentence. The only point discussed was whether Steele’s attorney, Robert McAllister was grossly ineffective in defending the murder-for-hire charges against him and, if so, at what point in the proceedings his attorney’s misconduct should be, or should have been scrutinized.

The debate between Edgar Steele’s appellate attorney, Dennis Riordan of San Francisco and the three Ninth Circuit judges, centered upon whether Edgar should be sent back to the trial judge, B. Lynn Winmill, for an immediate evidentiary hearing, to be conducted like a mini trial, to decide if enough damage was done to Edgar’s defense by McAllister to warrant a new trial.

In a 2011 new trial motion seeking reversal of the Steele conviction, it had been shown that Mr. McAllister was ineffective and had an irreconcilable conflict of interest. A few days after the new trial motion was denied, the worst possible conflict of interest was revealed demonstrating that McAllister had good reason to protect himself from prosecution for his own federal felony-crimes while, at the same time, supposedly defending Steele. This would have been a tough choice even for an honest attorney, which it turned out was not a good description of McAllister who declared bankruptcy in March 2011 just before Steele’s trial and was disbarred in Colorado for misuse of client funds a few days after the Steele trial. The Government issued the indictment of McAllister in July 2011, but kept it secret from the public and Mr. Steele until seven (7) days after Steele’s new trial motion was denied and Steele’s 50 year sentence was pronounced in November 2011.

Eventually, Mr. McAllister was convicted for financial crimes and was sent to prison to serve a six (6) year sentence, which proves that McAllister had something to fear from his own prosecution and why he needed to curry favor with the U.S. Government to get a better deal for himself. Unfortunately, in getting that better deal, attorney McAllister “sold out” Edgar Steele in order to secure favorable treatment for himself, pretending to defend Mr. Steele, but offering none of the evidence proving Steele’s innocence. What was not presented, argued, or even mentioned at the appeal hearing was the fact that the U.S. Government created an irreconcilable conflict of interest for itself by prosecuting Mr. McAllister simultaneously as it was prosecuting his client, Mr. Steele.

The Ninth Circuit Court should have considered that the proper remedy was for the U.S. Government to have notified the trial court and Mr. Steele that it was prosecuting Mr. McAllister which would have allowed Steele to hire replacement counsel. At the same time, attorney McAllister had a duty to notify his client that he was being prosecuted and that he was in the midst of disbarment proceedings in Colorado. Neither of these notifications were given to Mr. Steele who then became the victim of government deception, thus denying him the opportunity to present a defense because his attorney was being prosecuted by the same federal government.

On the day of the appellate argument, July 8th, Edgar Steele’s family released a DVD to the media proving that the charges by the government against Mr. Steele had been falsified to persecute him for his exercise of free speech. Edgar Steele, who had always been outspoken while defending the politically incorrect throughout his career as an American lawyer, often said things that offended the corrupt elements in the U.S. Government and its supporters. The DVD presents many of the facts that McAllister should have offered and which an attorney free of conflict would have offered in Steele’s defense.

Shortly before his arrest on June 11, 2010, Steele discovered that a U.S. based company employing elderly women in Florida was answering the emails and phone calls of lonely American men seeking the companionship of young, beautiful foreign women. What Ed found was that American men were paying an extremely high price for chocolates, flowers and English lessons, all of these orders being processed right here in the ‘good ole USA’. Unsuspecting “lonely hearts clubbers” believed they were in actual contact with 18 to 25 year-old sexy women whose revealing photographs were displayed on various overseas websites. Edgar Steele had stated that he would write a book exposing this fraud, which was costing some Americans their life savings when they sent air fare to supposedly transport these women to America. The thought of being exposed was too much for the corrupt government officials who protect this human-trafficking business, so they decided to silence Ed with phony charges of murder-for-hire.

From a distance, it appears that the same group that threatened to murder Edgar Steele and his family in early 2002-03 for his defense of the Aryan Nation (see the DVD for playback of the hate-death messages) was behind Edgar’s fraudulent prosecution that began with a pipe bomb attached to the motor vehicle of his wife, Cyndi Steele, in June 2010. The party who attached the bomb was US Government confidential informant, Larry Fairfax. Fairfax was charged with a minor offense, “constructing a firearm without a license” and he was released after less than two years in prison. This same device was described at Steele’s trial as “the most lethal pipe bomb ever seen” by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

At the Appellate Court hearing, the judges’ only concern was whether the problem was a trial court error: not immediately considering the question of ineffectiveness of counsel immediately after the McAllister Indictment came to light, and whether the case should be sent back for a review hearing now, or whether Steele must wait possibly two more years before the misconduct can be reviewed at a further appellate proceeding known as a “Writ of Habeas Corpus” pursuant to 28 USC 2255.

Appellate attorney Riordan said that it was clear to him that the appellate judges realized the issue of the district court denying Steele a hearing on his original post trial motion was very significant, not only for his case, but in terms of the impact such a ruling would have in “future matters as well.” He also predicted that: “Because of the significance of the issue and the attention the judges gave the appeal, I think it will be several months before we receive a decision.”

Edgar Steele awaits the decision on this appeal in US Bureau of Prisons facility at Victorville, California, a high security facility and the place of last resort for inmates who murder other inmates. Victorville is also the place where the U.S. Government dumped millions of gallons of jet fuel and other toxic waste in the late 1960s as it abandoned the first jet Air Force base created after WWII. One consequence of exposure to such toxic waste is Astrocytoma, a cancer condition that promotes the growth of tumors on the spinal cord and brain. With no known cure, Astrocytoma results in an extremely painful death sentence to its victims.

Last edited by Donald E. Pauly; July 14th, 2013 at 08:28 PM. Reason: typo