Tex Supreme Court rigged case, juiced FLDS kids’ attorneys before Walther’s show trial

The man on the left is former NBA referee Tim Donaghy. On the right, is current Texas Supreme Court Justice and Kiddy Kommission Chair Harriet O’Neill. What do they have in common? Read on, then you be the judge. Let’s just say I know one reason why O’Neill wouldn’t take questions from the public at yesterday’s “public” Kommission hearing in Austin.

I’m still absorbing what I have here. These Documents (a series of invoices for training services, 3.1MB) if authentic — and I have very good reason to believe they are — appear to show that the Supreme Court of Texas attempted to “fix” the outcome of the April 17-18 “adversary hearing” in which the FLDS parents were supposed to be able to fairly contest the removal of their children from their homes 14 days earlier.

Rushing to salvage the credibility of Texas CPS (and Justice O’Neill’s Kiddy Klepto Kommission, or KKK) as their assault on the FLDS community faltered, the Supreme Court scrambled to pay outside contractors — including Kingman, AZ attorney Lenore Knudtson, Austin attorney Lori K. Duke, and Charles D. Childress, “Clinical Professor” at the University of Texas School of Law — to train attorneys on one side of the FLDS case, the side they like to call “for the children.” For example, Knudtson’s reimbursement request form (page 14 of the attachment) reads:

Describe trip’s benefit to the State: “Assisted attorneys appointed by State to represent children.”

Duke’s form (page 5) reads:

Describe trip’s benefit to the State: “Continuing Legal Education to attorney representing FLDS children/required CLE for attorneys ad litem.”

Childress (page 37) wrote:

“Went to San Angelo to provide CLE for Eldorado case AALs. . . Provided training to ensure representation for 400 children. . . shared ride with Lori Duke.”

The training, which ironically included 1.5 hours of “ethics,” took place on April 11-12, one week in advance of the so-called 14-day hearing in San Angelo. It was supposed to be a serious legal contest but, as these invoices show, was rigged just as surely as if a referee were betting on the outcome of a basketball game. Not only did these Supreme Court hired guns “prepare” the kids attorneys to do battle against the parents. They indoctrinated them, setting them up to act the way O’Neill’s Kommission wanted them to act.

Later — after the case bubbled up to the Supreme Court itself — having thus financed the preparation of attorneys on the Kiddy Kommission’s (and, therefore, the Supreme Court’s) side of the case, this distinguished group of jurists, all thoroughly educated in ethics and the concept of due process, sat in straight-faced judgment — pretending to be impartial — on a case in which they and their Kiddy Kommission had a vested interest.

It is axiomatic that no man (or woman) may be a judge in his (or her) own case. Yet that is exactly the role this Court played in deciding the FLDS case on May 29. Had the Court not had an interest (through its Kiddy Kommission) in propping up Judge Walther and CPS, there would have been no O’Neill dissent and Walther would have beaten up far worse than she was. In fact, I think there would be no CPS agents in FLDS homes today. It is only because of the Court’s pro-CPS bias that they are currently intruding and in a position to inflict even more harm on innocent people.

The pdf file (3.1MB) requires Adobe Reader 7.0 or later. It’s big. Sorry. You can thank the Supreme Court for that. It’s amazing what people will do when they get in a hurry — especially a hurry to steal people’s kids. I think I’m going to be sick . . . looking for an airbag — too much ethical turbulence over Austin.

Expect more later. Lots still to cover.